Ultra Pro has the Skull and Shackles mats listed as a product on their site now.
Not a lot to see, but any little bit is fun. I'd assume seeing them on the Ultra Pro website indicates they will be up for sale soon.
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I don't like those nearly as much as the ones from the first base set... each of the ones from RotRL had multiple pieces of art on them, showing both the character portrait and them in some sort of combat situation as well. These just have the portrait. Probably not going to worry about picking these up, personally.
Hmm, so the Valeros, Mesiriel and Lem artwork is *exactly* the same as RotRL? That's a bit lame isn't it? (Just going on what I can see from the sneak peek). Magus and Oracle look incredibly cool though!
I bought these sight unseen and was quite disappointed at the same-y look and the lack of original artwork.
I hope Ultra-Pro & Paizo work out something better for the next big set.
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The big playmant worked out pretty well for us last night, but there was no place on the mat to place the character tokens at the locations.
Small detail, probably not important, otherwise great product.
Anyone know if the battle mat style ultro pro products can be quarter folded and stored in the box without breaking them down? I guess Magic players keep them rolled up, but it would travel so nicely in the game box if that won't damage it.
Yeah the battle mat was nice enough.
But to use that you probably want to use minis ;)
Is it just me or is the Seltyiel one using the wrong art ? That's the original Seltyiel WAR portrait on the playmat, not the new one that was done for the Magus and is used on the cards.
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Anyone know if the battle mat style ultro pro products can be quarter folded and stored in the box without breaking them down? I guess Magic players keep them rolled up, but it would travel so nicely in the game box if that won't damage it.
A buddy of mine did this and added the character play mats into the big box for storage.
The result: Bad idea. He wound up with a lot of bent cards.
Personally, I'd be a bit wary of doing this as the plastic tray in S&S is A LOT thinner than the one in RotR. I understand trying to manage production costs, but the organizational tray feels ridiculously flimsy. The S&S adventure decks have a hanger tab that is significantly longer than the ones for RotR, meaning that if you don't trim them or tape them down, it's going to put even more pressure on the plastic tray.
I bet we see a lot of future complaints about the tray cracking.
TL;DR Battle mat in the box is a bad idea.
