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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 14, 2013 12:24:12 GMT -5
I like the suggestions above by Efilion, and I am really enjoying the videos. You could, if you wanted, do a separate video with your players where they related their past gaming experiences, their opinions on playing using the tiles versus other methods, and their opinions on gridless vs gridded. It would be interesting to get your players perspectives on it.
Anyhow please keep up the video series. You'd be surprised at how educational they can be. I know you've said before that watching them is "not your cup of tea", I believe, but at least for me I am gleaning a myriad of techniques for my DMing from watching your interactions at the table. I have done this with several other DM's as well, and feel that it helps a DM to grow, just as much as when they are players and pick up ideas from their DMs, if not more so.
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 14, 2013 12:15:50 GMT -5
Very nice work!
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 14, 2013 12:11:26 GMT -5
Very nice work! I just finished a batch of them myself. Need to order some of the spearmen next. A few pics of mine: I also picked up this baddy off of ebay. I can't wait to see the faces of my players when I plop him down on the table. Brown pants moment for sure, hehe: I just love Glabrezu's, probably my favorite Tanna'ri.
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 14, 2013 9:10:40 GMT -5
And lastly:
(Sorry If I should have sammiched them together...please feel free to do so)
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 14, 2013 9:09:25 GMT -5
or for those Sept-Octofiles (70's-80's kids):
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 14, 2013 9:01:54 GMT -5
Or if you prefer:
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 14, 2013 8:58:27 GMT -5
Have to change it to "He's Crafty", but it still fits...
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 13, 2013 23:52:50 GMT -5
Some of these you may have answered at some point but I have been on a youtube bender since getting back into playing a couple months back and can't remember if you did or not... (Who am I kidding, my memory was going to crap way before that...)
Along with the great questions suggested above, which had many of the ones I was curious about, I have the following:
*What prompted you to start making these types of tiles in particular? *What triggered this epiphany? *What other types did you try before settling on this method? *What do you do with adventure specific tiles after you have used them? *What's your storage method for your tiles? *What initially made you think to go gridless? *Buckeyes or Wolverines? *Bengals or Browns? *Reds or Indians? *Bluejackets or Red Wings? *Decaf or Regular?
And (because we all know that DMG wants to know) Who does your hair!?!?
Lastly, Why no cats in your videos? (Seems to be the cool thing that every D&D vid has to have a cat in it, even DMG's cat has his own crafting technique vid now)
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 12, 2013 23:14:02 GMT -5
Loving the gritty feel of your minis Neil. Absolutely awesome! I massively updated the number of minis I have available by purchasing the Castle Ravenloft and Legend of Drizzt board games. The are the same as the WotC minis except they are unpainted. I paid $76 bucks and got 82 minis, as well as some tiles (gridded but they are usable), and some playable board games that can be used to introduce people to gaming. Less than $1.00 per mini! Hard to beat that! Next on the list is the Wrath of Ashardalon board game and another 42 minis, and hopefully by then the Reaper Bones that are waiting in the wings will be released for public consumption, lol.... I forsee lots of painting and tile construction in my future, hehe.... Thanks for the complement I need to check out that series of games, seems you can't beat the price for the minis - I have heard mixed reviews on the actual games. Can those games be played solo? Yup from what I am reading they can be, though I have yet to play them though. The arrived today and my son had homework tonight so I have to wait for a night without homework to have him play along with me. Reviews I have seen say that the Drizzt one is closest to 4e play but the Ravenloft one has the best "adventures" for gameplay. IMO they are worth picking up for the minis alone, if the gameplay is good then that is a bonus;)
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 12, 2013 21:51:51 GMT -5
18 of the 2 inch high pillars, but we get what you mean. All great ideas and ways to make them. Another, if you need HUGE pillars is just to pain up some tp rolls after gluing them to some card stock or board, depending on the effect you are going for
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 12, 2013 21:19:16 GMT -5
Loving the gritty feel of your minis Neil. Absolutely awesome!
I massively updated the number of minis I have available by purchasing the Castle Ravenloft and Legend of Drizzt board games. The are the same as the WotC minis except they are unpainted. I paid $76 bucks and got 82 minis, as well as some tiles (gridded but they are usable), and some playable board games that can be used to introduce people to gaming. Less than $1.00 per mini! Hard to beat that! Next on the list is the Wrath of Ashardalon board game and another 42 minis, and hopefully by then the Reaper Bones that are waiting in the wings will be released for public consumption, lol....
I forsee lots of painting and tile construction in my future, hehe....
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 12, 2013 21:08:52 GMT -5
Awesome! Where did you get the sword you used?
