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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7646804" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>Most of my game is 'theater of the mind' as we use narrative description for locations and dialogue is usually first-person banter between myself and the characters. Smaller combats are also 'theater of the mind' if there are not a lot of terrain difficulties or large numbers of enemies.</p><p></p><p>My table itself has a 3' x 4' Chessex 1" grid mat with a full sheet of plexi laid on top of it. This allows me to hand-draw some maps over the Chessex grid using dry-erase markers on the plexi (usually drawing the map in reverse so I can flip the plexi sheet over so the dry-erase is on the bottom side.) The plexi sheet also allows me to lay out poster maps and/or dungeon tiles independently or together and then cover them with the plexi so that none of them slide or move around when the minis are used on top of them.</p><p></p><p>I have a good supply of the WotC pre-painted minis for both the PCs and the monsters when I use full 1" grid maps. But for the times I want to print pre-drawn maps on my color printer that are so large that expanding them to 1" squares would be too much of a waste, I'll print them at about 1/2" squares and then use my supply of meeples for the PCs and a bin of small tokens in various colors for my monsters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7646804, member: 7006"] Most of my game is 'theater of the mind' as we use narrative description for locations and dialogue is usually first-person banter between myself and the characters. Smaller combats are also 'theater of the mind' if there are not a lot of terrain difficulties or large numbers of enemies. My table itself has a 3' x 4' Chessex 1" grid mat with a full sheet of plexi laid on top of it. This allows me to hand-draw some maps over the Chessex grid using dry-erase markers on the plexi (usually drawing the map in reverse so I can flip the plexi sheet over so the dry-erase is on the bottom side.) The plexi sheet also allows me to lay out poster maps and/or dungeon tiles independently or together and then cover them with the plexi so that none of them slide or move around when the minis are used on top of them. I have a good supply of the WotC pre-painted minis for both the PCs and the monsters when I use full 1" grid maps. But for the times I want to print pre-drawn maps on my color printer that are so large that expanding them to 1" squares would be too much of a waste, I'll print them at about 1/2" squares and then use my supply of meeples for the PCs and a bin of small tokens in various colors for my monsters. [/QUOTE]
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