Maps for visualising a battlefield during combat, often with grids and used in combination with miniatures or tiles. Not to be confused with the [maps] tag, which is for maps of larger areas, like city or world maps.
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Can Savage Worlds be played effectively on a Square or Hex Grid?
Can Savage Worlds be played effectively on a Square or Hex Grid? And if so, what sort of resources are there for converting Savage world distances (move speeds, ranges, blast sizes) to fit the grid?
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Hexagon Dungeon Tiles
I've searched a lot and found a lot of do-it-yourself hexagon dungeon tile printing.
Does anyone know of a finished product that uses dungeon tiles with hexagons instead of squares?
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Pre-built square-grid maps?
I will be running a 4e adventure tomorrow night. The adventure will take place in Fallcrest. One of the main sites will be a Raven Queen temple in the city. I need to put together a map of the ...
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What are some persistent, virtual, web based, battlemats?
For the chat based playtest of various questions on this site, I find myself wondering about online battlemaps.
My current intension is to use Google spreadsheets to present an abstract, if ...
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Squares vs. hexes on battle mats
I've always felt that hexes were easier for laying things out on the gaming table in terms of movement and areas of effect because you can do more angles without doing counting tricks. Squares however ...
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How can I efficiently manage Ship to Ship Tactical Combat and Boarding?
I'm planning a campaign that will involve a fair amount of ship to ship combat and boarding. My group is accustomed to using a square grid battle mat, and I'm concerned about the mechanics of the ...
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What are the ramifications of replacing a square based combat grid with a hex based one?
I have a personal preference for hexes over squares - the latter present some problems in terms of diagonal movement, and aliasing for certain area effects, that are just handled better with hexes.
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Are there any freely available documents about the math of hex maps?
Are there any freely available documents for math regarding hex maps? I'm especially searching for hex maps of whole planets. How do such programs as "Traveller Heaven & Earth" calculate the ...
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Is there any mapping software that can print large battlemaps?
Years ago, I used Dundjinni to create battlemaps for the game I ran. However, each individual map was restricted in size such that it corresponded to the size of a piece of normal 8.5" x 11", and this ...
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What do I need to set up and use a projector as a tabletop?
I have a really nice projector for my home theater, and I am considering using it for a tabletop gaming setup as well.
What do I need to know about mounting it? What are the tricks or issues? What ...
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What are good techniques to adapt module maps to 3D terrain and/or 2D tilesets?
This is slightly related to How to Use Module Maps but instead of being about how to adapt published small maps to 1" scale or using playmats, I'm interested in technique for adapting to pre-published ...
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Efficient / flexible terrain - Creating a clear hex grid
A little background:
Our terrain system has always been drawing on a whiteboard. We use blue for water, etc. People/Creatures/Objects are glass tokens (sharpied labels on ours, green for friends, ...
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What is a good method for storing papercraft buildings and the like?
I've recently taken to creating papercraft buildings, castle walls and towers, bridges, crates, hay-bales, etc. for my tabletop RPG combat sessions:
They are fragile and need to be stored upright ...
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How do I make my own battle mats?
Premise: I live far from the US, and for me, paying U$S20+shipping for Chessex Battle Mats is out of the question (I just spent U$S 114 for a full lineup of DnD Essentials, and this extra expense ...
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How do you transition from 1-page dungeon map to battle mat?
I have a bunch of different ways I use to make maps for my tabletop game. Sometimes I draw one on graph paper. Sometimes I use Dungeonographer. Sometimes I copy a map from a published adventure or ...