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 12, 2013 10:06:55 GMT -5
hehe. well... I aint setting up a Carebear story. I like it more medievil style. gory monsters and magic. hehe I ran a carebear group once bunch of sissy paladins and cleric do-gooders, made me sick to my stomach so I sucked them into a portal that transported them to the Abyss. Things got real fun after that
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 11, 2013 13:58:29 GMT -5
Very nice!!
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 10, 2013 1:09:04 GMT -5
Nice! I'll have to wait til the weekends over to check my local one again. There's an event going on here in town and I'm gonna do my best to try and avoid going out like it's the bubonic plague....
Can't wait to see what you do with Thor
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 10, 2013 0:15:55 GMT -5
Google+ works really well too. If you look below these threads in the "Shoutbox" there are some tips and suggestions people have tossed out on ways to do it. You may have to scroll up a bit but it is there and uite useful. (Used it myself) Hehehe Good luck and looking forward to seeing your tiles
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 10, 2013 0:13:06 GMT -5
All great ideas, most I did not think of and will work on them. Working on the shrink ray myself, maybe we should compare notes, it would be easier to have models to game with I thought about changing the the encounter but the monsters in the first box set for dragon age is very limited and having flying creatures attack the pcs on a log over a 100foot chasm is hard to pass up. I will post my progress. Thanks Bill How about changing them to giant bats? The dollar stores are starting to put out some of their Halloween stock and several different sets have bats that might suit your needs. There are some that look really good and some not so much though. But as I said they might be worth looking into. They also have dinosaur type plastic toys that have pterandons and pteradactyls in stock pretty much all year round. With a little paint and elbow grease they can look great. Anyhow, just a couple other options for ya
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 9, 2013 2:35:55 GMT -5
My group surprised me once again. Even being down two players ( I normally have 7) they did very well... They handled the "drunken crazy cat lady" through some very excellent roleplay and skill checks which was seriously impressive to witness. Their roleplay skills are starting to blossom quite well. They then moved on to the puzzle portion of the adventure where their ability to think outside the box was once again awesome to witness. There was only one small bit of combat the entire night, and I didn't have a single player lose any interest. It was ....*falsetto*.... Awe--some!!!
Unfortunately we now have a two week downtime due to some schedule conflicts, but it does give me some time to paint up the monster minis I ordered and get a few more tiles done. Can't wait to get back to the action as they left off chasing a possibly thief down into the sewers under Absalom.
Just as a bit of background, my group currently consists of Franken Furhter the dwarven cleric, Grolsch the human barbarian, Rythian the elven ranger, LiSin the halfling monk, Zendrel the elven wizard, Caelynn the gnome oracle and her snow leopard Morganna (she is deaf and relies on her cat for perception-- one of the coolest concepts I have seen played), and Mhaeryska the tiefling rogue sorceress. They are quite the fun group and I can't wait to see where their adventures take them.
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 13:19:49 GMT -5
Now I need to go back and find your doors tutorial as I noticed in ep2 that your doors appear to be hinged, which I don't recall from the first time I watched the door crafting vid. those are very cool. Are they ones you crafted, DMScotty? And if so can you do a tutorial and show us how you did them? or perhaps some close up pics? They are the old Mage Knight doors. You can find them for sale online. I do a vid where I spruce them up a bit. Sweet! Those are pretty awesome. I'll give it a go at finding a few. Thanks!
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 12:54:46 GMT -5
I love Games Workshops products, but I have one problem with them....They are so damned expensive. If I sat damn and totaled up what I have spent on my 40k armies over the past half decade I'd probably die from shock. I can recall a specific day where I dropped nearly $900.00 on GW product to get an army off the ground. In one day!!! *facepalm* What was I thinking? I'm lucky the wife didn't kill me....
As an aside, onne the Reaper Bones go live (the newest ones) later this month (I hope)... I'll likely be on the wifes K.O.S.(kill on sight) list. I will likely be spending so much on new minis that I will need to be put in protective custody, lol....
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 11:47:20 GMT -5
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 11:09:24 GMT -5
Looks fantastic! Looking at the tiles, I think I played that adventure one time as a one shot! It was a fun adventure filled with nausea (troglodytes and their stench), shocker lizards, albino alligators, flaming skeletons, giant spiders and rescuing a Pathfinder bard.... What's not to like? LOL
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 10:38:34 GMT -5
Thanks
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 10:37:48 GMT -5
Now I need to go back and find your doors tutorial as I noticed in ep2 that your doors appear to be hinged, which I don't recall from the first time I watched the door crafting vid. those are very cool. Are they ones you crafted, DMScotty? And if so can you do a tutorial and show us how you did them? or perhaps some close up pics?
