Oops.My battle mat is wet erase only. Dry erase will stain it.Things I use...
A 20+ year old Chessex battle mat (1" grid)
Drywet erase markers
LOL as my mat is less than 2 years old I thought maybe Chessex had changed their mat "recipe". Apparently not!
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LOL as my mat is less than 2 years old I thought maybe Chessex had changed their mat "recipe". Apparently not!Oops.My battle mat is wet erase only. Dry erase will stain it.Things I use...
A 20+ year old Chessex battle mat (1" grid)
Drywet erase markers
I've also found the hard way that not all wet-erase markers are created equal. The blue marker in my most recent set won't erase completely with water-- I need to use rubbing alcohol. (That marker is no longer in my set.)
The nice thing about wet erase markers is that simply touching the map doesn't erase the lines. Unless someone spills Mountain Dew (or beer) on the map...
The nice thing about wet erase markers is that simply touching the map doesn't erase the lines. Unless someone spills Mountain Dew (or beer) on the map...
Sounds like you have experience along those lines. ;) lol
Yeah, blue is the hardest to get out. I need to try and get out regular old ball point pen (Luckily it's way up in the corners of the mat and can be ignored) a friend's kid got a hold of the mat when we weren't watching and decided to doodle on it. The child is 6 and an absolute terror and makes me very glad I will never have kids.
I used to have problems with my Chessex maps staining too. I discovered that Goo Be Gone spray works wonders. Every few months I spray down both mats, let it sit for a bit, and wipe them off. They look brand new afterwards, although you'll have to rinse lightly with water to remove the oily residue that the spray can leave.
I used to have problems with my Chessex maps staining too. I discovered that Goo Be Gone spray works wonders. Every few months I spray down both mats, let it sit for a bit, and wipe them off. They look brand new afterwards, although you'll have to rinse lightly with water to remove the oily residue that the spray can leave.
Thanks! I'll check it out!
I used to have problems with my Chessex maps staining too. I discovered that Goo Be Gone spray works wonders. Every few months I spray down both mats, let it sit for a bit, and wipe them off. They look brand new afterwards, although you'll have to rinse lightly with water to remove the oily residue that the spray can leave.
Thanks for the tip! A player drew on my mat with dry-erase markers four or five years ago, and I could never get those marks completely off. I'll give this stuff a try!
Which Goo Gone spray should I use? There are a lot of different ones.
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I started using it in my Runelords game about halfway through Book 2, and I just printed off a new copy for my Iron Gods game. Highly recommended, especially for tracking disease stuff that incubates for weeks. (The party barbarian in Iron Gods came down with leprosy, which has an incubation period of weeks. We'll probably be in the second book by then!)
Which Goo Gone spray should I use? There are a lot of different ones.
There's a spray one that smells like oranges and has a bottle that looks like this.
Which Goo Gone spray should I use? There are a lot of different ones.There's a spray one that smells like oranges and has a bottle that looks like this.
That's the one I got. So far it hasn't worked on the Ballpoint pen drawings that that dumb kid did on my mat. Haven't tried it on the ity bity almost invisible dry erase stain yet though.
That's the one I got. So far it hasn't worked on the Ballpoint pen drawings that that dumb kid did on my mat. Haven't tried it on the ity bity almost invisible dry erase stain yet though.Which Goo Gone spray should I use? There are a lot of different ones.There's a spray one that smells like oranges and has a bottle that looks like this.
You might have to let it sit for awhile after you spray it, but before you wipe the stuff off.
You might have to let it sit for awhile after you spray it, but before you wipe the stuff off.That's the one I got. So far it hasn't worked on the Ballpoint pen drawings that that dumb kid did on my mat. Haven't tried it on the ity bity almost invisible dry erase stain yet though.Which Goo Gone spray should I use? There are a lot of different ones.There's a spray one that smells like oranges and has a bottle that looks like this.
Yeah, I'm doing that now. :) Letting it sit. I'll wipe it off when I get home. It's sure is oily stuff!
Yeah, I'm doing that now. :) Letting it sit. I'll wipe it off when I get home. It's sure is oily stuff!You might have to let it sit for awhile after you spray it, but before you wipe the stuff off.That's the one I got. So far it hasn't worked on the Ballpoint pen drawings that that dumb kid did on my mat. Haven't tried it on the ity bity almost invisible dry erase stain yet though.Which Goo Gone spray should I use? There are a lot of different ones.There's a spray one that smells like oranges and has a bottle that looks like this.
Indeed. I highly recommend giving it a water/dish detergent rinse and toweling it off afterwards.
