Easy DIY D&D Scatter Terrain for Better Combat
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- D&D Scatter terrain can make or break how interesting a combat encounter is - these two essential DIY D&D accessories give a DM a ton of options for variety in combat encounters, as well as being one of the best ways to add depth to your modular terrain.
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Hur hur, you said buttress.
There you go...hope that helps.
Also, tip.
More great stuff. Love it. I should make some of this stuff.
I approve of this comment.
Also thank you for the compliment. You should definitely make some :D
@@RPArchiveOfficial So, hot wire cutter is on the way.
Got some foam from Wickes but am pretty sure it's the wrong stuff. Do you have a link to the stuff you use at all please?
I'm going to make things!
I can't believe CZcams didn't show me this comment! Did you manage to find the foam? 😅
@@RPArchiveOfficial funnily enough, nope. And will soon be hopefully purchasing some.
Got a good affiliate link for one so you get something in return? Would like that.
I don't unfortunately, xps is one of those things it's hard/not economical to buy on amazon, like magnets :/
I'd rather you guys not get massively ripped off for stuff like that, doubly so for those generous enough to already be supporting on patreon :)
This shows us all the possibilities of a modular dungeon
Thanks Patrick! In the long run I have so many plans for this system, but in these next videos I think it's really going to show its potential :)
Love these. They are a great way to change up an existing dungeon
Thanks man! They give you a lot of flexibility for very little effort, I think.
The ascending platforms on the side of the wall are reminiscent of the pit scene in batman the dark knight rises.
Yeah! I was mainly inspired by early 3d videogame RPGs like Ocarina of time, Legacy of Kain, all that good stuff from the Playstation/N64 days :) I can remember a ton of platforming with enemies involved that made for interesting combat.
Today I discovered your channel and it's honestly amazing. I've seen some other similar channels, but you really outshine them with the modularity of your pieces. I'm so excited for your new videos!
Btw how do you make your walls so tall at this thickness as shown on 4:08? Are the magnets the only thing that holds them in place or do you use skewers?
Thank you! I'm aiming to share new ideas and different ways of doing things so it's nice that comes across.
It's just the magnets, the stability comes from the adjoining wall at the corner and the columns that hold the two together - that's what keeps it all stable :)
this has an enormous potential. you can make modular wooden beams structure on that statue holders, with chandeliers that fall on players, gargoyle statue are perfect as an encounter or as a trap (drop acid from above)
Definitely! I'm going to be expanding the system in future with lots of this kind of stuff, so if you like the ideas keep an eye on the channel :)
As you can see, I'm still at the early stage of binge watching your videos. I looked through the titles, but didn't see a fireplace listed. I can think of several ways that it can be used. Covering the top to smoke the people out of the building. Something thrown in to make a mini-explosion. Etc. Not to mention it's a great addition to a place. Someone cooking a pot of soup or something the hunters brought back in the huge fireplace. Then their is always people warming up in front of the fireplace after coming in from the cold. It's a great place for people to gather. Have someone sitting at a table near the fireplace in a tavern to listen into conversations, etc.
Another great addition to your modular walls. Thanks
Thank you for the support Echo!
I don't build 3D, but now I have something to add to my grid paper drawings.
This is great! I've not played with 3D combat much... a few flying creatures. This will help diversify my combat opportunities! Thanks for this! -Jill
Glad it helped :)
Sir, you are a modular genius! Tip my hat hard. Cheers and thank you for your great content
Thanks Icemann :)
Mindblowing.
You're a genius of modularity man
Thanks! Modular does very much seem to be my thing...
Really great video, man. Loved it.
Thanks! Love the feedback :)
Great work, simple yet effective & it builds on your existing modular framework. Well done, man
My own recent videos have been focussing on using bottlecaps to make terrain (since they're oft a surplus yet easily accessible free material), would be cool if you could try finding a use for them too & could make for a fun video
Sounds interesting! I'll have to check it out :)
This is genius! Love your gameplay videos, can't wait to see more :D
Thanks Forinsyther!
