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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 5, 2015 17:54:12 GMT
awesome stuff...
but why is it always gold and gold...
come on, platinum are worth much more !!!
and silver is not so bad either.
those looks amasing. you just gave me quite an idea for a diorama.
gotta love dragons.
if anything else to say, its about your photos...
over exposition is not better then under exposition.
tell yourself that too much light ruins the pictures as much as too few lights does.
often we see the content, but there is too much lights in your photos. the focus i can understand its hard to get it right with todays cameras.
but the flash if any was used... i've seen people over expose their photos way too much with that.
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Post by lordbryon on Jun 5, 2015 18:54:58 GMT
Every time I see Ms. Forscale I think. I have that model somewhere but I can't ever seem to find it. I love the Treasure Golems. Great use of some nifty looking toys.
Should hit some of the toys with static grass and do a topiary creature. Or just some interesting non Earthly topiary scenery.
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Post by tauster on Jun 5, 2015 21:03:13 GMT
DnDPaladin: You're right with the pics. I had a simple cheap digital camera when I made the dragon hoard pics. When it broke, I switched to the smartphone's camera - which is more or less equally good, or bad if you will. If I use the flash, I often have too much light. Without flash it gets blurry but the colors are nearer to what they look in real life... I don't take these shots for artistic reasons but simply to show and illustrate, to get something across without having to write whole pages of descriptions. Typing all that stuff is already taking up much time (which draws on my crafting time budget, which in turn draws on the daily 24 hrs where family, job and other things compete with each other), so I try to limit the time I need for taking the pictures. I have always wanted to be a better photographer but that never made it high enough on my to-do list, and probably won't in the next months. In short: While I try to advance the quality of my pics, I don't expect substantial advanced anytime soon.  lordbryon: I can't even tell you why I chose Lady Forscale. The name came from the iconic miniature 'Sir Forscale' that Reaper used in their Bones I kickstarter newsletter. I guess I simply grabbed the mini of a human that I had at hand on the table at that time. Let me tell you that I don't even like the mini itself: The figure isn't well-sculpted, it's totally bent backwards, I don't like the paint job,... but in time it has grown a bit to my heart. The gormity are totally great. There are dozens (yes, plural) of awesome minis in that series, each of the five element has it's own miniature run. I hunted down a box full last september, but use them only rarely for conversions. Some of them are so cool that I will probably only base and repaint them (the paint jobs are not really their strongest point...), but even basing isn't really necessary because most are sculpted so that they stand quite stable.
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Post by curufin on Jun 5, 2015 23:05:58 GMT
Some of the treasure piles look eerily like the ones I use in my game now |
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Jun 6, 2015 2:02:35 GMT
Howdy, in time it has grown a bit to my heart. Archfiends #30 Dark Moon Monk FTW! Kev! |
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Post by teazia on Jun 6, 2015 2:43:31 GMT
Dwarves turn to stone when they die. Interesting idea!
Would elves turn into wood (or trees)?
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 6, 2015 4:43:23 GMT
Teazia... in warcraft lore, elves are spirits that materialised into the world.
thats what i like about fantasy, its whatever you want.
still in warcraft, gnomes and dwarves both were creatures of rocks and earths. they were basically called earthens.
but they eventually over the evolution of the race became flesh and blood and now the gods calls it the curse of flesh.
thats why i loved warcraft a lot. it has one of the richest lore ever made.
JRR tolkien did a great job too with middle earht and its lore. not just the LOTR and hobbit stuff.
thats why crafting is so wide open, cause you could see one thing and make a completely different thing with it. simply have it has a background a lor to go along.
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Post by tauster on Jun 26, 2015 16:51:53 GMT
I always wondered why dnd's Colossal Red Dragon mini sells for 100€ and more, while nobody cares for the Gargantuan Black Dragon mini. So I got myself a cheap Black (less than 6 €, plus the same amount for shipping). The plan is, you'll guess, to repaint it into a Red. *rubs hands*  |
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Post by Wyrmsword on Jun 26, 2015 17:14:18 GMT
I always wondered why dnd's Colossal Red Dragon mini sells for 100€ and more, while nobody cares for the Gargantuan Black Dragon mini. So I got myself a cheap Black (less than 6 €, plus the same amount for shipping). The plan is, you'll guess, to repaint it into a Red. *rubs hands* I worked for a hobby wholesaler/distributor when these came out. I can tell you this: the Colossal Red Dragon is about 2-3 times bigger than the Gargantuan Black Dragon. It's also a LOT rarer since there were only a couple in a case. In terms of sales, we sold more Black Dragons over Red at about 40 to 2. (10 cases to 1). |
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Post by tauster on Jun 26, 2015 18:32:03 GMT
2-3 times bigger?!¿!?  Wow. I hadn't known that. Thanks for the head-up! It never occured to me to search for a side by side comparison:.  ...yep, the Red is a teensy weensy bit bigger. That's what I would call overkill, in the truest sense of the word. *evil DM snigger* The difference between 'gargatual' & 'colossal' might have been a giveaway, but since I never played 3E, I don't think in these categories. But honestly, for my purposes the size of the Black is totally sufficient. |
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 26, 2015 18:48:55 GMT
gargantuan is 4x4, colosal is 6x6 in size.
the scale goes like this... 1x1,2x2,3x3,4x4,6x6
there is no 5 inch by 5 inch.
also... red dragons are the equivalent of gold dragons. gold dragons are considered the biggest and strongest of all the metallic dragons, the red dragon is considered the same for chromatic dragons. hence why they are much more epic and the icons in the role playing community. that may also be why they are less in demands. red dragons are a rare breed if you ask me. same for gold dragons.
