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First of all, if you're going to play in this AP, go away. Don't ruin the surprises for yourselves.
As my miniatures have arrived and my players have returned to school I've decided that now is the perfect time to start RotRL. Inspired by Pirate's 3D maps for Serpent's Skull, which we just finished the first book for, I've decided to something similar for RotRL. I'll try and keep documenting the build process, but sometimes I get carried away and forget to take pictures.
My builds start with the dungeon complex under the Glassworks. I thought about making a model of Sandpoint, but I realised it would be nothing more than the map of it in the player's guide is already. The Glassworks doesn't have too many encounters in it, and has a lot of detail I just don't really want to have to make just to have the players blast through it in a half hour.
My primary materials are Hirst Arts blocks dyed grey and pink foam. Here's the first picture for your viewing pleasure.
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The grid and round rooms are a pain in the behind. I've already made a custom piece that allows round pieces to be attached to a straight wall but leaving a 1" gap, without making it look like an oval. I've also made a half tile, all that remains is for me to make the molds. Looks like I'll also have to make a whole floor section for these round rooms.
I've also made a few small changes to the layout of the dungeon. I've removed the stairs in those long passageways as it would make it too tall for me, and I've also rotated the Cathedral of Wrath a little to make it fit within the boundaries of my board.
Seeing as we're starting pretty soon I'd better get my arse in gear.
Definitely cool man! I just started up a RotRL campaign myself, and would love to work something like this into my game. I look forward to checking out your creation process.
On a side note: I'm curious as to what you use to fill the molds, as I'm pondering the idea of picking up a few Hirst Arts molds myself.(Never heard of them before your post!)
Sweet Baby jesus on a pogo stick! thats awesome :)
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Work continues slowly, as I'm sort of putting off having to buy the 6" round tower mold. As many of you who follow Bruce Hirst's website will know, he is releasing a set of three inn and market accessory molds, which I must have, but I'd rather order all my stuff at the same time to save on shipping, and get a nice discount. And then I'll have to wait 3 weeks for it to show up here, which I think we'll be done this part by the time it gets here. I'm torn.
But here's a small update on what I've done. Brick walls are going up while I wait for my casts of the floor tiles to dry. The recessed area will actually be recessed another inch down. You can see one slight change from my first picture, the lower hallway was in the wrong place so I had to correct that. I'm also still mucking around with some custom blocks to make the diagonal tiles work nicely.
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This will be the last update before this section is completed. As you can see I've done away with the round rooms to make it simpler to play on and to build. All that remains to be done is the pit room, the collapsed stairwells, building up the walls, and the meditation room. And then it all needs painted and detailed. All before Tuesday night.
Why anyone would go through this much trouble for one dungeon is beyond me.
but i love you for it.
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Oops, forgot I had this thread going! This is one of my favourite dungeons, namely because of what happens below it later on. That and I don't think I'll be able to make all the other dungeons I want to as they would be well over 5ft by 5ft.
We played the game, it went over great! Koruvus went down the hallway and managed to nail most of the players with his breath, and Erylium almost wiped out the entire party. Here's the finished map without the accessories on it, I made them detachable so that if anyone saw it there wouldn't be too much given away.
Finished build
Next stop: Thistletop
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I did a 3D version of Thistletop the cheap way.It doesn't stack up to the intricate work that Kovok did, but it is fun and fairly easy to do.
Scale the map up to the right size (1 inch squares). Print it out and glue it to a card board backing (I used spray adhesive). Then cut some 2" high mat board (scrap mat board is really cheap at a craft store). Hot glue gun the walls on the map and stick the mat pieces down on it.
I've done some other methods (like cutting the Catacombs of Wrath out of foam board with a jigsaw) but none are as easy as some mat board and a glue gun.
For the next path I'm going to use the spray adhesive to print out some texture on the mat board so the walls won't just be in black.
The texture Kovok got on his dungeon looks really good.
Oh, that's pretty cool! Maybe ill do something like that for Misgivings and/or Foxglove's manor.
Kovok...
So you actually dug out the area in the insulation foam and put the hirst blocks in? I want to do this (because I'm crazy and into terrain building) but I'm having a hard time grasping what you did exactly. How deep is this?
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I knew I was forgetting something, this thread to be exact...
What I did was build the layer of blocks on a piece of foam. Then I cut out other pieces of foam and glued them on top, around the structure, to make the blocks look like they are recessed. For the parts that go deeper, I cut out the spaces for them and built the parts separately, so that when it came time to add the layers together I could do it all at the same time.
I'd say total cost would be around $50.
- $10 for paint and misc supplies
- $30 for the insulation foam
- $10 for the plaster and pigment
I achieved the colour I did by mixing concrete colorant with the plaster and simply drybrushing the finished product with a tan colour. This was done so that if it chips it won't be noticeable.
Thistletop is coming, just need to get midterms out of the way. Looking at bringing it to Paizocon if I can get out there this year.
Thanks so much for the reply! Can't wait to see more!
Those are amazing, wonderful work!