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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 17, 2014 9:57:51 GMT -9
Female any D&D player race would be welcome at this point. Fully half the people I play D&D with are female -- no exaggeration -- and at least two of them prefer gender-bending their characters, with a third dipping in from time to time. I simply don't have female minis of nearly any race. If I could find an artist that created a female version of every male mini he made, I would make it rain all up in his shop. Male barbarian? Female barbarian! Male elf archer? Female elf archer! Male dragonborn knight? Female dragonborn knight!
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 17, 2014 8:28:24 GMT -9
I am printing out an Inked Adventures dungeon as we speak. Love this.
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 16, 2014 10:15:14 GMT -9
One of my players has a ... pathological fear ... of quicklings.
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 16, 2014 3:03:17 GMT -9
Those pumpkin knaves are going to be put to good use next Tuesday!
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 13, 2014 7:44:15 GMT -9
No women?
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 8, 2014 10:15:16 GMT -9
First night was great. I had planned on the tree being the trigger for the encounter to start, but players being players ... They decided to sanctify the fountain. With the ghoul still in it. He was not happy. LOL.
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 7, 2014 10:39:44 GMT -9
I'm running two games in October, each one a haunted house. Tuesday's group is level 12, and Sunday's group is level 2. Tuesday we play at a friend's house, so I needed a way to make my boards portable. Speed mounting on foam board was my solution. The ground tiles are a mix of WWG and FDG, and I think the minis are 100% One Monk.
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 7, 2014 4:06:11 GMT -9
I suspect you don't want actual size, you want to set scaling either to "none" or 100%, depending on your software. For instance, printing from Preview (on my iMac), which is the Mac OS built in PDF reader, I need to set my scaling to 100% in order to print accurately: If I were to choose "entire image" then it changes the scaling and will not print as intended. The options you see will be slightly different (different OS, different software) but you will need to poke around until you find the correct settings.
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Doors?
Oct 6, 2014 8:39:28 GMT -9
Post by sunraven01 on Oct 6, 2014 8:39:28 GMT -9
You should have heard the *squeeing* this morning while I was looking at the bitty knockers and quoting the movie.
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 6, 2014 3:40:15 GMT -9
Brush pens are perfect for edging minis because they can get into the small spaces. Accept no substitutes!
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Doors?
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 6, 2014 3:37:18 GMT -9
Aaaaah! Those are PERFECT PERFECT!
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Doors?
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Post by sunraven01 on Oct 5, 2014 18:23:31 GMT -9
Anyone have a source for a sheet of nothing but 1" wide doors? I'm putting together a 2.5D haunted house. The doors I first thought of using (from Fat Dragon) are two inches wide with an integrated base that doesn't match the tiles I'm using for floors.
Ideally what I'd like are a bunch of 1" wide paper mini doors that can slot into a Litko paper mini base. Any suggestions? I'm going to need about 20 of them.
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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 28, 2014 17:34:13 GMT -9
I ... Really want this.
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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 24, 2014 9:47:23 GMT -9
I was thinking about this post today as I cut out some minis. I find my photo paper and glue stick sandwich to be plenty rigid, but sometimes long skinny pieces (like polearms or swords) feel like they could benefit from reinforcement.
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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 3, 2014 2:41:31 GMT -9
Thanks, Squirmydad! I got all the forum hoards re-downloaded yesterday, organized, uploaded to Evernote and then tagged. It looks like I have every fantasy One Monk set except for the command group from the Elven Alliance, but I seem to remember downloading them directly from onemonk.com when they were free sets, not from DriveThruRPG. Am I remembering that wrong? Have they always been DriveThruRPG? I don't think I have an account there.
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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 2, 2014 7:40:02 GMT -9
I have an Evernote premium account that I'm moving all my One Monk stuff too since I don't think any of it is layered; there's a free account too but it's limited to 60MB of upload per month. It's $5/month for 1GB of upload so pretty decent. Premium also gets you searching inside PDFs (so, that collection of Dungeon and Dragon magazines? Search for "avenger" and pull up every issue that has that word), and of course it has tagging.
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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 2, 2014 6:28:35 GMT -9
Back when I first started collecting paper minis, I decided that since I didn't have a robocutter, I could strip out all the cutter files from the items I downloaded, and that instead of organizing by designer, I'd make an insanely complicated folder tree with the names of the minis in each pdf (so, bard, minotaur, golem, etc).
And now I'm thinking about buying a robocutter.
So now I need to re-download all the things to get the cutter files back. *facepalm*
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Post by sunraven01 on Sept 1, 2014 8:39:26 GMT -9
This couldn't be more perfectly timed. I just today realized I needed some farm crops for next week's adventure. I am throwing so much karma korn at you right now!
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Post by sunraven01 on Aug 5, 2014 2:17:33 GMT -9
Well, the foam board version is stalled for the moment. the tiles above are just photo paper and magnet tape.
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Post by sunraven01 on Aug 4, 2014 13:44:53 GMT -9
The walls are a wash, time wise, although you don't have to make posts, so there's that. I'm waiting for you to come up with a straight forward roof I can steal LOL!
