Has this ever happened to you? Your wizard is about to throw a fireball, and you want to mark the range, but all you have are 4 d6s. Now, this may be all well and good for determining range, who is targeted, whatever, but what if it’s an effect that you can sustain? What if it can move or be moved? What if part of it ends up invading the personal space of that really cool Colossal monster that you want to include as a target? What if you just don’t want to waste time measurinmg an effect, and want to use your time, oh I don’t know, playing the game?
You need a template.
Now, back in my 3.5 days, one of our gang had made some thin steel frames that we could lay down without having to shuffle around our minis too much. These were great, but if you’re not an expert welder with a decent soldering iron, you’re a spot out of luck. So, what do you do? Don’t panic, there are options.
I like to make my own, and my Hardware store helps for absolutely free. I’ll be posting on how to do this next week, and I promise you, you won’t end up in jail.
As always, be sure to comment, and keep an eye on those threatened squares.
I use plastic burst and blast templates. My GM Sarah Darkmagic wrote a short review of them awhile back.
Wow. I could have sworn I sent that as a draft. There’s the lesson, kids. Review your posts before saving them. That’s ok. I’ll just do a quick edit, and talk more on this subject in a later post.
Pipe cleaners do the trick well.
I know I saw a discussion on a D&D blog at some point about using paint chip samples from a hardware store as 3×3 burst/blast templates (with appropriate colors, no less!). That seemed pretty cool to me, but you would have to tape a few together if you wanted a Blast 5 or something like that. I’ll be interested to see your take on it.