Printable dungeon tiles are almost a dime a dozen these days, but good urban and village tiles remain semi-scarce. Alea's City Tiles plugs a hole in the existing printable tiles market. This product, well worth the $4 price tag, offers an interesting and useful variety of village buildings, along with a grassy lawn (reproduce it as often as you'd like to make larger meadows) and four different street tiles. While I like this product a lot, I have to admit that although the various buildings' layouts differ, their "look and feel" doesn't. I didn't realize that fantasy/medieval freemen lived in premanufactured tract housing where all the walls, floors, tables, chairs, etc. looked exactly the same. :-)

These are OK-they're not Skeleton Key by any stretch of the imagination, being too boxy, but the fact is that they are the only attempt to put a town onto tile form.

However, they are some very basic village buildins-an outdoor eatery, a small inn, a half-dozen simple homes. No other businesses, or similar items. You can do a small village, but that's about it. Hopefully there will be follow-on sets.

Its not fancy.

Everything is set up to fit within the limits of a PDF page with a grid overlay appropriate for miniatures use. There is a little introductory page and a comment about medieval buildings, one page of grass, a couple of cobble road graphics and more than a dozen graphics of building interiors suitable to inhabit with miniatures. The product has no NPC's, monsters or separate item cards.

The art and presentation is reasonable but very straightforward - everything is aligned in straight lines with the page for example. The product feels like the result of a dunjinni session or two. Its worth it, if you want to save yourself the work of making the graphics yourself or perhaps if you are playing online and need some rooms quickly.

Its intended to be printed and placed on a table. The pictures are clear and 300dpi for crisp printing. It is the creation of a graphic program not a great resource for other graphics programs. There are no pages with just items, clipart or other doodads - if you like making digital graphics you should go elsewhere. If you just want a few extra tiles for your strategic layouts or a floor mat on which to show off your miniatures this is a good product.

Simple, straight forward, inexpensive.

Bo

Some good, basic tiles for use in the city. The building maps are rather limited, so I found the plain grass and street maps to be the most useful.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: The artwork was good.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: The buildings seemed somewhat limited in what I could use them for. Very small.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

Quite a few crowded, prosperous, late Middle Ages buildings. Very uniform in appearance. Not a bad product...just not at all satisfying. At least it wasn't expensive.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: One home has a garden plot, though it's way too tiny.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Large rooms overcrowded with furniture, including haphazard beds everywhere. Yet somehow, the concept of sitting on a bench seems alien to the inhabitants. Even the poorest of houses suggests a fairly prosperous inhabitant.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Disappointed<br>

APG City Tiles

<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Well done tiles<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Not really a city<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Acceptable<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

These are not city tiles. They are small village homes with very little variety. Not worth the purchase.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Nothing.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Very little variety. It claims to be city tiles but is really a collection of small village homes. I wouldn't advise purchasing this product.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Disappointing<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Disappointed<br>

"APG City Tiles" by the Alea Publishing Group (with accompanying text by Joshua Raynack) is something any DM with a printer can use to help with a specific campaign or game, or, when needed, can help with the spur-of-the-moment-and-completely-unplanned-for-bar-fight scenarios in a fantasy or medieval game.

Easy-to-understand printing instructions make up the first page, and a brief description of medieval city structure makes up the second before diving into the city tiles themselves. (The writing is professional and easy-to-read; writer Raynack includes enough information to help DMs use this product in their own fantasy or medieval games without talking or writing down to them.) Seventeen pages of city tiles are presented here, and they include everything from a tavern or inn, a field of grass, city streets and even an eating hall. The cartography is clean and their functionality is self-evident. While these tiles are all quite generic, they would be easy to puzzle-piece together to create a dynamic playing area for your players' minis.

There are two different .pdf versions of this supplement - one is in color, the other is a grayscale black-and-white version. The grayscale version is identical to the full-color version minus the color, so if you're looking to save a little color ink, you?ll not miss out on any details.

Suggestions are provided at the beginning of this supplement regarding not just printing of the tiles, but how to make them a bit more durable (foamboard is suggested as a base) as well.

