I use a book of battle mats for more generic locations.Link to a description?
I'm not positive on the forum rules regarding linking to products so I'm not pasting the link directly to the product page, but if you select Shop from the top menu, then Books from the next top menu, you'll get there from here: http://www.lokebattlemats.com/battlematbooks.html
There are other takes on these products too. I've got a friend who has a hard bound version of this concept from a different company, but I can't recall who makes that one....
The essence, though, is that it's basically a big old stack of flip mats bound together. Taken page for page, flip mats are probably the better product as it won't have binding in the middle. And flip tiles are more versatile. But when you just need "generic sewer" or "generic ruin" and don't want to think too hard about the layout, and don't have a flip mat that fits the bill perfectly, a book of maps works pretty well.
You could certainly draw most of those map layouts pretty quickly, but the art is nice :)
Pffft, spoken like someone without a cat. :p Unless you've got a dedicated gaming room, a cats gonna jump on that thing mid play and probably bat some minis or dice around or go for someones snacks. Or at least mine do, but they are jerks. Fuzzy, adorable jerks.
Mine 3 cats didn't once went on top of our table when we are in the middle of the game, now, before the pcs arrived, they wreack havoc on my preparations!
And they also love to just try to rest on top of boardgames when we are playing but that's another story!
[The essence, though, is that it's basically a big old stack of flip mats bound together. Taken page for page, flip mats are probably the better product as it won't have binding in the middle. And flip tiles are more versatile. But when you just need "generic sewer" or "generic ruin" and don't want to think too hard about the layout, and don't have a flip mat that fits the bill perfectly, a book of maps works pretty well.
Nice concept! Thanks for the link
I'm mostly a map tiles person, with a few classic flipmaps and an ancient Chessex vinyl battlemap for anything unique.
I also have an 11x17 1-inch square-gridded page that I had laminated at the local print shop. It's a good sketchpad for quickly showing measured relationships.
I like playing with minis, I love to hold them and move them around. That being said, I don't have a battlemap because dont't have to much money to spend so I prefer buying PDF adventures.
What I do is make a map in gimp and then print it at my work. I shared a link to the one I made for Torment and Legacy in reddit.