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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 20, 2015 22:07:34 GMT
again, awesome stuff. really like the magnetised stuff. think i'll modify my own set for that and make my floor tiles magnetised as well. great cavern walls. just a small thing i was wondering about. wouldn't using a an actual rock for texturing be better then the tools ? not that your walls didn't quite get there, its actually getting there a lot. they are great. just trying to learn a bit on sculpting since i wanna start trying it. Thanks for the feedback. I used the rock there to add a little texture but wanted to have some more prominent highs and lows on the pieces. I was blown away by the texture that Scotty got on his cavern pillars (with the paper towels and TP) and agree these are not qute as sharp. The great thing about these are since I need to make more, I can experiment with some new techniques and if the new ones come out better than these, these can be relegated to the backup walls which only need to be brought out when using a massive cave complex. I might try adding some texture with TP and white glue. I also plan on casting some of the stalagmites I sculpted earlier and including them in some of the new wall pieces I will be making. I will post pix with some of the new ones if they look significantly better than the last batch.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 20, 2015 0:12:07 GMT
This video details how to make modular reusable cavern walls for Pathfinder, D&D or any other tactical table top game for that matter. The inspiration for this video was watching all of the excellent DMScotty videos on the theDMsCraft channel where he uses cardboard and hot glue to make his tiles. I wanted to do something a little different and use heavier materials that would allow users to take a base set and make an infinite number of dungeons/caverns.
This video is part 2 of 3 and covers the making of the cavern walls. The last video (creating the dungeon walls) is almost completely shot and should be coming out shortly.
If you have any feedback I would love to hear it. Also, if you have a go at making some yourself, please post links in here so we can see your work as well.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 17, 2015 12:09:13 GMT
nubaumpalemoon, I think you just wrote my next encounter. No matter what game I'm running. Use some yard-rocks to represent the boulders to hide the characters behind. The monsters at the top could be giants with boulders, gangsters with Tommy guns, of Klingons with disruptors. So many ways to play this. I am glad you liked it. The players had a blast and I am sure your players will like it as well. The one other twist that I did that I forgot to mention in the earlier thread was that the AC used for the players was their Pathfinder Touch AC (for those unfamiliar with PF this means it is just their base AC 10, plus their dexterity bonus (which might be limited by their armor). This was because in my world some chain mail was not going to help you much if a 200 pounder boulder thrown from a hill giant 60 feet above you slams into your chest. I did allow their armor to potentially absorb some of the damage but this also provided a chance that their armor would become damage as well. Good fun though!
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 17, 2015 12:00:11 GMT
This video details how to make modular reusable tiles for Pathfinder, D&D or any other tactical table top game for that matter. The inspiration for this video was watching all of the excellent DMScotty videos on the theDMsCraft channel where he uses cardboard and hot glue to make his tiles. I wanted to do something a little different and use heavier materials that would allow users to take a base set and make an infinite number of dungeons/caverns. If this sounds interesting to you, kick up your feet, sit back and watch the first video in this three video series which focuses on building the foundation for these tiles. The other two videos (creating the cavern walls and creating the dungeon walls) are almost completely shot and should be coming out shortly. If you have any feedback I would love to hear it. Also, if you have a go at making some yourself, please post links in here so we can see your work as well.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 17, 2015 2:24:51 GMT
Looking splendid!
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 16, 2015 16:55:25 GMT
I'm not sure about you guys, but I always purchase goods from a half dressed merchant over a naked one.... Well I guess that might depend on the, ahem, "Goods", that are being bartered over...
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 16, 2015 16:47:22 GMT
you need to go to videocopilot.net and watch how to remove green on your props during green screen shooting. the green around the edges of your picture and the miniature really screws the shot a lot. aside from that, your stalagmites are pretty cool. doesn'T matter if they look like metal or anything. if anything the group ended up in a weird cave full of those metal mites. my god did i just think of a monster thats called metal mites. anyway. they aren't bad at all and the metal thing wasn'T a way to tell you they aren't the right color. it was just us saying, hey we had never thought of it that way. at least thats what i had in mind. Thanks for the feedback, I will have to check that site out however... <tongue in cheek> There was no green screen used for the photo. I snapped the picture in the hollowed out cavern under my house where I have carved out great pillars and monster nasties wander about freely looking for unsuspecting adventurers to nab and eat..." </tongue in cheek> On a serious note, I am going to be making some molds and casting some additional ones. I will use different coloring schemes (I have a brown to yellow to cream to white concept I want to try) on those and post for people to see.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 14, 2015 22:30:22 GMT
Nice work. Like the use of natural materials, the table and chairs and the Gypsy wagon concept. Waiting to see them finished. Agreed on everything and especially the wagon. Made me think of Kvothe and his family in "The Name of the Wind" by Patric Rothfuss. Highly recommended for those that like fantasy literature.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 14, 2015 22:23:48 GMT
Looks good. Nice work. The stalagmite on the far left is a whopper! I decided to make some clay versions a week or so ago after watching the DMGInfos video where he made his out of aluminum foil as well. If anyone is interested you can see both tutorials here:
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 14, 2015 16:29:52 GMT
That is some fine work. I really love the face you modeled above the doorway. All of the shots were great but the final color version is ten bell!
