Drawer liner like this is available at most grocery and department stores.

It does two things. First it provides a space between each board so that they do not rub together and erase your work, and second, it holds the stack together with the added friction of the pads. This way they don’t slide all around. When storing your boards, I recommend using pads. Dirt and grime sometimes get picked up at the table, and you don’t want that grinding between your boards.
I recommend using three pieces between each board to provide support to the stack above.

This is my favorite advantage of these boards to other ways of mapping. You can really detail out a night’s worth of adventuring ahead of time saving game time for gaming. Your maps will tend to be better detail too because you don’t have bored and restless players waiting across the table.

The dry erase surface is of high enough quality that you can leave the marker on the board for many days without ghosting.

We are getting ready to shoot another video that will demonstrate this technique. I hope to shoot the next video in a nearby gaming store. We are avid supporters of keeping the game store alive. It is needed now more than ever. Join a meetup group and start gaming!

How would you transport them anyway? Some sort of art…portfolio…binder? Can somebody recommend a specific product?

Of course, if one prefers dry erase markers, this is irrelevant.

Rather than keep drinks away I just keep clumsy players away from the gaming table, and we eat curry every week around mine!

I can see how portability can be an issue, but I GM in my own home (too many books to carry elsewhere, and I need time to unwind between work and game). I like the look of these so much I registered and entered the competition to win some!

Somehting to keep in mind about all of this stuff though is that the more tools that you have the more likely that you will have the right one for the job. Battle Boards don’t need to replace what you are using today, as I still use my battlemats as well as my Flip Mats. They all have their unique advantages.

@Sarlax – Good point about dark/light dry-erase marker mixing. On the flipside, I usually draw in darker colors anyway — and even if you limit yourself to black/blue/red you’ve got a lot of ground covered without needing lighter markers.

It would be interesting to see a version of Battlegraphs with no scoring, or only the fainter scoring.

It’s easy to see why. As you draw on the Battlegraph, the pen runs directly in the groove itself, leaving dust. Even after wiping down with a dry eraser, the original dark-brown line will be traced with the color you used (and will just be black over time from the different colors mixed). This isn’t a big deal itself and isn’t immediately noticeable.

You will spot it, however, when you next run a light-color marker, like orange or blue. As I draw down the line, the marker will pick up the black dust from before and get a little dirty, and the next blue line I draw will have streaks of black in it. It’s the same effect as if you were to write draw something new with dry erase pen on something old.

I haven’t put them through real field testing in a game (just the home lab), but I imagine that this could add up. I might be drawing a dungeon in all black, erase it, and then draw forest and river over the same grid lines and have my blue and green pick up all the black dust, unless I’m giving the boards a thorough wipe down with alcohol after every cleaning.

I don’t know if this will eventually make the markers unusable or if the worst case is just that I draw an inch of junk in a clean spot to get the black off the marker, but I figure it’s worth noting.

-Grid marked 30×20 white foam board (2-pack)
-Peel and mount laminate roll (not sheets)
-Yardstick, Exacto knife, & Black Sharpie

@Leslnk: I have two Battlemats as well, and the main advantage I would say for these, are that they are dry erase. The wet erase battlemats can be a pain, since you have to have a source of water and a decent amount of paper towels or something like it. With the Battle Tiles, you need markers and an eraser.

From my casual use so far, I have not needed to do any of the special surface cleaning. Normal use with the markers only requires you use an eraser. The denatured alcohol is only needed if some other stain gets on the boards.

No doubt that the vinyl Battlemat is more durable, but I think there is some advantage to the dry erase, and the smaller footprint.

It doesn’t even have to have a grid, as far as I’m concerned.