Flames Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 When I'm running a game like Dark Champions and the PCs are on their way to raid or protect some kind of regular residential house, I usually just think of the layout of someone's house that I know, and go with that. But now, thanks to a tip from the DLI podcast, I'm going to use the maps available for free at http://www.dreamhomesource.com. I tried it and it's really pretty cool. You can get a PDF of a house of nearly any size and shape, and very often there's a drawing of it, so you can print the drawing and hold it up during gameplay and say, "Okay, the house looks like this from the front." The floorplans are incredibly detailed, right down to fixtures and bathtubs and such.. Just add furniture and a basement and the maps are complete. I just wonder if it's possible to digitally overlay a hex grid on one of these PDFs. And just looking at these floorplans gives me ideas for scenarios. I sit there staring at them going, "Okay, so, the PCs are hanging around in a guy's living room, and the ninjas sent to assassinate him will try to get in here, here, here, and here..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted February 16, 2006 Report Share Posted February 16, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Good work! Repped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsel Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Pretty useful. Thanks. Rep on the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aylwin13 Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house That is a great site. The fact that you can choose the style, size, and such for the houses is an added bonus. Thanks for sharing the link, Flames. Oh, and consider yourself repped again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Thank you for telling us about that! Man, that is a gold mine of useful props. Got it bookmarked, will wander around it tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Very useful! Since I measure houses and other buildings for a living (I sell flooring), I tend to forget most gamers don't see nearly as many house layouts as I do. Repped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guzalot Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Very nice site! Repped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Chamberlin Posted February 18, 2006 Report Share Posted February 18, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Dude, thanks much for the site. Have some rep, on me. j Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house And the smallest floorplans work for two bedroom apartments! Perfect for a hudson city character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted February 23, 2006 Report Share Posted February 23, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house And the smallest floorplans work for two bedroom apartments! Perfect for a hudson city character. Yeah, and some of the mirror-image duplexes could be mirrored and remirrored as much as you like, to form an apartment building. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted February 26, 2006 Report Share Posted February 26, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Excellent... Repped. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house I guess I'll have to rep you for such an excellent site also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flames Posted April 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 22, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house I think that just about all those floorplans use feet as measurement, so if I get the PDF and open it in some kind of layout program that can handle PDFs, I can go to this site and get a grid that can be appropriately sized to match the size of the layout after doing a little math: http://www.incompetech.com/beta/hexagonalGraphPaper/hex.html I can figure out the math while I'm doing it, but I don't have the math chops to lay out any hardcore formulas right here. I can say that having the rulers visible on the top and left side of the layout page helps, as does paying attention to the X and Y size parameters that change as I draw a selection marquis around the outer wall border of the floorplan. I will say this, too... I tried printing out a floorplan that I downloaded and laid out a perfectly proportional hex grid on in InDesign (using the floorplan of a small office building that I'd downloaded from http://www.anchormodular.com, and it came out very well. I resized the floorplan so that the 30-foot wall was about 4.6 inches on the page, making it fit the grid. I made a grid on that site I mentioned, setting the hex leg length to .578, and then imported the resulting PDF and laid it over top of the floorplan. I sent it to my laserprinter, and there it was, a floorplan with exact, perfectly proportional 1-inch hexes that I could easily use in a Hero System game. If I wanted something bigger, I could lay it out as an 11x17 document, use the "shrink to fit printer" setting, print it out on 8.5x11 or 8.5x14, and then blow it back up on a copy machine, and I could have a mansion or large office building laid out and ready for use. For an office building, I could make multiple copies, one for each floor, and pencil the details in as needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRavenIs Posted April 23, 2006 Report Share Posted April 23, 2006 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Very nice. Repped. This will be used and abused. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Rand Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Repped. I love the site, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest steamteck Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Re: If you should need a map of a regular house Actually if you need any sort of maps check out the dunjinni forums . The members make all sorts of maps, fantasy , sc-fi and modern and post them as pdfs or jpegs http://www.dunjinni.com/forums/default.asp?C=4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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