Today's Project I just wanted to share a quick arts and crafts project I recently took on as a part of my D&D session prep. I got some great feedback on this over on Reddit so I wanted to share here. Some Context Battlemats are a very useful tool in tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, serving to visually represent the battlefield and enhance the tactical aspects of combat. In fact, the core 5e rules, both in 2014 and 2024, assume the use of a Battlemat for combat, despite the majority of the designers supposedly preferring theater of the mind combat. I love a visual representation of the environment, not just a clear, shared visual of the combat area, allowing players and myself to place miniatures, tokes, or pawns on the grid, but also a vibrant, captivating representation of the environment for the players. Battlemats can depict various environments, such as dungeons, forests, or city streets, adding to the immersion of the game. I started my D&D adv...