There are a lot of videos on CZcams that try to make realistic tiles to work with miniatures. You made several videos about making paper mini, with the results having a more whimsical, cartoony style. I'd love to see how you might decorate the tiles you've made so that they work well with your paper miniatures.
You don't even need the walls painted onto the tiles. Just having the tiles on the table as a floor alone indicates to the player where they can and cannot move. It's positive and negative space. All you really need to do is to decorate it with clutter.
You inspired me to do the same, but instead of using the foam board, I used a magnetic sheet that I purchased from the dollar store. Add a magnetic white board and now, my pieces are not moving if someone bumps the table
About a week or two ago when you were doing the hexagon map I got an idea like what you're doing now. Instead of foam board and grid paper I thought of using wood tiles and sticker paper. I'd digitally create all the different types of tiles and print them in the sticker paper, die cut them and stick them on the wood tiles.
I loved seeing you whip up these handmade dungeon tiles! The simple black and white style is quick and effective, but it would be super cool to see you do some with your marvelous illustrations. I would also really enjoy seeing you do a follow-up video, where you tackle doors, and maybe some bigger tiles with decorative dungeon features like fountains or statues!
Rubber Cement Tip: You can use an old gift card or credit card to spread an even thin coating across the paper. It reduces unwanted bumps, saves rubber cement, and is a lot faster to apply.
I've been thinking about doing tiles for years, but this video is finally what pushed me to make some. I only had chipboard, not foamcore, and I used wood glue (it's what I had at the time) AND I decided to use a fancy looking map from a 5e book, but I couldn't be happier with my first draft results and will definitely be doing more in the future. Thanks for making this video and pushing me over the edge!
The one problem I see with these that can't easily be solved with just a few more shapes (45 degrees and a few cures) is that it happens a bit often that there are walls in maps depicted as single lines a bit often or people like to put mazey sections in oldschool maps. Things that complicate depiction any other way than just drawing it out on that grid paper pad and putting it on the table. One of the reasons we don't do that any more is because a lot of people love their terrain tiles, but I still encounter it in the OSR space. Still, these are cool and cheap, and that's a great combination!
This is great. Having something material is always a million times better than having maybe even a cooler thing, but only on your computer. I think I've seen someone using magnetic pads from fridge magnets for similar tiles, I guess these will work fine! You just gonna need some kind of metal plate for the base of the dungeon map. Or maybe they will stick together without it, too?..
RE: Adding Magnets You could use those big rubber sheet magnets and cement them to the back before you even got started cutting! One extra step, two more passes with the knife, three... profit?
Nice tiles! Here's a tip for those who want to put less work into it. Step 1: Glue the grid on the black foam cardboard. Step 2: DONT DRAW WALLS Step 3: Cut different shapes (1x1, 2x1, 2x2, maybe even 3x3, etc.) Step 4: Lay out your dungeon, use grid side up to make the rooms, and the back side to make the walls, it's already black, no need to draw them. Step 5: Enjoy!
Nice simple project. I think I would want some larger pieces to go along with what you made. Maybe some large room pieces and some long corridor pieces.
I can imagine you could improve the game board by applying strips of Velcro, and having a Velcro background--so that the pieces won't move around during gaming. And can be rearranged as wanted. --Got to the end, yeah the magnet board sounds great. :D
My goal with crafting and TTRPG is now to pull off the 8-bit video game feel and this can definitely help that. I can see doing stacks of these in each of the basic pixel floor patterns. I guess if this proves to be too maddening, I can just print out the grids and use the method in the rest of this video 😂
Would it be a good idea to laminate the grid layer after it's all said and done? Make it a little more durable and maybe allow it to be drawn on with wet or dry erase markers? Maybe add a layer of felt or even cheap fridge magnet stickers to add some weight and maybe let it lightly stick to some surfaces. But now I'm getting all D&D crafty. If I didn't have a portable grid that didn't work great for me I'd absolutely make myself some of these and add my own customization to it.
This was very helpful. I aslo love the paper mini video aswell. Making and building games for D&D have never been so much fun using your method. And so much cheeper than plastic mini builds. Looking forward to more of your videos.
I made a bunch of tiles just like this using cardboard cereal boxes. I cut a bunch of 1x1 squares and then pasted those on larger 3x3 pieces. This created a grid where the gaps between 1x1 squares lined up. I painted all the tiles with craft paint and they came out awesome. It did take quite a lot of time though!
I found this video at random and I know this was released a year ago. I do like the esthetic, but I've found that you want to have your dungeons already constructed in some way. I don't really want to spend time, fiddling with each room, laying out 10-20 pieces every time the party goes somewhere new.
