Curse of Strahd (Spoilers)

[vwilliams32407]

I started CoS a while ago but decided recently to post some pic's of our campaign. I introduced the Keepers of the Feather to them as they left Barovia and crossed the Ivils River. I presented several swarms of ravens to them which they smartly did not attack and then had a wereraven give them some Barovian lore.

[vwilliams32407]

Here’s my map for the Vistani camp. Lot’s of drinking by the Vistani and PC’s before going to Madam Eva’s tent for their reading. Apparently a horse had too much to drink also!

[vwilliams32407]

Having departed the Vistani camp there were a couple of random encounters on the road. The first was an attack by some dire wolves. I only own two dire wolf minis so I had to make some cardboard versions. The second one came after they made camp. A lone skeletal warrior on a skeletal horse came clopping down the road. They stayed their hands and let him pass by unharmed. Due to the flat nature of paper minis you can't see the rider on the horse!

[vwilliams32407]

Next it was on to old bone grinder and the night hag coven. As you can see the windmill breaks down by floor. I printed the actual interiors from the module to scale to fit inside the model and it worked pretty well. Since the party entered through both the first floor and third floor at the same time I had to have all three levels in play at the same time.

[vwilliams32407]

Upon reaching Vallaki we used printed maps from the adventure with no 3D terrain. I didn’t get any pictures of them however, I did anticipate a fight in the town square and built a map for that. The party was trying to rescue a party member from being locked up in the stockades when they were ambushed by the town’s militia and Izek the enforcer.

[skunkape]

Great looking terrain as usual!

[tauster]

I absolutely love the paper terrain aesthetic. Wow...

Where are those trees from?

[edit 1] sorry in advance for the any hijacking; I'll keep it short.

I just did a quick search for fold-up trees that didn't bring anything useful, but it just occurred to me that thin strips of styrofoam, cut with the thermocut (stuck together in the middle to form a cross/'X' similar to the ones in the OP's pictures) might make great trees. A quick paint bob Ross-like paint job to get some color on them and you're done.

I won't have time for that in the next days, but has anybody else done trees that way before?

[edit 2]

It works.

[sgtslag]

vwilliams32407 , very impressive work!!! I, too, am a paper building fan, though I switched to using 3mm cardboard, with full-sheet label printouts, over a year ago.  I apply the label paper, then cut out the cardboard.  I did find it necessary to glue in square dowels, to prevent warping over time, but it's not very difficult, nor expensive.  Are you printing on 110# cardstock, or something heavier?  My 110# cardstock creations would not stand up to moderate use on the tabletop, so I had to find something more durable.

I have that river...  I love it!  I printed mine on 20# paper, then I applied those to peel-n-stick vinyl floor tile pieces.  That prevents them from flying when a breeze hits them!  The vinyl tends to curve, in storage, but I just flex them back into shape, and put them down on the tabletop.  Works superbly.

tauster , I use cake decorating trees, mostly. The paper trees with shelves in the foliage for mini's to stand on, are very tempting, though. Cheers!

[tauster]

Oct 23, 2018 18:46:11 GMT sgtslag said:

tauster , I use cake decorating trees, mostly. The paper trees with shelves in the foliage for mini's to stand on, are very tempting, though. Cheers!

Those shelves are pure genius. I cobbled a foam prototype together but without those shelves. I don't think I could paint them so well that they blend in the vertical prints, but I will probably try to see if I can come up with something. Thanks again for the inspiration, all!

[margaret]

Love the idea of printing the module interiors to fit your windmill!

[vwilliams32407]

Oct 23, 2018 17:47:02 GMT tauster said:

I absolutely love the paper terrain aesthetic. Wow...

Where are those trees from?

I think I got them on Cardboard Warrior forums.

[shoobidoobie12]

Oct 24, 2018 3:29:11 GMT vwilliams32407 said:

Oct 23, 2018 17:47:02 GMT tauster said:

I absolutely love the paper terrain aesthetic. Wow...

Where are those trees from?

I think I got them on Cardboard Warrior forums.

sadly the tree files don't exist anymore. I found it papermau.blogspot.com/2016/01/medieval-bridge-some-pines-and-froggys.html
but the deviant art account is gone. So the link is also dead. You are one of the few people who have it now, could you upload it for us?

*edit* Its okay now, I managed to find a low res version off of pintrest and used an a A.I image enhancer to upscale it. very useful trick

imgur.com/a/l13OWsM

[margaret]

Thanks for sharing - the trees look great! Always happy to see new alternatives. Although for me, I think it might be faster to make trees from skewers and green scrub pads... Still, all paper props instead of a mix of paper props and stuff props is probably visually more comfortable for a lot of people.

[shoobidoobie12]

Anyone passing through know which product is the cliff blocks that the bonegrinder is sitting on? Currently building alot of papercraft stuff and I hope to one day match this great crafter.

[margaret]

Fat Dragon Games has something similar, but not the large, multi-unit plateau. If the OP got his trees from the Cardboard Warriors forum, it's likely that the ground terrain also came from there - either a freely-offered post or one of the Kickstarters.

Could take forever to search that forum for posts that are at least 4 years old and very likely older...

Hope that someone who has that terrain will see your question and provide a more focused answer.

Update: the windmill and the bridge are from Fat Dragon games, so the hills quite probably are too, although I didn't see anything exactly like what the OP used.

www.fatdragongames.com/fdgfiles/3d-paper-terrain/