Adding a new tool to my DM Equipment List
Today I’d like to do something that I normally never get to
do; look at a modern product! I am a legendary tightwad when it comes to
gaming. I’ve got two children who are very skilled at discovering new and innovative
ways of disposing of cash as efficiently as possible; and with my current game,
I was already over-budget. Whenever one turns the printer on it costs money,
and I printed a lot of stuff! But there was one thing that I couldn’t print myself;
I wanted a big hexmap to act as a game board. It needed to be big enough for
all of us to see, and we’ll be using it for a while. Creating a DM wilderness
map is easy as dropping toast butter-side down, but copying the wilderness map
over to another medium is not!
Traditional vinyl gaming mats are great products, however you’ve
got to take care of them, and I fear staining those things, so I always keep
them clean. Thus, using a vinyl-hex map is not an option. I’ve even got my homemade
jobby, which is easy as heck to keep clean, however I’ve also got 2 cats that
love playing all of those tabletop strategy games, including AD&D, and they
are very good at it! They can wipe out entire nations and still have time for a
nap. Armies that take us months to defeat are of no challenge to the cats. Sometimes
you want something that is permanent, and of a size that you can’t print, but
Gamingpaper.com has a magnificent invention, selling 1” Hex paper by the roll!
Maybe you noticed that I added the link to my sidebar? I highly recommend this
product!
First off, this stuff is cheap: Including Shipping &
Handling, I only spent $9. It is 30”x 4’, which is a lot of hex paper! 30 hexs
is exactly the bottom width of the hex paper I typically print off myself, thus
I can get lots of maps out of this stuff, which I really wasn’t expecting, I
thought that I’d have to cut the stuff to size.
The paper itself is exactly like wrapping paper, it has a
waxy kind of coating which improves it. You can use whatever you want to draw
on it, I used your everyday Crayola wash-able Magic Markers, the ink dried
fairly quickly, and I put it on pretty thick. The color stayed where I put it
and didn’t bleed, I did have to use a clean cloth to protect what I had done
from my wrist while coloring, but that is normal whenever you are working with markers;
the clean cloth stayed clean, and didn’t damage the drawing in any way, even
dark colors were set and dry in under 10 minutes. The colors didn’t bleed
through the paper, which really impressed me, I was worried about staining my
workspace (which has happened more often that I’d like to admit too), I even
used a permanent red Sharpie to highlight a road and the ink didn’t bleed out
or through the paper which is amazing.
Taken with my crummy camera |
Folks have complained that if you use dry erase marker, you
can’t fill in, but regular magic markers worked perfectly. I have it hung up on
my big dry erase board, to keep it safe; like wrapping paper it tears and
wrinkles really easy.
I was also surprised how easy it was to keep flat. I just
used some dice boxes to keep the paper in place, and a few times I had to reach
over wet ink and just touch the paper with the marker and the paper stayed in
place. It allowed me to work as fast as I could without having to worry about
anything and could focus on accurately copying my map over to it.
Gaming Paper has a new customer in me. I was able to achieve
exactly what I wanted to inexpensively, and without having to worry about it. THAT
IS A GOOD PRODUCT! I give it an A+, it is functional and easy to use. I look at
what I did and it looks pretty professional! It’s at least as good as a good ol
fashion AH game. We’ll be using it exactly like that, too. Since it is hanging
on a dry-erase board, we can use magnets as markers for the party, but I feel
safe enough marking the gaming paper with a magic marker and not have to worry
about it bleeding through, it is safe from the cats but when we are done with
it, I can throw it away. I will definitely be buying more.
This is just one of several products that they offer, so go check them out and tell me what you think. Is this something that you think that you can use? Would it make bigger ideas easier to achieve? What would you use this for?
Gamingpaper.com
This is just one of several products that they offer, so go check them out and tell me what you think. Is this something that you think that you can use? Would it make bigger ideas easier to achieve? What would you use this for?
Gamingpaper.com
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