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Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Gaming board set 8 – The Dragon’s Lair

August 17, 2019 scrollmaster

Been a while since I’ve created a gaming board set mainly because I have pretty much what I need. However, a recent game went completely sideways in a glorious unexpected way. To make a long story short, our lvl5 party decided to pick a fight with a young blue dragon, named Electrax Stormwing. 2 adventurers KOed, 1 failed 4 death saves and we lost our first character and last character, our dragonborn sorcerer standing yielded to the dragon. This was all totally unexpected for me, so I had to come up with a totally unforeseen encounter for the following game…

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Desert Scatter: Oasis, Cacti and Nomadic Tent

June 19, 2019 scrollmaster

Last year I spend a lot of time doing basic terrain pieces such as dungeon tiles, game boards, generic scatter and furniture. This year I have more freedom in exploring funner things like this configurable gaming board and funky little Dungeons & Dollhouses pieces. And because of this freedom, I’m now able to steer our campaign into a more alien environment to the party (and the players): The Everdry Desert! And to make that upcoming experience come to life, I’ve created some terrain scatter specifically for desert adventures. Been great fun. Cacti (or Cactuses) These essentially are made up of…

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Bolt Throwers (Wizards of the Coast)

March 26, 2019 scrollmaster

I’m actually not sure that these are from Wizards. But they will be handy to beef up weaker enemies that don’t really scare my players anymore… such as goblins.

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Homemade shabby hut

March 26, 2019 scrollmaster

I had a container I got with a perfume bottle. I though the container was an interesting size for a small shabby hut and I liked the tall base which was perfect for the floor. I never quite understood the idea of only removing the roof on terrain houses as you still have the walls in the way. This way the walls are removed with the roof. I added some turf and some rats too. I get it that people recommend not adding things like turf as it doesn’t naturally fit in for example a snow landscape, but I think…

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Gaming board set 7 – Bone Dry Stony Desert / Humid Marshland

March 9, 2019 scrollmaster

Ever since I first saw Runehammer’s video “Craft Game: Hell World!”, I’ve been wanting to try out the technique he describes in this very detailed video. However, my focus last year was first and foremost to create terrain for my games as I’ve stepped into D&D after a 20 year break with no terrain at all. But now that I have the base set of terrain, I’ve started to craft nice-to-haves such as upgrading my tiles to look better. My interest got reviewed, when I found the original video that inspired Hankerin in the first place, this video “Make Easy…

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Furniture and other scenery pieces from Zealot Miniatures and BattleForge

January 23, 2019 scrollmaster

When I paint scenery bits I don’t paint them by where I’ve bought them so sometimes i end up with a bundle like this. Some indoors, some outdoors, some from Zealot Miniatures and some from The Battle Forge Not sure where I got food bits for this table from.

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Homemade dungeon tiles

January 23, 2019 scrollmaster

Last year, when I picked Dungeons & Dragons up again for the first time in 20 years, I fell back on how I used to do terrain for the battlefield for tabletop wargames. For the original dungeon tiles we used in Chapter 2 and 3 I cut a grid with a knife, painted it all with a dark grey mixed with dirt and sand and drybrushed it white. However, since then I’ve found advice on youtube such as Black Magic Craft’s video on painting stoneworks and Runehammer’s video on 2.6D Reversible Tiles System, and as I now have a decent set of terrain and terrain…

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Dungeons & Dollhouses: Floorboards and mini displays for the Medieval Tavern

December 22, 2018 scrollmaster

UPDATE 16 DEC 2019 I never got around to really use these. As a gaming tool they are too limiting and putting on a shelf for display is not something I do so I’ve cut them to bits and repurposed them as terrain scatter. ORIGINAL POST So.. I actually didn’t think I would paint or build anymore this year, but I been wanting for some time to do some kind of mini display to put minis and bits of furniture on…. basically like a mini dollhouse. I then had the idea to double these Dungeons & Dollhouses…

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons MEGA POST – My 2018 terrain boards and scatter!

December 15, 2018 scrollmaster

Following on from my Dungeons & Dragons MEGA POST – My 2018 painted miniatures! and Dungeons & Dragons MEGA POST – The games we played in 2018! I wanted to capture all the terrain and scenery I either bought and painted or built and painted. My experience with building scenery has mainly been limited to tabletop wargames so by and large we are talking flat boards, some ruins and something elevated to put long-ranged weaponry on. So I have to say, while I do love painting miniatures (been doing it for 30+ years by now on and off), what I’ve enjoyed the most has…

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Gazebo Mimic (Knights of the Dinner Table)

December 2, 2018 scrollmaster

My players don’t like mimics. I do! And honestly, how can you not love this crazy-ass Gazebo Mimic. Amazing! One thing that bugged me about this miniature was there was no thought given to how the panel with the Mimic face could be removed and reattached. It feels like the sculpture assumes that the owner of the miniature would always have it as one or the other.

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Scenery scatter using tea lights

November 28, 2018 scrollmaster

I guess the easiest and most common way to use tea lights as terrain scatter, is to wrap or paint them as is so you essentially get tea light shaped objects such as the lights in use for my Posh Ball Terrain Board set. But I wanted to try something else that would hide the tea light shape a bit better. My first go was this small hill with a camp fire. The tea light is hidden in the hill itself so only the flame sticks out and gives the camp fire a glow. The second piece is a simply,…

Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Little Cottage (Oathsworn Miniatures)

November 28, 2018 scrollmaster

I stumbled across this little amazing piece of scenery at Salute 2018 – I didn’t really know what to use it for at the time, but I am glad I bought it as it fits my upcoming D&D Christmas Oneshot… and it is now out of production. As with my Medieval Tavern, the stoneworks is using the awesome technique described in Black Magic Craft’s video on painting stoneworks