Pyramid Review
Map Folio 3-D
Published by Wizards of the Coast
Model design by Dennis Kauth & Todd Gamble
Graphic design by Trish Yochum
32 full-color sheets of cut-out cardboard building components (tower, wall, two cottages, inn, outbuilding, & smithy); $9.95
If you're big on using miniatures in your tabletop games, you probably have a large collection of figurines, a little something for every occasion, and for background, well…a selection of erasable vinyl maps imprinted with a grid of squares. Oh, and maybe a pad of paper sheets with the same design. To get things off the ground in a literal sense, you can use the Map Folio 3-D.
Simply put, it's a collection of little buildings that form a small village. A 32-"page" supplement, it supplies you with a tower, a generic stone wall with parapets, two cottages, a two-story inn, an all-purpose "outbuilding," and a smithy with a corral. You have to do the construction yourself, so at the very least you'll need knives or scissors and some glue or tape. The stock used is good, firm stuff, so if you just slap it together as is you'll have some pretty decent structures, but some of it benefits from added support (like gluing it to additional cardstock). The fences, posts, and corral bits for the smithy in particular require some fairly small cuts, and shoring those up is a good thing.
For the most part, these buildings don't offer much in the way of interiors. You can't get inside them once they're . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: November 18, 2005
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