Crafting Cheap, Easy, Modular Dungeon Tiles for Dungeons & Dragons
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In this video I show you my method for making cheap, easy, modular dungeon tiles for games like Dungeons & Dragons, (and other TTRPGs not owned by Hasbro) inspired by the arcane methods of
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It occurs to me that if you read a transcript of Dana's videos you would have no idea how routinely funny they are. It's all in the phrasing and odd pauses. Never change, Dana.
YES, I was often laughing to myself editing this in a cafe 😅
never had CC on, but yeah, since day 1, her videos were always funny as hell.
Absolutely true. Perfectly expressed.
I will never stop praising Wylock especially. His techniques and approach reminds me so much of ye olden days when I was trying to stretch a dollar as far as possible and building terrain via the dorm recycling bin, dollar tree, and whatever I could print in the library. Theres so much nostalgia and warmth to just using a glue stick, some cereal box, and an library printer or some dollar craft paints.
His videos are truly inspiring stuff!!!
I see you with the 1.5" squares. Wylock math is great.
Wyloch is a hidden diamond, learned so much fun crafting terrain and got me into playing One Page Rules without a clickbaity GW IS DOOMED style video, he even uses GW models for One Page Rules, and I've probably spent more on GW models for OPR games than I ever had playing their official rules
This is really cool!
Thanks Lyla! I wanted to try something different for 2023!
A Wylock and Dana Howl cross over episode would be epic!
In the intro, I was almost shouting "INCH AND A QUARTER GRIIIIIID!"
Villages of Hommlet and Nulb builds would be something truly special
Can't wait to actually use this.
My tip for anyone who doesn't want to play on a grid but still wants to use a map and fair movement: get a ruler, a market, and a piece of string. Mark the string so it's now a ruler. Congratulations, the grid is everywhere!
woo! i really hope you make more terrain videos, love your miniature painting vids too of course, but terrain crafting is my fav part of this hobby
great video! that find of laser-cut squares is a perfect time (and sanity) saver
i bet a dremel carving bit would make pumping out a ton of these tiles super easy too!
Dana! I've been in recovery for sometime now and your videos have really kept my spirits up. I've been able to continue this hobbie due to you and you vids. Thank You so much!
I'd love to see more on this topic.
I add black ink to my cheap black craft paint and use the matte mod podge. Makes a super flat DARK black basecoat for terrain :)
I love that you and Jeremy both did this the same day (or so)! So many good options.
I for one would love more terrain/dungeon dressing, etc!
I have some foamboard ready to make these for my next DnD session, love how they ended up !
Thank you so much Annie!!! I wanna see the results when you make a set!!!
This one was brilliant, please do more like it. I.e walls, marble floor, cavern floor, sewer etc =)
These are fantastic, I for one would live to continue this with other features. Always enjoy your work!!!
Love these, would love to see some more dungeony stuff. Would also love to hear about your campaign world!
I love our hobby! This was very helpful Dana. I will check out Wylock's channel too.
Awesome! It’s funny you posted this when you did……😮
OMFG Jeremy!!! Just saw you posted a new tile video!!! Excited to check it out!!!
Yes, for more RPG content 🙏
I like the red terracotta color scheme you chose. It's unique amongst all the gray tiles out there.
Very interesting. Thanks for the link to the wooden tiles, what a find! Definetly buyying those.
Love the video's and really look forward to the new paints coming
👍👍 I love these! Immediately saved to my crafting playlist 😁 The flattening with books is a great tip!
👍👍 Also Wyloch, BMC and Annie are all awesome artists! I'm feeling very inspired now, thank you ☺️
whaaaa I've always been so precious about my knives, I didn't think to look into buying boxes of blades :O thank you!
Thanks Dana! Love your work.
Love, Love, Loved this one. Your approach is spot on. I've watched these dungeon tile vids for years, but never made my own. Now with all the dungeon crawls coming out I decided to bite the bullet. Thanks to you I have the perfect style now. Dungeon scatter terrain next?
Useful also for dioramas, very neat work.
I love how you drop this and how Jeremy has just dropped an update to his! All just in time for me needing to make some new ones that fit a desert theme for my next campaign.
Those wooden squares are great! Going to get me some! Also thinking of using those to craft some small buildings!
Would love to see some Door builds
I can appreciate the amount of hard work you put in to carving those tiles. You gave me some good ideas. Really good video.
Perhaps we could do a joint video where you teach me how to actually paint miniatures properly.
I would mark out so hard for this cross over.
HELL yes let's make it happen!!!
