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Post by steel on Dec 22, 2012 0:05:50 GMT -5
I wonder if Scotty's so good that he's found that he simply can't keep anything anymore and now has to trash stuff just to be able to make more. If he wants he can always make more
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Post by steel on Dec 21, 2012 0:01:31 GMT -5
This stuff is awesome. definitely going to use the baking soda idea if my PCs take a certain route on the campaign. Think mountaintop battles with ice trolls, frost giants, ice drakes and white dragons
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Post by steel on Dec 16, 2012 16:14:37 GMT -5
Awesome. I've got access to double ply cardboard and i'm looking for inspiration myself. Hopefully i'll have enough skill to make something myself, if not i have plenty of room to store cardboard
also. to Scotty's reply... "ba da dum"
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Post by steel on Dec 15, 2012 14:22:22 GMT -5
I made a gelatinous cube last night buy making one line of a thick string and the next line was smeared down and lower, i did that for 4 ways around and then i just accented the finishing touches with small globs here and there
I'm also making bloodied tokens that won't stuck by just smearing a little glue one both sides of my tokens, I'm just wondering what it'll do to the tiles and if it's going to be a problem
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Post by steel on Dec 11, 2012 0:52:43 GMT -5
The first thing i did when i started DMing is buy the 4e essentials Monster Vault. The ~5 pounds of heavy card stock tokens there is AWESOME. I'm going to slowly build my miniatures collection but when i have enough 4e (and possibly 5e) mechanics let me still use the tokens for guys who die really quick, such as minions
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Post by steel on Dec 9, 2012 20:40:05 GMT -5
they are but i do not see why you can't get some calipers and measure one of your own minis. American surplus has a set of calipers for $10 or so.
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Post by steel on Dec 9, 2012 16:38:14 GMT -5
I found a bag that lets me keep a small amount of minis in a portable bag. I found it at an AC moore and has 4 'craft' boxes (basically fishing lure boxes) inside a bag. The only problem with it is that there is no room for my bigger minis like my dragons or my trolls, or any number of other large creatures. Anyone have any ideas for those?
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Post by steel on Dec 7, 2012 17:00:32 GMT -5
The end of the Victorian era is when the American industrial revolution was taking place. Steel manufacturing (dwarves/equivalent) under a giant with a Scottish accent is an excellent representation of Carnegie steel. Having some single person selling lamp oil is a good representation of standard oil. Having a world's faire type of place in your campaign with lots of inventions i one place is another great setpeice, though it might be better in flavor than actual design on your tiles. Something to look at is pictures of the crystal palace (i believe the london world faire), one of the first worlds faires was inside of it, built to contain but not destroy the natural landscape and trees. There's a lot of great things from that era to pull from, which i'm going to be doing liberally in my campaign
Yes i'm pushing hard on the late victorian side
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Post by steel on Dec 5, 2012 11:09:48 GMT -5
Yeah, the small details are going to have to be theatre of the mind in my group, there's no way i'd be able to draw gears that small. However i think that building a textile mill with sewing machines that are basically a U shape with threads would make an interesting trap. The characters or monsters would be pushed into the trap and they'd take 1/2 standard damage for that level trap and be immobilized until they could break free. Man i'm getting some great ideas here
please excuse me here, a lot of this stuff I'm posing here for future adventures in my own campaign. Hope everyone finds this useful
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Post by steel on Dec 5, 2012 1:17:34 GMT -5
depends on the type of game. If i's something like warhammer, they're prity heafty, something like a 1/8th of a inch thick sometimes. if you're talking d&d compatible miniatures, think smaller than 1/16th of an inch. Again it depends on the type of mini and what you want to put on it
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Post by steel on Dec 4, 2012 23:40:24 GMT -5
don't forget the craft jewlery spot in your stores, thrift or charity. I just found some neat bloodied tokens for 4e that cost me about $1 for 10 of them, and that was before the store's 40% off. all i have to do to them is to texture them a bit with my dremmel so figs won't slide off and i'll have cheap token i won't have to paint
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Post by steel on Dec 4, 2012 1:42:06 GMT -5
if you really want weird-for-rpgs, specifically dnd, make mechanical vehicles that are used by the rich and pompously dressed. steamboats (water archons pushing the boats while in cages), railroads (a.k.a. lightning rails), huge mechanical forges in the middle of a forest because it needs wood but not iron so much, or a rare type of 'ironwood'. If you want to go industrial/labor revolution in America's history, you can use the Carnegie/homestead 'massacre' as some inspiration for some 'horror' element. A closed factory now haunted by wraiths from workers who died just trying to get a fair shake
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Post by steel on Dec 4, 2012 1:14:42 GMT -5
the ebberon campaign setting books? send me your email and i'll get you a great excerpt.
