sotf
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Post by sotf on Aug 9, 2014 3:02:46 GMT
Figured I'd start with a basic introduction.
I've played D&D since near the end of 2nd Edition, and ended up slowly getting most of the DM duties for different things, largely because I'm one of the few willing to do so...though at the moment, the players still have a lot of power over chunks of it and are rather set in their ways with preferences...as shown by times where they pretty much walked out on a few things I've tried. The first being an attempt to upgrade from Spycraft to the 2.0 version shortly after the second version came out, and the second being the try for gridless.
Considering that a good portion of the books we use are still in a library type setup the local gamestore has thanks to the guy who used to DM being a former employee during his high school and college years before his graduation and ROTC enlistment came up, well, the group has a vote on who's running it because the place has a group requirement for running games and they outnumber me there...
A lot of the cardboard tiles, however, work well for more short term specialties mixed with a lot of specific locales, though I'm still largely using a far simpler method of a double run on the printer rather than painting the base...the second run being to add a grid to keep them from walking out, and a few of them are willing to run it, and have from time to time, but would rather play while I like more of the world building angle...but that's the major break with the situation there.
However, I'm also a wargamer with a lot of smaller projects that I've thrown together from time to time there, so a lot of my larger projects are more of a double duty situation there.
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Post by Jason on Aug 9, 2014 3:14:35 GMT
Welcome! I look forward to seeing some of the stuff you have designed and made.
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Post by Cyan Wisp on Aug 9, 2014 3:32:20 GMT
Always nice to get fresh perspectives. Welcome to the fold!
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Post by DMScotty on Aug 9, 2014 3:32:26 GMT
Glad you found us.
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sotf
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Post by sotf on Aug 9, 2014 3:52:11 GMT
I do have a lot of my most recently completed stuff...mainly for the Ronin minis game on a blog, though it's been a few months since I put anything up on it, and somehow trying to organize tags on it moved at least one post out of order... Miniature MayhemBut since the most recent campaign I did was largely a Japanese mythology Oriental Adventures one, a lot of them worked well there at the same time as they can remain as pieces for skirmishes. Most of the tiles I've used are largely cardstock run through the printer for the basic textures from a print and a second time to grid them and then just cut them out. Haven't had any real problems with that, and the nice thing with the 2.5 D ones is that they work well to add buildings to a lot of things by keeping the walls distinct enough there without restricting anything. I think part of the problem with my group moving away from grids is a combination of the things available in the stockpile at the store that have grids already on them, and that half the group are engineers who have the ease and precision part of it, and that the previous DM's egg timer utilization for people to take their actions (something that can be paused for rules issues, or even with someone actually trying to do something more in character...
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Post by Jason on Aug 9, 2014 4:01:32 GMT
I do have a lot of my most recently completed stuff...mainly for the Ronin minis game on a blog, though it's been a few months since I put anything up on it, and somehow trying to organize tags on it moved at least one post out of order... Miniature MayhemBut since the most recent campaign I did was largely a Japanese mythology Oriental Adventures one, a lot of them worked well there at the same time as they can remain as pieces for skirmishes. Most of the tiles I've used are largely cardstock run through the printer for the basic textures from a print and a second time to grid them and then just cut them out. Haven't had any real problems with that, and the nice thing with the 2.5 D ones is that they work well to add buildings to a lot of things by keeping the walls distinct enough there without restricting anything. I think part of the problem with my group moving away from grids is a combination of the things available in the stockpile at the store that have grids already on them, and that half the group are engineers who have the ease and precision part of it, and that the previous DM's egg timer utilization for people to take their actions (something that can be paused for rules issues, or even with someone actually trying to do something more in character... It is always nice to see fantasy terrain that is not Western/European inspired. Your stuff looks really nice, and you captured the setting wonderfully. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Post by sotf on Aug 9, 2014 4:07:06 GMT
I do have a lot of my most recently completed stuff...mainly for the Ronin minis game on a blog, though it's been a few months since I put anything up on it, and somehow trying to organize tags on it moved at least one post out of order... Miniature MayhemBut since the most recent campaign I did was largely a Japanese mythology Oriental Adventures one, a lot of them worked well there at the same time as they can remain as pieces for skirmishes. Most of the tiles I've used are largely cardstock run through the printer for the basic textures from a print and a second time to grid them and then just cut them out. Haven't had any real problems with that, and the nice thing with the 2.5 D ones is that they work well to add buildings to a lot of things by keeping the walls distinct enough there without restricting anything. I think part of the problem with my group moving away from grids is a combination of the things available in the stockpile at the store that have grids already on them, and that half the group are engineers who have the ease and precision part of it, and that the previous DM's egg timer utilization for people to take their actions (something that can be paused for rules issues, or even with someone actually trying to do something more in character... It is always nice to see fantasy terrain that is not Western/European inspired. Your stuff looks really nice, and you captured the setting wonderfully. Thank you so much for sharing. The best part with a skirmish game is that you can take your time with a few minis that really need the attention such as armored Samurai and similar because you only need a few...rather than needing to rush if you ever want to complete an army in most minis games...and skirmish games also allow a rather good variety of things.
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Post by skunkape on Aug 11, 2014 14:31:40 GMT
Nice looking terrain pieces there! Welcome to the forums!
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