Dungeon crawl...
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Aiteal
Baron
Started this one last night, it's going to be the dungeon entrance and the first room, giving me the opportunity to paint up that old adventurer's starter set pack mule for the outside and add a little bit of scenery. The rock face is just pink insulating foam carved and then scored with a needle file, then I coated the foam in casting plaster to add a little durability.
The transition from the rock to the brick is a little severe currently, but hopefully once it is painted up with some clump foliage etc along the top it will transition a little better
The transition from the rock to the brick is a little severe currently, but hopefully once it is painted up with some clump foliage etc along the top it will transition a little better
Truly amazing work.
symphonicpoet
Moderator
Oh, that's brilliant. This is just getting better and better. One could do wonders with a few of those rooms according to . . . geomorph was it? . . . using the interchangeable dungeon parts rules. I love it!
Incidentally . . . have you encountered Christopher Manson's illustrated book Maze? That was a complete dungeon crawl for the ages between the covers of one of the wittiest little books I've encountered. (Including a real prize for the first folks to solve it, as I recall.)
Incidentally . . . have you encountered Christopher Manson's illustrated book Maze? That was a complete dungeon crawl for the ages between the covers of one of the wittiest little books I've encountered. (Including a real prize for the first folks to solve it, as I recall.)
Aiteal
Baron
Thank you for the kind words guys 
I had not heard of it before, looks like I'm gonna have to add that to my buy list, been slowly introducing my 5 year daughter to gaming with some revamped choose your own adventure books, she's a bit of a book worm, reading alone from when she was 3, so the next stage of the plan was to try her out with a little dungeon crawl once I find a suitable mini.symphonicpoet":1e2pssqe said:
symphonicpoet
Moderator
Oh, you'll like the Maze. The illustrations are remarkably architectural/atmospheric line drawings in something akin to the style of Edward Gorey. Very very few characters are depicted, or even very much described as I recall. Each two page spread is a single room accompanied by some descriptive prose. The doors in the drawing are marked with numbers that correspond to page numbers. The goal is to find your way to the center of the Maze and back out, ideally in a specified number of moves. It is possible to get trapped in an inescapable loop, though I believe there's only one. (Of course if you wander through the maze long enough you WILL find it.) It is VERY hard to solve it properly. I don't believe I ever did, though I did find a path to the center and back. (Which is itself somewhat tricky.) It truly feels like a dungeon. There are all manner of rooms: ballrooms, basements, crypts, attics, storage rooms, caves, halls, even a walled garden or two. My brother, my mother, and I attempted to map it in order to find the right path. We drew a flow chart. We posted sticky notes in the book. We speculated about unmarked doors. (Of which there are more than a few.) Like any good dungeon, there's even a surprise or two. It was a very nice book that provided several afternoons of quite solid entertainment and many many many pleasant re-reads after. Went out and bought a new copy to replace a lost one just after I told you about it.
Aiteal
Baron
Further work on my dungeon quest project, this room serves as the dungeon entrance, outside we see two of the four Dwarves questing to return the secret porter beer recipe from the hands of the evil Skaven, Joe the brewer and (in-keeping with the booze theme) Laphroaig the wizard who I finished tonight.
Glue for flock and clumps will dry soon hopefully, then I can add some extra static grass browns and greens to the cliff walls outside.
Glue for flock and clumps will dry soon hopefully, then I can add some extra static grass browns and greens to the cliff walls outside.
Fimm McCool
Lord
Really really nice.
King Arthur
Vassal
Oh boy!
This thread is just all kinds of old school hobby goodness
I was contemplating in the future to look at obtaining HQ or AHQ but, hey, come on, you just inspired me to make my own!
Keep up the fab work, it's serious eye candy!
Cheers
Gary
This thread is just all kinds of old school hobby goodness
I was contemplating in the future to look at obtaining HQ or AHQ but, hey, come on, you just inspired me to make my own!
Keep up the fab work, it's serious eye candy!
Cheers
Gary
ardyer
Baron
So last night I had to pull out my copy of the old D&D black box for something, and I began to think about this topic.
I think the most important thing to include is also the hardest. You need to make it evocative; the players need to want to imagine themselves in the setting and the game. Not full out world design, but the fluff text needs to be very engaging.
Rules wise, as long as they aren't overly complex or so simple it's "point and click," I think you'll be fine.
You may want to try to include a system that rewards basic role-playing though (the barbarian not running from combat, etc.)
I think the most important thing to include is also the hardest. You need to make it evocative; the players need to want to imagine themselves in the setting and the game. Not full out world design, but the fluff text needs to be very engaging.
Rules wise, as long as they aren't overly complex or so simple it's "point and click," I think you'll be fine.
You may want to try to include a system that rewards basic role-playing though (the barbarian not running from combat, etc.)
