Good and as the name indicates, basic, set of 2D dungeon tiles. Get the other sets to increase your playable options.

Fantastic! The graphics have subtle colors in them, so if you opt to print them in black ink only, you will lose a great deal of details, and magic, in the printouts. This set is good, by itself, but it is sooo much better when combined with Dungeons 2, and Caverns 1 & 2. With these four sets, along with the Perils set, you will have all that you really need.

I printed mine out on white cardstock, laminated them with clear contact paper, then I mounted them to peel-n-stick vinyl floor tiles (place the laminated cardstock pieces to the glue side of the tiles). Use a utility scissors to cut them out, and you have very durable, easily transported, 2D dungeons that you can put down on the tabletop in seconds -- no mapping on your part, no drawing required, no erasing wet/dry markers, either! With 2D dungeons, your figures won't be crowded by 3D walls, and you can get on with what is important -- the movement, and combat!

Be sure to visit the publisher's web forum, linked off of their home page, for additional support, ideas, and user generated freebies. Cheers!

I miss the dragon tile sets but these are a good cost effective set that can be expanded and are usefull for us retro D&D players.

Good simple addition for any game where maps are needed (think of Dungeons and Dragons or the tabletop game Descent). Like it is, it may be a bit repetitive, but it's the basics. In fact, the real deal is when it's combined with other works of Fat Dragon, like traps or buildings.

Great product, as always, from Fat Dragon Games!

Fat Dragon Games puts out some of the highest-quality 3-D and 2-D terrain and accessories for miniatures and roleplaying games. Every year, I make certain to pick up several pieces by this strong company.

This is an excellent resource. I've been using LEGOs to do play testing for the new edition of Mythweaver, and was jealous of all of the high end dungeon environments that people use for their games... and then I saw this listed. I purchased basic dungeons 1 and 2, and they really do give you an incredible assortment of products to use. They work well with LEGOs as well, scaled perfectly for my use (I'm going with 3 square=10' on the grid to align with LEGO scale). I'm very pleased with this product. I'm headed out to get some foam board to affix pieces to permanently, because I'm confident I'll be using these for a long time.

Michael T. Desing

It is 2009, and people are still using graph paper and magic markers to draw their maps, most of the time in game. Where most of us have passed the days where every new combat involved a 20 minute DM draw the map break, there are many still trapped in the dark ages.

It is not too late to jump on the bandwagon, and so long as publishers like Fat Dragon Games puts out fantastic art packages like their Copper Dragon: Basic Dungeons series, the more archaic those rolls of graph paper will appear.

Deviating from the usual one product per review format, this review covers both Copper Dragon: Basic Dungeons 1 and Copper Dragon Basic Dungeons 2. Both products contain a series of gorgeous tiles to be used with battlemaps in a dungeon. Both weight in around the 40-page mark.

With battlemap products, there are two kinds: the smaller products that display a lot of detail and often a stronger level of cartography and the larger products with many maps but far less details. With the Copper Dragon series, Fat Dragon provides a hybrid product; one that uses big, bold colors that feel quite realistic and yet devoid of any detail so they can be used anywhere. The art style feels very traditional fantasy, however, the grays of the walls and the browns of the floor are so deep, your players will feel like they are traversing through a game. The result is a series of battlemaps that can be cut and fit together to build any dungeon you wish.

There are roughly nearly 40 pages of maps in each product, each product presenting 24 map tiles. Dungeon 1 features more basic designs, squares, straight hallways. Dungeon 2 is slightly more advances, offering curbs and several different room configurations. There are no graphs, but thick lines mark off squares to provide a clean distinction between squares without taking away from the maps.

For the Digital DM If you are a digital dm like myself, this product is a great source to either extract or save images to be used with mapping programs like maptools. The pages have little “fat” so when using a mass image extraction program it is easier to distinguish the images you want.

For the Regular DM Buy a projector. Seriously, if you’re still printing and cutting, you’ll find this product uses a fair amount of yellow and magenta. However, total ink loss is no more than any typical product.

The Iron Word The Copper Dragon series is a must buy for anyone using tile maps. There are no basic maps with the caliber artwork in these products. There is an elegance to how plain they are. The lack of any additional objects on the floors brings out the true dungeon feel of the battle maps.