What grid are you gaming on?

[Dyson Logos]

None. It would look silly to have a grid on the table and then never use it. We've never gamed with minis or the like except a few times to see if it made any major difference or improvement to our 3.x and Savage Worlds games.

 

[Rechan]

One of my players constructed a 1" grid on a 4x5 piece of wood. It's huge, but I love it.

Another player is actually making me a similar board (a little smaller, and comes in two halves), because I'm moving away.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Flipmat (the Paizo one with squares one side, hexes the other) + markers, whiteboard + markers, various paper + pens and/or pencils and/or printed images/maps.

But I'm also (still) toying with the idea of getting a few of your products, actually. They look nice and fairly priced, your site is good, and you seem to be pretty much an honest sort of guy, AFAICT.

I've never owned any of that kind of board/mat/grid thing, but have heard plenty of good things about them (in general).

 

[JDragon]

At home I'm using a projector set up to display the maps on a 4' by 7' sheet of plywood and try to get as close to 1 inch squares as I can. However with this set up and the ability to do spell effects through Photoshop the size is not as important.

When I travel or when the DM doesn't have maps ready for the projector I have a set of 24 Tac-Tiles that are about 6 or 7 years old. They are showing their age and use but still a huge improvement over the Chessex mats I used for years before that.

As for other options, for me I'm good with the 1 inch grid and that is what I would pick up if i needed more tiles.

JD

 

[ConnorSB]

What I would love to see (and probably hate to pay for) is a 4'x4' gridded, laminated (or whatever) Table (legs and all) with mini drawrs, done up IKEA style. Ie. order it cheap, assemble it yourself.

For my last game I took a 4x6 ft table and a 4x8 ft table, both of which I had found on craigslist, and actually just took a fat sharpie to them and gridded them off into 1" squares.

It made eating dinner a little TRONish, but it was awesome for gaming.

Half the time I would lay down map tiles and line them up with the grid, and the rest of the time, I'd just take painters tape and mark off the whole dungeon. Made caves look pretty cool.

-Connor

 

[C_M2008]

Currently using Chessex 1" hex/square megamat. Love it. Would love the ikea style table mentioned, so now the gears are turning.

 

[Crothian]

tact tiles, still one of the best things the group bought

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I'd like to try playing on offset squares. All the goodness of hexes, combined with the ease of drawing on squares.

 

[Plissken]

Neural pathways.

 

[Hejdun]

A 10 year old Chessex megamat (one sided, 1" squares). Best $30 I ever spent for gaming. My only complaint is that the wet-erase markers are rather messy.

Anyone happen to know if something similar exists which uses dry-erase? I might consider upgrading for that reason alone, though my mat is still in excellent shape.