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Post by captainneatoman on Jul 26, 2013 18:05:14 GMT -5
Hello crafty friends!
I'm brand new to the forum. I've been practicing DMScotty's method for a few months now on a limited basis, and now I am finally in the process of building an entire adventure for my group using 2.5D tiles. Thanks DMScotty for all your awesome suggestions.
There is, however, one thing I have not seen either in the YouTube videos or here on the forums. (I've only spent about ten minutes searching, so forgive me if this has already been covered somewhere.)
I need my heroes to enter a room in a tower and discover that the room itself has been transmuted into living flesh. I mean, everything in it has grown skin and tentacles and is writhing around and is disgusting. I watched DMScotty's recent "slime pool" video and thought I could adapt similar techniques and just apply them to the entire tile, but I'm just wondering if anyone else has done something like this or has any ideas for how I can gross it up.
Thanks guys! Very glad to know you all.
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luciano
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Post by luciano on Jul 26, 2013 21:35:30 GMT -5
Hey Captainneatoman, welcome!
"I need my heroes to enter a room in a tower and discover that the room itself has been transmuted into living flesh." hahahaha Fantastic and a bit masochist! Your players will get the hairs standing!
Surely DM Scotty will have an idea for your room, he is the "Hot glue gun Wizard"! I've seen him do slime, animal fur, straw, debris, tentacles, all using the hot glue gun! I think your room will be another project for him!
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Post by captainneatoman on Jul 26, 2013 22:07:29 GMT -5
Thanks luciano! I'm glad you like the idea. It's a Lovecraft-inspired àdventure and I'm hoping for a pretty visceral reaction from the players.
I'd love to see DMScotty or really anyone with some cool ideas tackle this one, as I'm still new at this and haven't learned all the tricks yet.
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Post by AJ on Jul 26, 2013 22:47:48 GMT -5
As many know, I am a big fan of using plasticine for on the fly objects and creatures that I need to make during the game.. and one advantage is that the material is squishy.. I would go to town with a glue gun and use lots of little strips of leather, bits of string, glue/paper tentacles and bits of hair to cover all the surfaces and make patches of dangerous terrain, also, I would make hundreds of little 'guts and organs' pieces of plasticine, along with little maggots and eye balls and mouths and such, that get squished and stuck to the miniatures as they move around.. this would give a great sense of how disgusting it all is to the characters, as they get covered in glop, blood, bile and puss. Plus, you can easily loop plasticine strings around the miniatures to show them entangled and throttled by the living entrails and tentacles at various points in the encounter.
Great idea, I was thinking of doing something like this, based on the Wandering Tower (a huge, fully grown mimic monster that takes the form of a building the victims enter, it can be found on pages 114-116 of 'Monster Vault : Threats to the Nentir Vale' by WoTC), its a very lethal critter though, when you combine entangling tendrils, acid attacks, noxious air and getting slammed all over the place, its very hard for the group to survive.
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Post by captainneatoman on Jul 26, 2013 23:06:04 GMT -5
Hey AJ! Those are great ideas. I'll probably use most of them. (Though I can't use the one about sticking things to the figures. One of my players is seriously into the figures and would probably have a heart attack if I threatened her meticulous paint jobs.)
I have never used plasticine. Where can one buy it? Is it expensive?
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Post by AJ on Jul 27, 2013 1:01:04 GMT -5
Its not expensive, just go to any craft store, anywhere that sells art supplies for kids, and you can pick it up fairly cheap.. remember, this stuff lasts a long, long time, as long as you don't roll it around in dirt and lint all the time. Plasticine is just oil and wax, basically, and aside from how hard/smooth/oily it is, one type is pretty much like any other, so buying cheap, multi-colour flat packs of it is a good option, don't worry about mixing colours together, it all ends up grey or green eventually (after years of use).
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Post by thedmg on Jul 27, 2013 8:16:01 GMT -5
I am envisioning something with chicken skins, oh wait that's dinner... You could create some white glue "skins" by letting white glue dry on celophane wrap and peeling it off...
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Post by dm1scotty on Jul 27, 2013 9:01:29 GMT -5
I was about to make a living (alive) room for AJ's Crypt, stay tuned to the Craft!
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Post by AJ on Jul 27, 2013 9:08:39 GMT -5
OOoooo! Is it going to be full of hideously experimented on corpses and crawling horrors that shall bend and bedevil the minds of mortal folk? *holds breath in anticipation*
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Post by thedmg on Jul 27, 2013 9:22:05 GMT -5
OOoooo! Is it going to be full of hideously experimented on corpses and crawling horrors that shall bend and bedevil the minds of mortal folk? *holds breath in anticipation* You're making me hungry...
