The Big Grid

[KaosDevice]

Is anyone using those big honking 1 inch grid pads like you can get at Office Max (those giant wall mountable ones)? I was looking at one yester day and thinking hmmmm....I could be a pre-game map drawing fool with one of these.

 

[eris404]

Yes. I love them. It is a huge time saver (for those of us who bother with battle maps and minis) and sometimes I get creative and make them as pretty as I can.

 

[KaosDevice]

Yes. I love them. It is a huge time saver (for those of us who bother with battle maps and minis) and sometimes I get creative and make them as pretty as I can.

I assume if you get all crazy with them you've got to have some sort of surface, cardboard or what have you, underneath, the paper seems pretty prone to bleed through and at $16 a pad (here anyway) I'd want to not be super wasteful with 'em.

 

[Piratecat]

Yup, me too. They're great.

 

[ChristianW]

I just want to chime in and say that they are great. We have used them for years and they work very, very well.

Once, I used a sheet to help me make 1 inch squares on top of green butcher paper to facilitate the use of minis in a wilderness adventure. I placed the grid sheet on top of the butcher paper, then poked holes in all the vertices with a needle. It worked great! See below.

 

[el-remmen]

Is anyone using those big honking 1 inch grid pads like you can get at Office Max (those giant wall mountable ones)? I was looking at one yester day and thinking hmmmm....I could be a pre-game map drawing fool with one of these.

For the climactic adventure for my "Out of the Frying Pan" campaign (see sig) I pre-drew all the rooms of the complex on one of those pads. It was very convenient and saved a ton of time.

 

[eris404]

I assume if you get all crazy with them you've got to have some sort of surface, cardboard or what have you, underneath, the paper seems pretty prone to bleed through and at $16 a pad (here anyway) I'd want to not be super wasteful with 'em.

But of course! I tear out the sheet first and put cardboard underneath.

I've been thinking about using color pencils to do a super fancy one (one that I can use for several sessions). What's cute is that two of the players in my group often save the maps after the adventure is complete; one is also a DM and I think he keeps them for his other group. The other hangs them in his basement. (Please note: these are not beautiful works of art! They are just black lines on a grid.)

ChristianW -> I like the green!