So many tiles....

[Mark CMG]

Actually, the last three posts (as of this post) in that thread do have the master tile sets, so thanks for that! As for the Dungeon Tile Mapper program, I was unaware that you could add sets to it. How do you go about doing that?

And I had been there, but didn't like the fact that I had to install extra stuff to get the 5.2 version working (getting the supposed "core" Python program files to get their supposed stand-alone program to work).

Thanks for the input!

I haven't looked at the original Dungeon Tile Mapper for a while but I assume that since they say they were updating it it has some way to add other sets. Maybe you can utilize the other sources to sort out your sets then make small gifs (or whatever format the Mapper uses) and add sets of your own devising as a way of making the best use of them. Perhaps you could even go so far as to give individual pieces serial numbers that correspond to their set and piece type, then store them that way so you can easily access them after designing something and printing it out. Just spitballing here.

 

[Dave0047]

Come on guys! Anyone else have photos of some maps they've made, or have any tips on organizing and inventorying the tiles?

 

[Holy Bovine]

I have a little 5 drawer tower I got at Walmart that holds about 90% of my tiles. The top 3 drawers are about 2" high and hold the 2x2 to 2x8 tiles whiel the bigger drawers hold everything bigger than that. I have the tiles bound together with elastics (similar themed tiles together) and all of the small tiles (1x2 and smaller) I have in an old bead box my SIL gave me.

 

[Dave0047]

I do have to warn people against binding their tiles together with rubber bands. These dense, high-quality tiles are adversely affected by the oils in the rubber bands and then there's the fact that if you wrap them too tight, they may damage the tiles.

Otherwise, it's sounding like these mini drawer units seem to be winning people over.

 

[The Human Target]

I'd like to thank this thread for all the XP.

When I'm done making maps for my next session I'll post them.

it might be a week or two though, as real life has conspired to delay my game until the first week of February.

 

[Wik]

We mostly just use a large grid of paper, with 1" squares printed on them. A pad of some 50 or so sheets is around ten bucks, and we use Crayola Crayons... the whole kit is maybe fifteen bucks. It's worked well for us.

But I do have a few dungeon tiles. While I can see their utility, I generally ignore them. Mostly, dungeon tiles are used when I have an encounter on the fly, and I just grab tiles and place them randomly until I have an encounter. All I do for storing them is to seperate the different sets, and just grab from one set at a time.

 

[Oryan77]

Here is how I store my tiles:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/4981334-post35.html

And this is what I said in that thread (it was not easy to make these):

I got a bunch of those plastic containers that have individual slots in them with dividers that can be removed to make bigger slots. I used a razor blade to cut out some of the permanent dividers and created slots sized to fit each size tile. These plastic containers slide into a bigger carrying box with a handle.

My fingers were sore from all the cutting with the razor blade, and it took me about 2 weeks to create these (I have a lot of tiles). But man was it worth it.

 

[Dave0047]

My fingers were sore from all the cutting with the razor blade, and it took me about 2 weeks to create these (I have a lot of tiles). But man was it worth it.

Wow! I'm not quite sure I'd want to spend that much time and effort cutting away at plastic boxes. Your collection sure seems pretty organized though!

 

[Dice4Hire]

Yeah, I am not up to that much organization.

 

[Oryan77]

I'm an organization freak though. I won't kid you, those trays took a lot of work to make. But for my own nerves, it was worth it. I'd just work on them while I'm relaxing and watching a movie in the living room.