Cells & Shrines

For Dungeons & Dragons players, in particular, Cells & Shrines is a very welcome new addition to the extensive range of battle mats published by Loke. Like others in the series, it's a ring-bound volume that opens up to create 30 double-page spreads that lie perfectly flat and can be readily deployed by your dungeon master (DM) as part of a role-playing game (RPG).

As we've come to expect from Loke, Cells & Shrines give us a great range of scenes, suitable for a very wide range of RPG games. Shown here with figures from WizKids' Heroclix Spider-Verse range is one of the spreads that's set up with spider markings. The pages all have a grid overlay, so there's no need for a ruler or tape measure to work out ranged effects. They are all 'wipe clean', so you can use them with wet or dry markers.

It may be described as a Big Book of Battle Mats but it has to be said that Cells & Shrines isn't as big as the books in Loke's Giant Book of Battle Mats series. The individual pages are A4, so a double-page spread equates to an A3 map. By comparison, the Giant Book of Battle Mats volumes are A3 and so open up to form A2 maps. The smaller format works especially well in relation to the subject matter. In D&D games played by members of the team at Board's Eye View, we've found it adds appropriately to the atmosphere to switch for room encounters from the more sprawling Giant Book mats to the maps in the slightly more confined Big Book mats.

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