August monthly vote!

[NeonKnight]

OK, Voting time for the August Thread.

This month we had 7 really, really good entries.

And best of all, almost every single entry can be combined with each other to make some truly spectacular miniature maps for gaming goodness!

This month we have:

Gameprinter's: The Under Halls
Yu_gnomi's: Bert the Troll's Cave
Redrobes: Multiple textured paths
NeonKnight's: Neon's Dungeon Tiles
Ascension's: quick n easy dungeon tiles for minis
Lord's: The Grist
RobA's: QnD Tiles.

Please view the entries at RedRobes Thumb's: http://www.viewing.ltd.uk/Temp/CG/Ch...gers_Aug08.htm, and PICK TWO ENTRIES

The criteria again for this month's challenge was:

* This should be a ready to use map with all the objects and tokens already in place.
* Tiles must be no larger than 8 one-inch squares by 10 one-inch squares (8.5x11 letter sheets or A4 paper) for printing purposes, and must have a grid to represent spacing/etc.
* Those that wish to, can provide the maps sans objects and tokens once they have finished, but this is not a requirement of the challenge but would be appreciated by those of us that use VTs.
* Extra consideration will be considered for those who provide an example dungeon using the tiles. Full writeup not necessary beyond notes of traps, monsters and treasures keys.

[Robbie]

Longest running no comment voting thread EVER!!!

*eyeballs NeonKnights typos*

Good thing Pyrandon's on hiatus..he'd have a cow

[Lord]

gah, i didn't know the challenge was ending do soon.. Here is the Grist all put together, in 1/4 scale. Didn't know where else to put it.

[waldronate]

As part of my ongoing campaign to fail at reading instructions, I voted for 3 instead of 2. I need to work on looking at the text that's in bold italic capitals. Maybe if it were a different color, blinking, jumping up and down, and shouting then I might see it.

I suppose it's a good thing that they don't have the intelligence/awareness test on elections that my wife advocates because I'd never have my vote counted...

[Sigurd]

My first vote went to Redrobes especially because his thread was so clear in showing his thought\work process.

Beside the very useful tiles (there were other great tiles out there) I thought his step by step approach was very creative and useful.


Sigurd

Thanks to everyone

[ravells]

As part of my ongoing campaign to fail at reading instructions, I voted for 3 instead of 2. I need to work on looking at the text that's in bold italic capitals. Maybe if it were a different color, blinking, jumping up and down, and shouting then I might see it.

I suppose it's a good thing that they don't have the intelligence/awareness test on elections that my wife advocates because I'd never have my vote counted...

Oh good, I voted one instead of two - so that's that squared then!

[NeonKnight]

Arcana;

It wouldn't be me without typos (Even using Firefox they still creep through)

Waldonrate:

I honestly thought of using a different color font too

[Redrobes]

I voted for the Grist and GM's tiles because of the work done for them and the overall result looked great. I really liked the lighting and atmosphere from the Grist tiles and GM's tokens.

I would have championed Robs too with another vote as I think the scripting approach will allow many more people to get great maps out and those who already make great maps to do it quicker and embellish it more with the time saved. Many of the maps I have done is script + tokens. I dont think its quite as good as a fully photoshop from scratch piece of art but its quick and effective.

I am also surprised anyone has voted for my effort as I didn't make a proper map out of the tiles or provide very many tokens.

The cool thing that someone has already said is that you can take all the tiles and mix-n-match them together which I think is really great. It would be interesting if anyone would make a map out of a mix of all the tiles - at least one from each person.

[jfrazierjr]

I had to vote for Rob because the art was good AND he went to the effort to write the script so that everyone can do the same with a few clicks. Second vote went to GP because of the sheer coolness of the maps and all the extra work to create "new" tokens instead of just grabbing existing stuff.

[Steel General]

This was really hard, if I had some kind of die to roll, I probably would have used that.

Everyone's was good in some way, shape or form.