Re: Map Sizes

On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Rick Rutherford wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Geo-Hex wrote:
Status: RO

> > This is not a push to sell product guys, but have you considered 
> > using one of our hexed starmats?  They are 4' x 6', have 1 1/2" wide

> > hexs and will layout on a floor or table.  Using hexs you can 
> > determine all twelve courses (sides and points) and by counting over

> > and down give the exact location and heading of a ship for next
time.
> 
> Sorry KR, but one of the reasons I like Full Thrust so much is that it
> doesn't have hexes.
> 
> I recently went to a fabric store and got a 6' x 9' sheet of black
fabric
> (cotton twill) for less than $10.00.

I got a piece of 8'x10' black felt at a fabric store during a 50% off
sale.  I also just finished a templete to paint on a hex grid on one
side
with airbrush fabric paint (I used a different sized hex than Geo-hex). 
I'm just trying to decide whether to add a nebula of some sort, or maybe
just some very light wisps of orange, yellow and red.  Maybe a comet? 
When I'm done I'll have a blank starscape for FT on one side and a hexed
starscape for Silent Death on the other.

KR, maybe you could maybe make a mat with both sides done up, one with
hexes and one with not?  I understand it would probably cost more, but
it would be nice for those of us who play more than one system.  I don't
want to pay for one of each (which is why I'm making my own).  Of
course,
please continue making the single sided mats as some wouldn't want to
pay
for extra for both. ;)

A temporally displaced		Bill Nitsche (bnitsche@u.washington.edu)
	hobbit			Oceanography, University of Washington