NICE video - quick easy small build. like the video format. useful for multiple settings - dungeons, buildings, castle, city walls... etc...
Thanks man. I think I'm going to settle on the weekly video thing and just split videos where needs be if I want to show a bigger project, like the temple/castle.
Thanks for your input over the early videos, I appreciate it when people take the time :)
Great idea! Great execution!
Thanks Jacob!
Really cool for breaking the classic donjons pattern....
Definitely, makes things that much more interesting with even simple corridors.
Great accessory video, well done!
Thanks Tim!
Super cool. Great ideas
Glad you like them!
I can't help but think about the Gravity Falls scene where Stanley and Mabel were making fun of D,D,&mD (Dungeons, Dungeons, and more Dungeons, Gravity Falls' D&D stand in). At the time I only had a vague idea of what a buttress was, since the Tardis used them.
I've seen that dragonborn sorcerer mini in a number of videos now. I also have the same mini unpainted as of yet. I feel like it's going to look wrong when I finally finish painting it.
Gorgeous copper!!
Isn't it! Love that colour.
I use it more in the next video along with the more verdigris, so keep an eye on the channel if you're interested :)
Watching you do all this crafting presents a daunting issue. You make it seem so easy, but the truth is, you have experience and OCD driving your skills, while a lone tyro might be overwhelmed with where to start. Then I thought about making it a more social exercise, with "crafting bees," where some friends get together and build things as a group. Yeah, I know, in the Age of the Coof, a pipe dream, but sharing the labor and ideas could speed up the production of terrain, as well as vary the types available, if each crafter used their own style. Just an idle thought. Cheers! =^[.]^=
It's a solid idea, and one I think more groups should implement! Crafting shouldn't fall on one person if everyone wants it :)
If you have the patience and ability to carve with foam like a greek god (pun intended for this comment), you can do pillars (the ones you see in greek architecture).
Carve a buttress like the base of a pillar, either with a ruined top or a flat base (square to make the pillar a short piece with a decorative vase or statue on top).
Then, you can make it taller by stacking more on higher spots of the wall. The idea is to either have segments to make a stack of short pillars, have middles pieces that can make taller pillars or leave on the ground as scatter rubble of a broken pillar.
If you want, you can add a pairing hole to the bigger pillar variants so that you can add them back to back for a free-standing pillar. The shorter variants (similar to the larger pillar though with a flat base to segment the pieces) can also become free-standing platforms when paired up (back to back).
Something like the text schematic below (Best I can think of illustrating what I mean: To the left is the segment piece with a flat top as a support and to the right, a blank pillar without the top to stack into a seamless, stackable pillar).
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|. . . . .| |. . . . .|
|. . . . .| |. . . . .|
|. . . . .\ |. . . . .|
|______| |______|
This fantastic man took my favorite architectural element and managed to put it into D&D terrain, while also making it modular. I am ecstatic! Fantastic work as always. I'm a relatively new DM and this terrain option seemed perfect for me, I want to thank you so much for the work you do it really is a godsend.
Haha! Glad you appreciate it man :)
@@RPArchiveOfficial I have essentially started crafting from your videos today as it was when my Proxxon came in and I'm creating a few pieces of everything, and having done hardly anything I can already tell how long I will be using these pieces for, and how versatile they are, absolute kudos to your design work. P. S. I realized I didn't specify what my favorite architectural element was, leaving it to a coin toss. It's buttresses.
Weird thing is I guessed it was buttresses? Great minds and all that 😅
If you're just starting it's worth watching all my building focused videos first, I've been upgrading as I go so you can decide what you want and what you don't before you build a whole bunch :)
I've also got fully magnetic versions (magnetic accessories too, and upgraded wood tiles made with balsa) that I've been slowly releasing as bonus videos on patreon to thank patrons, so if that's something you'd be interested in, that's where they are 😅
All totally optional though :)
@@RPArchiveOfficial Great minds indeed! I actually have been watching a lot of your videos prior, and in fact I believe I have about 7 tabs open with different videos on your magnetic dungeon tiles system, the updated cottage wall method, and so on. I appreciate the tip! I might have made a buttress before anything else... don't tell my players.