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Post by sunraven01 on Aug 4, 2014 12:01:23 GMT -9
The board for this week (pre-walls, obviously). Honestly, this works out way better than traditional TLX tiles in my opinion, and it's easier to store. The Himmelveil Streets tiles, especially, are a huge time-saver because they don't have anchors that need to be glued on to cover the white boxes; I may decide it's worth it to 'shop all my tiles to remove the boxes. Just cut out the tile face, slap some magnet tape on the back, and you're good to go.
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Post by sunraven01 on Aug 1, 2014 2:26:47 GMT -9
I got out of DMing for a while, and so when I came back to the WWG boards and found Denny & Co were MIA, it was DEEPLY disappointing. Really poor business practices on his part, IMO. The upshot is that TLX templates are dead simple to make on your own.
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Post by sunraven01 on Jul 30, 2014 13:14:33 GMT -9
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Post by sunraven01 on Jul 30, 2014 12:29:33 GMT -9
I don't own any other paper craft except what I've purchased from WWG (and my paper minis from various sources). One of the things I really wanted to eliminate was the anchor and post system. The way the anchor arms never lie flat again just plain BUGS ME. This is actually my second iteration with magnets; my first is here: In this case, the walls and posts are pinned together, literally, using steel sewing pins. The floor tiles, mounted on foamboard, use tiny magnets and nails pushed into the sides of the tiles. What I ran in to was no way to feasibly make the walls stand up with just magnets. Frustrating, but there you go. With the map I posted previously, I'm going to borrow a note from another WWG forum user and use tiny cube magnets as "feet" for my walls. Hoping it works out, and I've only made anti-warp walls in order to keep everything squared up. I still cut the anchors out, but only the printed section, and I just glue them in place to cover the glue here white squares. What I really came to realize is that, for the most part, actual D&D play is not friendly to multi-story interior gaming, so what I need isn't the ability to make a whole building at once, but instead to be able to get each floor down on the table quickly and accurately as my players go through the building.
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Post by sunraven01 on Jul 30, 2014 11:58:27 GMT -9
Like mproteau, I am a long-time WWG customer, but lately I've gone in a different direction, and that's modding TLX to make it a lot less labor intensive and magnet friendly. I took the TLX tiles, cut off the wrapper bits, glued Xyron magnet tape to the corners, and stuck them down on a 24" x 36" piece of sheet metal (edges wrapped in duct tape to keep me from klutzily cutting myself). Walls have to go up still, but I'm getting there. However, let me add my voice to mproteau and sing the praises of TLX. It's a fantastic system and NOTHING beats putting a 3D battle map down on the table and watching your players ooh and aah.
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Post by sunraven01 on Jan 29, 2012 13:08:47 GMT -9
I went with TerrainLinX and I haven't regretted it at all. At the time I made my decision, though, FDG hadn't come out with the EZ Lock system, and their walls were permanently mounted to bases. I like the look of both!
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Post by sunraven01 on Jan 29, 2012 12:37:04 GMT -9
I have about a million paper minis I've cut out and I use regularly in my D&D game, but basing was frustrating me. I've tried everything from re-positionable adhesive in One Monk bases (not really re-positionable if you leave them in the base too long), foam core bases (reasonable, but tedious to cut and they lose "grip" over time) and even just considered using permanent bases, but what I love about my paper minis is that they store flat. Permabasing them takes away from the flat storage. Found these (link) craft foam sheets at my local Michaels. Thought about it for about half a second, and bought two packs, since they were 40% off today, and came home to experiment. Tried square, circle, and octagon shapes (decided for medium sized minis, circle was the way to go). Those are my first two test bases, so the edges are a little rough. Squares are easier to cut, but a circle cutter works fine if you can find one that will cut 1" circles -- the hole punch I bought, I can't fit the craft foam inside. Drat. Adhering the circles together I found worked best with tape runner adhesives; liquid glues also work but take forever to dry. The tape runner grabs right away, no drying time, and was nearly impossible to pull apart. I decided that I wanted to use the colors for status tokens, and reserved black for basing, and honestly it's kind of awesome. Re-usable, cheap to make, and my minis can still store flat. Win-win all the way around.
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Post by sunraven01 on Dec 1, 2010 5:44:58 GMT -9
Didn't some Celt warriors also go into battle naked (and painted blue)? I'm referring to the men here, but I believe that Celt women also fought, which Caesar used to good effect in his propaganda against the Celts (Look how barbaric they are, they even let their women fight!). I also believe that the ancient Olympics were performed in the nude (again, male competitors here).
As a woman, I don't mind a chesty, midriff exposed mini. The minis we use on the table aren't *supposed* to be 100% anatomically and historically accurate. They're caricatures, and should be, because it makes them visually distinctive.
How about you let the women you game with make up their minds on what they want their minis to look like? I promise you, for every one that rolls her eyes at the chainmail bikini, there's another one that will tell you that sexy can also be strong.
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Post by sunraven01 on Dec 1, 2010 5:36:52 GMT -9
Those bases are actually re-usable, too. I had some low-tack glue on hand and just put a little dab of it in the base to keep the minis from slipping out, so they stay in the base on the table, but can be removed and put into my file box for storage.
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Post by sunraven01 on Nov 21, 2010 18:19:23 GMT -9
I want to know what it will look like, printed out, and on my table.
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