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Post by tauster on Jul 3, 2015 17:19:36 GMT
I had awesome'd the original post a week ago already, but I've been going through the pics again to absorb all the details and realized only now what you did with the castle... Your fog of war solution is pure, unadulterated genius!   Also, the more I look at your town 'terrain maps', the more I love the idea. This is ideal for a campaign's homebase where the party returns from the dungeon to heal, restock and sell the loot. Whenever the party is in town and the DM puts the map tile on the table, they will assume that just about anytime some action might start. Which is ideal for keeping the suspense high. the longer nothing happens while the DM still moves the pins, the more they will be expecting trouble. And while it's much too much work to make these mini 3D maps for cities that are visited only once or very rarely, I wonder if we can go a modular approach with this. I'm thinking city tiles with streets that meet the sides and corners at defined spaces so they can be combined any way, similar to modular dungeon tiles. I can almost see a new, large project looming on my to do list's horizon... But let's discuss this in another thread, if someone else likes the idea. Don't want to hijack this thead. |
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Post by j on Jul 4, 2015 6:46:53 GMT
You are right are target with the minimaps. I use them only for strong story cities, typically hub-and-spoke campaigns. My players really like the variety of scale, but I can tell the "home city" map really gets them immersed. Being able to go from 1:1, 10:1, and theater of the mind in a session really gets my group going. There is a joke that my players want to get duplicate minis of their characters, cut their heads off and glue them to map pins for better representation.
I also allow the players to add houses to the map if they want that sort of thing. I have added more houses to add to the effect the city growing, or worse, ripping houses off to represent disaster. I did one where I tore the houses off, painted the foundations as if they were razed (15 of the 20 on the map), to represent the orc invasion that happened when the PCs were away. They got really ticked at me, since they grew attached to the map as their own hometown. I let the players poke holes into the maps and plant the flags as they wish.
I am envisioning almost a simcity-like modular set of tiles as you described.
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Post by voodoo on Nov 9, 2015 8:50:39 GMT
Soooo my friend asked if I could run this starter module for his kids so I started to craft cragmaw and wanted the levels more pronounced. After about two hours I had to stop cuz it's 1:50 am. I'm very impressed with your work here because you put in a ton of work (or it looks like you did anyway.) Hope I can finish cragmaw this week. uuggg! I need more time...Karma for you.
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Post by adamsouza on Nov 9, 2015 13:37:15 GMT
I ran this adventure a few months back. Your tiles are great. I instantly recognized everything. Kind of wish I had seen this thread back then, it would have given all sorts of ideas.
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Post by DMScotty on Nov 10, 2015 1:39:41 GMT
Really nice showing of traditional 2.5D as well as some fantastic smaller scaled 3D maps...nice work.
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Post by kgstanley81 on Nov 10, 2015 2:39:23 GMT
wow, just now seeing this, your castle is wicked awesome, and the little maps are wicked cool, as far as modular i would go with magnets on the houses and a metal board, the 2/1 map have you tought about 15mm figures, there is a huge selection now
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Post by skunkape on Nov 11, 2015 16:21:00 GMT
Great looking terrain pieces!
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Post by ogrestamp on Nov 14, 2015 7:05:07 GMT
Just now seeing this thread. Amazing map making abilities. I have several towns that I would love doing this to. I would be ticked as well if I saw some of those houses razed. The people on my list: 1) the orcs who razed the town and 2) the DM who let them  |
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Post by tiamat on Nov 19, 2015 22:07:17 GMT
I really like your ver. of cragmaw castle ,very cool...
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Post by Adgetech on Nov 20, 2015 13:25:49 GMT
Great Work! Really like the 10:1 town tile.
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Post by milojaggerson on Nov 20, 2015 15:56:41 GMT
Really like the 10:1 scale map for the town. This may be an excellent idea of the area maps of Barovia - may "borrow" this for the castle's outlying area!
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Post by ttop on Sept 20, 2016 18:17:31 GMT
I love what you did here with the Redbrand hideout. I’m hoping you’ll be willing to answer a few questions for me.
* How did you do the tops of the walls and particularly the rock top area in the middle? (e.g. the texture and/or paint)
* How about the crevasse?
* Is this double-thick and is that because of the depth in the crevasse? I’m a little hesitant to use double-thick with its reputation for being difficult-to-cut.
* Is your floor base just Scotty-style texture paint?
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Post by j on Sept 20, 2016 20:34:19 GMT
I love what you did here with the Redbrand hideout. I’m hoping you’ll be willing to answer a few questions for me. * How did you do the tops of the walls and particularly the rock top area in the middle? (e.g. the texture and/or paint) * How about the crevasse? * Is this double-thick and is that because of the depth in the crevasse? I’m a little hesitant to use double-thick with its reputation for being difficult-to-cut. * Is your floor base just Scotty-style texture paint? Hey thanks. I will try to do my best: 1 - I think I just made a ball of tin foil then put some hot glue on it in spots. Then I rolled it on the top layer to make some texture. I probably added some extra with a ball-point pen. 2 - That is just black paint over the stone spray paint. 3 - I think it was 2 layers of single thick cardboard, then a layer of cheapo foam board, then the upper walls are foam board strips. 4 - Yea, thats all Scotty's method. Best of luck, it is a great module. |
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Post by ttop on Sept 20, 2016 20:45:05 GMT
3 - I think it was 2 layers of single thick cardboard, then a layer of cheapo foam board, then the upper walls are foam board strips. Oh interesting, so the foam board layer -- is that the floor layer then (that is texture painted)? Or the rock layer on top of it? Curious about your rationale for using the foam board here. |
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Post by SpielMeisterKev! on Sept 20, 2016 21:28:35 GMT
Howdy, Dude! Thanks for bumping this thread... I owe j about 9 more karma for this! Kev! |
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Post by j on Sept 21, 2016 0:44:24 GMT
3 - I think it was 2 layers of single thick cardboard, then a layer of cheapo foam board, then the upper walls are foam board strips. Oh interesting, so the foam board layer -- is that the floor layer then (that is texture painted)? Or the rock layer on top of it? Curious about your rationale for using the foam board here. I think in it went: cardboard (bottom, not seen), cardboard (crevasse), cardboard (stone floor), foam (textured with foil for thick stone where the Nothic was, then outer level of foam for brickwork. All was quickly brushed in glue prior to spray paint. I remember that area standing up 1 layer higher than all others, just for interest. |
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Post by ttop on Sept 21, 2016 1:26:30 GMT
Great, thanks for the clarification. What is the advantage to using the foam rather than cardboard? I presume you peeled a layer of paper off it?
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Post by darkpath on Sept 21, 2016 2:09:19 GMT
Glad to see that small scale is most certainly doable in a Dm situation, was tinkering with the idea but wasn't fully sure on how I would do it, now i'm enlightened, GG!
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Post by j on Sept 21, 2016 5:22:27 GMT
Great, thanks for the clarification. What is the advantage to using the foam rather than cardboard? I presume you peeled a layer of paper off it? Ya you got it. Paper off, picked up the texture I wanted. I tend to use foam on the surface of scotty's 2.5d, probably for its ease of cutting/shaping. You can create fast bevels with a boxcutter to blend in to what its being glued to pretty easy as well. |
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Post by ttop on Sept 23, 2016 13:34:29 GMT
How do you avoid melting the foamcore when you spray paint a black base coat?
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Cheers!