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ZeroKnight

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Handling light sources in Combat.
« on: February 01, 2011, 03:20:31 AM »
Im running a campaign where the sun has been blotted out. Im looking for a few ideas to make combat run more smoothly in regards having mobile light sources on 1 or multiple characters. So far I have been letting the PCs use my 10 and 20 foot radius wire templates, but they are bit hard to move around the battlefield.
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Re: Handling light sources in Combat.
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2011, 04:37:24 AM »
ooh, that's a toughie.

I've heard of good results using a projector for a battlemat; if you can get the right filter onto a gooseneck lamp you might be able to use an actual circle of light as your lightsource
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Re: Handling light sources in Combat.
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2011, 06:17:00 AM »
Use a piece of transparency plastic glued to a character token? Basically use it like a 20ft radius character token.
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Re: Handling light sources in Combat.
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2011, 01:00:45 PM »
The actual light idea is probably best if you can move it.  That way you don't have to disrupt any of the minis.

Other than that, I'd say eye-ball it.  It's a bit of a pain, but it's not that hard to count out two or four squares from a source.  It's (IMO) a lot less hard than moving some other template with the PC every time.
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