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Do you prefer blank maps with drawn terrain, pre-printed maps, or dungeon tiles?
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ValhallaGH · Legendary Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 4455

I prefer accurate 3D terrain. It's a ton cooler and so much more immersing. I just don't have the time or resources to build / purchase it for my games.
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Rohan · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:39 am Post subject:

I prefer maps to tiles, but whatever I can use to get the visual on the table for the players works. Lately I've been moving to pre-printed maps and I acquired a pretty sizeable piece of lexan that I lay over the top of them...it's dry-erase friendly and light weight, and so much better than the 70 pound battle-board that we have.
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kaltorak · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 9:53 am Post subject:

Map tiles with "extras", where with extra I mean detachable pieces as crates, beds, doors, walls that i can place over the tiles to customize it to my needs.

kronovan · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 678

I actually use all of those options for my PnP games. I like to play on preprinted maps, but if it isn't feasible I'll just us water erasable markers on a Chessex Battlemap. Most of the time I design my dungeon or building interior layouts in Maptool and then convert them into 8x10" tiles that get printed out and then placed end -to- end on the battlemap. If its a tile set I know is going to get used a lot, I'll laminate it using 3 sheets of 110 lb cardstock.

For my Weird Wars campaigns I often use 1:72 scale 3d terrain and I have a good assortment of objects like trees, bunker sandbags, walls, fences, various small buildings, farm animals etc. I also have a decent size collection of 1:72 figs that get used as enemy and ally extras as well as civilians.

Lord Inar · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:13 am Post subject:

Sean-Khan · Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 1:30 pm Post subject:

If I'm not using 3d terrains, my optimal solution would be good quality base maps and tiles placed on them. Dungeons of course don't need base map and would work best as tiles.
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kronovan · Veteran Joined: 01 Mar 2011 Posts: 678