I was also checking out Gaseous George, and was wondering if he knows all the chords... (The older geezers here may get the reference)
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 13, 2015 17:06:31 GMT
I have been away from the forums for a while again, but still DMing and working on terrain and such and have decided I would like to craft an adventure involving Giants and their kin. I am toying with the idea of building a Mountain for my players to climb up to get to the quest at hand. It will have a few levels inside it so I will have to either build it, then cut it into 3-4 layers and remove the layers as the players delve deeper into it, or just build the layers individually and then assemble them on top of each other. There will be some kind of a path encircling the mountain possibly with a small cave entrance or two along the way with the main entrance close to the top. I am thinking about a height of 3 feet would be good as far as scale goes (we play with old school Ral Partha D&D figures 18mm (I think)). We play on a 4' x 8' covered sheet of plywood on top of my pool table, so we have a large play area.
Building this is something I have never done before but I feel up to the task. I read this thread and it gave me an idea of how to start building it: dmscraft.proboards.com/thread/1534/2-5d-3d-mountains
I think the cardboard strips and wet glued paper towel is the way I would go, just in case I screw it up and then cost would be minimal. Has anyone built something similar or on this scale? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks
My Pathfinder players love to use minis and dungeon accessories as well however we just had a session where the players (8 of them in total) needed to scale a 60 foot high boulder strewn hill/mountainside to engage a Hill giant on the top who was hurtling boulders down at them. Instead of fabricating a mountainside I created a chart (much easier to do IMHO) to determine the following: 1) - Identifying the next big rock to hide behind 2) - Their chances of success of making it to that rock 3) - To see if the rock they were going to was one level (10') up the hill. To do so I had each player who was trying the scale the hill roll percentile dice. The first 10's digit indicated the size of the bolder and how much cover it would afford and the single number determined how far away the boulder was. This was calculated at 10-the rolled single number. Example, a player rolls a 87. This means that the cover afforded from the bolder ahead would be a +8 AC and the distance to the bolder was (10-7) or 3 away. The player had the option of staying put or trying to make it to the next boulder in a given round. In order to make it to the next boulder the player would roll a 10 sided dice and add his strength or dexterity modifier) whichever was higher to the roll. if he exceeded the distance (3 in our example above) he made it to the boulder which is providing +8 cover in our example. If he tried to make it and didn't succeed he was caught between boulder and considered out in the open (no cover bonus). The Hill giant then would toss a boulder at a random player (more likely targeting ones in the open) After the boulder toss the players that moved would roll a 20 sider and add their strength or constitution modifier to beat a DC 10. if they made it, they advanced 1 level up the hill (6 were needed to crest the top) Players kept track of the current boulder size (if not between boulder) and elevation using dice. It was a lot of fun. 3 players made it to the top but since 2 had been wounded severely the party needed to retreat back down the hill to regroup. That is where the last session ended.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Apr 13, 2015 16:28:41 GMT
This is top notch! Outstanding work! Thanks for sharing.
I have some plans to build a series of market stands with interchangeable tabletops and this motivates e even more to do so.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Dec 7, 2013 22:36:04 GMT
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Dec 5, 2013 17:42:40 GMT
Awesome looking paint set.
Just curious, did you select the individual pots you wanted or are those paints just one large pre packaged set?
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Dec 4, 2013 17:47:31 GMT
Real work has kept me real busy the last month or so but I have been tinkering with the printer as time allows. I have a few days off coming up and will create some molds and get onto casting the book cases in production. I just need to print off another one or two sets and get them cleaned up before making the mold.
I have been working on other dungeon accessories (including doors, beds, tables, fountains, and other items) and will post updates in the near future on these as well.
Thanks for the interest!
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Nov 19, 2013 17:38:59 GMT
I love how you made the waterfall removable. I was thinking of doing something similar where I could swap out water/acid/blood/lava/whatever in the vessel.