Great tips. I have been looking for dungeon tile components
Great stuff friend 👏 👍
yes to more ttrpg stuff!!!!
I was going to use double-sided tiles using foam plates. But using the wooden tiles as a base is a great idea.
And, thank you for the step by step painting tutorial!
I love these tiles! I would be very interested to see more set dressing work.
I'm REALLY intrested in the setting too, so you have videos taking about it more yet? I always love seeing your sketches and visualizations of the projects
Loved the video, and would love to see you collaborate with Wyloch on something. Please make more RPG terrain videos - love seeing your take on it!
We like to 3d print and paint our dungeon tiles on our channel but these are cool and cheap. Good job!
Great timing. Looking to make some terrain for the new D&D Onslaught skirmish game maps and this would be perfect for price and portability.
Great Video Dana, It's never the wrong time to get into D&D (ahem... 3.5... ahem...). Sorry, bit of a scratchy throat. I would love to see more walls things. Doorways, arches etc. Cheers!
More dungeons stuff! 😍
This is fantastic! I believe I would remove the paper, then use my texture roller. Damn awesome.
Dana play Mork Borg! Ahem, would love to see more walls and other scenery tutorials!
Yes please more dungeon dressing
As someone who is also trying to start DMing in this crazy time, I get you, also more dungeon projects, please!
Amazing! 🤩
I would love to see more videos of you making DnD scenery, walls, doors etc.
thank you so much for the blade recommendations. I can't believe ive been spending so much on those dang blades.would like some more product recommendations as i think im paying a lot for some supplies...
I love Wyloch's Armoury and Black Magic Craft as well. Great sources for inspiration and DIY projects. May I also recommend Crooked Staff Terrain for quick, cheap, easy, AMAZING dungeon tiles and dressing all easy to create with a decent colour printer (document printer that is not a 3D printer) to get fantastic 2.5D/3D dungeons completed in the space of a few hours using a few sheets of printer paper, scissors/hobby knife, a ruler, a glue stick, and some scrap corrugated cardboard and cereal boxes.
I must say that your content is also great, especially the materials you use since I had not realized until today that you are Canadian?
With those Dollarama foamcore boards, try wetting the paper to remove it and then the foam is far easier to work with using just a pen to score your textures.
Great tiles.Would love to see tile/dungeon dressing videos.
For sure make more RPG gaming/crafting videos. They're fun to watch and great inspiration.
Tabletop RPGs are what brought me into the hobby. Would love to hear more about your experiences.
I would combine this with Professor DM’s method of peeling the paper from the top and drawing in the flagstones with a thick ballpoint pen. Edit: I’m not knocking Dana’s method, they look great!
Here in the UK we can't get the type of board with the easy peel paper, It is nice to see someone using the type of board that is available to us.
Good stuff! More tiles and walls, please.
Maybe contentious to get into D&D, but it’s always a great time to get into any other RPG! So many amazing games out there. Obvious alternative is Pathfinder, but there are thousands.
I’d recommend Fate, Blades in the Dark (or Scum and Villainy or Beam Saber), Pendragon, Forbidden Lands, or Wild Sea for some amazing RPG’s!
more crafting please!
Seeing this gave me an idea for an alternate tile method, carving linoleum blocks/tiles. You just get a few decent chisels, a push block, and dirt cheep linoleum. Chiseling the linoleum should be faster than razor carving out wedges. Also with linoleum you can really add a lot of texture at varying depth. Material wise may be about 1.5-2x the cost of the wood and poster board method. Was on my mind because I was going to carve some for woodblock style prints
Jeremy's oil washes would look beautiful on these already great looking tiles. Particularly if you do a few um,,,water based sewer tiles..
I'm into Warhammer Fantasy Role Play. It's always interesting to see more for rpg.
Is your campaign world inspired by anything specific? anime or books? or is it more a necromunda dungeon world thing? do you plan on doing any worldbuilding videos for your D&D game? RPGs are all about telling fun stories and creating experiences with your friends, theres never a bad time to do that!
Thank you for your interest! I’m considering making a side channel just for “how I built a campaign and megadungeon from scratch” type videos because I don’t think it really fits with this channel but yes, lots of inspiration from anime and video games mostly!!!
See also, dungeon craft's series on UDT, floors, stairs, etc
As a different choice to carving out the slates you could buy 1 inch non skid pads and cut those to different sizes. In the USA I got mine at Ollie's. Comes with 50 rubberized squares for $5
These are some lovely tiles but all I see is Super Mario and now I hope you have the players fight a goomba of some kind in the dungeon.
