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Some time ago, not exactly sure when, I acquired an STL set as part of a sale from Dragon’s Rest. If I recall correctly, it was for a modular docking bay set, but came with a fully modular set for the Dragon’s Crest design starship. Since my dice tower collection is just about completed, I decided to dive into this project, and progressively print the pieces. Although it is time consuming, I am impressed by the design. The overall concept is miniature scale, making it useful for gaming, and includes numerous movable parts on the ship (doors, ramps, etc). Most…
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With the ending of our Age of Ashes campaign, we have been without one of the primary storylines for a couple of weeks. During this past time, I have been evaluating options. Although I have a few thoughts myself for future games, I did manage to convince one of our players to try their hand at GM’ing for the group, and have been working with bringing them up to speed with a small group in a side adventure. We had our first session last week, and I think it was a good learning experience. For the first time ever running…
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The fourth, and final, tower of our first painting batch is the Kraken theme tower. Emerging from the water, the Kraken strikes, tearing down the tower itself. This one was my personal favorite, and one that I was looking forward to painting As is my typical, the stone is black with a grey highlight and the roof tiles are layered brown. The Kraken itself is a layer of deep purple, highlighted in a sea green, then the details of the eyes picked out with black and yellow. A bit of pinkish red finishes off the details. Tower is a deliverable…
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Another of our large collection of dice towers, this one being the Sorcerer theme. Painted by my wife, who is a much more artistically oriented crafter, rather than a miniature painter. The stone and rock was painted with a layer of light grey on a grey background, various colors for the building, and a bronze cover for the ceiling tiles. Of the various designs, this particular one had a bit of a Harry Potter look, which I suspect inspired some of the choices for this painting. As before, this is from a Kickstarter for Fates End.
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Second of our numerous dice towers, this time painted by my son. This is the GM tower, though not exactly sure of the design aspects. The tower itself is rather large, especially with the dragon’s wings. Coloration was done entirely by my son’s choice, which turned out well, though he was frustrated a bit by some of the details of the painting process and the various nooks and crannies of the model itself. The stone was a layer of black with a heavy grey drybrush, the dragon was a red with a orange highlight, and the ceiling tiles used a…
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You may have noticed in my prior posting a few decorative pillows on the chairs for the gaming space. These colorful and creative objects are the end product of a project the wife started many years ago, way back in the days of Everquest. For those for which this is unknown, Everquest was one of the first big online RPG games – well before World of Warcraft – and a game which occupied many years of entertainment for us. I believe it may still be running, though we haven’t played in many many years. At the time, whenever there was…
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In preparation for a game George is hoping to host this weekend, we moved forward with setting up the gaming space and table to take advantage of the first wave of ideas. In particular, we wanted to use the massive table, along with a flat screen to display Fantasy Grounds and the virtual tabletop. This set up is a draft – I want to see how well the ideas work before I commit to my next projects of a larger game surface with the embedded screen. The other challenge is that with the ongoing pandemic, several of the players will…
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One of my longer term projects has been the printing and painting of a large number of themed dice towers, as a product of a Kickstarter from Fate’s End. Although I have printed a great many towers, we only just started the painting process. With the assistance of the wife and my older son, we managed to knock out 4 of the structures. The first is one I painted, the Bard Tower. Overall a fairly basic structure, not much in the way of paint colors, though I am not completely satisfied with the result. In truth I short-cutted the paint…
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