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Hello all,
I am running 04-25, The Secrets Stones Keep, and see there are maps with the one square = 10 feet scale. This is not too uncommon in Pathfinder, but how do you print or even deal with a map that is as large as or larger than the table? I get it, Dwarves are over compensating for their diminutive size and need rooms over 200 feet wide, but hey I’m just a human and need to have something for the minis.
Suggestions?
It can be hard to run minis on a battlefield that is significantly bigger than your table or floor. Any suggestions?
Sorry, I misunderstood the problem. I thought you just wanted to show your players the map.
I still suggest you do the same thing, and buy something that just has one inch squares on it and is dry erasable surface. Then, get to drawin'! Draw the parts you need as the group gets there.
Print out the map by sections and hang it to the wall so the players can get a feel of the size of the dungeon. Then, during encounters, use a typical battle map and point out where the encounter occurs on the wall map. Your players will get the idea and maybe feel that the battle is much larger than they are...they will feel a part of the game world.
Here is another suggestion-
In college, we used study/meeting rooms and drew maps on the whiteboards and glued magnets to the basis of our minis. Since the whiteboards were magnetic, we had a map that stretched the entire length of the wall. Careful though - some minis were too heavy for the magnets and fell to the floor.
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I've spent hours analysing over drawing maps but you know, the players don't know what the map looks like so draw it to a smaller size. Unless you need room for a bunch of colossal minis what difference will it make?
I suggest using a Virtual Tabletop for maps like this. Connect a computer to a big screen TV. Some VTTs are simple to use and set up. Many of them have some kind of Fog of War feature so you do not have to reveal the entire map at once.
- Gauss
Sorry, I misunderstood the problem. I thought you just wanted to show your players the map.
I still suggest you do the same thing, and buy something that just has one inch squares on it and is dry erasable surface. Then, get to drawin'! Draw the parts you need as the group gets there.
I bought a Gamemastery Flipmat for this. You can imagine how upset I was to discover it was only like... four squares too small to draw the entire trading post from Kingmaker onto. Close (so close) but no cigar.
And the trading post is about half the size of what the OP here is mentioning. I saw that Chessex offers a mat that's significantly larger than the Gamemastery Flipmat - if you don't mind using wet erase markers, and dropping $40 on it (compared to the $8 I ended up spending on my Flipmat).
Keep the 10' scale for the overall picture and inevitable ranged combat, then switch to 5" scale when the characters get into close combat. And, don't be too much of a stickler about exact distances at the 10' scale.