Seriously.
How many of us DMs would LOVE to have Master Maze (or similar) material to use with our games but don't have the following:
a: space
b: money
...show of hands please...
exactly what I thought (I raised mine too) so I thought I would drop a little knowledge on you all if you so choose to listen
Photoshop can help you out.
Seing as how the pages in the back are "legal to copy for personal use" I have scanned in those pages and now I can "assemble" my own tiles for whatever rooms I need.
Now granted there are no "natural cavern" types or anything similar so I'll have to find a way around that.
Once I get done making room sections I can print them out, break out the glue, and TADA a room section would be made.
Heck...I could even make larger sections and just cover up what I don't want to show them yet with another piece of paper (the whole "you can see -this far- representation")
this also keeps the actual minis more visible to the players and not hidden by the Master Maze causing everyone to hover around/near the DM screen for more than a few seconds just to move a mini
also...with some of the tiles in the DMG, like the statues, pits, dead bodies...not big enough as they are? expand them to fit under various other sizes (large, huge, etc)...
Sometimes the simplest method to circumvent our needs for putting together rooms and such are overlooked because perhaps they are too simple... :D
You could also try Dundjinni. http://www.dundjinni.com
For all those DMs who are broke, but use a $500 image-editing program.
Hey, wait... that's me!
: )
Rob
Seriously.
How many of us DMs would LOVE to have Master Maze (or similar) material to use with our games but don't have the following:
a: space
b: money...show of hands please...
exactly what I thought (I raised mine too) so I thought I would drop a little knowledge on you all if you so choose to listen
Photoshop can help you out.
Seing as how the pages in the back are "legal to copy for personal use" I have scanned in those pages and now I can "assemble" my own tiles for whatever rooms I need.Now granted there are no "natural cavern" types or anything similar so I'll have to find a way around that.
Once I get done making room sections I can print them out, break out the glue, and TADA a room section would be made.
Heck...I could even make larger sections and just cover up what I don't want to show them yet with another piece of paper (the whole "you can see -this far- representation")
this also keeps the actual minis more visible to the players and not hidden by the Master Maze causing everyone to hover around/near the DM screen for more than a few seconds just to move a mini
also...with some of the tiles in the DMG, like the statues, pits, dead bodies...not big enough as they are? expand them to fit under various other sizes (large, huge, etc)...
Sometimes the simplest method to circumvent our needs for putting together rooms and such are overlooked because perhaps they are too simple... :D
I haven't the cash, the software or the inclination to use Photoshop; call me a purist, but graph paper and apencil still works best for me.
I've yet to see a mapmaking program that I like - I'd rather the group generate an image in their heads of what I describe, rather than see a cartoonish printout that is tough to modify or partially conceal, depending on the 'on-the-fly' game dynamics of the moment.
If anyone has a .pdf of the map segments from the core books, I could be amenable to printing those out in color and perhaps cutting/assembling disposable tiles that can be arranged, written on, cut or otherwise mutilated to suit that night's session, then reprinted each week as needed...
That sounds most functional, to me...that and a lot of scotch tape.
M
For all those DMs who are broke, but use a $500 image-editing program.
Hey, wait... that's me!
: )
Rob
dms who are broke and do not use a $500 immage-editing program can always use gimp
For all those DMs who are broke, but use a $500 image-editing program.
Hey, wait... that's me!
: )
Rob
Lol...Try Gimp...you'll be able to do the same thing and its free.
Edit: Oops - looks like some one beat me to the punchline.
Anyway its a good program, at this point I like it more then Photoshop in many cases. Now if only it had they memory erase feature and especially the ability to do arrows.