Using the actual miniatures on the map and moving them back and forth from the map to the 1:1 scale representation would have been a little clumsy.Ī little while ago I had an idea where I would model some wall ends for 3d-printing and then use straws to connect them giving us some nice pipe walls. In the end, I used a small blue d6 for the PCs and a red die for the Alien. I would probably use blue or green for the PCs, one for each player and a group icon allowing the PCs to split the party if they desired. Visually I would grab some kind of markers or blips to represent their location on the map. In the end, this provided a good interface to allow the players to see where they were in the colony, but after running the game I would provide each player with a copy of the map as well, so they were more able to see the entire layout of Hadley's Hope, including the levels they were not on. This left them at a pretty decent size, but also allowed me to have them printed at VistaPrint during a 50% off sale and get all 4 maps for about $25cad printed as a 4'x4' poster. To do this and to keep costs down I decided on 2'x2' for each map. My plan was to blow up each floor's map to decent enough size to allow miniatures to represent where each player was even if it wasn't a 1:1 scale. One of the reasons I wanted to be able to place one map out at a time was due to space constraints, I always struggle with the size of the tables we play on, not that they are too small, just that I use a lot of stuff. As I type that, let's hope the PCs don't split the party onto multiple floors.

This would allow me to display one large format map at a time to the players. Once there I broke down each floor into a separate map and then cleaned up the background. Step one was to grab the PDF and bring them into GIMP. My first task was to get the maps from the book into a fairly playable format.

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