Like all LZW Ground Sets, Astral Plane offers a substantial collection of 6x6 tiles in various configurations, with a “pavement” texture sitting atop a background texture. In this case, the background looks like outer space, and the pavement looks like bumpy green cobblestones. Many tiles are punctuated with ripples or vortexes of purple energy. The whole effect is sufficiently odd to befit an exotic setting like an astral plane, and the artwork beautifully complements LZW’s Battlemap: The Plane of Havoc. However, the Astral Plane tiles are 6x6 and the Plane of Havoc tiles are 7x10 with well-defined outside borders, so they don’t really fit together that well as a practical matter.

Really loving this tile set. The square-tile geomorph approach works well in the context of building floating islands of matter floating in the void. Lord Zsezse really created a comprehensive set of tiles here -- more than fifty, compared to the twenty or so in a typical tile set. Lord Zsezse products are generally .pdfs designed to be printed out and used on cardstock, either as maps or as paper models. The Ground Set line, though, works brilliantly with virtual tabletops like Maptool once you convert the .pdfs to .gifs and crop the excess whitespace out. I would urge Zsezse to offer .gif or .png format tiles prerendered for these purposes, but even without its worth the extra work to convert it on your own for tabletop use.

Also worth noting that the Astral Plane/Limbo/Otherdimensional nature of this tileset is useful for an incredibly wide range of genres of gaming, in a way that dungeon geomorphs aren't.