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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Balesir" data-source="post: 6184786" data-attributes="member: 27160">3D action is quite tricky, but I do find it is essential for a really good "cinematic" fantasy feel. The tools I have tried (and some I still use) are:- Dungeon tiles and wooden blocks. Handicraft stores are a real godsend, here; I picked up a load of one inch square wooden blocks really cheap, and these combine with Jenga blocks (which are exactly 3 inches long and 1 inch wide by about 2/3 of an inch deep) to give me elevations to balconies, escarpments, elevated "stages" and so on. I even elevated the entire floorplan of one encounter except for a huge pit in the middle that was filled with zombies ("bag o'zombies" from the Zombies boardgame for the win!).- Glass cubes, again from a handicraft store, work well for flying/climbing creatures. Stacking them doesn't work so well, but one cube to show they are "airborne" plus a small die adjacent with the upper face showing altitude works OK.- We have made various attempts at making "flying sticks" out of a dowel or metal rod stuck to a square base with a platform on a movable peg or grip sliding up and down the rod. These could potentially be great, but we haven't found or been able to make one that's really robust enough. If you have a really skilled metalworker and woodworker you might be able to make this work, but it's not a straightforward undertaking.- For smaller pits I generally just use dungeon tiles. There are several good 'pit' types in my collection. If you are drawing on a battlemat, a sort-of 3D perspective effect of concentric squares and some shading works fine.- In general, I keep my eyes open for anything that "could be useful". We has some little marker stakes for the garden with gargoyles on the top end; one of them broke and the "head" was a gargoyle about 3" high - it made for a fantastic "statue"! Candle holders (with lit candles) for ceremonial braziers and ornaments for religious or arcane ritual foci have also come in useful.In essence, I recommend a trip to the local handicraft store (for anything that looks useful and cheap) and maybe buying a single dungeon tile set (the recent WotC ones are particularly stiff card and double-sided, I really rate them) for raised areas.</blockquote>

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