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Post by dmzook123 on Feb 3, 2013 18:31:16 GMT -5
Thanks for all the inspiration and tips DM Scotty!
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Post by traxzwolf on Feb 3, 2013 19:31:42 GMT -5
Awesome Job!! Looks Fantastic!!
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Post by unclebilly on Feb 3, 2013 20:50:23 GMT -5
Love that big tree. A break down on how you made it would be great. Also I can see it now. OK kids this is your homework for this week. Everyone take a little piece of this dungeon and craft me a map out of it ahahha JK
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Post by hideousprime on Feb 3, 2013 21:03:58 GMT -5
Did you film with an Ipad. If you did turn it horizontal and it will show up in the whole screen
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Post by hideousprime on Feb 9, 2013 20:23:34 GMT -5
your Boards look great!!
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Post by lichlord1983 on Mar 3, 2013 20:50:07 GMT -5
cool idea, also a cool way to multipurpose/re-purpose wargaming tables for those of us that play warhammer and the like
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Post by argiope on Mar 16, 2013 10:31:10 GMT -5
Those boards are awesome...I was wondering about the logistics of moving them on game night. Do you all play at your house or do you have to transport the boards to another house? I play at my friend's house and I am finding it a problem to transport all my tiles, figures and materials to the game. Especially if you do not know exactly what direction the players are going to go that night.
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Post by althalusredeemed on Mar 16, 2013 13:32:57 GMT -5
Looks really awesome!
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Post by dmzook123 on Mar 17, 2013 22:08:24 GMT -5
Thanks for the compliment, argiope.
That is a good question. Let me first say I have a pickup truck. I do take everything over to a friend's house. Our group agrees he has the nicest house! I do pack the truck full. The guys are nice and help unload/load. But most importantly our host is patient as it all does take a little time.
I do measure all my boards to make sure they'll fit in the bed of the truck. I imagine with cardboard tiles it'd be handy to keep them all sized to fit and travel in a banker's file box. I also was in the art store and thought one of those giant zippered poster/canvas carrying bags would be handy.
As for the DM issue, I would love to give everyone a true sandbox game. However, I'd say my level of modeling and this goal don't match up for me now. One, I don't have enough set pieces for a whole world (I'm lucky to stay two encounters ahead). Two, we'd have to play at my house where I'd have access to all the set pieces (maybe our second house will be big enough?).
I believe the pen and paper only format is far superior for the true sandbox game. You can go anywhere, anytime, no holds barred. But with nothing to look at, and I do have a good imagination, I get bored. I need my little people going pew-pew!
Now, I have only been a DM a handful of times. My rule knowledge was admittedly limited and, while not railroading everyone, there was pretty much only one way through the level 1 module. I wasn't dazzling my PCs with a bevy of possibilities. I felt they would key in on this fact and I would disappoint them. But here's what I did learn: smoothly running a simple combat was still fun and the set pieces were so cool I was granted much leeway. While not giving tons of plot choices to the PCs, I made sure to consciously give them some.
For example, the PCs needed to find three ingredients for a cure. The ingredients were scattered throughout the woods. I only had one set piece built, so off they went on an out and back because I only told them about one ingredient (the NPC was having trouble deciphering the recipe; wink-wink, nudge-nudge). But next time I did have the other two set pieces built, so the PCs got to choose to visit site A or site B first.
Although I did not have the most realistic "sandbox" game approach, it was such a treat to play on realistic game boards that to my PCs, well, all was forgiven. I guess it just comes down to where you want your realism.
I hope that helps. Thanks for reading.
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Post by zelgadiss on Jul 18, 2013 11:11:44 GMT -5
Dryer lint may be used in conjunction with plaster of paris to make some cool, weird, and wonderful set designs but it is messy to begin with but it can look awesome when mastered.... I guess this calls for a video and new thread? Doesn't it?
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Post by luciano on Jul 18, 2013 14:40:27 GMT -5
Dude, the whole set looks fantastic!
I love the visual appeal of the cropped trees! The texture of the floor was made of sand (I guess not I heard)?
Enjoyed the watercourse with the water elemental! :-)
The marsh was very good! The logs in the water was great!
I also enjoy these loose pieces you showed love loose pieces!
One set pretty big guy and a wonderful job! Congratulations!
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Post by caveman on Jul 23, 2013 17:02:00 GMT -5
Those big tiles looked really cool! I don't know if the module you were playing called for a Colorado-style forest or not, but it sure looked like one to me (even if you hadn't used the big pieces of bark). The colors, the spacing, the textures... it looked like something you'd see if you got to hiking in the canyons around Golden, or for that matter, pretty much anywhere on the Front Range. A-plus for realism!
I really wanted to see more of the burned-out orphanage until you brought out the "wow-item," which of course was the elder tree. That thing looked totally bad ass. I thought the tinkertoy pieces in the limbs were the bomb. What an excellent idea as a way to get players up in the trees. Plus, the tree itself looked very realistic. I too would like to have a bit of a breakdown on how you made it (especially the bark).
Back to the orphanage: Man, I'd just like to see a few photos of that thing. It looked pretty cool and I wanted a 360 of it at least.
The anthills looked great too... I haven't watched all of DMScotty's vids -- is there one that tells how to do that? Yours looked kind of spookily real and I wanted some more pictures of them too.
All in all, your tiles and props demonstrate that you've got some serious modeling skills and I really enjoyed your video. Thanks for posting!
(Follow up: Ah. I just watched your elderwood demo video. Questions answered. Thanks again! (Also, great idea with coffee grinder and the dollar store moss. I'll be repurposing some kitchen appliances real soon...))
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Post by skunkape on Jul 25, 2013 7:31:30 GMT -5
Some great looking boards!
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