What are the best dimensions for a battle mat, especially thickness? I figured I can start with the 26 * 23 1/2 inches of the standard Chessex battlemat, but advice is welcomed. Partial resolution Today, I bought . a few sheets of cardstock, a con-tact roll, and got out my sharpies, a pencil and eraser, and a ruler.

2017年6月21日 · In the Dungeon Master's Guide, page 250, it states that when playing with a mat the squares or hexes should be 1 inch across and should represent 5 feet. But you can play with the scale of the squares as much as you like.

2017年10月7日 · This means things will be easier on you if your battle mat has 1" squares like the Dungeon Master's Guide mentions; for example, metal and plastic miniatures in this scale are the easiest to find. That said… This DM prefers a battle mat with 1½" (38mm) squares

A druid in my game used the Entangle spell, and it was pretty easy to know how a 20' square rendered on a battle mat with a 5' spacing grid. Now he also knows Spike Growth... The Spike Growth effect manifests in a circle with a 20' radius, which had us debating what happened to the outer corners of the square (this might be a visual exercise ...

2016年9月6日 · Use a rubber grid mat, but use round edged wooden cutouts and place them under the mat. This will cause the mat to become displaced in the area where the wooden cutout is and allow you to topographically represent the map itself. If you don't have any wooden quarter-spheres, you can just turn a bowl upside down to create a similar effect.

What I do is use a hex mat, but then use square-based WotC Dungeon Tiles placed atop it for constructed elements. We also have wireframe area of effect templates we can put down for spell effects. Works pretty well.

2014年2月18日 · Personal experience answer here (I own the beginner box). The flip mat in mine is a semi-rigid glossy cardstock like material. I use dry erase markers on mine. It wipes off easily. I have also used permanent marker. The permanent market came off easily after writing over it with a dry erase marker.

I use a huge Chessex wet-erase battle mat to draw maps from published adventures on and I'm currently running The Lost Mines of Karak Lode. It's, by far, the largest map I've had my party play. It's so large that I can't fit the entire map of one floor onto a single battle mat-- …

2019年11月15日 · So I will be DMing a new campaign, and we are going to be starting with the module for The Sunless Citadel. I have a very large .jpeg file for all of the dungeon maps, and plan on using my little projector, mounted above the table, to project the map onto the table to use as the battle mat.

2013年9月16日 · I have a friends battle mat that he has given up on so i am trying everything i can just to see if anything works. The permanent marker is dried in and set and has been for several weeks. Here is what i found: 99% Isopropal Alchohol: Does nothing. No stain removal, but also doesn't appear to damage anything as well.