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Post by halloweenville on Jun 28, 2015 14:33:40 GMT
Craftastic!
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Post by sgtslag on Jun 29, 2015 21:50:47 GMT
Someone mentioned that they used a different type of glitter for making treasure piles. Regular glitter is quite coarse, and there was a differnt, finer type, which was recommended. Anybody remember details on that?...
By the way, Platinum is an oddity in D&D: it was not discovered until the 16th century. From Wikipedia:
European discovery
The first European reference to platinum appears in 1557 in the writings of the Italian humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger as a description of an unknown noble metal found between Darién and Mexico, "which no fire nor any Spanish artifice has yet been able to liquefy".[40] From their first encounters with Platinum, the Spanish generally saw the metal a kind of impurity in gold, and it was treated as such. It was often simply thrown away, and there was an official decree forbidding the adulteration of gold with platinum impurities.
I dropped it from my games, as it doesn't make sense to me, to have it in a euro-medieval-based fantasy realm. YMMV, your world, your rules. Still, it really strikes me as an odd thing to put into a quasi-euro-medieval fantasy game -- one more thing I would have liked to have asked EGG about, but I never met the man, sadly. Cheers!
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jun 30, 2015 19:21:43 GMT
slag, the keyword is fantasy.
platinum im fine with... electrum is a lie though.
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Post by tauster on Jul 1, 2015 19:15:48 GMT
personally, I'm fine with whatever makes sense. if a group wants to keep it as simple as possible and is OK with just finding piles of goldpieces because they want to concentrate on other things, fine. Personally, I regularly add some strange monetary treasures to the loot my players find. Goldpiece-wise, I'm very generous with this stuff, but they really have to earn it. Example: They slayed a shadow dragon whose hoard was worth an amount of X, plus several borrower's notes that are worth an additional 10% of the total hoard. of course they can't simply cash that in. They have to find the person and do some talking (roleplay opportunity!) and then see if the debth can be cashed in at all. At least that's the theory - my players were too much focused on the main plot and several sidetreks I threw their way, so these obligation notes were either ignored or sold for a fraction of their nominal worth to a merchant they're on good terms with. I've also added totally unknown coins to the loot where all they could assess was the metal's worth (if they were even able to identify the metal), just to ad a little spice. We're in a fantasy world, so why not adding a few bars of pure unholy baatorian greensteel? The dwarven smith can make a nice demonslayer axe. In short: Simple or over the top - do whatever floats your boat. |
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Post by lordbryon on Jul 1, 2015 20:19:30 GMT
I once made the mistake of sending a party of adventurers to reclaim a silver mine from enemy forces. They were successful in retaking the mine. But instead of quickly returning to the lord that gave them the mission they decided to spend enough time mining to get 10 wagon loads of silver ore. They then went the other direction with their haul and dispatched a messenger to the quest giving lord to let him know the mine was now his. They became outlaws in that kingdom for the remainder of the game. really messed up my story arch.
So now I'm kind of stingy with the monetary rewards given. I'd much rather give them magic equipment rather than bags of gold. I try to limit the money that is given out to copper, silver, and gold. Like Sgt. Slag I think platinum and electrum are strange. I also enjoy giving out gems and art objects because that creates good roleplay situations when the PC's try to trade the goods for coin.
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jul 3, 2015 16:41:20 GMT
silver is nt a problem, gold mines are.
but to be honest thats what i like about 5E... money is useless now.
they may end up billionnaire but wonder what they will do with it. there is basically no gold sink in 5e.
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Post by tauster on Jul 30, 2015 20:35:59 GMT
That black dragon has been waiting, patiently, over a month, in it's box.  No more.  Unboxed.  There's a nice large game map of an mushroom-filled cavern in the box that's useful for any underdark encounter.  Plus, some wires and plastic bits that will go into the crafting materials box. They will come in handy in future projects. Waste not, want not. I need to basepaint it before getting on with the real paints. Since this will take a lot of color, I'm using an old pot that I got cheap and don't use for anything else. The main thing is to get the plastic covered.  I could leave it half-painted and name it Two-face draco or somesuch. Just saying...   Completely based. I'll let it dry for a 24 hours and continue tomorrow. My gut feeling is that, apart from the wings, this will be quite easy: A nice base color, then some dark red/brown or sepia/black washing. And I'm toying with the idea of adding some bronce drybrushing... |
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Post by DnDPaladin on Jul 30, 2015 23:03:12 GMT
such a waste to paint over an already great dragon looking figure if you ask me.
but for now, it looks great, can't wait to see it all finished.
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Post by sgtslag on Jul 31, 2015 17:27:52 GMT
I have a soft-spot for Black Dragons. I have to say, though, I don't care for the sculpting on this figure -- the size, "Yes", the sculpting/posing, "No". I cringed a bit when I read you were going to paint it up as a Red Dragon, but I have to say it looks impressive, already. Looking forward to its completed transformation. Be sure to seal the paint with something hefty, like urethane, or Pledge With Future Shine (floor polish), guard it against rubbing off. Regular acrylic paints will not adhere to the plastic like whatever paints they used at the factory.
I have to say, I am glad to see someone else re-painting a pre-painted dragon figure. I was beginning to think I was all alone in that regard. The toy dragons from Papo, Schleich, et al, are easy to re-paint, and a fraction of the cost of gaming mini's; typically, a toy dragon figure costs $15-$20, and the repaint costs a couple of dollars in paints and sealants, so they're amazingly affordable, compared to most gaming mini's. Cheers!
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Cheers!