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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: PhilB on 16 July 2017, 11:26:49 AM
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Our ongoing Rise of the Runelord campaign is just beginning its third year, and we've reached the half-way point, where our intrepid heros defend their hometown from an attack by stone giants, dire bears and an ornery juvenile dragon. I set up the city wall using Dwarven Forge narrow corridor bits as walls. Fairly satisfactory, given their modular nature, but scratchbuilt castle walls would obviously be far superior.
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Even though the town of Sandpoint is fairly small, as cities go, it is still far too large to represent its entirety on the gaming table, even if I had enough house models to make it work. So I assembled a few vignettes to represent the initial battle sites. Here is the bridge that comes over behind the bluffs under Sandpoint Cathedral. In fact, I don't (yet) have any house models at all, and used 2D terrain pieces for them. Even had to use assorted dice to represent the tombstones in the Sandpoint graveyard. I simply must get busy modelling! At least I have two scratchbuilt bridge segments, made with strips of cardstock (from old medicine boxes) and bits of wood barbecue skewers. The river, sadly, is just paper printed with river sections I googled one day. Better than nothing.
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For stategic movement, we used the A2-sized (4-page spread) map supplied in Paizo's map pack, using individual figures to mark placement of an entire group of characters, either the group of PCs and hirelings, or the four other groups of city defenders manned by named NPCs and 1st or 2nd-level militia. Note essential gaming tools like crisps and coke! Thanks to Quentin and Cyril for their heartfelt contribution to the evening's festivities.
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The city streets were less satisfying to display. Makes me wish I'd dumped a few grand when the Dwarven Forge city pieces were on Kickstarter.
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The prepainted giants from the Paizo/Wizkids RotRL collection are fairly satisfactory, despite a tendency of the spears and other thin bits to go all bendy over time. Sadly, the Dwarven Forge parapets are too tall to see the defender figures over them.
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A quick Dimension Door spell brings a band of heros to fight off the giants. Packs of lichen used for leaves on the scratchbuilt trees are less than satisfactory, but you can't fault them for speed of assembly! The tree trunks themselves are real twigs carefully selected from the woods behind my house, and left unpainted, glued to CD bases that are marginally textured with sand, paint and occasional paintbrush fibers as weeds.
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Another squad faces down a pair of dire bears that the giants pushed to climb the bluffs behind Sandpoint Cathedral. Sadly, the lighting isn't as good, the afternoon having long since passed to evening, depriving us of sunlight.
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The subsequent battle scenes, further battles with giants wading across the river to attack Southern Sandpoint, and the off again, on again fight with the dragon, which the brave Artie actually grappled (successfully!) at one point Was driven off with scarcely a few dozen hit points remaining out of over 200, were sadly not photographed, as I was too busy running combat to remember to immortalize our session.