Dry Erase Crayons FTW!

Having a great interest in any dry erase products that become available on the market, I thought I would share my findings on Crayola’s new Dry Erase Crayons and their use for gaming.

You get eight colors. Black, Blue, Red, Green, Brown, Purple, Yellow, Orange.

They are the size of jumbo crayons, and have the familiar paper wrapping on each stick.

The set comes with a bag/mitt for storage and erasing.

The texture of the crayon is a bit softer than traditional crayons, and has a very nice feel when marking. There is a good balance of smoothness and resistance that I find more comforting than a marker.

The marks are fairly resistant to accidental erasing, which is a boon, but require a little more effort to remove from your dry erase surface. This turns out to work in your favor as well. The map from your last game can easily be saved for the next, or drawing your maps out in advance becomes super easy as stacking does not erase your work.

The marks never dry out, so leaving them on the board is no problem. They are just as easy to erase after a week than they are after an hour.

I have not experienced any ghosting or staining.

No drying and no caps means you get to use every last bit of the crayon. No waste.

Marking over a mark does not erase the older mark like markers tend to do.
This means that you can fill in areas with solid color and the colors can even be mixed some for highlighting and shading if you really want to get into details.

You can quickly make thin and think lines as needed, and the crayon may be broken into pieces for extra thick lines and filling in large areas quickly.

I have to say that these things are AMAZING for gaming if you use a dry erase board, and answers almost all of the annoying problems of drawing with a dry erase marker.

I haven’t used my markers once in the last month since acquiring a set of these.

AAAA+