These tiles are so dark it's hard to use markers on them. I also don't particularly care for the colors here, I've spend a lot of time outdoors and this just doesn't really conjure up any forest I've been in. The tiles also don't tie together well. You are limited to building a fairly small scale encounter or resorting to a map that has jarring edges that don't match. It would be nice if there were some way to tie them. The farm tiles and the marketplace tiles (and quite a few others) can both be used to make larger maps, for an outdoors encounter this is a little disappointing.

The blighted forest glen is also Ok but the other Fairy Ring and the Briar patch will almost certainly never see use at my table.

The overgrown ruins and the druid glade are both good pieces and will likely see some use at my table but since they don't match any of my other tiles it's tough to just drop them onto the table.

edit: A few quick comments about the previous post. All of the general criticisms of the map packs are valid but easily worked around. I find them easier to deal with than the dungeon tiles I got from Wizards though. I use a little tape to hold the tiles together and just happened to have a small box which fits them perfectly. I've heard you can find card holders at office depot that fit them quite well also.

Overall I like the map packs because they let you have premade sections that you can piece into a larger area as you want to design it. This pack is kind of a poor example of that.

First of all, this is a beautiful beautiful map pack with several interesting ways to combine the tiles. If you're looking for a gorgeous ruin I highly recommend this pack.

However this may never see use at my table. My criticism is not specific to this map pack, but rather to all the map packs, so be forewarned.

First, once the package is open there's no way to keep all the tiles together so I ended up using a rubberband. It would be really nice if these came with a sleeve or some way of bundling them together.

Second, they're just too thin and flimsy. This is an issue because they can get moved around too easily due to a combination of their thinness and slickness. I would like something a little more sturdy.

Third, there is no way to connect the tiles provided, so they can be bumped around on the table and don't exactly line up. This is at the last of my list because I can just tape them if it bothers me. But the icing on the cake would be if there was a built in way to connect tiles to each other.