2010
05.17

Pirate Ship Maps for D&D

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I recently made this three-level set of pirate ships maps for use in my “Isle of Doom” tournament adventure. ^^ I was inspired to make them after buying this PDF of a “ship’s plans” from a RPG site, only to discover to my extreme irritation that they were not even broken down into 5-foot squares! \_/ A few minutes and some cardboard boxes later, and I generate the following deck plans. I don’t have a photo of the plans set up in a three-tiered 3D display, so you will have to imagine it. There’s nothing like surrounding these cardboard ships with a few plastic sharks and painting the 1″ square matboard with blood!

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  1. Tweets that mention Theo Dudek, Ultimate Game Master ยป Pirate Ship Maps for D&D -- Topsy.com said: 2010.05.17 17:09

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  2. kaeosdad said: 2010.05.18 00:34

    Those’re rad. Cardboard eh? Hm…*looks around room. spots recycling section overflowing w/ cardboard.*

    …maybe I won’t need to make a trip to the recycling center on Wednesday.

  3. admin said: 2010.05.21 10:51

    Cardboard makes a great base for reusable grids & maps! ^^ I just made these ships with carboard, sharpies and lots of razor blades! The only problem is that someone got a little too eager and wrote notes on the ’ship’ with pencil… it was just pencil, not pen, but still, cardboard doesn’t erase without leaving a mark. ;_;

  4. SteveD said: 2010.07.05 20:40

    have you never heard of Photoshop or PSP?

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