Heroclix-style hex maps

[Stray Cat]

My first poll, so be gentle. :)

Would you be willing to purchase poster-sized hex maps of generic settings similar to Heroclix maps currently on sale at the FLGS?

I'm interested because of the Champions Battlegrounds thread. I wonder if there is enough interest to ever make it worth DOJs worthwhile to publish a product like this: stand-alone.

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[Cyragnome]

I voted "depends." I picked up one of those "wet-erase" battlemaps (not sure if it was Crystal Caste or what) in the scale to fit HeroClix...we started using the figures a while back (say...four/five months) and generally it's gone over well...we originally were using a standard 1" map (both wet-erase and the ones from the HSR Kit) and cardboard miniatures...worked well, but the HeroClix (to-date) seemed to be a bit more visual for some (at least that's the comment I've got from a couple players)...I'd be interested to see, if HERO or someone did offer that scale, what the quality and locations would look like...that would be the determining factor (and the quality of the material) for me.

[Bartman]

I would be interested in such a product. But I doubt that DOJ has the resources to make this good enough at a low enough price to make it worthwhile. Frankly their comparable products (The Resource Kit and Cardboard Characters) are the worst DOJ products and don't compare well at all against products like SJG's Cardboard Heroes (http://www.warehouse23.com/search.cgi?pline=Cardboard+Heroes). I would much rather see DOJ do what they excel at, books.

[Ndreare]

All though I do have five or six HERO-CLIX maps. I think it would be to large of a resource drain on DOJ to get something like this out with acseptable quality.

However if we were talking maps comming out and no loss of quality in the maps or the other books that would be another story.

[Barton]

Someone else could publish maps and sell them. It maybe something that one of the people on these boards may want to do. They would of course, not be "offical". Maps are maps.
I have a HP D-size plotter and am experimenting with AutoCAD LT to produce my own custom large hex maps.

[BenKimball]

No, based on the assumption that they'd be folded instead of rolled. I hate those creased HeroClix maps. I'd rather scan the book's maps into Illustrator and manually trace them for printing at game scale than try to get one of those HeroClix things to lie flat.

Cheers!
Ben

[TheQuestionMan]

As grond the GM is always so glad to say Maps Good says it al really .