Map Folio 3D (merged)

[JoeGKushner]

Well for me, it's part of being a clutz. If you're even average with this sort of thing, it's not a problem. Mentally, it's not that big a deal. However, I paint minis too and I'm... fair at it (I've give myself a 6 out of 10.). I like being able to do things over again if I need to. Something I can do with a mini and some brake fluid or if the paint's not too thick, just white primer.

The chunky dungeon CD for example, had photos and step by step guides. The CD to print off unlimited say, walls, is great. Perfect for example, for those who don't have internet access.

 

[Mark]

Well for me, it's part of being a clutz. If you're even average with this sort of thing, it's not a problem. Mentally, it's not that big a deal. However, I paint minis too and I'm... fair at it (I've give myself a 6 out of 10.). I like being able to do things over again if I need to. Something I can do with a mini and some brake fluid or if the paint's not too thick, just white primer.

The chunky dungeon CD for example, had photos and step by step guides. The CD to print off unlimited say, walls, is great. Perfect for example, for those who don't have internet access.

Well, I hear what you're saying but you've got me kinda curious now. Did you actually build the Map Folio 3d models, or did you realize there were only brief instructions, get a bit frustrated, and decide it might be too much of a time waste to bother trying?

 

[JoeGKushner]

Well, I hear what you're saying but you've got me kinda curious now. Did you actually build the Map Folio 3d models, or did you realize there were only brief instructions, get a bit frustrated, and decide it might be too much of a time waste to bother trying?

Did a couple of them. Simliar to others I've done in the past. (I used to have that Warhammer set but for some reason, remember it being tiles only, not 3-D)

I've bought some of these from other companies (one that was a Keltic thing with big old square stones with runes on them. used it for the Warhammer campiang over the summer where the characters had to go to Albion), and of course, the Chunky Dungeons itself.

I've since learned to let others do the cutting!

 

[Mark]

Yeah, the cutting is more dangerous than the folding, though the scoring runs a close second.

I don't know, Joe. I just found these things very simple, and I'm no rocket sturgeon (or maybe I am!). I guess the stable/smithy took a bit of time, but the others were very straight forward.

That Warhammer one was pretty neat, and Curt will tell you how much I drooled over it when I noticed it in the Games Plus office (from the doorway, in plain site, which is to say on top of one of the many, many piles of games and such in there). It was definitely 3d but like the WotC Map Folio 3d, it has an almost "cartoony" feel to it. I guess there is a hazard in scenery that if you try to make it appear too real, it just looks fake, but if you design it to not look real, it allows people to ignore how unrealistic it might be. That was certainly also true in theatre set building.

The Chunky Dungeons look fairly cool, and if I had a cheap way to print things I might be interested in those. Honestly, though, if I had a cheap way to print things, I'd probably be prone to design my own, geared to have the feel and dark flavor of the campaigns I like to run, and specifically to look like the locations I design in towns, adventures, etc. And then I'd put them up for sale, of course!

 

[ImaniOU]

The Damn Gatehouse...

I printed out the gatehouse from the wizards website and have mounted all the pieces (including the ones that they tell you to print out twice) onto thick posterboard. Are there supposed to be no interior covers? I mean I have printed out my own sandstone-like wallpapers to paste on the other side of the walls, but seriously. And what the hell is up with all those rusted metal beams on the one page? I am trying to put it together for my boyfriend who I met through playing D&D... I knew he liked me when he mentioned how his character would turn his nose up at an eladrin (another female player in our group who was flirting with him at the time) and would gravitate more towards a dwarf (me!) and then smiled at me. I am making it as a Valentine's Day present for him.