I need help with a dry eraser project

I just discovered this item. I play D&D every week on an old battle mat and would like to up grade to something a little better. The price of the tack-tiles is a little steep and I was wondering if I could come up with something a little cheaper. Does anyone know of a cheep material that works with dry eraser marker?

A home improvement store will have a couple things that might work:
•sheets of formica (or whatever they call it now) for covering counter tops.
•1/8" fiberboard with a shiny plastic coating for use in bathrooms and such.

How big of a map do you need? You could get a package of plain white vinyl tiles from the flooring department and even notch them yourselves so they fit together like puzzle pieces.

If you host your games you could glaze your own tiles (ceramic shops are easy to find) and put in your own gridlines with your favorite maps. Felt the bottoms of the tiles and you could lay them out on your table without scratching things…

First off, god bless you sir. I’ll be getting me some of those!

Secondly, $50 for 9 tiles ain’t bad once you consider the price of your time to customize any of the options already mentioned. Various members of my old group wasted many a man hours with a straight-edge, an exacto knife and a sheet of the tile board that Squink mentioned. One guy nearly lost his sanity trying to do a 4 x 8 foot piece into a hex grid. Because that’s the real sticking point is the grid already being there.

Game on.

rainy

I thought the tac-tiles were a bit steep too. But then my group chipped in and bought them for us. Haven’t used them yet, but I’m looking forward to it. :slight_smile:

I can say for a fact that dry erase works like a champ on regular old linoleum. I was helping my cousin install a floor last week and we used the dry-erase to mark our cuts. The marks looked perfect and wiped off easily.