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Re: Battle grid + Picture frame in plexiglass

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on May 16, 2010; 12:53pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/Battle-grid-Picture-frame-in-plexiglass-tp5059164p5061536.html

Putting the battle grid into a plexiglass picture-frame is a good idea.
I've played (and GM'd) on an Erasable Vinyl Battle-Mat with Krippie and Screaming-Mad-George's group while I was out in The Netherlands, I found we had sometimes had trouble keeping the Battle-Mat flat on the table, the glass picture-frame seems like the ideal solution to this problem, adding much needed weight and rigidity to the Mat/Grid.

Marchomer wrote
I don't think is a good idea use this grid with heroquest-like games, because in my opinion a dungeon crawling game needs a well-worked and accurate set of modular boards/tiles.
I'd say IMHO that each method of representing a dungeon on the table top has it's own advantages and drawbacks.
In my experience, the Erasable Battle Mat/Grid, although not the most visually pleasing is certainly the most flexible method as you can draw out whatever room-layout, furniture or other features you need without having to worry about having enough of the right miniatures, tiles or markers to represent what you want. I also found being able to write which rooms had been Looted or checked for Secret Doors directly onto the dungeon made the game run a little smoother.    



^ Playing a HeroQuest based game on a Chessex Irregular Battle-Matt in The Netherlands
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