Oh! I found those dry erase crayons. You're right, they work great on the laminate. They're going to be perfect for Kobold's Ate My Baby. :) Thanks for letting me know about them.
I used a spreadsheet to make a quick one-page calendar. 12 lines, 7 columns. Each line can be a month on a yearly calendar or a day on a daily calendar, I use both. The columns are labelled:
Time (day or month)
PC actions
local events
regional events
NPC actions
secret NPC actions
OtherI use a page for most game sessions, each line is a day, and the Time column is also used for weather. I use it to track when random encounters are expected (I roll them up in advance), where the PCs are or are expected to be, what's going on in the area around them, and so on. The NPC actions and events sections allow me to introduce background things that may or may not affect the game (NPC #55 returns to town, a freak tornado levels some trees by the lake, the King of Oobilax is visiting his neighbor Snorkia, etc.), and some of them might not be revealed.
I use the same blank template for a calendar year in my Kingmaker campaign, again planning out random events and news items.
I can't do that. I get distracted by the story and forget to keep track of things. :)
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May I take a moment to suggest that you check out Obsidian Portal as a means of involving your players in writing the story of your campaign? I had never tried it before one of my players started an Iron Gods campaign and suggested we write journals of our characters actions. Now I am wholly involved in the way Vidon evolves in this campaign.
May I take a moment to suggest that you check out Obsidian Portal as a means of involving your players in writing the story of your campaign? I had never tried it before one of my players started an Iron Gods campaign and suggested we write journals of our characters actions. Now I am wholly involved in the way Vidon evolves in this campaign.
I use Obsidian Portal as well. It is a very handy place to organize your campaign. Using the wiki I have all my deities, class information, and rules available to read. Characters are also posted and I can add GM notes on each behind the scenes. The Calendar lets us set and our weekly game sessions. It's pretty amazing.
I wish my players would get more involved using it but as a GM it's handy.
-MD
Things I have found invaluable
*World of Warcraft Board Game: Basically I already had it and I've been using the sweet minis for my battles.
*Condiments lunchbox: it protects my dice and can also house minis for going to other people's houses. The biggest win is I can roll my dice in the lid and avoid dice jumping off the table.
*Lego: I use Lego bricks with character names on them to track initiative
*PF Condition Cards: You're staggered? Here's a card which has all the info on what penalties you are taking.
*Asus Tablet: Loaded with the Pathfinder Master Tools app, PDFs and a nice calculator it's become hugely useful for looking up things
*Mechanical pencils and Mechanical Erasers: no need to worry about sharpening or trying to erase small sections of your character sheet
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Dice by Ceramic Wombat. All of them.
Wow, "Sputnik" dice - I'm almost tempted to buy those despite the prohibitive cost. I kind of adore Sputnik on a historical symbolism level.
My ante for this thread?
- A wheeled backpack to carry your large number of books in.
- PaperMate erasable pens. Live them, learn them, love them.
- Lack good miniatures, but want to identify your characters in style? Try a miniature tarot card deck! Is your character more of an Empress? A Fool? A Magician? A Hanged Man? Perhaps the Devil...or Death Itself?
- When in wondrous San Jose, California, be sure to visit the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (it's like the Blackros Museum, but with calmer mummies) and pick up your very own scarab in the gift shop - I did! Splendid for summoned monster, or as a distinctive generic marker when you've got nothing else on you!
*PF Condition Cards: You're staggered? Here's a card which has all the info on what penalties you are taking.
*Asus Tablet: Loaded with the Pathfinder Master Tools app, PDFs and a nice calculator it's become hugely useful for looking up things
I need to get those Condition cards one of these days. I may just make my own.
And I use a Kindle Fire rather than an Asus tablet, but same amount of usefulness. Also, all of my modules are in PDF and the Kindle reads those beautifully.
1. sheet of plexiglass for laying over maps
2. 'Fog of War' - construction paper, cut into squares or circles
3. laser printer
4. Posterazor
5. Photoshop
6. Herolab
7. Terraclips
8. Chessex dice containers for showing flying and/or invisible characters
9. wet-erase initiative tracker
10. iPad
These dry erase crayons intrigue me. Has anyone tested them on Paizo flipmats?
I think one of my roommates has one of those mats. I'll ask him when he's awake (late night person)
I use the counters from the 4e Monster Vault. For monsters they cover the basics well.
I've also made my own individual counters for a night's expected encounters by using google image searches, copying onto a word document, shrinking to the 1" scale and printing.
I've used Chessex mats, added on Dungeon Tiles features and a few predone maps (WotC ones, Paizo flipmats, the Mongoose Starship Troopers alien world terrains).