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<blockquote data-quote="DonTadow" data-source="post: 3995011" data-attributes="member: 22622"><p>I had that same decisions two years ago and at first, I chose the terrain. </p><p></p><p>Big mistake. </p><p></p><p>The cost to set up is a lot higher over a period of time and the time to set it up is a lot longer. I'd have been better off drawing. YOu also are limited to doing things on the fly as anything outside of what you have prpeared may take 10 to 20 minutes to set up. </p><p></p><p>I ended up scrapping it (and wasting a ton of time and money building the models) and saved up for a cheapo projector. The projector was 500 bucks, the harness was 100 and the white out curtain was 10. We've been using it a year and a half now and its been very satisfactory. I"m able to set up tons of maps ahead of time using maptools, an open source project at rptools.net. And with all the neat stuff that thing can do, i have eliminated the need to purchase tokens of any kind, instead the pcs have their own mouse and light pointers. We're using 3d gifs as character tokens while the other npcs get flat tokens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DonTadow, post: 3995011, member: 22622"] I had that same decisions two years ago and at first, I chose the terrain. Big mistake. The cost to set up is a lot higher over a period of time and the time to set it up is a lot longer. I'd have been better off drawing. YOu also are limited to doing things on the fly as anything outside of what you have prpeared may take 10 to 20 minutes to set up. I ended up scrapping it (and wasting a ton of time and money building the models) and saved up for a cheapo projector. The projector was 500 bucks, the harness was 100 and the white out curtain was 10. We've been using it a year and a half now and its been very satisfactory. I"m able to set up tons of maps ahead of time using maptools, an open source project at rptools.net. And with all the neat stuff that thing can do, i have eliminated the need to purchase tokens of any kind, instead the pcs have their own mouse and light pointers. We're using 3d gifs as character tokens while the other npcs get flat tokens. [/QUOTE]
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