Looks real sharp!
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Nov 19, 2013 17:26:27 GMT
I made some homemade flock over the summer and was real happy with the way it came out. I did some flock for fall foliage as well (red/orange/yellow) and am sure purple would work quite well also.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Nov 11, 2013 17:12:53 GMT
That is one outstanding work. Awesome work man, awesome work.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Nov 9, 2013 14:11:18 GMT
Dude! These are awesome! It looks like the top comes off of the bookcases, right? How long did they take to print? What kinda cost is the printer as well as the printing materiel? Dude! These are awesome! It looks like the top comes off of the bookcases, right? How long did they take to print? Thanks. Yes, the large bookcase is actually 6 parts. The cap and the 4 shelves come off and the rest of the body is one solid piece. I created all 6 pieces at one time and it took about an hour to print everything (1 bookcase that is). What kinda cost is the printer as well as the printing materiel? Materials are very inexpensive. From what I have been reading you can get about 120 hours of build time out of a spool. A spool costs $40. Seeing as this build took about an hour, we can approximate that this used about 33 cents worth of material. Now, I must be realistic and also factor in wear and tear on the machine (price point below) when determining the cost of a build. While the materials are cheap, the printer is a little salty. The printer I purchased retails for $2,200. These will probably be like any other emerging technology where the prices will start falling dramatically in the future. My plan is to create masters and make molds of them to produce multiple copies/versions. If I would not have some other mold making ventures that I work on, I most likely would not have picked it up solely for dungeon eye candy but since I have it, I will certainly use it for that as well. As thefiend said: Awesome! I love the idea of making master moulds with this (instead of printing them all). That would be a nice combination of modern technology and 'traditional' cafting. Now in a few years when 3D printers are more common, those files can be shared among a far larger number of roleplayers... I suddenly begin to see this as something with REAL potential - so far I had always thought of 3D printing as 'still too far in the future' but your bookcase is the first example I encountered that really gives me this 'WANTWANTWANT!' feeling. Always a sure sign that a major purchase is looming somewhere in the not-so-distant future. Yes thanks for sharing they are very cool. TechShopIf you have one near you, like I do, learning to use the printers to make the 3D models would be invaluable. Plus, at $175 for a single months membership, you could make as many models as you are able to in 30-31 days' worth of time. If you make a bunch, and then sold them off, one could easily make their membership money back and still have enough freshly printed models for themselves. TechShopIf you have one near you, like I do, learning to use the printers to make the 3D models would be invaluable. Plus, at $175 for a single months membership, you could make as many models as you are able to in 30-31 days' worth of time. If you make a bunch, and then sold them off, one could easily make their membership money back and still have enough freshly printed models for themselves. The printers are pretty much fire and forget. The tricky thing is learning how to use a CAD program (as I mentioned above, I use Sketchup) to create your files to print. Love it! The scale of the books and tombs are outstanding IMO. I plan on buying a 3d printer my next paycheck. I'll be using it for more than just minis but a fair bit of use will be just that! Haha! Very nice! There's a good 3d printing/DIY repository called thingiverse, you can share your models there. www.thingiverse.comI was wondering if you could put a link up for the file to print the bookcase. We have a 3D printer at work and I might be able to get them to print me out some of these if I had your file. If not, no worries. It looks awesome BTW. I so want a 3d printer. Good looking bookshelves, I'm interested to see what they look like painted. I was wondering if you could put a link up for the file to print the bookcase. We have a 3D printer at work and I might be able to get them to print me out some of these if I had your file. If not, no worries. It looks awesome BTW. My short term plan is to make some molds from the cleaned up masters and see if there is a market for them on EBAY. The wallet is still smarting a bit from the initial outlay for the printer and I would love to be able to sell a few on there to offset the cost. I mentioned in another thread that I am also working on some snap together door frames with interchangeable doors and I will look to do the same with them once completed. I so want a 3d printer. Good looking bookshelves, I'm interested to see what they look like painted. Thanks. I am not the best painter but once I have a mold and some copies made, I will print some up and post here.
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Post by Grey Tower Games on Nov 9, 2013 14:10:33 GMT
I made a few bookcases in Google Sketchup to populate a library. My plan is to clean these up and then make silicone molds and then cast them out of resin to create a large library. Wizard for scale. I made 2 regular units and also the corner piece as well. I made the shelves separately so I can have a unique look for each shelving unit and this will make painting much easier. I also made a smaller shelving unit seen on the right. My plan is to tackle some doors and chests as the next project. Hope you enjoy.
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