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Post by dm1scotty on Oct 19, 2012 14:35:51 GMT -5
You can easily make all kinds of spell templates for your games. My Fire Shaman Ogre had a Rivulet of Fire spell that shot out in a straight line from the fig and had a chance to hit anyone in the path. He could also sustain it with a minor so it could remain on the field of battle. I have a vid on spell templates coming out soon. These were easily made. I just cut wavy strips of cardboard and added texture by dragging the glue gun over the strip. Attachments:
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Post by dm1scotty on Oct 19, 2012 14:36:48 GMT -5
Here is a closer look. Attachments:
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Post by dm1scotty on Oct 19, 2012 14:38:18 GMT -5
I also made shorter ones if the rivulet hit a solid object (ie a wall) Attachments:
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Post by hasbinbad on Oct 19, 2012 17:54:49 GMT -5
Nice!
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Post by madladdesigns on Oct 20, 2012 9:47:18 GMT -5
Interesting.
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Post by indigo777 on Oct 24, 2012 3:16:49 GMT -5
Cool. Been looking for a way to make a wall of fire marker. This looks like a good place to start.
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steel
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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 dm1scotty on Nov 30, 2012 10:54:41 GMT -5
Being a 4e player don't mock me! No mocking here. I love 4e myself and thanks for the idea!
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Post by hideousprime on Feb 10, 2013 2:10:37 GMT -5
These are really great and simple. players can use them with ease. Thanks
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Post by griffonwing on Feb 10, 2013 4:00:34 GMT -5
I also made shorter ones if the rivulet hit a solid object (ie a wall) this 3rd pic has me hungry for BACON!!
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Post by unclebilly on Feb 10, 2013 11:37:18 GMT -5
I also made shorter ones if the rivulet hit a solid object (ie a wall) this 3rd pic has me hungry for BACON!! Mmmmmmm!!!! BACON!!!! ;D
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Post by steel on Feb 11, 2013 14:33:24 GMT -5
this 3rd pic has me hungry for BACON!! Mmmmmmm!!!! BACON!!!! ;D Cleric power level 1 daily, once called beacon of hope, now called bacon of hope, you cast it by the following "mmmm, bacon"
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Post by unclebilly on Feb 11, 2013 20:28:18 GMT -5
I was in a game and the mage had a wand of grease. The DM asked him what kind of grease did the wand make. He said "Well bacon grease I guess." Never had so much fun with one wand in all my game days
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Post by dm1scotty on Feb 12, 2013 9:42:25 GMT -5
Best wand ever...lol
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Post by primeemu on Mar 2, 2013 5:05:59 GMT -5
Very nice! I plan to make burst effect markers with it!
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Post by luciano on Jul 17, 2013 23:38:04 GMT -5
I really like magic marker but for wargames, for example, like the transparent! But things like wall of flames, flaming sphere and stuff, I love markers! Good ideas!
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Post by newgrognard on Jul 27, 2013 20:44:40 GMT -5
You can also print (Blasphemy!) onto transparencies to make wall spell effects (fire, ice, force, blade barrier, etc.) relatively cheaply, also. This also works especially well for web spells, too.
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Post by tauster on Aug 15, 2013 14:15:38 GMT -5
I'm not quite sure where I got the inspiration for the following ones since it's some months since I made the stuff below. It might even have been DMScotty... [addendum after writing the complete post] ...yes, it was indeed DM scotty: ...now I feel stupid for basically repeating everything he explained in his video. But I don't want to rewrite the whole thing again, so please throw tomatoes my way if you like. I earned them. [/ addendum] I used cotton balls of different size (found in ebay's craft categories), stippled them with modelling paste (Liquitex), let it dry and hotglued them to small cardboard bases. Basepaint yellow, then some orange added and finally some dark red drybrushing). I absolutely love the way the modelling paste looks like flames when it up. This looks beautiful even when unpainted. Since I was toying with the thought of selling them as sets (1 of each size) on ebay, and because I wanted to get some practice, plus I like economies of scale, I made a dozen of each size. Well, it seemed that at the time of my auction, nobody was really interested, so my test-auction ended up at a very low price. And I ended up with more fireballs, firewalls and small round firemarkers than I can possibly ever use in any single encounter. The ones below are only a part of the complete collection. The bard mini is for size reference. I also experimented with polystyrene cutoffs I had left. Not very fancy, just glueing them on a cardboard base and giving them a fire-paint. Then I wanted some firewalls that were more modular then the ones above. I took tongue-depressors and used the same techniques as with the fireballs. Because the pointy 'flames' break relatively easy, I made storage and transport box out of an old computer game box. Below are some intermediate steps, plus the end result: Next experiment were lava field tiles. I was lucky to scavenge some free polystyrene posts (9 x 9 cm, over a meter long) at a store for construction materials. I cut all four sides with an exacto knife, but not very deep into the material, just deep enough so that I can break it off, leaving the typical polystyrene structure in the center of the piece. Make these cuts every 2 cm and you'll end up with pieces that have these structure on both sides. Then you'll cut them in half, ending up with two one-sided tiles with more or less the same height. Now you only have to paint them in a fire-color theme. I had experimented with the color scheme and still haven't found something that I really like... Sorry for the crappy lighting in the pictures! Same tile, different light setting: One of my current unfinished projects are larger lava field tiles, the inspiration came from those two turorials: www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/243963.pagewww.miniwargaming.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=80134&start=75Btw: is is OK to include links to different craft forums / webpages? I'm new and don't want to go against some netiquette rule I've overlooked (I did read the FAQs and haven't found anything, but one can never be sure...)
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Post by thedmg on Aug 15, 2013 18:07:11 GMT -5
Great stuff
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Post by monkeywithtacos on Aug 15, 2013 18:20:37 GMT -5
Damn nice Tauster!!
Added to list of MUST haves: Liquitex....
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Post by sgtslag on Sept 6, 2013 7:19:33 GMT -5
Those walls of flame are superb (had been planning to use a 2-D card stock stand-up... not anymore!)! Will have to make some of those just because they are sooo neat! Thanks for sharing!
I may have to adapt this concept to make markers for Fireball spell radiuses -- players always seem to think that spell is a tactical nuke, forgetting that the blast radius is only 20-feet (40-foot diameter sphere, area of effect, 2nd Ed. AD&D). A template will likely resolve a lot of discussions/arguments at the table. Thanks, Gents! Very much appreciated. Cheers!
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