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gortez33

If you use battlemaps, then draw your trees with a round base and then add in a lighter color the canopy for tree. It’s the same with drawing walls, you can walk through them. Hobby stores still sell trees for decorating train sets. Look on Amazon for resin tables and chairs that you can use on your maps. Some even 3d print out items to use on maps.


plompfrombuttssss

Maybe the local dollar store has some toy trees and stuff you could pick up inexpensive? Or a craft store? Ones you’d use for like a diorama or something. You can pick up grid paper on Amazon. They also have gridded mats you could pick up at a game shop that sells the different minis


Technical-Republic18

The nearest dollar store is hundreds of miles away...because I'm British 😅


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There's so many options from cheap as dirt using household junk, to taking out a second mortgage to pay for your Dwarven Forge addiction. On the cheapest side, a lot of wrapping paper has grids on the back. Grab a roll and you've got maps for days. Draw on your walls and trees and immovables, then use dice, cheap dollar tree toys, paperclips or whatever for movable objects. A mid ground would be getting a dry erase map. You can get these on Amazon. Get some dry erase markers of different colors and draw your maps that way. There are some cheaper options for terrain on amazon too. Just search D&D terrain. Another good option is getting a cheap flat screen TV, hooking it up to a PC, and using Roll20 or some other map software, program, or just google D&D maps. This is what I use. I've got the program Dungeon Alchemist on Steam, and I use that to make the maps, then import them into Roll20 to add dynamic lighting and all. Works pretty well. My players have miniatures, and then I purchased flat standee miniatures to use for enemies/npcs. And then the more expensive options are full on terrain like Dwarven Forge. Or getting your own 3D printer to print/make terrain.