Where can I get a grid?

[jmucchiello]

In Word, create a new document. Go to File | Page Setup and shrink the margins as small as it will let you. Create a table with 8 columns and 10 rows. Select the whole table. In the table menu, select "Cell Height and Width". Set all the columns to 1" wide and all the rows to exactly 1" high. Print.

 

[Mark CMG]

I have a laminated grid map from the 3.0 D&D Adventure game boxed set with a blank grid on one side and the 26 dungeon rooms without doors on the other.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Thanks guys, this is exactly what I needed!

Incidentally, Eye Tyrant, I am currently starting up a Star Wars game, playing at a player's house. He has a fine battlemat, and minis. But their first encounter will take place on/around the wreckage of their downed transport. I figured it would be quicker to simply cut out the transport and take it to his house and lay it out on his battlemat, rather than attempt to draw it out when I get there. Besides, this way I can do fun stuff like color-code the various heights and such.

 

[dfmoss]

In the game I am playing we use a pad of chart paper with a 1" grid already on it in light blue. When we are done with a page we rip it off and start fresh. We can even save the used page for later reference, if needed.

I think the pads cost $10-15 bucks for a pair (We are still using the pads from before I joined the game so I do not have the exact cost on them). You can get them from office supply stores.

DFM

 

[The_Gunslinger658]

Hi-

Try going to your local art store, I'm sure they will have a box of grid squares for ya.


Scott

PS: I used to send Privates out to supply to find a box of grid squares..........

 

[Mark CMG]

Thanks guys, this is exactly what I needed!

Incidentally, Eye Tyrant, I am currently starting up a Star Wars game, playing at a player's house. He has a fine battlemat, and minis. But their first encounter will take place on/around the wreckage of their downed transport. I figured it would be quicker to simply cut out the transport and take it to his house and lay it out on his battlemat, rather than attempt to draw it out when I get there. Besides, this way I can do fun stuff like color-code the various heights and such.

My buddy Curt, thalmin on these boards, does a similar thing but uses a thin, transparent plastic sheet with a ship the party has drawn on it. This way you can see through it to the grid and you can move it around, perhaps in relation to other thin, transparent plastic sheet ships. They roll up nicely and fit in a postal tube for transport or storage.