WE do a mixture at our table of Old School maps (seen on walls ), VTT (projected thru table) and 3d (buildings & Terrain and Minis).
- The first, Mainly due to our campaign being very open sand box, the players are always consulting maps of other regions at leisure.
- The Second, Allows the use of great mapping tools such as CC3, D20Pro,DTRPG, etc.
- The Third, Supports customized maps, or random encounters that I can populate with 3d buildings, and terrain over a texture field.
- Collectively this supports the use of over 5k of minis I have accumulated thru the years.
Detils from Liz's Thread> "
What does your game table look like" a few years back
http://forums.wolflair.com/showthrea...e+table&page=2
http://forums.wolflair.com/showthrea...e+table&page=7
I have experimented with various forms of "3d" for decades...Being an old school wargamer before D&D player, HO scaled battle scenes was where I cut my teeth.
Expanding that into Cardstock type Terrain is a cost effective solution and with today's printers you can do this very inexpensively and "fold" most of them up to fit into a box ( I just choose not to). And with certain Artists (such as David Graffam) they set them up on pdf so you can even vary the look.
http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/p...Graffam-Models
Lastly, We have started (well about 9 months ago) dabbling extensively with Bruce Hirsts Molds.... And as discussed the results are AMAZING, but the real cost is the time.... But when you "recruit a goblin workforce" (insert Players here hehe) A Lot can be done in a little time. They have casted over 200# of bricks, boards tiles, etc
While I would love to have a more "permanent" build using Hirst Molds, we simply don't have that kind of room, so we make all of builds "modular", so they can be repurposed for multiple scenarios. These are left from this passed W/E game session. And As you can see, it is a mixture of VTT, CardStock and Hirst, and Minis.