I've been trying to find a way to make terrain to feel like a dungeon crawl classics map and I think this method will be a good base, maybe instead of flat black walls using a half inch walls and Cross hatching them and find some way to give it a dark grey wash some how, no idea how I'd do that with the glued on graph paper though
Great video, and a wonderful idea. Fun enough, I was looking to make some modular tiles, but with cardboards instead of foam, which would follow most of the same process. However, one thing I couldn't do with cardboard and you might be able to do with foam is a magnet connector you said by the end of the video. If you are not aware of *RP Archive*, I would check the channel out, they have a cool magnet system and even a STL file for kinda making the magnet placement and stuff. Their foam tiles are thicker, so you might need to buff yours or just use as inspiration. And they have a cardboard connector system as well! I just won't be able to give you specific videos for those, but yeah, check it out. Yeah, that's my personal rabbit hole for the month. Have a great day/week/month, see ya!
Maybe laminate the pieces so they become dry erase friendly. Also how would you tackle making a hex grid version? I feel like the angles would make it much trickier and possibly wasteful with materials.
Interesting but you can easily save time with sticking black cardboard instead of colouring. Using a square of 0,5 inches instead of 1 can help too in the process of crafting 'cause in this case you can craft more pieces.
@@orbitalair2103 I know but if you want to use this pieces like a reference for your Dungeon you don't need a 1 inch square. It depends on what do you want to do.
It seems kind of wasteful to glue white paper over black foamcore and then color most of that paper black. If you pre-cut the paper and measured where to put it in the middle of the foam core, the back foam core would be the walls.
This was my plan originally, but the grid really helps with cutting things out quickly. I think cutting grid pieces, then measuring out the foam core would take longer than just sticking a big sheet on and filling in the black areas after.
There are a lot of videos on CZcams that try to make realistic tiles to work with miniatures. You made several videos about making paper mini, with the results having a more whimsical, cartoony style. I'd love to see how you might decorate the tiles you've made so that they work well with your paper miniatures.
You don't even need the walls painted onto the tiles. Just having the tiles on the table as a floor alone indicates to the player where they can and cannot move. It's positive and negative space. All you really need to do is to decorate it with clutter.
You inspired me to do the same, but instead of using the foam board, I used a magnetic sheet that I purchased from the dollar store. Add a magnetic white board and now, my pieces are not moving if someone bumps the table
I gotta check out the magnetic sheets!!!!
About a week or two ago when you were doing the hexagon map I got an idea like what you're doing now. Instead of foam board and grid paper I thought of using wood tiles and sticker paper. I'd digitally create all the different types of tiles and print them in the sticker paper, die cut them and stick them on the wood tiles.
That sounds awesome!
I loved seeing you whip up these handmade dungeon tiles! The simple black and white style is quick and effective, but it would be super cool to see you do some with your marvelous illustrations. I would also really enjoy seeing you do a follow-up video, where you tackle doors, and maybe some bigger tiles with decorative dungeon features like fountains or statues!
Rubber Cement Tip: You can use an old gift card or credit card to spread an even thin coating across the paper. It reduces unwanted bumps, saves rubber cement, and is a lot faster to apply.
I've been thinking about doing tiles for years, but this video is finally what pushed me to make some. I only had chipboard, not foamcore, and I used wood glue (it's what I had at the time) AND I decided to use a fancy looking map from a 5e book, but I couldn't be happier with my first draft results and will definitely be doing more in the future. Thanks for making this video and pushing me over the edge!
The one problem I see with these that can't easily be solved with just a few more shapes (45 degrees and a few cures) is that it happens a bit often that there are walls in maps depicted as single lines a bit often or people like to put mazey sections in oldschool maps. Things that complicate depiction any other way than just drawing it out on that grid paper pad and putting it on the table. One of the reasons we don't do that any more is because a lot of people love their terrain tiles, but I still encounter it in the OSR space.
Still, these are cool and cheap, and that's a great combination!
This is great. Having something material is always a million times better than having maybe even a cooler thing, but only on your computer.
I think I've seen someone using magnetic pads from fridge magnets for similar tiles, I guess these will work fine! You just gonna need some kind of metal plate for the base of the dungeon map. Or maybe they will stick together without it, too?..
RE: Adding Magnets
You could use those big rubber sheet magnets and cement them to the back before you even got started cutting! One extra step, two more passes with the knife, three... profit?
Nice tiles! Here's a tip for those who want to put less work into it.
Step 1: Glue the grid on the black foam cardboard.
Step 2: DONT DRAW WALLS
Step 3: Cut different shapes (1x1, 2x1, 2x2, maybe even 3x3, etc.)
Step 4: Lay out your dungeon, use grid side up to make the rooms, and the back side to make the walls, it's already black, no need to draw them.
Step 5: Enjoy!
This is going on my personal project list. Thanks for posting this. A ton of fun to watch.