While there?s certainly absolutely nothing wrong with using wet-erase markers on a battle-mat, especially in a pinch, this is a solid product that deserves to be seen and used by DMs.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: At $5.00, this product is quite the bargain. These tiles can be used over and over again, and you'll more than get your money's worth. The cartography is clean and neat, and most of your town-building needs can be met with this supplement.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: There's very little not to like about this product!<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br><BR>[THIS REVIEW WAS EDITED]<BR>

APG City Tiles is a 19 page pdf product featuring a number of map tiles for building a city block. The aim of the product is to allow GMs to easily construct a city block consisting of merchant and freeman homes, inns, taverns, streets and others using well put together maps that can be printed and placed straight onto a gaming table. Alea Publishing Group (APG) are not new to the 2D tile/map market and have produced several other lines of products, including paper tiles and figures for different gaming genres.

This product comes as both a full-colour screen version and a greyscale printer-friendly version. The latter allows you the saving on colour ink, although contains exactly the same product as the screen version. Some of the details in the printer friendly version go missing or are hard to distinguish, so to gain the most benefit from the product, printing the colour tiles is recommended. In addition to the seventeen map tiles presented in the product, Alea Publishing have also included an brief overview on medieval life and buildings, information that can enhance the flavor of the game. Layout and presentation is very good, and from a presentation point of view this product should not disappoint.

The main body of the product contains the seventeen map tiles that can be used to construct a city block or just used as is for an individual building. Each map tiles is 300 dpi, making for easy printing with good quality at the same time. Tiles include a grass base, common inn, freemans' homes, merchants' homes, common tavern, eating hall, and a small collection of streets. Most of the homes have upstairs and downstairs portions, and contain the minimum level of detail so that DMs are not restricted by the contents of the maps. Typical features included beds, barrels, tables, chairs and fireplaces.

The quality of the maps is good, although the variety could've been increased a little bit. All tables and other furnishings, for example, look the same and use the same map components. A little variety here would've made a city block more unique rather than a conformal collection. Layout and design of the contents of the maps makes sense, and there are more than enough rooms to use for a variety of different purposes. The streets are a little disappointing in that there are too few to construct something realistic or even logical. A few more different types of streets and general variety on the interior decorations would've made this product much better. Overall, though, the maps are good, very useful, and would make a good addition to any GMs arsenal of props to enhance gaming at the table.<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: Good quality maps with high utility value. Some additional added value in useful information regarding medieval lifestyles and buildings.<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: Variety is lacking in places and features are often repetitive. Could've done with a few additional street designs, and more variety in the structure and furnishing of the houses and buildings.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

About 12 months ago I had this wild idea.

I bought about a ton of those build it yourself print outs with the intention that I was going to construct a massive 3-D city for my players. After toiling with an exacto knife, several skin breaking cuts and 100s of dollars in ink costs, I realized that this was not for me. Apparently Alea Publishing realized that it was not for a lot of people when it created AGP City Tiles, a 20 pg PDF containing

AGP City Tiles provides 22 images that can combine to perform as elaborate a hamlet, thorp, city or village as you wish. There are enough varieties of homes and land to construct fairly expansive communities, if you like communities without shops and smiths. My guess is that these buildings will possibly be in a future expansion of the product, but I was hoping to create a complete village right out of the box.

The artwork itself is very colorful and realistic. The outside grass looks very plush with sparks of dirt patches to add to the realism. The interiors were as detailed but many of the objects felt repetitive as one house or building seemed to run into another. I could not feel much of a difference between some of them. The tables also have food on them which from a descriptive point of view can be a minor annoyance when you are describing a room that is suppose to be unoccupied.

For the Dungeon Master

I like the marketing idea of producing an entire city worth of tiles all within the same product and having them all included in an inexpensive PDF will be very beneficial. Creative DMs will enjoy the budget and construction information discussed at the beginning of the maps.

The Iron Word

I like having everything you need for a village in one easy PDF and the artwork is a notch above other attempts at doing this. There are some mild annoyances (no smiths or shops, lack of furniture variety) but those seem really minor when considering this is one of the best types of this product. The major problem though, is the lack of a complete map or examples of complete maps for those of us whom are less imaginative. <br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: - great artwork

• imagination is only boundary
• black and white and color copies
• easy on the printer<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: - some of the interiors don't have a ton of detail
• no complete maps so you got to have a good imagination <br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>