***SPOILERS***: The Eye of Avarice (Rise of the Runelords)
Nov 29, 2013 17:47:07 GMT
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Post by miltonmurphy on Nov 29, 2013 17:47:07 GMT
I'm running the Rise of the Runelords adventure path for my group and we're about to get to the Boss fight at the end which is in a nether region between the material world and Leng. About a year or so ago I decided I needed something more exciting than just a flat map for the final battle which is a multi-tiered structure in a cavern 100 ft above boiling lava. Had I known about the 2.5-D method, this would have looked different, but in any case this is what I came up with.
The throne, runewell, and pillars are sculpted out of air dry clay (with the obvious exception of the red gems which were pilfered from my daughter's craft hoard. You will notice that there is a grid but this wasn't something I specifically did. I snapped the graphic from the book, increased the image size so that it was one-inch squares, mounted on foam board and then proceeded to cut it up to make the levels. I used the description in the book to figure out where the tiers should be (the round entry point is at the 100 ft level.) It was here that I learned that spray pain melted styrofoam
since the supporting structure for the round entry platform is styrofoam but since it's not really visible no worries (n any case it enhanced the stone look.) The stairs themselves are out of the foam stuff that one uses in flower arranging (which doesn't react to spray paint by the way.) The stairs and paint jobs are something I would have done differently having seen the DMC and DMGI vids.
And now, without further ado, my Eye of Avarice set.
The throne, runewell, and pillars are sculpted out of air dry clay (with the obvious exception of the red gems which were pilfered from my daughter's craft hoard. You will notice that there is a grid but this wasn't something I specifically did. I snapped the graphic from the book, increased the image size so that it was one-inch squares, mounted on foam board and then proceeded to cut it up to make the levels. I used the description in the book to figure out where the tiers should be (the round entry point is at the 100 ft level.) It was here that I learned that spray pain melted styrofoam
since the supporting structure for the round entry platform is styrofoam but since it's not really visible no worries (n any case it enhanced the stone look.) The stairs themselves are out of the foam stuff that one uses in flower arranging (which doesn't react to spray paint by the way.) The stairs and paint jobs are something I would have done differently having seen the DMC and DMGI vids.And now, without further ado, my Eye of Avarice set.
Cheers!
Cheers!