Tiles, tiles, tiles!

 

So if the monsters and heroes are at 66% scale size, clearly the dungeon tiles need to be smaller too. To test scale I printed off a few tiles just using printer paper. 66%, 70%, 75%, 80%, and 100%. I placed original sized miniatures on 100% size, then compared that to my mini's sitting on each of the smaller sizes. I ended up liking 75% best. It gave a little extra space per square for mini's.

For a long time, I've had access to high quality scans of the original tiles and many custom tiles other people have made. I went through and resized them, making sure each square took up 26mm then surrounded each tile with 10mm black bar. 

Not all squares in the same tile are the same size. For example, The Sewer tile has squares of different sizes, I ended up changing the size of each square individually, looks so much better now. I overlayed a blue rectangle where each door would go. We have added rules that if a tile has a lower level, the warriors always enter at the lower level, for these entrance I added arrows indicating a forced connection. For hallways with many options but only one is used, I changed the bar to yellow.

I was originally going to send these off to boardgamesmaker.com. They require a separate file for your "die lines" and then another file for your color assets. Once I finished making all tiles needed for Old World, I checked their pricing. It would cost about $600 for one set of tiles. If I bought like 40 sets of tiles I could get the price down to like 100 dollars per set. Clearly $600 is too much and 40 copies for $4000 wasn't going to work either.

I began checking local print shops. Office Depot didn't have materials tough enough, neither did The Little Print Shop, nor did Copy Country. The lady at Copy Country suggested I try Simpson Printing (some times called Simpson Signs). They make fulls scale Signs for the sides of buildings. Simpsons had something that could work. 1/8 PVC they could print directly on, then they would use a machine to cut out each tile. Theses sheets were 4 foot wide by 8 foot tall (and 1/8th of an inch thick). I would definitely not have to split any of the tiles into two pieces to get them printed. They were able to take the files I made for boardgamemaker and make exactly what I wanted. They charged by the square foot, coming out just under $140 with tax. This is a price I could handle.

What I had made was all tiles from the original Warhammer Quest 1995 box, all Lair of the Orc Lord tiles, all Catacombs of Terror tiles, and every supplemental tile released in White Dwart I'm aware of, plus the Trap! expansion tiles we wrote, the Chaos Dwarf expansion tiles we wrote, the Dark Elf expansion tiles we wrote, and the Twisted Tunnels expansion tiles we wrote. We did not make the art assets for expansion tiles, we found them online but wrote 6 full adventures for each objective room and any rules needed for each tile.

Here is a video of the main tiles.

Here is the Traps expansion tiles.

Here is the Chaos Dwarf expansion tiles

Here is the Dark Elf expansion tiles

Here is the Twisted Tunnels expansion tiles

I forgot I would need 3x tiles for Wizard spell Pit of Despair and a tile for the dungeon event Cave-In. When I come back to making tiles for Norsca, Lustria, Sewer, and Lost Caverns Expansions, I'll have to remember to add those tiles. I did print off a few doorways at the smaller scale, but have decided when I do print more I'll do so at normal size. This will allow most large models to fit inside the doorway when they are half in one room half in another.

Here is an isometric view of the original tiles with my friend "Bob"s normal scale miniatures on top of image, with my scaled down tiles and miniatures on the bottom half of image.

Close up of normal stuff.

Close up of downsized stuff.

Side by side comparison of main warriors and some goblins.

That's all for this post, may your lantern always stay lit.

DeMagic Tutor out.