Miniatures users & lovers - weep! Weep with me, fellows!

[thedungeondelver]

So a few weeks back we rebooted my AD&D game and started anew with T1-4 THE TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL. I'd used some Dwarven Forge during a brief dust up to get the party on track and used to low-level adventuring again, so I thought I'd see how much of the Moathouse dungeon level I could mock up in Dwarven Forge.

I used a program called Tile System (which works with just about any tile based game, so adapting it to let you map Dwarven Forge was a natch). I went through and edited the config file so I'd have an accurate count of how much of my Dwarven Forge I'd be able to use before I ran out.

All of it. Dammit, I have enough Dwarven Forge to map out the entire moathouse dungeon.

I was elated. For the first time I'd have an AD&D module plotted out entirely in Dwarven Forge, a full 25mm miniature gaming extravaganza (my own home-brewed ones notwithstanding)!

So I began unboxing my stuff and started building...

and that's when the crashing disappointment came.

I couldn't do it. I didn't have the physical room to do it all. In my excitement, I hadn't done the math and I hadn't measured how many 2" tiles exactly make up the dungeons. As it turns out, it's about 7' x 7', and my gaming table is 6'

Woe.

It would've been beautiful.

 

[Fenes]

Use the floor?

Or get some 7x7 board and place it on the table?

 

[darjr]

Aha! Revenge is Sweet!

Seriously, use the floor... or take this one session to a flgs that has the room. I think they would be delighted to have the spectacle.

 

[frankthedm]

yeah, pick up a big board. Or since human reach might be an issue, get 4 4'x4' boards to split up the dungeon so the players can reach their minis.

 

[thedungeondelver]

All good suggestions, but alas, alack...I have a limited space to game in; increasing the table size wouldn't work. I should've taken some pics of the entry hall and other bits I did get assembled though, just 'cause.

Maybe next time...!

(I once had the central muster room and the surrounding core of barracks of the dungeon level of G1 STEADING OF THE HILL GIANT CHIEF built out ...the story of the battle that took place there is for another time, though.)

 

[Treebore]

You have a living room? With a coffee table? Buy 3/4" 4 by 8 plywood board and set it up over the coffee table (protect the table from scratching). Its too cool not to do. Tell the wife she'll just have to live with it for a couple of weeks. Tie the kids up and throw them in the closet.

Your good to go.

 

[Teflon Billy]

I couldn't do it. I didn't have the physical room to do it all. In my excitement, I hadn't done the math and I hadn't measured how many 2" tiles exactly make up the dungeons. As it turns out, it's about 7' x 7', and my gaming table is 6'

Buy a 7.5 x 7.5 piece of plywood and lay it over your table. I priced it at home depot and it will cost about 19 bucks.

I don't you dare complain about the cost of a 19 dollar piece of plywood when you've got a volume of dwarven Forge that is most easily measured in ton[/]

 

[Gears]

Quit your whining and take a sledgehammer to the ing walls.

This thing of beauty must be made to happen.

And it must be photographed.

Please.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Quit your whining and take a sledgehammer to the ing walls.

This thing of beauty must be made to happen.

And it must be photographed.

Please.

Cogently put. As long as the walls are your own.

 

[carmachu]

If your going to spend that much on dwarven forge, you can buy yourself a bigger table....