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Miniatures Adventure => Fantasy Adventures => Topic started by: iago on May 18, 2008, 03:59:02 AM

Title: Movable dungeon terrain
Post by: iago on May 18, 2008, 03:59:02 AM
My buddies and I started a D&D campaign recently. It's my first time playing D&D, or any game where we've made significant use of miniatures, so it was an interesting one. The problem, however, is that we put our miniatures on a plain grid, and use whatever's laying around to make rooms. "Ok, these pencils are the walls, and this paint jug is the door". That's no good!

So this weekend, I decided to do a quick dungeon project. Well, quicker than other stuff I've built, anyways. Tedious, of nothing else.. I watched almost the whole first season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent while making these. 14 episodes =~ 12 hours.

Anyway, I took pictures of the finished works. The walls and floor are foam insulation, and the doors are textured plasticard on small MDF bases. I didn't have the foresight to do WiP shots while I was building it, sadly, so all you get is the finished product. Here are what I built:
4 x 6" walls
4 x 5" walls
4 x 4" walls
4 x 3" walls
5 doors
2' x 2' base

I set up a quick pair of rooms using most of the walls/doors. Here it is:

(http://www.skullsecurity.org/ospap2/pictures/5339.jpg)

(http://www.skullsecurity.org/ospap2/pictures/5343.jpg)

(http://www.skullsecurity.org/ospap2/pictures/5342.jpg)

(http://www.skullsecurity.org/ospap2/pictures/5341.jpg)
Title: Re: Movable dungeon terrain
Post by: Wirelizard on May 18, 2008, 04:33:02 AM
Nicely done - always nice when "quick" terrain projects turn out so well, isn't it?
Title: Re: Movable dungeon terrain
Post by: iago on May 18, 2008, 05:20:04 AM
Definitely!

And even though it's the fastest terrain I've thrown together, I'll bet it'll get the most use. :)
Title: Re: Movable dungeon terrain
Post by: twrchtrwyth on May 18, 2008, 11:28:10 AM
That looks very effective. Doesn't look that different from some professional terrain I've seen. The cow monster is quite scary to! :o
Title: Re: Movable dungeon terrain
Post by: lethallee61 on May 18, 2008, 12:23:41 PM
Yeah - those cows are vicious if you make them angry.

Reminds me of an old favourite - anyone else played "Battle Cattle" ?

BTW - nice work on the scenery.
Title: Re: Movable dungeon terrain
Post by: Argonor on May 18, 2008, 08:04:14 PM
Very nice very useable terrain...  8)

If I could just get my hands on some insulation foam. Sadly, it's not legal to use it (for insulation) in DK, and thus it's almost impossible yo come by  >:(

I can only get styrolite which is the less dense version consisting of very small 'nuggets' pressed together (and it's NOT very useable for terrain  :(  ).

Well, at least I have found myself a source for foamcard.....  :-I
Title: Re: Movable dungeon terrain
Post by: Operator5 on May 18, 2008, 09:49:15 PM
That's very nice. I like the modular part of it and I just may steal the idea for my next dungeon crawl game.
Title: Re: Movable dungeon terrain
Post by: iago on May 18, 2008, 10:13:04 PM
I'm thinking now that I might need some bigger walls, so I might do up some 8" and 10" and maybe even 12" soon. If I do, I'll take some WiP photos and post 'em here.

If I could just get my hands on some insulation foam. Sadly, it's not legal to use it (for insulation) in DK, and thus it's almost impossible yo come by  >:(

I can only get styrolite which is the less dense version consisting of very small 'nuggets' pressed together (and it's NOT very useable for terrain  :(  ).
That sucks! I recognize the stuff you're talking about, totally useless for terrain. :(
Title: Re: Movable dungeon terrain
Post by: Doomhippie on May 19, 2008, 02:52:21 PM
Nicely done. And yes, D&D and Dungeon Crawling are a lot more fun with something to look at.