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Post by steel on Dec 3, 2012 23:39:54 GMT -5
man, you should post a how-to here, i really want to make something like this now
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Post by steel on Dec 3, 2012 23:34:55 GMT -5
First thing's first. Could you use the lightning rails from ebberon? Train battles are excellent Victorian era battles.
I'm adapting a little ebberon into my setting into the largest city, namely the lightning rails, with an enterprising dwarf who funded the creation and the eladrin who discovered how to make it. Basically i'm taking j.p morgan and edison and putting them into my campaign as NPCs who are advancing the world. Just to nod at it since i'm in love with that era
The second thing is to make a lbrary, just place a piece of cardboard about 1/2 inch wide on the squares and tell them it's a _ feet tall book case, then make the appropriate amount of 'fallen' bookcases at the 'correct' scale. Add in the librarian's desk and you're good
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Post by steel on Dec 2, 2012 12:47:26 GMT -5
Making Rails for the lightning rails in ebberon would make a great short tip, as well as various other things. Another short tips episode would be on making dessert, forest and plains based tiles. Even a dirt or cobblestone road!
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Post by steel on Dec 1, 2012 18:56:45 GMT -5
yes but the foam core at those places are more than half as thick, making it unsuitable to hold pillars. I'm having a hard enough time trying to convince myself that it's thick enough now
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Post by steel on Dec 1, 2012 0:03:46 GMT -5
for clarification, the foam core board (remember, this one is 1/2" thick, therefore MUCH more sturdy if i punch holes) is what i use to place my dungeon tiles on top of. I just started DMing so i'm still using standard dungeon tiles for now (though set piece design coming up at the end of this module would be sweet. The last two rooms are perfect to build). Therefore I'm hesitant to punch through my $10 investment. Although right now it only looks like creating a more stable base is to cut holes into it.
Eventually i want to set up a bird's eye view camera angle so i can have 2 level battles (think having a kill zone for the players, with archers up top and brutes/soldiers at the bottom) and still present a map view as if i was using tokens.
Still, if we can't figure anything out, thanks for the input anyways, and i'm glad i kept those receipts
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Post by steel on Nov 30, 2012 1:01:32 GMT -5
Being a 4e player (don't mock me! I started my group being the DM, 4e was best as a new DM... 3 months ago) i knew i had to create templates for my brand new wizard friend. instead of trying to make it out of cardboard i found some really cheap, clear, colored folders that i simply cut to length for 3x3 and 5x5 bursts. I liked having it on hand so much i used it as a base for other things. I'm using it for alchemist's fire, i'll use it for traps and to cover up areas of the map they haven't seen yet and so many other uses. not to mention they were 50 cents each and they took 10 seconds to make
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Post by steel on Nov 30, 2012 0:46:06 GMT -5
hey guys, i'm trying to build a two level (possibly 3) base that i'd be able to use several times. So far the design is using a thick ~1/2" foam core board as a base that i'd be able to craft tiles on, and on top of it i'm using inch diameter dowels around the corners and towards the middle to hold up a piece of clear plastic (cheap picture frame stuff). with this i'd be able to make large set pieces, and possible water terrain.
The goals for this is to be a very sturdy piece, (thus the 1/2" foam board and thick dowels) that i can dismantle and pack in the back of my car. So i'm open to suggestions (i have plenty of time, about 2 months before i'd need it). The main thing is a binding technique that won't be permanent, but would still be sturdy. The first idea i had was cutting into the foam but i don't have a way to punch through cleanly and large enough for the dowels
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