Trog's Terrains, Crafts, Stuffs and Things.

[Troglodytarum in machina]

Campfire.

So I finally got my thumb out and started working on something that isn't a mini.
I havent built anything like this before. But it was a fairly easy to make piece, and I'm pleased with the end result.

I just pulled apart a tea-light, hotglued pebbles around the LED bulb.
Covered the electronics by gluing broken toothpicks in a pile on top.
Flocked with sand, painted, and finally built the flame up with hotglue (in retrospect I could have used the original "flame").

EDIT: I forgot to mention I put a small rim of greenstuff, to cover a small gap at the bottom.
We cant have the campfire hoover above the ground.

[deafnala]

That really is a BEAUTIFUL effect. VERY WELL DONE!

[skunkape]

Good job! I think it makes a great looking campfire.

[Troglodytarum in machina]

Carpets.

I'm no expert at editing images, nor do I have photoshop or such.
But piddling around with windows paint, I grabbed some images from somewhere on the internet, sized and grouped them.
Then I printed them and used a gluestick to adhere them to some cerealbox cardstock.
Some cutting later I had some passable carpets to cozy up them dungeons real nice.

I'm sure one can do better with better images/programs and resolutions and whatnot.
And printing them directly on cardsock saves a step.

But here they are none the less.

[margaret]

Hmmm. Somehow I don't think of oriental carpets for my adventures - maybe I need to find an adventure that includes a formal reception room =)

[SpielMeisterKev!]

Howdy,

Sept 1, 2017 16:34:57 GMT Troglodytarum in machina said:

Carpets.

More EXALT,
Kev!

[sgtslag]

Brilliant, and well executed... Nice touch, most often overlooked! Rugs have been around for thousands of years, yet we tend to forget about them. Nice work. Thanks for sharing, and inspiring!

Oh, and the fire pit is superb, too.  Cheers!

[sotf]

Sept 1, 2017 16:34:57 GMT Troglodytarum in machina said:

Carpets.

I'm no expert at editing images, nor do I have photoshop or such.
But piddling around with windows paint, I grabbed some images from somewhere on the internet, sized and grouped them.
Then I printed them and used a gluestick to adhere them to some cerealbox cardstock.
Some cutting later I had some passable carpets to cozy up them dungeons real nice.

I'm sure one can do better with better images/programs and resolutions and whatnot.
And printing them directly on cardsock saves a step.

But here they are none the less.

You might consider using some of the thin cardstock and have a mirrored version for the rectangular ones so you get both sides. Possibly also with the rounds...or print them side by side on normal, printer paper with the mirrored ones and glue them together while folded.

It would let you have rolled up carpets (For storage, sale, or transport), or even ones hanging for display if you wanted to do something like a carpet vendor at a bazaar.

Another thing with the mirrored ones folded together you could add a few layers of heavy aluminum foil sandwiched between them and you would have a very workable flying carpet for use.

[Troglodytarum in machina]

Sept 3, 2017 3:01:58 GMT sotf said:

You might consider using some of the thin cardstock and have a mirrored version for the rectangular ones so you get both sides. Possibly also with the rounds...or print them side by side on normal, printer paper with the mirrored ones and glue them together while folded.

It would let you have rolled up carpets (For storage, sale, or transport), or even ones hanging for display if you wanted to do something like a carpet vendor at a bazaar.

Another thing with the mirrored ones folded together you could add a few layers of heavy aluminum foil sandwiched between them and you would have a very workable flying carpet for use.

Very good ideas!
And painting them dirty and cut them ragged should be simple enough aswell.
To use in a delapitated manor or somesuch.

[guppy]

Knowing my players if I put something like that in a dungeon the adventure would now be about thread count and finding new dungeons to loot their carpets for their thriving carpet selling business. ymmv

[Troglodytarum in machina]

Hehe well I guess I use the term "dungeon" quite loosely.
For lacking a good term for "place where plot and adventure happends"
I doubt you would find nice carpets in an orc infested hole in the ground.

But I made these up to use in a creepy old abandoned temple structure.
Specifically in the priests living quarters.
So they would not be a humourous, out of place thing, like they would in a troll's cave.

And yes, the carpets I would imagine does indeed hold a market value, if they are in a nice enough shape.
With me being the stingy kind of DM that refuses to dole out massive piles of gold and jewels.
Hauling stuff like this back to town is quite common, borderline expected, at my table

Other forms of "treasure" my players tend to come across are spices, books, barrels of good wine.
Pelts and parts of monsters and animals, etc.
Instead of having the troll keep a pile of (to it) useless gold coins inside a chest.
It has blood, wich is a valuable ingredient in healing potions, kept insinde...Well itself.

So on and so forth.
It's a thing I employ to try and avoid cash overflow for the PC's.

[sotf]

Sept 4, 2017 12:59:29 GMT Troglodytarum in machina said:

Hehe well I guess I use the term "dungeon" quite loosely.
For lacking a good term for "place where plot and adventure happends"
I doubt you would find nice carpets in an orc infested hole in the ground.

But I made these up to use in a creepy old abandoned temple structure.
Specifically in the priests living quarters.
So they would not be a humourous, out of place thing, like they would in a troll's cave.

And yes, the carpets I would imagine does indeed hold a market value, if they are in a nice enough shape.
With me being the stingy kind of DM that refuses to dole out massive piles of gold and jewels.
Hauling stuff like this back to town is quite common, borderline expected, at my table

Other forms of "treasure" my players tend to come across are spices, books, barrels of good wine.
Pelts and parts of monsters and animals, etc.
Instead of having the troll keep a pile of (to it) useless gold coins inside a chest.
It has blood, wich is a valuable ingredient in healing potions, kept insinde...Well itself.

So on and so forth.
It's a thing I employ to try and avoid cash overflow for the PC's.

Part of the thing with the massive piles of stuff is that you can create additional adventures off of how they get gold out of the various things you can dig up