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<blockquote data-quote="mcmillan" data-source="post: 6207704" data-attributes="member: 6681949"><p>Mine showed up between the two sessions that involved exploring an ancient ruin (from the Digging for Lies adventure in the Zeitgeist path). That actually served as a nice test where they first entered the rooms with just my descriptions and hand drawn maps, then I used the tiles to show the parts they'd already been in, and added on as they continued to explore. That did reveal some things where people had a mistaken picture in their head that was cleared up with the tiles. As for paint, they actually look fairly nice without any paint, and I have enough of a backlog from the Reaper kickstarter that also could use painting, that I'm ok with keeping the tiles unpainted. </p><p></p><p>Main downside I saw was the extra prep/cleanup at the beginning or end of a session for dealing with tiles compared to just rolling up my mapsheet. And it doesn't necessarily save much out of session prep compared to drawing a map before the session since I still had to think about how I needed to layout tiles anyway. An idea one of my players who also DMs and bought a tile set came up with was to rig up the bottoms with velcro, with the opposite side on a small board. This could be set up ahead of time, and he could just set down the boards for each room as the group enters them. Will be interested to see how that works for him</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mcmillan, post: 6207704, member: 6681949"] Mine showed up between the two sessions that involved exploring an ancient ruin (from the Digging for Lies adventure in the Zeitgeist path). That actually served as a nice test where they first entered the rooms with just my descriptions and hand drawn maps, then I used the tiles to show the parts they'd already been in, and added on as they continued to explore. That did reveal some things where people had a mistaken picture in their head that was cleared up with the tiles. As for paint, they actually look fairly nice without any paint, and I have enough of a backlog from the Reaper kickstarter that also could use painting, that I'm ok with keeping the tiles unpainted. Main downside I saw was the extra prep/cleanup at the beginning or end of a session for dealing with tiles compared to just rolling up my mapsheet. And it doesn't necessarily save much out of session prep compared to drawing a map before the session since I still had to think about how I needed to layout tiles anyway. An idea one of my players who also DMs and bought a tile set came up with was to rig up the bottoms with velcro, with the opposite side on a small board. This could be set up ahead of time, and he could just set down the boards for each room as the group enters them. Will be interested to see how that works for him [/QUOTE]
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