dafrca
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Post by dafrca on Nov 12, 2021 3:42:12 GMT
I have been thinking of using some of the small wooden square dowels I have here to cut down some walls and spray paint them to somewhat match the colors in my tiles (I know they will never 100% match of course).
Has anyone tried to use wooden dowels to make their 2.5D Walls?
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Post by sgtslag on Nov 12, 2021 15:15:44 GMT
I believe I have seen a video on YouTube on this very subject. Sorry, don't remember who/when. It was basically a means to allow placement of dungeon walls, very quickly, easily, and cheaply. It didn't look bad, either. Many Dwarven Forge users have learned that they really hate the high walls, as it blocks Line of Sight (LOS) for the gamers, and I believe this was what motivated the person in the video. I built a 2.75D model of the Steading of the Hill Giant fortress/compound, with 2" tall walls ( link to photo album). It looked superb, and it was fun to play with it, but the walls really did block LOS for me and the players. This was used only a few times, so it really did not matter much. For my dungeons, I went with 2D commercial designs, printed on regular paper, and then attached to the adhesive side of vinyl floor tiles (12" square tiles, for $0.40 per square, on sale; pattern is irrelevant, as it is down on the tabletop): link to blog with photo's. I cut these into shape, once I applied the paper printouts, using a heavy-duty scissors. They work, and they can easily be flexed, as needed, to remove curves; they also stack nicely. Their down-side is their weight: they get heavy, very quickly, en masse! They look gorgeous, they make a nice layout, quickly and easily, and being 2D, they never block LOS. Truth is, I don't run dungeon crawls that often, and when I do, I just use my Chessex mat with Crayola Super-Wash Markers (can be left on for 3+ weeks, without any ghosting after cleaning). Occasionally, I will run a dungeon crawl using 2e BattleSystem Skirmish rules (2e AD&D-based mini's game with a thin veneer of RPG over the top -- combat is super-fast), and for these, I will pull out my vinyl floor tile dungeon pieces, or if I do run a dungeon crawl which they would be good for, and I want to go all out to glitz it up (rare these days). Cheers!
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Post by margaret on Nov 27, 2021 19:00:40 GMT
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Post by sgtslag on Mar 14, 2022 15:05:45 GMT
dafrca, I've seen videos of people using Jenga wooden blocks which they cut grooves into, then they painted them like dungeon walls. They are short in length, but highly modular. You can apply Wood Glue to their bare wood ends, and the wood will split before the Glue fails. Note that Wood Glue only bonds strongly to bare, unstained, unpainted wood. This would be very similar to DM Scotty's original 2.5D dungeon terrain. Cheers!
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