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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 5991902" data-attributes="member: 6669384">I'm a big fan of props in tabletop gaming.  I like to set the scene with something more three dimensional than lines drawn on a battle mat.A bag of green lichen from the hobby shop provides years worth of use as brush or woods, and if I want to create a campsite scene I can just scatter the stuff in a semi-random circular pattern, and wherever it lands, that's where it is.I have some cast resin stone walls, maybe half an inch high, in varying lengths that see a lot of duty.  They mark the edge of a road, playing the part of low stone walls that line a farmer's field.  The work out of scale, to mark castle walls, or the routes through a city.Over the years I've collected some Doric/Ionic columns from the aquarium section of the pet store.  A few of those can do wonders for the mood at the table.  On their sides or flat, they're ancient ruins.  Standing in neat rows they're the courtyard of a castle.WOTC came out with some downloadable buildings a few years back, then republished them in an on-paper format sold in game shops.  The originals are still available on line, if you know where to look.  <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fpm/archive" target="_blank">Foldup Paper Models: Compiled Archive</a> has quite a few.  You just print out the pages on a color printer, glue to some cardboard, then cut and fold on the lines and voila, buildings!  And with a little creative re-engineering, you can make many of them fold flat for storage and transport.I stopped using things like that a while back though.  I find that I don't want anything too specialized, and I really don't want anything that keeps the players (or me) from seeing figures on the table.  I don't want the props to become the scene or the story, but rather I want them to fuel the imaginations of the players while giving them a common framework.  For this reason, less is more, but once in a while, the bigger stuff is just what you want.  Any tricks you guys use, scenery wise?</blockquote>

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