Useful Play Aids

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Originally Posted by JLV

Here's something I stumbled across while looking on BGG for something completely different...

Terrain Tiles

Something like that might be extremely useful to the miniatures enthusiasts among us... And, since they are hexagonally shaped, they would work for the rest of us too. I didn't look at price, since my game budget is tapped out this month, and this is something I'm not hard over on. But I thought many of the rest of you might be interested.

nice.
but nowadays is it easy build a "virtual" board with many free programs and print it at any scale. See for example
http://hextml.playest.net/tutorial2.html
but I think better resources exist

or just buy one more professional program at a lower price than the cost of the real tiles offered.

I understand that such a board can be built step by step during the adventure, and this is fun, but I still think the GM can just limit to tell to the players what they see during exploration (checking his private map), and let the group to map the terrain by themselves