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Post by margaret on Mar 31, 2016 17:42:55 GMT
I sure wouldn't hire on as a gardener there! Very impressive individually and more so in the massed effect.
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Post by margaret on Mar 29, 2016 23:24:24 GMT
One of the reasons players have trouble even with combat puzzles that seem simple to the DM is that they are rather busy at the moment - trying to stay alive. Extensive complex reasoning pretty much goes out the door under those conditions, unless the players are allowed a pause in the combat to focus on solutions. I would be interested to hear if the OP actually ran this scenario and, if so, how it played out.
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Post by margaret on Mar 29, 2016 1:05:46 GMT
Thank you Jennifer, but no. Partly I don't have room to store more props than I have already stockpiled materials for. And partly I don't get the chance to use it often enough to allocate more storage space. I do appreciate the offer though.
I mostly responded to Curufin because I truly think it's great that all of you are sharing your efforts and putting the files out there for anyone who can use them.
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Post by margaret on Mar 28, 2016 19:04:45 GMT
Lots of useful stuff you are providing! Even though I won't be printing anything any time soon, it's great to see all of this being shared.
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Post by margaret on Mar 28, 2016 16:30:31 GMT
What a great birthday present!
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Post by margaret on Mar 21, 2016 19:24:05 GMT
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Post by margaret on Mar 20, 2016 16:24:05 GMT
1) As others have said, keep the intro short. 2) Once you have demonstrated a step, stop the camera and finish that stage of your demo piece off-camera. Then go on to record the next step. 3) as Voodoo said, be concise. You don't have to talk throughout the entire video. It's OK to have some dead air when the focus is on what your hands are doing after you have described it.
Most of the videos I have watched on this forum are pretty good at making concise, interesting videos. But I have seen some elsewhere that make you watch an entire large piece of scenery being primed before you get to the next step.
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Post by margaret on Mar 18, 2016 4:12:04 GMT
Thanks for sharing. I probably won't make tilescape fronts, but I do like the effect of your window shutters. They definitely add more than just the door clip-ons do.
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Post by margaret on Mar 18, 2016 3:45:14 GMT
little tree fungi on a myconid - looks great!
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Post by margaret on Mar 17, 2016 17:04:07 GMT
Very nice build!. Those are called perler beads if anyone wants to pick some up for creatures or terrain.
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Post by margaret on Mar 17, 2016 5:40:24 GMT
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Post by margaret on Mar 17, 2016 5:09:18 GMT
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Post by margaret on Mar 17, 2016 4:34:26 GMT
BThomas, I know you asked for terrain, not advice. My terrain is still in the planning stages - does not exist yet. And it wouldn't necessarily be very easy to package and ship. So advice is all I have to offer. Maybe some of your students have relatives who can get you the double-corrugated boxes that large appliances like dishwashers and stoves come in. Your students can do a lot with paper models, both for troops and for terrain. There are lots of paper miniatures at this site: www.onemonk.com/dryw-gallery1.htmland links to lots of paper building models at these sites: www.ss42.com/pt-buildings.htmlwww.ghqmodels.com/pages/military/freestuff.aspPaper models can be downloaded, printed in black-and-white on regular paper, glued to cardstock such as cereal boxes with gluesticks, then cut out and assembled with gluesticks or white glue. Clothespins with springs and paperclips both make good clamps for glueing paper. The paper models may have to be printed on multiple sheets or re-sized, depending on the scale you are using. If ruins are needed, print out some buildings and cut down the walls to make ruins. You can have students use scissors, not a craft knife, to cut the cardboard and paper. You can use green pot scrubbers or cut the green-pot-scrubby part off of double-sided sponges to make hedgerows and bushes. You can use real pebbles and small stones for scatter terrain. Hills can be built from cardboard, glue, and papier-mâché as shown at: dmscraft.proboards.com/thread/98/flotsam-jetsam?page=45(scroll down the page for the papier-mâché hills)
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Post by margaret on Mar 17, 2016 1:50:00 GMT
The game they are playing now is a war game, where line-of-sight and being able to hide your troops behind things makes a difference. I suppose they could just use markers and crayons to color cardboard, but apparently they would like something a little more advanced.
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'Ello!
Mar 17, 2016 1:28:25 GMT
Post by margaret on Mar 17, 2016 1:28:25 GMT
That's a really great dice tower! Also the boss fight terrain piece - looking forward to seeing what else you do,
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Post by margaret on Mar 16, 2016 5:25:22 GMT
cardboard is free, paint is not. But you don't need a lot of different bottles, and coupons from Michaels, JoAnn, and Hobby Lobby help a lot. If your group can manage to get black and white acrylic paint, some cheap brushes, and white glue, there is a lot of terrain demonstrated on this forum that the kids could help build.
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Post by margaret on Mar 15, 2016 1:27:07 GMT
I especially like the copper bars. I would probably use sequins rather than Swarovski crystals, since I have them and they cost a lot less. But the crystals are particularly nice for a memento piece.
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Post by margaret on Mar 14, 2016 5:03:53 GMT
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Post by margaret on Mar 14, 2016 4:41:33 GMT
If you don't enjoy painting minis, then don't. There are tons of free paper minis here
onemonk.com/dryw-gallery1.html
including frost giants. They aren't as cool as your figure, but they will do the job. And there are other free paper minis out there. Then you can focus on making the cool terrain and props you have been posting.
Or just use any figures you have without painting them/
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Post by margaret on Mar 13, 2016 18:42:30 GMT
It looks good, but you might want a little more white in the skin color. I thought at first that he was wearing blue hosen. Might be more obviously skin when all the skin is painted the same.
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