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Post by captainneatoman on Jul 27, 2013 10:44:32 GMT -5
Thanks for all the awesome responses guys! Scotty, I can't wait to see what you do for AJ's living room. (You're right, that phrase is confusing now.)
And thedmg - that's a really interesting idea about the glue. I'm going to do a test run on that soon.
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luciano
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Post by luciano on Jul 27, 2013 11:03:40 GMT -5
Hey DMG and AJ,
I'm scared of you guys! Very afraid! hahaha :-)
Scotty, a few more days of anxiety waiting to see this room!!!
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Post by thedmg on Jul 27, 2013 18:12:40 GMT -5
As a player I always carry a vile of flesh eating bacteria for circumstances just like this... take that living room... and you living couch!
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Post by skunkape on Jul 31, 2013 14:20:09 GMT -5
A friend of mine who GMed a while ago had a living room, yes it was true in both senses of the word. The furniture was alive and would attack anyone who entered the room. Of course, it waited until you were comfortable.
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Post by captainneatoman on Jul 31, 2013 14:39:34 GMT -5
Ah, so you couldn't tell anything was wrong by looking?
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Post by skunkape on Jul 31, 2013 14:56:52 GMT -5
Correct!
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Post by captainneatoman on Aug 19, 2013 15:41:54 GMT -5
Hey guys- Just wanted to show you a couple of WIP photos of this room. I went ahead and tried thedmg's idea about using white glue and plastic wrap to create a skin-like film. I think it's looking pretty good. Those bubbles were an unintended side affect of the process but I think they're only helping me. Sorry I don't have step-by-step documentation, but what I did here was texture-paint the tile, then smear the texture while it was still wet using a brush that had some dark green on it. This obscured the "stone" look a little bit. Then I sponged on some darker green. I used that same dark green to highlight the edges of the walls. Next, I used the hot glue gun to create pools of some kind of gunk in all the corners - right now those pools are still black. Haven't decided what else to hit them with yet. I then drew tendrils out from pools in a veiny pattern all over the tile. Some of those tendrils I painted dark green, some black, and others got this lighter color I can only describe as "puke green." The black and dark green ones don't show in the photo very well, but they're easy to see in person. After that, I laid of large panel of the "skin" I'd created over everything (or as much as it would cover). FYI, I did separate the dried glue from the plastic wrap before using. You have to let it dry for a long time and then peel very carefully to make that happen. After the "skin" was down, I laid more veiny tendrils over it and these I have painted the dull red color you see in the photos. I'm still far from done. I'll probably try to add some hair and maybe build some living furniture to complement the room. The story is, the room was a library before it was transmuted into living flesh. There is a magical object that the heroes must reach at the far end of the room from where the door is. So they'll have to walk past all these disgusting hazards, as well as a few of those tentacle monsters that DMScotty showed us how to make from paper towels. (Awesome idea, btw Scotty.) I'm kinda making this up as I go, which has been a winning strategy for me so far. Any other ideas you guys have for additions are still welcome. Thanks!
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 19, 2013 18:21:30 GMT -5
Ooooohhh me likey!!!!!
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Post by arrakis on Aug 19, 2013 22:08:10 GMT -5
Very nice! Kudos for going with a Lovecraftian theme! Its not easy to create that kind of dread and gloom. I tried once and my PCs just turned it into another Monty python quote-a-thon. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. I've learned a lot since then though. Maybe I'll revisit that soon. Your 'living room' is really inspiring!
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Post by captainneatoman on Aug 19, 2013 22:44:50 GMT -5
Thanks arrakis!
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure my players will react similarly, but it's worth a shot right?
Actually, it's probably going to be a year or so before we actually play this one. My group is only able to meet once a month and we rotate DMs. Several people are slotted before my next turn. Still, I'm hoping the extra time to work on tiles helps me set the all-important mood.
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Post by bloodchoke on Sept 26, 2013 21:56:16 GMT -5
Man, I'm glad I found this thread. My players are really gonna regret getting into that Far Realm tainted watchtower.
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Post by boricg on Oct 30, 2013 19:11:06 GMT -5
Hey guys- Just wanted to show you a couple of WIP photos of this room. Wait...where are the pics? Did I miss them?
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