Haha! 😂
You can use the same method to make a larger arching one like you see on cathedrals with two connections, one at the top and one at the bottom...
Shhh, don't tell the others - I might do a video with it at some point 😅
I know I'm late to the party on this amazing video. Did you ever try redoing these but replace the cocktail sticks with magnets? Wonder if they would be sturdy enough to hold up a miniature on them with just a magnet connection.
That's what I do now, 6x4 magnet is a solid hold to the updated magnetic walls, which is a patreon bonus video :)
I am subscribe to you. I very much like your shop.. but all the ones I get seeming to be old. Are you not doing the show anymore? I hope that you are.
I'm still making videos, I'm working on a massive 3 video project right now, I'm editing as we speak :) I've also released a fair amount on patreon that isn't visible publicly, and if you're relying on CZcams to show you things, try going to my channel directly and browsing the videos or playlists, it's a much better way to see all my work :)
Better music than most channels! Cheers!
Would the toothpick leave unsightly holes in the wall pieces?
For the most part they're hidden by the lines that already exist, you can see them but they're very subtle.
hope you still read this, but how do you keep the wall from falling? might be a dumb question but unless im missing something, if i put 2-3 of those walls vertical they dont stay upright. I never tried any of this wall, but we dont play with floor tiles, but ran into this video that seems to use the walls WITHOUT the floors AND they STILL stay upright.. how lord wizard?!?!?!? how? Thanks
Just with the columns? it would tilt the other way, no?
btw i`m thinking about buying the Proxxon and the guide pro and would like to use your link (i think i`m ready to jump into more complex builds and need a way to cut my XPS thinner - i buy 2 inches thick) BUT the guide pro links dont seems to work (USA) are this no longer being sold? (i dont seems to find them anywhere)
The stability comes from the floors and column corners mainly, there are interior walls you can make (patreon bonus video) that magnetically connect to magnetic floors, might that be what you mean?
Shifting lands usa seems alive and kicking to me? maybe try the link again :)
So I'm in the states and we have Pink XPS foam. Am I crazy or is the stuff you're using softer and takes texture WAY easier? Or is this cinematic wizardry? Do tell!
So, I'm not sure if it's softer, but then I can't directly compare very easily, not having access to the US stuff 😅
From what I can tell from other youtubers videos, it's roughly similar. it's certainly not as good as the green styrodur Jeremy at Black Magic Craft uses sometimes, my stuff is still slightly elastic like the US stuff.
Now Australian foam I'd be interested to play with, it looks smooth as hell! The grey foam we get is VERY fibrous, makes doing wood grain all but impossible to do nicely :)
@@RPArchiveOfficial our pink stuff is super rigid. It takes pattern but you need a ton of force. That looks way softer
Interesting! I'll need to arrange getting my hands on some at some point 😅
Is there no vid just showing off all the accessory add-on things for your modular system?
All the torches, banners, arrow slits, plinths and so on. In one place.
There's a video for the initial 3 (torches, banners and gibbets), the rest were included in videos where they fit/I had time to include them.
CZcams doesn't reward setting things up like an organised library of info, which drives me nuts.
At some point I'm planning a video with a kind of 'index' in the pinned comment that shows where to find everything, but I won't be doing that one until I've got a bit more content released.
I want to point out that you told us to stick a cocktail stick in our buttresses then followed up by telling us how to get even larger buttresses
In spite of my best efforts, I can never get any of it to be straight...always slightly lop sided.
Are you using a proxxon to cut?
I'm using a bench style hot wire cutter but its not a proxxon. @@RPArchiveOfficial
He said butt dress
I can't like this video right now because it's literally at 666 likes. I hope you understand.
I commented and subscribed, instead.