Either way lovely work and I'll probably use this tutorial at some point
The players have so far fought… a mushroom, a turtle, and a Venus flytrap like-plant… I’m wondering when they will notice the motif
Dana: Has mountains of terrain to do, makes a sea of awesome custom tiles instead.
You could probably put peg holes in the straight grooves of each tile to mount walls inside as well as hold the tiles in position. Just make it so the walls have a bit that slots into the straight grooves in the tiles to help keep them aligned properly.
I do something similar but I use a soldering iron to do the separate tiles. I picked mine up for about $12.
Really nice looking tiles! I like the 45 degree cut idea. Looks fantastic. You should check out some of the smaller CZcams crafter channels. There is some really great stuff.
Im starting a Fallout RPG campaign I may make these with a 1950's Linoleum paint job. For the interior of buildings!
Pale sand! 😜 Please do dungeons and dressings as a future video!
Howling Sand for the win.
Great video! A nice follow-up would be dungeon doors.
I’ll see what I can do! 🚪🚪🚪
Love these! And obviously all hail Wyloch! But... did you try tiles where you tried cutting the stones separately and sticking them on? Carving those stones looks like a nightmare... if you did the stones separately and individually.. you could just do long straight 45 degree cuts down a long piece on both sides.. and then carve that edged straight piece into little smaller stone bits... it would be less fiddly.. although sticky them down could be time consuming..
Love everything you do! You are brilliant. X
I like how the chosen color scheme looks like diablo 1!
It is always the right time to get into ‚DnD‘. Simply remember, that there are about 9000 different systems to get into. Many of these don’t require you to pay wotc 😊
Thank you for sharing!
You can also sharpen the blades if you want with a small diamond stone. At 10c each they can't be any fancy steel, so it'll probably only take a few seconds
Well the wonderful thing about D&D these days is that the community is so large you don't really need WotC anymore. There are enough effectively professional hobbyist writers, creators and DMs out there on forums and image boards and apps that you can find anything you want and if it what you want doesn't exist you can make it yourself with loads of totally free advise. That's overwhelming for new players and DMs sure but that just means it falls on all of us to be more welcoming... which the community notably hasn't been particularly great at in the past but it's seems to be getting better. Channels like this are part of the solution.
Gimme more dungeon!!!
love those walls! Do you have a video for them already?
I might! go take a look!
Those tiles remind me of a Tony’s Chocolonely bar and now I’m hungry…
Honestly, cutting out EVERY stone sounds like a major PITA. So I would suggest building some sort of negative template "stamp", then peel the paper layer off the craft foam and literally stamp the stone pattern into it.
Don't know if you've heard of this already, I'm pretty sure I learned from black magic craft, but instead of carving the stones you could tear up egg cartons into vague stone shapes and then glue them on. I don't think it would give the same depth that carving it does but I imagine it could be a little faster for the more impatient crafters out here.
Awesome;)
I totally want to see more videos about making dungeon dressing.
Also it is always a great time to get into TTRPG’s…hasbro is just a jerk.
It's always a great time to get into TTRPGs. There's many games that are better than the one that comes from the Mages by the Sea.
I'd love to see more! Give Blades in the Dark RPG, so good and very different to D&D.
Yes make walks, please ☺️
These look so accessible that I simply have to try a batch
Walls?
Yes please. 😊
It’s a perfect time to get into D&D. The community has won a pretty significant victory over the company, so there has never been a better time to start. The nonsense with the company isn’t over, but we know now how well the community is able to handle their hamfisted approach to corporate tyranny so we should be optimistic.
The negative space route of carving bricks is something that I feel like I have not thought of before
I'd like to know more about Howl City!
I've been playing TTRPGs exclusively online for a few years, and I miss the experience of a solid set of dungeon tiles and minis.
That looks very time intensive, how long did all the individual block cutting out take?
These are great. You should check out devs and dice if you like black magic craft and wylock - he does some incredible builds for d&d and mordheim etc. which are all really simple to replicate but look amazing
"my typical warm off-white color of choice" [sudden jump cut] DID SOMEONE SAY-- 🤔💖
(granular mineral particulate that is light-colored?)
D&D doing now what big corporations do now is a one thing. Mini painting youtubers covering RPG-themed stuff is just soooooo great to soo. I am painting only for RPGs and board games.
neat
A foam carving tool made this process of carving cobblestones infinitely faster for me.
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Dana Howl beating BMC to a terrain video again! He released a dungeon tile video a day after this one. You should give him grief about stealing your OC ;). Also, is 'Howling Sands' going to be a color we can pick up soon? I'd love to try it.