DU4: First set you have to have multiples
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) copies should arrive next week, so expect pictures from the tiles (I only buy one set. I do a high resolution scan and then build my dungeons in Gimp and then i make A4 sized battle maps using a program called posterazor. There is a detailed tutorial somewhere on this site showing you how to do it. I can now wait for the said tile set to in out of print and i have a pristine unpunched set to resale. This also has the benefit of speeding up play at the game table as i dont spend five minutes fiddling around with floor tiles at the start of every encounter
Kris
Adventurer
While I agree that multiple purchases of some of the previous sets makes them easier to use - I don't believe it was 100% necessary in order to be able to use the tiles to create a small consistent cave / dungeon / wilderness area.
I apologise in advance for ranting a little here (as I don't usually rant on the forums), but upon opening this set my initial impression was that this set is pretty much useless for creating towers when purchased on its own. The title of the set is 'Arcane Towers' after all, and I assumed (perhaps somewhat naively) that I would be able to build at least one tower from the set
Also (as has been noted above) it does state that the 'sample dungeons' were created using two sets - though I do believe that 3 sets would be needed to build the first dungeon pictured - as you only get one 'battlements corner' piece in each set (plus you don't notice on the picture, as it is in black & white, but that level would also be made up of different coloured tiles piled on top of each other to make the floor area - which is not a major problem, but enough to bug me - because I'm weird like that ).
So, all in all, I have to say that this is not a great set from my perspective, as I either have one set lying around that is near useless to me, or I have to go out and buy another set so that I can actually construct something that resembles a tower (which is not a major hassle - just a little annoying).
I would have preferred it if the set cost a little more and had more sheets in it, or if it would have concentrated on either regular walls or battlements - not half of each, just to avoid the whole disappointment, and the initial feeling of buying half a product when I opened the thing up.
Anyway, I would like to finish on a positive note and say that the artwork on the tiles themselves looks as good as ever
I apologise in advance for ranting a little here (as I don't usually rant on the forums), but upon opening this set my initial impression was that this set is pretty much useless for creating towers when purchased on its own. The title of the set is 'Arcane Towers' after all, and I assumed (perhaps somewhat naively) that I would be able to build at least one tower from the set
Also (as has been noted above) it does state that the 'sample dungeons' were created using two sets - though I do believe that 3 sets would be needed to build the first dungeon pictured - as you only get one 'battlements corner' piece in each set (plus you don't notice on the picture, as it is in black & white, but that level would also be made up of different coloured tiles piled on top of each other to make the floor area - which is not a major problem, but enough to bug me - because I'm weird like that
).So, all in all, I have to say that this is not a great set from my perspective, as I either have one set lying around that is near useless to me, or I have to go out and buy another set so that I can actually construct something that resembles a tower (which is not a major hassle - just a little annoying).
I would have preferred it if the set cost a little more and had more sheets in it, or if it would have concentrated on either regular walls or battlements - not half of each, just to avoid the whole disappointment, and the initial feeling of buying half a product when I opened the thing up.
Anyway, I would like to finish on a positive note and say that the artwork on the tiles themselves looks as good as ever
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Thanee
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Yep, I might actually buy a third set of this (to have two for play; I have one set each still in shrink wrap (except DT1, which was already hard to come buy when I got my first one; and DT3, but I recently ordered one for cheap from Amazon Marketplace, which should arrive soon... then I only need another DT1 eventually)).
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Thanee
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Thanee
Dice4Hire
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Why do people think Wizards will replint old sets. Wizards rarely reprints old stuff, as they do have a sense of collectibility, I think.
Plus, they come out with a basicy set every 3-4 stets that has more basic pieces, just like the first few sets did. They are even coming out with a new wilderness expansion to take the place of set #4.
I do hope to see a more desert, ship (I know the bonus one came out, wish I could get it) and otehr sets rather than all undergrouns, but so far I ahve bought most sets, aside from teh newest basicy set.
Plus, they come out with a basicy set every 3-4 stets that has more basic pieces, just like the first few sets did. They are even coming out with a new wilderness expansion to take the place of set #4.
I do hope to see a more desert, ship (I know the bonus one came out, wish I could get it) and otehr sets rather than all undergrouns, but so far I ahve bought most sets, aside from teh newest basicy set.
Really? It's been like that with all Dungeon Tile Sets that I have. IIRC, the Caves of Carnage (?) example even required three sets.
Thanee
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For investment puposes? Trying to sell them off before WotC decides to reprint the old ones?
Nope, just for myself.
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Thanee
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