Tomorrow I run my players through the final showdown with Karzoug.
While I'm an infrequent poster, over the course of this campaign the insights and discussions on this board have been a great help and inspiration, so thank you to all who have contributed.
Here's hoping this provides a little inspiration for other GMs:
I just finished building the stage for the encounter with some styrofoam and (a lot of) Dwarven Forge. Wanted to share the photos for anyone who was curious:
(I had to take some liberties due to the size of the tiles, but it is fairly true to the original map.)
Tomorrow I run my players through the final showdown with Karzoug.
While I'm an infrequent poster, over the course of this campaign the insights and discussions on this board have been a great help and inspiration, so thank you to all who have contributed.
Here's hoping this provides a little inspiration for other GMs:
I just finished building the stage for the encounter with some styrofoam and (a lot of) Dwarven Forge. Wanted to share the photos for anyone who was curious:(I had to take some liberties due to the size of the tiles, but it is fairly true to the original map.)
Wow, that is a amazing! A great way to finish the campaign!
Time to forbid my players from looking at this thread and complaining at my poor markers/battlemat.
But seriously, amazing looking!
That looks awesome! I have DF tiles, enough to try this, but is this to scale? I realize the baddies are, well epic-sized, but it seems cramped. Also, where did you get the throne? My group is about to start the last book, and I was either going to do something like this, or make the whole thing out of clear plexiglass...
Thanks for the kind words all!
I will try to dig up some additional photos of how the battle went (once the fight started I didn't take too many as I didn't want to slow down the pace)
That looks awesome! I have DF tiles, enough to try this, but is this to scale? I realize the baddies are, well epic-sized, but it seems cramped. Also, where did you get the throne?
It is very close to scale although some parts are slightly larger and some slightly smaller (example, the staircase up from the starting platform should be 15 ft wide, but because of the Dwarven Forge tiles being 2" x 2", it ends up being 4" wide/20 ft. Etc Etc.
Here is a an overlay showing how I plotted out the tiles to make it as close to the map as possible.
Also, the throne came from Thomarillion.de
Very very cool!
I recently shared some views of my RotRL campaign at Thistletop, with Dwarven Forge. Really, once you've started using 3D terrain, there's no going back. Here are some views:
Thistletop as seen by a passing harpy.
However, for those on a budget, it's easy to make terrain that is *almost* as good looking from dirt-cheap materials like cardboard, paint, a hot glue gun and... dirt. Or sand. It just takes a free half-day a week for, say, a couple months, and you could build your own 3D terrain for next to nothing, instead of springing nearly $2000 bucks like I did (with shipping here to France).
As for thrones, the very bestest throne can be found on...
GAME OF CHAIRS
Check out DM Scotty's youtube videos or DMG's youtube videos.. Looks like great stuff, and I'll probably use some of their techniques to build even more but highly specific terrain soon.
I recently shared some views of my RotRL campaign at Thistletop, with Dwarven Forge. Really, once you've started using 3D terrain, there's no going back. Here are some views:
Wow! That looks awesome!
Makes me wish I had started by Dwarven Forge buying spree much earlier in the campaign. Sadly my first use wasn't until Fort Rannick (and it was unpainted and boring at that point).
Don't overlook homemade terrain elements.
- I had a dozen rectangles of polystyrene filler blocks from an IKEA kitchen project. A couple hours with a hobby knife, spray paint, white glue and half a container of model railroading flocking, and I have amazing hills/cliffs.
- using old junk CDs as a base, branches from my backyard and lichen (model railroading shop again) I made several very nice clumps of trees.
- using thin cardboard from some medicine boxes, and metal washers for wheels, I made three wagons and carts, again on junk CD bases.
I'll try to take some more photos soonish.
I definitely get the Dwarven Forge buying spree. I started gaming in the mid-70s, then swore off it for most of the 90s and 2000s, before coming back to it. And this time I swore I'd throw money at my hobby whenever I felt like it. <g>