We can either buy the dungeon ourselves at 12$ per set ourselves, or we can purchase color ink cartridges, and make them ourselves. I am making a sinister woods set right now as a prototype, and I am not sure how long the ink will last, but Ink cartridges are about 30$ from amazon and may or may not be enough for all the tile sets. The matte photo paper is 10$ for like 50 odd sheets and cardboard or heavy durable paper Im not sure about.
There are like 12 sets or so that we can buy over time at retail or ebay price, which go from 9-12$ each set, which Im guestimating will come to like 12$ per person.
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Printing and making them will cost us about 6$ split 7 ways, not counting the durable paper such as crafts cardboard, and time. The advantage and disadvantage of printing them is the quantity. We will be rolling dice and gambling with the ratio of ink to printing power, but our tiles will not be double sided, and replicas can be easily made.
If we use a printing service at .69$, we arent really saving much either. At .69$ for 12 page set for 12 sets is roughly 100$ just for the paper.
As always, I dont proof read my shit, so the post is probably full of spelling errors.
This sounds like a good idea, count me in. We should check out what dungeon tiles exist already just to get a good idea of what sort of existing shapes/elements we want to use, and what we want to homebrew.
ReplyDeleteAlternatively, what we could do is make a base set based on what dungeon tiles already exist, and then as each person DMs, they can make new tiles for their game, and add them to the stock when they're finished. That way, not only do we have a good set of basic tiles, but we're constantly adding to the collection. It would take a few bucks chipped in every once in a while, but nothing expensive.