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Rhodia pads range in size from the wee little #10 at 2×3″ to the monster #38 at 16 1/2 x 12 1/2″.
While I can see a plethora of uses for the #10 since it can easily fit into just about any pocket or bag, I’m wondering exactly how people are using the #38. My first thought was back to the mid 80′s and my short but enjoyable career as dungeon master playing Dungeons & Dragons, drawing careful and complex castle schematics on graph paper. (Are people still playing D&D the old way, or is it all done via computer now?)
Some other uses I can imagine for the #38 include, garden planning, dream house visualizing, calligraphy practice….
How would you use each of these?
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I belive the large pad would be excellent for drawing mind maps (for those of us who do not use software to do so).
I got two of the giant pads for my birthday a few years ago and am still working my way through the first, which tells you that I don’t use the #38 as much as the #13 and #16 (so nice and portable).
But I LOVE the big size.
I have the #38 out on my desk and work on top of it, then can use it to jot down thoughts about my WIP, clusters, lists (it’s big enough for several).
When I’m stuck on a story, I draw a line diagonally across it and tell my story in phrases from the bottom to the top with BUT/SO/AND (Jimmy was going to have a regular day, BUT when he woke up his house was gone AND he was wearing no clothes SO…). The BUTs go on one side of the line and the SOs go on the other. Makes it easy to spot empty or confused places in the story.
Mind maps… yes!
I have never found Rhodia notbookes anywhere yet (I try not to buy a lot of things online to keep the credit cards under control)… but I LOVE the look of the big pad.
I picked up a few BIG sketchbooks (17″x21″ I think) when i was in Toronto and my daughter absolutly LOVES them. They are big enough for little dreams. She sits on the floor or outside on the grass and she’ll colour or draw or squiggle for hours!
I wanted them for mindmapping… I find smaller paper restrictive for those.
Makes me think I will need to find some of thes big pads!
Well, the #10 I generally view as too small to be useful . . . anything I’d do on something that size is likely better suited to a Post-It note. The big ‘un would almost certainly be for laying out projects like landscaping the yard, figuring a furniture arrangement in a room, a design for an entertainment center, or a shed, or a floorplan. That sort of thing.
That is a monstrous graph pad! You could make a fantastically huge dungeon map on that baby! And yes, people do play D&D on paper. It’s the only way to go! There’s nothing like having your well-loved character sheet in a folder full of crimped and crumpled maps of past adventures in your bag of gaming stuff. They invariably get christened with salsa or pizza sauce, but that just adds, er, character!
The #38 looks like you could shingle the side of the house in the background of that photo.
LOL!
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