Crafts: Tile Mat

This weeks late entry is about create a surface area for you tiles. I myself love the tile sets WotC puts out, our group rather enjoys them and we chip in on each set at least once.

Since 4e, we have continued to try and find a way to properly setup the encounters so were not bumping the tiles around, and as a DM i was looking for a way where i can build my encounters in advance and then go with the flow on game night.

This project has had many version, and this final version is the one that works.

What you'll need

• Tiles
• Sticky Tack
• Grip, no Slip shelve mats
• Large strong cardboard at least 30"x30"
• Hot Glue Gun

Roll out the mat on the cardboard, using the hot glue gun, glue the mat to the cardboard around the outside. Make sure you put your glue down in a zig zag pattern coming back on yourself, and only do a small length at a time.

Each time you press down, pat the mat quickly with your hand. Be careful the glue has not hardened yet, in fact this will hurt as glue particles ill pull up from the cardboard, through the mat and stick on your hand.

Why would you want to do this? well this will force the glue up through the mat and creates a better hold.

When your done, you have one encounter mat all setup. I have two because at most our group has gone through 2 encounters a night, that's all i need.

Now you take the silly putty and make small gob that you stick to the corners of the underside of the tile you want.



Then place it down on the mat and push it down with some force

Continue doing this until your encounter is finished. This creates a bond strong enough that you can tuck this away behind furniture all week and it will stay put. And with a flick of the wrist you can pull the tile off, reuse the sticky tack and nothing is damaged.