New Dwarven Forge Kickstarter kicked off over the weekend...tempted, but...

[pogre]

I thought about that, but I'm finding that I just don't have the time to craft. I want to spend more time on writing adventures and just playing the game.

For published material, which I have not ran yet, but plan to, I buy the battlemap sets and print them out on a plotter printer.

When I started DMing again, I did make a DM Scotty 2.5 Cavern set. If you have time, you can make some cool terrain, very inexpensively, with great play- and replay-ability. I might try to find time to make a bunch of generic dungeon terrain using his Tile Scape tutorials.

Sounds like you have figured out DF is not for you, which is cool.

I currently play in a campaign with playmats and it is a ton of fun. It really does not take very long for me to build encounter areas, because I have my tiles very organized, and I typically have special tiles I am going to need set aside. I think players who are new to my campaign are typically impressed with how fast I get pieces on the table.

I set up street scenes, taverns, shops, and more in addition to the dungeon stuff. I currently run a WFRP 2e city campaign and the city tiles (and sewer tiles) have been a ton of fun. I use them for a lot of non-combat encounters.

I totally agree with you about painting the DF tiles. Does not appeal to me in the least.

Miniatures and terrain are the main part of my rpg "budget". So, I am always going to drop some coin on DF kickstarters. I did not pledge KS1, because I have several dozen sets of the older resin basic dungeon tiles. I also skipped KS4 because I already built a castle out of hirst arts blocks.

Storage is an issue. I am running out of cabinet space again! SO your easy to store requirement for play aids is understandable to me!

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

While the tabletop minis part of me would love to drop a load of cash on these it just isn't practical for me really. I have to lug stuff to the gaming sessions for one and more lugging is bad. Also as regular miniatures seems to get larger and larger it seems like it would get cluttered quickly. If regular figs were a true 25mm it would be better. And me I know I'd get nuts and start buying and buying and buying so I can lay out entire dungeons. I'm sure they are great in play but I have a hard time justifying the cost over our current mondomat setup.

I'm tempted to just put down for the base set and see what they are like though...its not like I'd get hooked. I could cut back. I know I could. Yeah...

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

http://www.dungeonstone.com/zen/

This is a similar option and I've thought of grabbing some of these too. But painting them is ugh. I barely have time to paint figs.

 

[pogre]

http://www.dungeonstone.com/zen/

This is a similar option and I've thought of grabbing some of these too. But painting them is ugh. I barely have time to paint figs.

Those are made with Hirst Arts molds. Very reasonable price though.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Those are made with Hirst Arts molds. Very reasonable price though.

Do they work well with DF tiles? You can mix and match without problems?

P.S. What's the outlook on the Bulldogs for the coming season?

 

[LordNightwinter]

Here I go again running my... fingers? Mouth doesn't fit. Anyway I have both the Hirstarts molds and Dwarven Forge stuff. They mesh very well together. As a matter of fact below is a link to my creative page on Fartbook. I've got pictures of both in there.

https://www.facebook.com/TheoreticalDungeon/

 

[Zaukrie]

I own a lot of this... And as long as you are doing your own things, I find it greatly added to my creativity in creating encounters. It also increased the creativity of my players. I did, however, move to an apartment, in a new state, and it is hard to see how one could on a lot of this in a small space.

It is really beautiful and really added to our game play. But, I make good money. If I had a now limited budget, I would print paper tiles again.

 

[pogre]

As stated above, they work well together.

re Bulldogs: We are young and in a new, bigger conference. I think we're talented, but the schedule is front loaded. If we can stay healthy and confident through the early weeks we will be a force come playoffs. Thanks for asking!

 

[MNblockhead]

Curious, for those of you using 3D setups like DF and Hirst molds, how do you do fog of war?

Do you just set up for a specific encounter or do you set up entire dungeons?

It seems like you would have to have this all set up ahead of time. Do you just have everything set up on the table, covered, until needed? Do you set up on boards and then move the setups to the table when needed?

Interested in hearing how others organize terrain setup and changes in play.

 

[KahlessNestor]

Curious, for those of you using 3D setups like DF and Hirst molds, how do you do fog of war?

Do you just set up for a specific encounter or do you set up entire dungeons?

It seems like you would have to have this all set up ahead of time. Do you just have everything set up on the table, covered, until needed? Do you set up on boards and then move the setups to the table when needed?

Interested in hearing how others organize terrain setup and changes in play.

On Critical Role in the fight in Hell, Matt Mercer had the whole dungeon built. He put sheets of construction paper over top of all the rooms until the players entered those rooms.