paizo.com - SKIRMISH TILES: Castle System -- Upper Level PDF

SKIRMISH TILES: Castle System is not merely a simple tile system. While you get a bunch of extremely cool tiles that you can use alone or with other SKIRMISH TILES products, you also get some features that take this product out of the ordinary. First, you can assemble the castle tiles in many different ways, to create a different castle each time you use it. Second, the process of arranging the tiles in a castle and printing them is handled entirely through this extraordinary PDF product. The Castle System Designer allows you to easily design your castle by adding the tiles you wish, where you wish on the battle grid with few mouse clicks. Once you have the desired layout, you can hit a button to print only the tiles you need for that layout—awesome! Further, if your castle is complex, you can print a single sheet with the position of each tile on the battle grid. With the Castle System Designer utility, you can compose a castle up to 5.3 x 6.6 feet!

The Castle System series allows you to build a castle from the upper level to the ground floor; the Upper Level PDF allows you to build the upper level. Each PDF also includes many "alternative" tiles you can use to further customize your castle (a destroyed tower, a drawbridge on fire, and so on). On the game table, you can mix the various levels of the castle allowing your miniatures to go "up" and "down" simply by substituting a tile with the matching tile on the other level. This product contains 25 gorgeous tiles.

NOTE: The Castle System Designer function will only work with Adobe Reader version 6 or 7. You will be limited to viewing and printing tiles with higher versions of Adobe Reader.

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An RPG Resource review
Reviewer: Megan Robertson
Thu, Jul 20, 2006, 06:53 AM

This is a simple, elegant and very powerful system for castle design. When you open the PDF (you'll need Acrobat Reader v.6 for this), the first thing you'll see is an explanation of how the system works and an overview of all the tiles in this set. The next page is the 'Control Sheet,' a grid with all the tiles laid out in a rather conventional 'square keep' layout, which is where you pick the tiles you want to use - in that layout or anything else you please. The next page is a blank grid, which is where you create your design, by clicking on the grid square you want to use, then going to the Control Grid and clicking on the tile you want to appear in that location. Once selected you can rotate the tile, or get rid of it if you change your mind. When you have finished, there's an even neater trick - the file will automatically print out just the tiles you need to create your design on the tabletop. You can also print out the design page to use as a convential map or just to remind you what the castle ought to look like when you come to lay it out before your players.

This collection represents the top level of a castle, basically the rooftops. So here's to some epic swordfights across the tiles...!