GAMING WITH 3D TILES

And so the final battle is behind our party backs and they got victorius, though almost lost a rogue.

The 3d conversion of Dungeon Tiles went smothly, though I had to change the technics on the fly 'cause cutting them with the knife was rather hard and slow really.

It ended up something like this

It appeared sturdy enough, sometimes people kicked the table or were not careful with the minis and dice, but nothing fell apart, so I should say I'm pretty satisfied.

For now we have a break in Hunt for the Queen campaign. About a month during which we gonna play an interlude to show things going in the world during those three months which passed since the end of Heroic Tier play. Besides I plan to play a session or two using Universalis rules to flesh out the setting and give them a taste of intrigues and political strife that awaits them on Paragon Tier.

That means I won't have a chance to try my terrain with them, but this week Lords of Chaos players are in for a surprise.

Another surprise for them is that an NPC hafling whom there are going to save turns PC this week with a player whom I'm gonna add to real game using the Internet. Though this last one needs some more preps, 'cause I have never done it before.

3D DUNGEON TILES

So after trying several ways to make my tiles go 3d I was really disappointed. And then today I saw this pic from February and beyond article.

See the red marks for cutting? And everything clicked at last.

So here is my terraing design for final battle. I really hope that I have enough of plain 4x2, 2x1 and 2x2 tiles, but the best part of this way of doing it is that you don't really ruin the tiles. They still can be used in their usual way.

That's great. Now work-work and then on to cutting cardboard.

Oh, yes. My terrain project.

BIG BOSS FIGHT IN 3D

So now the heroic tier of my Hunt for the Queen Campaign is coming to an end - next Sunday they are going to fight their long time nemesis Gradius. A cultist of Orcus with a dream. The dream of the just and wonderful world where all the hard work would be done by undead minions and living beings will bask in eternal peace and happiness.

He offered the party to join his dream team thrice already and having been rejected considers them a major nuisance now. A nuisance to be dealt with.

Having failed in doing so through his minions, he meets them himself in the temple of Orcus floating in the Elemental Chaos.

Last time we leveled up to 10th level, all the 1-9 lvl treasure received, the party is standing before their long time enemy. The first words they'll hear next Sunday would be "Roll for initiative".

Now I wanted this battle to be something really hard and memorable. So I decided to do it in 3d environment.

Due to lack of money and time I wasn't able to prepare WWG TerrainlinX terrain and have to do something with my usual Dungeon Tiles.

By far I've done this kind of setup in 3d Max

Now I need to find a way to do it for real. Newbie DM in his blog gave me some inspirations, though I think I need to invent something else - not sure I can find those wooden thingies here.

But well - I'll think of something. Now back to work. See you soon, ppl.