Graph Paper Games

I finished the second part of my fieldstone modular dungeon, made with Hirst Arts blocks.  The second part includes four 15' hallways (one square=five feet) six 10' hallways four doorways three pillars two 30' by 30' rooms two 20' by 20' rooms with two entrances--one with the entrances on opposite walls, the other on adjacent walls The idea behind the second phase was to obviously add some much-needed variety to the first part of the dungeon, and some larger rooms that accommodate a normal-sized adventuring party better.  Next up is the three layers of painting.

Phase Two of my fieldstone modular dungeon project basically adds more rooms with more options, as well as some shorter hallway pieces and some doorways.  I've finished constructing the four rooms in Phase Two. Two 20' by 20' rooms, with two exits, one with the exits on opposite walls, the other adjacent. Two 30' by 30' rooms.  The recesses in the room on the right will have small pedestals in them, to be added later after painting. I'm almost out of plaster, so I'll need to order more before I can too much farther.  Comments welcome!

I've finished the highlight coat on the pieces of the first phase of my fieldstone modular dungeon.  The highlight layer changes the appearance pretty significantly. I used the pieces in level one of my "Down Among the Dead Men" D&D Megadungeon campaign, and they worked pretty well.  You can't do super-elaborate layouts with the pieces, but it's only the first phase. One possible configuration So what's next in Phase 2?  Primarily building up the number and variety of rooms available.  Here's the list: Two 20' by 20' rooms, one with two doors on opposite sides and the other with two doors on two adjacent sides Four 15' hallway pieces Four additional corner pieces Six 10' hallway pieces Two 30' by 30' rooms Six modular doors I've already begun building the Phase 2 pieces, so updates should be forthcoming.

Last night I got the first phase of my fieldstone modular dungeon painted with its mid-tone color, "Gleaming Tan" by Valspar.  The lighter color really makes a difference.  There is just one more layer of paint after this one--a highlight layer of bone white. I've already begun work building the second phase of the dungeon--mostly larger rooms with more options. Comments welcome!

I had a quiet evening and used the time to add a few more pieces to my modular dungeon. So here is how it looks with a few other pieces, just set up on my small table.

So I'm doing some recovering from a medical problem right now, a recovery that is keeping my activities pretty low key, so I decided to stick to the easy and gentle work of making more pieces for my two modular dungeons (the gothic and the cavern). Click on the pics for enlargements. More wall pieces to help delineate rooms.  Generic cavern floor pieces.  I personally love the look of these once they are painted up.  I think they are beautiful. Comments welcome!

This is a 30" by 40" piece of taskboard that I bought yesterday.  Taskboard is a fibrous kind of matte board made from recycled wood pulp favored by architecture students for making models.  It is flexible, cuts and sands easily, and isn't exactly cheap.  It comes in 1/32" to 1/8" widths.  This board is 1/8" thick, and I use it sometimes for basing Hirst Arts constructs like modular dungeons or buildings. Between creating stuff for RPG's, painting miniatures, or building plaster terrain, what I'm interested in has a lot to do with my mindset.  If I'm fired up and creative, then I'm using doing RPG material.  If I'm centered and focused, then I'm painting miniatures.  If I'm just needing mindless drudgery, then I'm casting molds of plaster, which doesn't take a ton of energy and focus but will keep me occupied.  Given how I felt back at the "T" entry, I'm obviously in a terrain-building mood.  So I boug...