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I hate that they are dry-erase. In my experience dry erase is not good for these types of RPG products. If you draw up a series of maps on it and transport it to the game there is a good possibility of smudging and wiping off of what you drew. Players reaching onto the board are bound to accidentally wipe off areas with their sleeves or hands.
Tact-tiles were wet-erase with a tan background that helped with mood on the map and that's what made them great.
Dry erase on a stark white background doesn't do anything for me, I'll save my money for a better product to come up.
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I hate that they are dry-erase. In my experience dry erase is not good for these types of RPG products. If you draw up a series of maps on it and transport it to the game there is a good possibility of smudging and wiping off of what you drew. Players reaching onto the board are bound to accidentally wipe off areas with their sleeves or hands.
Tact-tiles were wet-erase with a tan background that helped with mood on the map and that's what made them great.
Dry erase on a stark white background doesn't do anything for me, I'll save my money for a better product to come up.
I've had a set of gray tact-tiles for about 6 years and I've used them in nearly every gaming session I've ran since I received them (as a birthday gift from some of my players). As useful as they are, there are things I don't like about them. These battle graphs will probably be the inheritor of tact-tiles, but with the we-erase capability (as Fakey mentioned).
I'm continueing the flirt with flip-mats at this point. While the featured side tends to be good for a specific encounter or 2, the more generic reverse side I think it quite handy too. They tend to be much easier to transport (lighter and foldable, whereas I used a tackle box for my tact-tiles). The major problem I encounter is that they don't unfold as flatly as I'd like and that tends to leave light-weight plastic minis sitting funny (and just annoys me in general).
Good products both, but I haven't found my perfect product yet.
-Skeld
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They would only really be useful for myself and the rest of my group if they had the same cuts as Tact-Tiles
Which would probably be a patent violation or something. But since tact-tiles went out of business, you'd think someone else could buy the patent from them for a reasonable price (unless they just didn't want to sell).
-Skeld
Chief Technical Officer
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They would only really be useful for myself and the rest of my group if they had the same cuts as Tact-TilesWhich would probably be a patent violation or something. But since tact-tiles went out of business, you'd think someone else could buy the patent from them for a reasonable price (unless they just didn't want to sell).
-Skeld
The Tact-Tiles patent application was denied repeatedly (for "obviousness," among other things), and they gave up appealing a couple of years ago.
According to posts on ENWorld, there's a company trying to bring out a new line of Tact-Tiles. We'll see if that happens.