I’m a veteran player but new DM. I ran my first game this past weekend. We have a group of 6 players and myself, and we had a hard time using the maps I made (too small). I was wonder how you all use maps in your groups? I am open to all ideas. I plan on using some digital maps since my drawing skills are awful haha.
I print out maps. I find battlemaps or cool-looking maps online (I've got a subscription on patreon to one guy who draws maps, and there's many more out there); then I expand them to the desired size with rasterbator.net and print them out with my dinky home printer. Sometimes I have to edit them in GIMP a bit first, but I'm pretty bad at it so I don't do much of that. I treat the grid, if there is one, as just being there for scale reference - the players aren't required to move along gridlines, the monsters don't either, and sometimes if they do something really weird the players can end up off the edge of the map.
I’m a veteran player but new DM. I ran my first game this past weekend. We have a group of 6 players and myself, and we had a hard time using the maps I made (too small). I was wonder how you all use maps in your groups? I am open to all ideas. I plan on using some digital maps since my drawing skills are awful haha.
Thanks in advance.
I print them with 1 inch squares being 5ft for combat and use a combo of minis (pc's) and paper tokens (monsters/npc's).
If its out of combat, scale varies depending on the map but then they're usually more for reference than for interaction.
I print out maps. I find battlemaps or cool-looking maps online (I've got a subscription on patreon to one guy who draws maps, and there's many more out there); then I expand them to the desired size with rasterbator.net and print them out with my dinky home printer. Sometimes I have to edit them in GIMP a bit first, but I'm pretty bad at it so I don't do much of that. I treat the grid, if there is one, as just being there for scale reference - the players aren't required to move along gridlines, the monsters don't either, and sometimes if they do something really weird the players can end up off the edge of the map.