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Post by shadowmane on Oct 25, 2012 12:21:50 GMT -5
Looking Glass Deep is a free module written by Mike Mearls. If you were going to model the "garden area" outside the dungeon, would you simply use a green felt cloth with the wall, the buildings, the trees and the tents, or would you build a 31" by 30" tile that goes from the outside of the keep to the stairs going into the dungeon? That would be a huge dungeon tile if it was all done in one tile. Or would you do it with several tiles?
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Post by realityburn on Oct 25, 2012 15:20:20 GMT -5
Here is a link to the preview that has the map in question: watermark.drivethrustuff.com/pdf_previews/2340-sample.pdfThat would be a massive area, IMHO it would be best to divide it up in to separate tiles. You would not necessarily need the whole area as tiles, but maybe just the points of interest (Guard tower, old barracks, camp site and maybe the lake area) on felt as well as the keep area? I thing that would be a lot more manageable. On the other hand, if it was fully mapped (tiled?) it would look awesome
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Post by dm1scotty on Oct 27, 2012 21:20:02 GMT -5
I agree.
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Post by brianblather on Oct 28, 2012 22:06:55 GMT -5
You can always use extra rooms and locations.
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Post by danielc on Oct 28, 2012 23:32:36 GMT -5
I would follow realityburn's advise if I were doing it.
But I admit, there is a part of me that would love to see the whole thing as a tile just for fun.
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Post by thedeadlysins on Nov 6, 2012 16:25:46 GMT -5
I agree, creating a tile that large would be impressive, but unnecessary. Good luck finding a box that size...
Perhaps instead of doing it the full scale 30" just do a half scale 15" this could create potential crowding, but you could remove something of little or no value or interest.
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Post by onethatwas on Nov 7, 2012 2:00:10 GMT -5
an alternative that could make the whole craft project easier and more manageable is to merely change the scale completely. Obviously those grids represent an inch in length and width, but if you cut the scale down to a quarter of the size, all of a sudden it's more manageable. Now you just need to represent your minis at that same scale, and make some measuring sticks that represent the changed scale as well (1/4th of an inch is equivalent to one unit of movement speed).
I'd recomend being very simple with the minis...a bead decoratively threaded onto a nail, glued, and painted on will work. The point is that with a large single area map like that, it's almost best to just ignore the map itself and, as others pointed out, craft the important pieces instead. But, failing that, if you're dead set on making a tile, lowering the size scale can make it easier to accomplish.
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Post by omegadm0357 on Nov 20, 2012 8:54:31 GMT -5
I think a lot of those tiles would be good for multiple use tiles. I mean to reuse.
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