I am starting up the Dragon Heist Campaign and while I love the concept of Roll20 and other digital options I dont have the desire to invest THAT much money into the game at the current time.
What I am wondering is what are some of the collectives ideas on running maps on a living room table, using grids, etc. In regards to hiding the board and using light radius to hide most of the map?
Any helpful tips and tricks will do, at this point I dont think there is such a thing as a bad idea lol
We have a Pathfinder large grid background map. So, a table sized grid that’s dry eraseable. A lot of stuff can be drawn there when revealed. But, I also bought a pack of projector transparency sheets, like our school teachers used before smart boards. I’ll pre-draw rooms or whatever should be hidden onto the sheet, then just overlay the sheet on the map. Amazon is the way to go to buy those. Staples charges like crazy for the one kind they still carry.
A pretty epic idea I’ve seen on keeping maps secret is a guy at a convention I played at printed table sized maps that had the red sandy texture print pattern thing that kids decoder toys use, where the real writing is in blue ink, but you can’t see it without reading it through a piece of red film that filters away all the red ink. How he had access to a printer that large and found a program that made the red texture that hid the blue ink, I have no clue. But he had red films that could be laid out to hold open entire areas and other more rounded films that could follow minis across the map like character-sourced light. I didn’t get to play at his table, but I had to stop and see the setup.
That sounds super cool to see! I want to make this adventure cool and surprising but i just dont want to invest in the digital setups yet cause we all play in person so I like the effect of actual models and a real board, using some sort of hidden ink might actually be really cool.
That was what I was thinking about using is just like using black construction paper to cover up the predrawn map, I was also considering just drawing as they went but that creates a lot of down time I have noticed in games I have played in the past, the transparency paper might be fun though
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Hey all,
I am starting up the Dragon Heist Campaign and while I love the concept of Roll20 and other digital options I dont have the desire to invest THAT much money into the game at the current time.
What I am wondering is what are some of the collectives ideas on running maps on a living room table, using grids, etc. In regards to hiding the board and using light radius to hide most of the map?
Any helpful tips and tricks will do, at this point I dont think there is such a thing as a bad idea lol
We have a Pathfinder large grid background map. So, a table sized grid that’s dry eraseable. A lot of stuff can be drawn there when revealed. But, I also bought a pack of projector transparency sheets, like our school teachers used before smart boards. I’ll pre-draw rooms or whatever should be hidden onto the sheet, then just overlay the sheet on the map. Amazon is the way to go to buy those. Staples charges like crazy for the one kind they still carry.
A pretty epic idea I’ve seen on keeping maps secret is a guy at a convention I played at printed table sized maps that had the red sandy texture print pattern thing that kids decoder toys use, where the real writing is in blue ink, but you can’t see it without reading it through a piece of red film that filters away all the red ink. How he had access to a printer that large and found a program that made the red texture that hid the blue ink, I have no clue. But he had red films that could be laid out to hold open entire areas and other more rounded films that could follow minis across the map like character-sourced light. I didn’t get to play at his table, but I had to stop and see the setup.
That sounds super cool to see! I want to make this adventure cool and surprising but i just dont want to invest in the digital setups yet cause we all play in person so I like the effect of actual models and a real board, using some sort of hidden ink might actually be really cool.
That was what I was thinking about using is just like using black construction paper to cover up the predrawn map, I was also considering just drawing as they went but that creates a lot of down time I have noticed in games I have played in the past, the transparency paper might be fun though