"X" marks the spot for adventure on this deadly pirate island, where a man’s life is worth less than the gold coins in his pocket and treachery awaits in every shadow! Flip-Mat: Pirate Island brings swashbuckling adventure to your tabletop, tangling your players in tropical terrors they won’t soon forget! Perfect for a side-trek away from the jungles of the Serpent’s Skull Adventure Path or one of countless untold adventures on the lost islands of the high seas!
This portable, affordable map measures 24" x 30" unfolded, and 8" x 10" folded. Its coated surface can handle any dry erase, wet erase, or even permanent marker. Usable by experienced GMs and novices alike, GameMastery Flip-Mats fit perfectly into any Game Master’s arsenal!
On tabletops across the world, the Flip-Mat Revolution is changing the way players run their fantasy roleplaying games! Why take the time to sketch out ugly scenery on a smudgy plastic mat when dynamic encounters and easy clean-up is just a Flip away?
A really nice map to use at small or large scale, although little details like the drawn in birds and bottles suggest it is indeed drawn at the 5 foot scale.
The colors are a little dark but it's nice to see the reverse side being put to use for as something more than a blank.
The folds were terrible, but I was able to flatten it out eventually.
This is what I would like to more of from this series: maps that have different yet complimentary images on each side. (We all have plenty to choose from with blank surfaces on the reverse side at this point.) In this case we get a small island on one side and a sandy beach on the other.
Unlike the maps of buildings and structures, the inclusion of only one tiny room on the island-side makes it very easy to use a more ambiguous scale with this map. Using a 5-foot scale, you get a nice little hideaway with small trees and scrub. Need something bigger for actual exploration? Treat the sqaures as large to colossal and simply use a token to represent the entire party. For encounters then just "zoom in" using other maps in your collection.
The only improvement I could hope for would be to finally be able to acquire these without the folds. Naturally, something like that wouldn't be feasible for shipping, although with GenCon and DragonCon around the corner, perhaps unfolded maps could be convention-only specials...
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