Does anybody have any suggestions for a product that you can use to draw larger maps? My PC's are close to getting to Fort Rannick in RotRL and i would like to draw the entire for without having to redraw alot of the maps. (I have two Basic Flip-Maps but Fort Rannick's map is ~400ft x 340ft)
The question that comes to mind when I see the size of the fort is, do you have a table large enough to display the map? I have heard of Kinko's doing maps for people, but am unfamiliar with the cost. There are also pads of graph paper at art supply stores and places like Office Max and Office Depot. Those are usually back in the art supply section.
I hope this helps.
The question that comes to mind when I see the size of the fort is, do you have a table large enough to display the map? I have heard of Kinko's doing maps for people, but am unfamiliar with the cost. There are also pads of graph paper at art supply stores and places like Office Max and Office Depot. Those are usually back in the art supply section.
I hope this helps.
Kinda, Fort Rannick is 620ft (124 squares) by 480ft (96 squares). I do have a table that can fit it,just wondering if there is a roll of graph paper that fits that on it. I want to draw the map in 5ft squares so my party can tackle it without complications.
This is one of the reasons I use Maptool. It can handle maps of any size and scale and you don't need to reveal the whole thing.
Try Gaming Paper.
It's basically a 12 foot roll of wrapping paper with one inch squares (or hexagons).
They claim it's reusable but I don't know what they mean by that. Dry erase and wet erase don't come off, but at $4 a roll it's not bad.
I used it for Castle Scarwall.
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You can try this site for larger gaming paper.
http://gamingpaper.com
You can also look for Chessex's Modomats. They are expensive, but very large. 2 megamats can fit lengthwise side-by-side on a modomat (480 ft x 240 ft relative for miniatures).
Also, look forward other huge maps further in the AP.
Good luck! :)
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If you dump a picture into Excel, it will 'cut' it, and print it out one page at a time. Just adjust it so it's one square =1 inch first.
Then tape together, or not.
I haven't checked on Fort Rannick, as such, but I know there exist many full-color full-sized maps for RotRL that you can find right here on the RotRL forum.
I printed out the wonderful Graul Homestead map on regular-sized paper, then taped the sheets together. IIRC, some floors needed 8 or 9 sheets! But they were full-sized, for use with miniatures, and covered in awful, gory full-color smears. The artist (whose name I can't recall offhand) did a wonderful job!
I bet he also did Fort Rannick. We used Dwarven Forge decor for it, so no map needed to be printed.
There is some regular wrapping paper from Target that has 1 inch grids on the reverse side.
I used to print out maps using something called PosteRazor, usually after editing them in Paint.Net. If I bother with such efforts again perhaps I'll try the Excel method mentioned above. Having a borderless printer could save you a lot of time since then you wouldn't have to trim off the white edges of the sheets of paper. You can make printed maps more durable by gluing them to cardboard (like old pizza boxes or whatever) and maybe spraying on some matte clearcoat. It can be fun to make multiple level maps this way too.
A friend of mine bought an old surplus data projector. He bounces the image off of a mirror suspended by duct tape and shoe strings (seriously) down onto a couple large sheets of heavy white paper I bought at AC Moore (I guess any art or office store would have something similar). It works great, much better than the TV my other gaming buddy built into a table. The plastic sheet (acetate maybe?) he put over it has pretty bad glare, and the gap between the plastic the minis stand on and the image on the TV screen makes it a little tough to tell where things are.
Perhaps the TV method could be executed better, but I'd say that the projection method looks better to me so far. The one drawback is that the room needs to be kind of dim (something older players might not appreciate when trying to view paper character sheets and such)