Having completed Champions Belt, I thought I would upload a few pictures from the session. I had built an arena (WorldWorksGames) for the game.
Awesome! Really nice work. How long did it take to build it?
If only I had the time and SKILL to do that.
Amazing, Keraptis! Great stuff!
That Ulgurtastra looks sweet...
Awesome stuff! Aren't WWG pdf's great? I built the first 2 levels of the dungeon from A Gathering of Winds with them, and it turned out great; eventually I hope to get some decent pix to post too.
With all the rooms within each of those levels that differ in altitude by as much as 30 feet (not to mention the room with the funnel-shaped floor and the complicated pudding room with its raised gallery which required a few parts cast from Hirstarts molds to complete), I don't think I'll be attempting anything quite so ambitious again for some time - I'll probably stick to floors only, ie. no walls, at least for narrow hallways etc. The whole thing took me a couple months of evenings to build & they're already almost ready to go down even deeper into the dungeon, which is a bit sad... But still, it was lots of fun to build, each level of the dungeon can be fully assembled so as to be fully to scale and fully playable in all 3 dimensions, the players were quite impressed, and despite what's been said above, the WWG pdf's really don't require a huge amount of skill to use - mainly what's needed is a little bit of gear, a fair amount of patience, a reasonably steady hand, a lot of free time, and enough of a budget to cover the cardstock and printer ink that are needed. Which isn't in any way to downplay the awesomeness of this arena; it's to explain how versatile and easy to use WWG's pdf terrain sets are. With a few sets, you really can build just about anything you see in a Dungeon magazine map, and then some. I got mine through Paizo's store & the only problem I had was that Windows' default unzipper doesn't work for unzipping these pdf's. Took me a while to puzzle that one out... I think they have a note about that on the site now, which should help anyone else who buys some.
Those froghemoth and ulgurstasta sculpts are really cool too! I wish I had a bit of wifely assistance with my D&D props once in a while... My froghemoth (a converted rubber squeaky toy frog with greenstuff tentacles, barbed tongue, eyestalk, and teeth added) didn't manage to get fully painted (the rubber - actually plastic full of "plasticizers" to make it flexible - didn't play well with the primer; live and learn. Tip: soak rubbery toys in mineral oil or baby oil for a week to leach out the plasticizer chemicals then wash well before trying an aerosol primer on them!) before I had to throw it down on the tabletop, unfortunately, nor did the so-so swampy water effect I tried for on the base manage to fully cure before one of my players put his mini down on it to represent having been swallowed whole, which left a permanent dent in the water shaped like the bottom of the base of his mini. The Reaper purple worm I had been working on painting green for my ulgurstasta never even got past the primer stage before they encountered it so I wound up using a DDM plastic purple worm in its place instead. Oh well... At least I got my Ilthane (a 1984 Grenadier green dragon, IIRC) painted up before the party got back to the Whispering Cairn for the start of AGoW...
Anyhow, enough rambling on from me - again, awesome arena & custom minis!
Kang
I swear I'm gonna bake an Ulgurtastra-shaped CAKE w skeletons out the back once my players encounter it in the Arena!
Edible enemies... mmmmmmmmmh!