![]() I narrowed it down to three options and asked my local print shop to give me a price quote on each.ġ) Print each of the Tomb's 6 floors on a 11x17 and laminate each = $30.78įor this approach, I could apply a dry erase marker, chalk marker, or DIY scratch paint on the laminated surface to conceal rooms. You'd have a bit of trouble if they level jumped a bunch, but you could always have a second frame/plastic prepped and ready, or just plain white sheets of paper lightly taped over the unexplored areas of the new level. To save time, instead of cutting out every room, you could buy a big poster frame, or large sheet of clear rigid plastic, and cover the thing in dry erase marker or DIY scratch paint (2:1 mix of acrylic paint to dish soap) then erase/scratch as they go. If you don't care about using it as battlemaps, could cut that in half easily and still be able to see details. Just checking really quick on my pc, looks like you could print each level on 6圆 pages. MSPaint is actually a pretty good tool for this, if you go into print preview and page setup, you can fiddle with the scaling and pretty quickly figure out how big to make it by counting 11 squares on the long edge, if that makes sense (assuming you're using 8.5x11 paper). ![]() To echo what others have said, you could print them so that each square is 1". But maybe there's other outside-the-box solutions that I'm missing? Which is a decent deal, considering I've seen prices double that at other online large-format printers. So far, the best option I could find online was with Vivyx, somewhere just shy of $200. ![]() I can if there's no better option, but it would probably be my last resort.Īs I've been exploring options, I've found – as I'm sure many of you already know – that large-format printing is quite expensive. and I don't think I'd be up for doing that again for 6 maps. The time involved in that last option was really killer. Up until now I've managed to get by OK with a mix of my Chessex mat & wet erase markers, printed 11x17 maps, the GaleForce 9 ToA map pack, some old D&D / Pathfinder battle maps, a bit of theater of the mind, and a larger map of Nangalore that I broke into a bunch of 8.5"x11" images with Posterazor which I printed, cut out, and painstakingly taped together. These maps, even reduced in size by ~85%, each measure 36" x 52" – they are big maps. We do not currently have a projector setup, I do not have a friend or workplace with an available plotter, and I'm a traveling DM. Drawing them on the fly just wouldn't make sense. which means I need these 6 dungeon maps all printed out ahead of the game. meaning PCs can have potentially access to most of these levels. There's a stairwell connecting most of these levels. Now I have to find a way to represent the eponymous 6-level tomb. I purchased the cartographer Mike Schley's map pack for the adventure. I am running my players through Tomb of Annihilation face-to-face. What are the most affordable and effective options you've found for printing the large maps connected to Tomb of Annihilation?
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