D&D General Suggestions for good physical D&D battlemats?

[Voadam]

What are your favorite physical D&D battlemats for use at the table?

I have a couple Paizo flipmats I really like and have used, but they occasionally have issues staying flat.

I have the old d20 Mongoose Star Ship Troopers terrain maps from a boxed set and a big WotC multipack set of battlemaps that I like and have gotten good use out of but I hate refolding maps.

I have some tiles and cut out cardboard map component stuff which are configurable and can be added to other stuff but I generally find them too fiddly for me to usually use.

All of this is stuff I got years ago.

If on the lookout for stuff now are there any you would recommend? Stuff you have used and like?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The Chessex battlemat is the other one that's always mentioned, alongside the Paizo ones.

 

[wicked cool]

I use the battlestems/monster fight club mats. They are mousepad quality in come in different colors (double sided i some cases)

 

[J-H]

I've had this one by Tidyboss for about 5 or 6 years.
Pros:
It's lasted through over 150 game sessions easily.
Pretty big, and dry erase
The plastic strips hold it very flat, no issues with it rolling up during play
The tube is a good place to store my markers & eraser

Cons:
Some of the edges have gotten dinged up and I had to repair a couple of tears with clear packing tape
I use the tan & green maps 95% of the time. The beach map is too situational and the dark brown is a bit hard to see when someone's attending via Discord.

 

[darjr]

I use the battlestems/monster fight club mats. They are mousepad quality in come in different colors (double sided i some cases)

These are great!

A friend uses them. I don’t see them in stock at their store so if uuu see em get em.

They are not dry/wet erase, fyi.

 

[DEFCON 1]

I have a vinyl gridded Chessex mat and a large 3'x4' sheet of plexi that I lay over it.

This not only allows me to use dry-erase on the sheet as needed for quick maps... but I also can create maps using Dungeon Tiles and then lay the plexi on top of it all so they don't move around... plus I can draw more intricate dry-erase maps on the plexi using a reverse image to copy from and the Chessex grid below, and then flip the entire plexi over (re-aligning the grid squares) so that the dry erase map is on the underside of the plexi and thus doesn't rub itself off when we use the map.

 

[Koloth]

Flip maps work great if you can keep them stored open and flat. Something like this kept under a bed can work: https://www.amazon.com/Nicpro-Portf...lueprint+carrying+case&qid=1777400428&sr=8-42

Loke Book of Battlemaps are good. Many varieties.
Chessex battlemats.
Had access to a large format printer and printed out a 3'x5' square grid and separate hex grid sheets. Laid under a sheet of plastic, worked great for years.

 

[el-remmen]

Chessex wet erase remain the gold standard as far as I am concerned. I own 4. One 23" x 26", two 34.5" x 48" and other of that size that is green on one side and blue on the other. I like having more than one so I can just lay them atop each other, or have a smaller one I can move around on the table over a larger one for when battle takes the party into more than one area simultaneously.

 

[el-remmen]

Oh and I also bought a 200 foot roll of 1-inch grid paper and have been cutting portions from it for pre-drawn maps for years!

 

[aco175]

We use the old D&D dungeon tiles that came in a box. I think it was 4e days, but they might still be on sale in varied types of dungeon temple and sewers. I have been using grid paper and making some of the set pieces lately, but the tiles are good for joining the set places with halls or small rooms and such.