James used Dungeon Tiles in our last ShackledCity session. I was surprised how slick they looked. Right now I’m using white paper with a printed grid on them, which I stick into a protective plastic together with a piece of cardboard. Then I use overhead projector pens to draw on the plastic. Works for us.
I wonder how I would start if I wanted to get some nicer looking tiles. Find some PDF, find a color printer, find a place where I can plastify (what do you call this?) it... Or just get the cardboard things from some mail order... Hm.
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I think you mean laminate 😄 Plastify sounds cooler though.
RPGNow has a lot of great sets available incredibly cheaply. While I’m no fan of them myself, I know a lot of GMs who swear by them. When I’ve played D&D with miniatures, a good set of map tiles has helped things, a lot.
As I recall, the e-adventure sets are pretty good. I’m a fan of Disposable Heroes paper minis, too.
– greywulf 2007-12-27 16:42 UTC
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Indeed, and now I remember the German word for it as well: “laminieren”. D’oh!
Perhaps I should just see how James uses them before investing any money in them. Or I could put it on a wishlist for my players. If they like them, they’ll buy them. If not, we’ll stick to what we currently use.
My own preference is to not use a battlemap at all, but I whenever I ask my players whether or not we should get out the battlemap for a fight, they always want one.
– Alex Schroeder 2007-12-27 16:58 UTC
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I think it depends on the type of combat we’re having. A really straight forward fight wouldn’t need the battle map, but because so much of DnD combat is location based you really need to be able to visualise the layout once the arena starts getting complex.
– Marco 2008-01-04 23:37 UTC