Product Description

Illustrated terrain tiles for use with the Star Wars(TM) Roleplaying Game

This product adds a new dimension to the Star Wars Roleplaying Game and gives Gamemasters an easy-to-use and inexpensive way to include great-looking terrain in their games. This set provides ready-to-use, configurable terrain tiles of various shapes. Use the tiles to build your own Imperial bases, Rebel redoubts, and fringe outposts!

This terrain accessory contains six double-sided sheets of illustrated, die-cut terrain tiles printed on heavy cardstock.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31502 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-15
• Released on: 2008-01-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Board book
• 1 pages

Customer Reviews

To Many Blank Tiles, But Does Have Some Use
Quickly - almost cool, but 1/3 of the tiles are boring and near useless.

Summary:This is a set of thick cardboard floor tiles for use with your Star Wars D20 games (which can of course be used with any Sci-Fi game). These are pretty much identical to the D&D Dungeon Tiles series, but Sci-Fi Themed. You get 6 nice thick cardboard sheets all with easy to punch out rooms, corridors and features. Three sample maps are provided showing a few ways to put the rooms together. The most surprising part to me was the price of under $15.

The Good:I was really excited when these came out as I love the D&D dungeon tiles. Like the D&D tiles these are very well made. They are on a thick card that reminds me of a good boardgame board more then anything else. If you have played Descent from Fantasy Flight, these are even a little thicker then those. The art on the cards is well done and it's easy to tell what's a hall, what's a pit, what's stairs etc. Each tile is double sided as well, which gives you a lot more variety. For example you would have a plain 2x6 corridor on one side, on the other a 2x6 corridor with only a narrow bridge crossing a gaping hole (think Luke and Leia swinging across the gap in the Death Star but with a bridge).

The Bad:Not much in one set. This means you will most likely need to buy multiples of this set, or wait for others to be released. With the D&D ones they put them out often enough I have just been buying one of each set, thus far for Star Wars there is only one set out so far, so you may need to buy more then one... but beware...

The Ugly: Two of the 6 sheets are just one Giant Room with no features. These rooms take up the entire sheet and just provide one boring room. They are double sided as well, and on the other sides, well one has a tie fighter in the middle of it, that would have been awesome as a stand alone tile I can use as a feature in any room, the other has one lonely computer terminal which again would have been better as a stand alone time I could use as a feature. What this means is that 1/3 of your set is just big boring rooms. Compared to the D&D sets this is a rip off. The last D&D set came with thrones, pillars of fire, pit traps, statues, alcoves, curtains, spiral stairs, a room filled with webs, a room with an arcane sigil in the middle and still managed to fit in some small plain rooms and some corridors.

Overall:I'm glad they are doing a Sci-Fi version of the Dungeon Tiles, that makes me happy, I just wish they did more with it. The initial release is just boring with a third of the tiles just being big open empty rooms. I'll still be picking up the next set, assuming they release one, but if it's as bad as this one I will be looking at the many PDF publishers out there, and considering just printing up my own mapping tiles.

not much here
The tiles are mostly empty squares. I was pretty disappointed when I bought this and realized that a blank gaming mat would be more useful.