Nice simple project. I think I would want some larger pieces to go along with what you made. Maybe some large room pieces and some long corridor pieces.
I can imagine you could improve the game board by applying strips of Velcro, and having a Velcro background--so that the pieces won't move around during gaming. And can be rearranged as wanted. --Got to the end, yeah the magnet board sounds great. :D
Some Christmas papers have grid on the back, so you might already have some in your house.
Damn mate I am in the process of doing your idea of hexcrawl hexes with wood and now this, all good content, m8.
My goal with crafting and TTRPG is now to pull off the 8-bit video game feel and this can definitely help that. I can see doing stacks of these in each of the basic pixel floor patterns. I guess if this proves to be too maddening, I can just print out the grids and use the method in the rest of this video 😂
That first tile got... Drawn and quartered... You're welcome.
Love everything you do. You're really a good guy JP
Hey JP
You should do some rounded tiles too, for circular rooms ;)
Would it be a good idea to laminate the grid layer after it's all said and done? Make it a little more durable and maybe allow it to be drawn on with wet or dry erase markers?
Maybe add a layer of felt or even cheap fridge magnet stickers to add some weight and maybe let it lightly stick to some surfaces. But now I'm getting all D&D crafty. If I didn't have a portable grid that didn't work great for me I'd absolutely make myself some of these and add my own customization to it.
This was very helpful. I aslo love the paper mini video aswell. Making and building games for D&D have never been so much fun using your method. And so much cheeper than plastic mini builds. Looking forward to more of your videos.
I made a bunch of tiles just like this using cardboard cereal boxes. I cut a bunch of 1x1 squares and then pasted those on larger 3x3 pieces. This created a grid where the gaps between 1x1 squares lined up. I painted all the tiles with craft paint and they came out awesome. It did take quite a lot of time though!
8:27 What are the odds of that? I just got back home from the movie theater and saw this pop up... The DnD movie was pretty good imho.
love it! first thing that came to my mind was to "step" it up and make an extra foam layer for the wall, also give the tiles texture
JP, I always love your positivity! Enjoy the tiles. I made some out of wood recently and that was a lot of fun too. All the best.
Yes please! Would love to see more of this.
you don't need the black parts, do only the grided ones and arrange them on a black sheet/cloth :)
U r great ❤ love u from India
Ooooh! That’s how you use rubber cement 🤔🤯
I found this video at random and I know this was released a year ago. I do like the esthetic, but I've found that you want to have your dungeons already constructed in some way. I don't really want to spend time, fiddling with each room, laying out 10-20 pieces every time the party goes somewhere new.
I've been trying to find a way to make terrain to feel like a dungeon crawl classics map and I think this method will be a good base, maybe instead of flat black walls using a half inch walls and Cross hatching them and find some way to give it a dark grey wash some how, no idea how I'd do that with the glued on graph paper though
You can get India ink and water it down to make a gray wash. Grab a cheap flat brush and it’ll do the trick perfectly.
Great video, and a wonderful idea.
Fun enough, I was looking to make some modular tiles, but with cardboards instead of foam, which would follow most of the same process.
However, one thing I couldn't do with cardboard and you might be able to do with foam is a magnet connector you said by the end of the video. If you are not aware of *RP Archive*, I would check the channel out, they have a cool magnet system and even a STL file for kinda making the magnet placement and stuff. Their foam tiles are thicker, so you might need to buff yours or just use as inspiration. And they have a cardboard connector system as well! I just won't be able to give you specific videos for those, but yeah, check it out.
Yeah, that's my personal rabbit hole for the month.
Have a great day/week/month, see ya!
Will definitely check it out!
I can’t help but be reminded of the phone guy from Five Night’s at Freddy’s when I hear you in this video lol
I need a video on how to do this for Hexes/MegaHexes.
Maybe laminate the pieces so they become dry erase friendly. Also how would you tackle making a hex grid version? I feel like the angles would make it much trickier and possibly wasteful with materials.
This is very cool
Interesting but you can easily save time with sticking black cardboard instead of colouring. Using a square of 0,5 inches instead of 1 can help too in the process of crafting 'cause in this case you can craft more pieces.
hes using 1inch because most miniatures have a 1inch base.
@@orbitalair2103 I know but if you want to use this pieces like a reference for your Dungeon you don't need a 1 inch square. It depends on what do you want to do.
It's an awesome ideas.
Maybe sell these too....
It seems kind of wasteful to glue white paper over black foamcore and then color most of that paper black. If you pre-cut the paper and measured where to put it in the middle of the foam core, the back foam core would be the walls.
This was my plan originally, but the grid really helps with cutting things out quickly. I think cutting grid pieces, then measuring out the foam core would take longer than just sticking a big sheet on and filling in the black areas after.
@@JPCoovert I'll try it both ways and see!