To anyone who uses miniatures....

[King_Stannis]

I found a VERY cool company called WorldWorks recently. They produce a line of cardstock dungeon, castle and village products, with more on the way. I bought the castle set a few weeks ago and it is sweeeet. In fact, I just used it in our game this past week - having our PC's relieve a seige of a castle.

A few days ago I got the village set ("Villageworks"), and I am blown away by how good this stuff is. It's realistic and modular, with a bunch of extra goodies thrown in.

If any of you build cardstock buildings, castles or even dungeons (as a low cost alternative to "Dwarven Forge"), check this guy out.....

http://www.worldworksgames.com/villageworks.html

 

[Mark]

Thanks for the heads up, KS. I hope your family is well. Did you happen to take any pics of your game with these babies in action?

 

[King_Stannis]

Thanks for the heads up, KS. I hope your family is well. Did you happen to take any pics of your game with these babies in action?

Hey there Mark! The family is doing great, thanks for asking. My son is 4 and my daughter is nearly 1 1/2 - if you can believe it (how time flies!).

Hope all is well with you, my friend, too.

Unfortunately, I do not have a real good digital camera - otherwise I would have. Funny, but my wife (who plays with us once the kiddies are to bed) said the same thing about taking a picture - I guess great minds think alike, eh! I built a siege tower out of balsa wood, and everything ended up looking real sweet. I put every miniature I had, plus a TON of cardstock minis out, and it looked like quite an epic battle.

 

[King_Stannis]

one little *bump*

 

[Sinistar]

I have these as well. I have not had the chance for a large scale battle as you describe, but I like having them in the background for a village setting.

One thing I sometimes do is just place the front facing of the buildings (before I fold them) towards the players on my DM screen. This is typically the Inn or General Store. Something that they are in a lot, but that we don't need to mark off. This gives a little visual reference without having to put together the whole building when I am not having a fight there.

Though I am addicted to the Dwarven Forge stuff as well. Just not enough money...

 

[herald]

WOW!

 

[Tom Cashel]

Cardstock?!? Pfft.

My collection of Dwarven Forge goodies would crush that whole village in a heartbeat.

 

[La Bete]

Cardstock?!? Pfft.

My collection of Dwarven Forge goodies would crush that whole village in a heartbeat.

this (quite valid) view popped up when the wordworks guy announced dungeonworks on this board - in fact he said that if he had the cash he would buy DF stuff as well....

... and then the thread degerated into an argument over whether the cost of printing out these models on cardstock was worth it (colour ink, etc). Poor guy got a robust introduction to the boards.

However, I think that this stuff is great - want another X, print it out. brill.

apparently some of these guys think its pretty good too.

 

[King_Stannis]

Cardstock?!? Pfft.

My collection of Dwarven Forge goodies would crush that whole village in a heartbeat.

Dwarven forge is making entire houses now? Cool! - second mortgage here I come!

Seriously, I have a ton of Dwarven Forge and it is great. But as I tried to not so subtley point out, the Castleworks and Villageworks can easily coexist with the DF stuff.

 

[Ds Da Man]

You Da Man, KS. Thanks for the link!!!