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 10:33:57 GMT -5
Tiles look great. I really like the numerous DMG inspired furnishings. The dock is also very cool and I like how you used the blue cloth for water...nice! Thanks! When I had it set up for gameplay I elevated the warehouse and the docks so they were about 10 'in-game feet' above the water. And thank you all for the kind words... Here's a little synopsis of the warehouse part: In the adventure, the party is sent by a Scarzni (think Mafia) to retrieve a crate from this old, dilapidated warehouse full of confiscated goods. When they arrived, the more law abiding characters decided to wait outside on the dock. The rest of the group entered and had to face off with some critters. Afterward, the members inside started searching the crates. The elf ranger allowed himself to become distracted (failed his perception check) and missed noticing that the floor, all around the plank on which the chest they were looking for was precariously perched, was rotted out. He fell through the floor and into the chilly water below. Hearing the splash, the characters that had waited outside commandeered the boat and rowed it under the warehouse to rescue the soaked elf ranger. There they cleverly decided to have the group above knock the chest down to them below. Luckily the combined might and skills of the human barbarian and dwarven cleric managed to catch the falling chest after the elven evoker used his force missiles to destroy the plank it sat on. All in all the group did well working together, playing to their strengths and most importantly having fun.
Tonight I get to run them through the rest of the adventure, where they match wits with a drunken, crazy and exploitive cat hoarder, a puzzling test from an Osirion ambassador, and a confrontation with a rival group. Should be fun, even though I'm gonna most likely have to be using a gridded city street flip map for one of the encounters. I was wanted to create some housing exteriors to represent a back alley but I sadly wasn't able to get started on them.... Edit: Ohh....just had an idea... I do have some sewer tiles finished that I can use. Just gonna have to do some tweaks to the written adventure and utilize those. *rubs hands together menacingly*
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 0:52:35 GMT -5
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 8, 2013 0:35:13 GMT -5
I bet the players eyes popped out when you laid out these beautiful tiles instead of the boring mat. How did they like gridless? Hehe, yes they did. Most of the core players in my group are guys I gamed with back in the 90's and early 00's in 2nd edition and the early parts of 3rd edition. We never used grids back then, so it was more of a shock using grids when we got back to gaming together after over a decade of hiatus. The two newest, and youngest members of our group are my son and my nephew. They were the catalyst of our groups return to gaming. I had picked up the Pathfinder Beginners Box and spent a month relearning how to DM while teaching them how to play. They were the two who had to make the biggest adjustments after I started using the tiles without grids, but it wasn't much of a challenge for them. Currently, I have two more sets that I have already begun work on. One is for the Pathfinder Society adventure To Delve the Dungeon Deep and the other is for the module Crypt of the Everflame. After that I plan on putting together a couple of themed, DMG style, generic sets (Dungeon, Cave, Ice, Sewer, Lava, and Underdark) and perhaps a couple of outdoor accent pieces (forest, swamp, snow, desert). I figure that will keep me busy, (as if I needed it, I am also painting and building up my collection of monster minis for use in my games. Those paper ones work but are not as cool as having 3d minis on the table.)
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 7, 2013 22:08:46 GMT -5
Cool. Nicely made!
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 7, 2013 14:18:41 GMT -5
Thanks moorecowbell138 and bloodchoke!
The long carpet is a piece of cardstock, cut to size and then painted. Same with the ones under the bed and couch. The rolled one is a piece of regular white printer paper cut to size, painted, rolled from one corner and then glued onto a cardstock mini tile with the summoning circle painted onto it to give the look of a partially hidden summoning circle ( Those darn devil dealing Chelaxians!).
The bed spread (and sheet) piece was also pretty easily done. I took a "fancy paper napkin, cut it to size, soaked it in a mix of "Elmers" white glue and water. I then squeezed out the excess and arranged it to look like a tussled blanket and let it dry completely. I then painted it up. Pretty simple.
Hope that sheds some light on how those parts were done. I am still working on some parts for it: a mirror, a dresser, secret door panels, books for the book cases, a "pleasure/pain" wall rack (this particular Chelaxian ambassador is a bit of an interesting lady, to say the least, lol) I'll post up pics when I finish.
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 7, 2013 12:28:08 GMT -5
That is seriously awesome work on all accounts. I love how you use a table riser as well. I am trying to figure out how I want to do one as my game group continues to grow and we are running out of room for everything on the table itself.
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