What are you going to do with the map and tiles in your DMG 3.5?

[candidus_cogitens]

Are you going to photocopy them, or just pull them out and try to take care of them.

Some copy places, like Kinko's, can make excellent color copies, but I'm not sure I would trust them to do it right and not break my binding.

On another note, do you think you'll use the tiles very much, or do you prefer an erasable grid or some other method?

 

[Nifft]

I use a hex map, so I've ripped out the DMG pinup and I curse the lack of cool tables in the back every time I see the tiles.

-- Nifft

 

[candidus_cogitens]

Yeah, I guess they aren't compatible with hexes. But let's not get into a debate about hexes vs. squares.

I honestly can't figure out how these things were intended to be used. They aren't perforated, to be easy to tear out, but that seems like what you would almost have to do in order to make use of them.

 

[Droogie]

The book binding isn't really copier-friendly. I have a scanner, but making copies would use to much ink- especially since the background of these sheets are black.

What I would do is go to the store and buy a poster frame. Put the battlegrid from the DMG in the frame(white side). Use dry-erase markers. Go with the BOONE brand markers; the EXPO brand has a tendancy to not wipe off.
Don't leave the dry-erase marker on overnight.

Washable markers work too, but the crayola ones don't dry fast enough and they make a mess. Get those overhead projector pens if you can find them.

 

[Eye Tyrant]

I laminated the pull-out map for about 5 bucks and am now using it constantly with my Vis a vis pens... I got a poster tube to put the thing in when not in use.

 

[romp]

I hate things in rulebooks that you have to tear out. Those kind of things should only be in supplements, not core rule books. I ripped out a few of the card things that came with my old FASA Earthdawn book and have regretted it ever since, the cards have long since scattered to the four winds.

I personally use a clear plastic mat that i got from the old Armory at Origins one year. My current group usually sits around the living room so we do not use minatures anyway. Which is prolly a good thing since one couple in the group now has an 18 month old child.

 

[Wombat]

Ignore them completely or turn them into kindling.

First up I use hexes when I have to, but more often than not I just ignore all those rules.

 

[Green Knight]

I certainly have no intention of tearing up my DMG to get at them. Don't know what WoTC was thinking when they put those in there, and not on some kind of perforated page. Hopefully they'll make them downloads on the website, so we can just print them out.

 

[astralpwka]

I've been planning on laminating the map, but I like that poster frame idea. I've been using the dungeonworks tiles (I think by Scrollworks???) but it's not conducive to fast drawing.

 

[pogre]

I certainly have no intention of tearing up my DMG to get at them. Don't know what WoTC was thinking when they put those in there, and not on some kind of perforated page. Hopefully they'll make them downloads on the website, so we can just print them out.

I agree completely. Handouts for adventures are one thing, but I do not like to tear up books.

edit: I use terrain, barring that - a battlemat.