I have decided to use Doom the Boardgame in my Dark Heresy adventures, given that it's so flexible, the pieces suit the mood (admittedly, there is too much blood on the tiles), and the sections are divided into grids. Last night, I was writing an adventure and took a photo of one of the maps against a black foamcard background. The file was uploaded to my pc and then placed into the text of the adventure. So when I need to set up an encounter, I just look at the printed image and set up tiles on the table for my players.

Any suggestions? I realise the image has too much yellow in it - that's the fault of the lighting.

Great idea! I've got one at a friend's house gathering dust! You have inspired me sir.

You might also be able to use Descent tiles, couldn't you? I don't know how well they mesh, not having either game, but I imagine they'll work out reasonably well.

Any veteran whom still got his hand on "SpaceHulk" or the german "SpaceQuest" will find these tiles usefull, as well. Since they are all from games with the WH40K background. If you are an ex-WH40K TableTopper you could even simply build your own tiles.

All you need is some cardboard, some more cardboard, black spray-paint, a brush and another colour of your liking

1) Cut the floor tiles you want for your game
2) Cut little squares of the size of the "bases" of the miniatures you use
3) Aplly these with glue on the tiles, one by one
--> this is intended to give it a 3-D look and feel for the "floor panels"
4) Spray-paint the tiles and leave them to dry
5) "Brush" them over with the colour of your choosing. Do not "paint" them but "brush" them
--> take some color with the brush, brush most of it of on some (toilet?-)paper and then "brush" the brush over the tile surface

This might come cheaper then buying the a board game...but the board game gives you these nice miniatures ^^

Pneumonica said:

If I had the money. But I have considered it. Thanks for the advice.

Gregorius21778 said:

Thanks for the great advice!

Doom, Descent, Spacehulk, Space Crusade, Advanced Space Crusade & Advanced Heroquest all work really well for board based encounters, just rule that each square is essentially 1.5 meters (for working out ranges and AoE's) and your set, or just use good old 1" squared play mats and then you can draw all over them and add extra splats of blood from the Crits

I've used the Doom tiles, and they're great!

This free app helped me a great deal (it is a dungeon tile mapper):

http://members.cox.net/shawnriordan/tilesystem.htm

Give it a go!

Necrozius said:

How you have no idea for how long I was searching for something like that. Many thanks.

Don't forget Warhammer Quest... There are some nifty tiles in there too. Even though it is a fantasy game I am sure you could make use of them.

I can also recommend the hybrid gaming system tiles....you can look them up here (hint, hint):

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/thing/8515

You could give these a look, can't tell you much about them. I tend to make my own maps.

Any way here they are, enjoy

http://www.bestsoftware4download.com/software/t-free-dungeon-crafter-iii-silver-edition-download-wybazygu.html

http://www.rptools.net/

http://www.dungeonmapping.com/df/public_html/index.php?name=News&topic=1

http://direpress.bin.sh/tools/dungeon.cgi

http://www.dundjinni.com/

Dundjinni is a pay for app, but has a free demo and appears to have strong community support.

PS. Here's a list of programs you may or may not find intresting.

http://forum.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=1407

Does anyone actually own the AT-43 reversible gaming tiles and can comment if they could be useful for dark heresy ?

If the nemesis tiles download didn´t satisfy you, heres another classic: Space Hulk.

You can get the tiles here: http://www.geocities.com/hulkskulker/ (Rather often unavailable, just check back from time to time)

or here: http://oz.games-workshop.com/games/40k/gaming/spacehulk/tiles.htm

Nice addition with a touch of nostalgia for ship-based encounters.

PS: And here : http://www.boardgamegeek.com/filepage/25696

A great idea! I dont own Doom the boardgame, but I've had ideas about using tiles from "Zombies!!!" for use in hive cities and the like. Im thinking of working out a system for random encounters and tile placing for places where even the game master dont exactly know the layout on beforehand. It would certainly add a bit of unpredictability to what the surroundings look like (and the tactical situations would look different each time, due to sometimes the PCs gets more cover to hide behind and sometimes their enemies gets more benefits of cover).

If FFG were to release Dark Heresy specific gaming tiles, it would be quite awesome. And a perfcect excuse to painting up some nice GW miniatures for representation of enemies and Acolytes.