Comments on: Musings, Collusion Kills and Excel Maps

By: Telas

Telas — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 14:54:55 +0000

Good links, all.

Excel mapping seems perfect for a “classic dungeon map”, especially with 25% gray fills, and different tabs for player and GM knowledge. Hmm….

Coolness always makes up for sloppy plots or techniques, in the sense that an attractive person can make up for the sloppy clothes they’re wearing.

And a co-opted player character sounds like the perfect thing to pull on a jaded group.

By: Yax

Yax — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:35:02 +0000

I love the Chatty DM’s stuff. He sure writes a lot – chatty is an understatement!

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:29:12 +0000

Excel is a great battlemat!

I’ve also been using Google-docs for the same reason (mind you, they can’t be made as pretty), but they are shared docs that any player can use. I also create separate tabs for each player’s stats and die rolls (which are done in the doc with the rand() command).

By: Clayton

Clayton — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:24:15 +0000

Given that I have been trying to find a way to do maps…that last link with the Excel Map is amazing. I am going to have to give that a shot (although I use OpenOffice for my doc work)

Thats a nice link, thanks for finding that Martin!

By: John Arcadian

John Arcadian — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:14:06 +0000

So I just popped over and looked at Cazyles mapping idea. I am now picking my jaw up off the floor. That is an incredibly excellent idea. You can even take character pictures and insert them directly into the spreadsheet for character tokens. Just grab a PNG mapping library and downsize all the pictures (so it doesn’t make a massively HUGE excel file) and you’ve got a brilliant, adapatble, and simple mapping solution.

My applause to Cazyle.