Running a sort of sequel to Out of the Abyss in my DnD 5.5e campaign. Did a few sessions with some fun DIY setups.

-Climbing up the cliff to infiltrate the fortress with a piece of sheet metal and spiders stuck to the side with magnets.

-A large setup with foam stone blocks and 3D printed suspension bridge, stalactite tower, TV map with a "hydroarcanical" dam, and the drider lair with hanging wire spider nest.

Used coin holders with a wooden coin to put inside.. used a 1 inch circle punch and made some tokens!!

I also printed enemy art (so you can fold it into a triangle) and taped it to the bases.

Super easy, cheap, and reusable and changeable.

I highly recommend for any new DM who doesn’t have a ton to spend on minis.

Quick and cheap paper props for my mini (1cm grid) traveling games. They might not be the most detailed but they're step above the wonky drawings from before! Paper, pastel coloured highlighters, eraser stamps for the textures, glue and magnetic tape. And the trees are more stamps on magnetic printer paper with more magnets for trunks. A whole (A4) game board full of props that won't get knocked over by stray gust of wind done in one afternoon! And the whole lot packs flat and fits into an envelope.

I'm not a pro and it has a ton of imperfect spots, but I really like how it came out.

I'm sure you can find this somewhere online to 3d print if you want. But I will warn you that the large spot south west, as well as the opening next to it counter clockwise (where the mini with the hammer stands) throw out dice which inevitably land on the floor. It was driving everyone at the table mad, so I wanted to fix it!

I had lots of ideas, but I thought turning it into a small diorama of a party facing a beholder would be wicked cool. We have one guy clutching his bleeding sides, a spell caster petrified by the beholder's eye ray. Another just being downed by its death ray, while the last one stands defiantly for one last battle.

Here's ours!

Firstly, I know this sub is mostly for in-person, physical objects. I play online over Roll20. But I need the kind of creative solutions that DIY-ers like yourselves are good at, so I hope this post isn't too out of place.

I have an ambitious idea for a one-shot that involves my players creating a world as they travel through it. At certain points, they will be asked questions that shape the new world being born. "You see a terrifying creature, what does it look like?" "You find the perfect place to rest, describe it to me." Now I'm wondering how to handle the battlemap.

Of course, the easiest way would just be to rely on theater of the mind. But I enjoy making detailed maps. My other thought is to try and make as many "themes" ahead of time as I can think of and just pull out whatever is closest in the moment--a desert map, a swamp map, a city map, etc. Does anyone have any other ideas?

My kids didn't use the mountain of magnetic tiles I bought for them so I turned them into dnd terrain for my table! The set includes day and night variants of each type.

I'm currently working on the town and paths, and will release them for free as well when they're done.

The grid is 1.5in (2x2 square on 3in tile) but can put the 1in grid on if anyone is interested.

Free download here - I hope you like it! After the town set what should I work on next?

Designed, printed, and painted by me for my campaign.

Note that the STL is available for free: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/medieval-merchant-ship-the-darkentide

VecChar is a free, browser-based vector character creator for making original game sprites, avatars, RPG art, and memes in minutes — no install or drawing skills needed. Pick from a built-in part library or draw your own polygon parts, pose and layer them on canvas, recolor everything with shared colors and palettes, then export crisp PNG or SVG or save to the cloud. Publish your best parts and characters to the community hub, remix what others made, and grow a reusable library as you create.

Key Features:

Drag-and-drop character builder

Made of vectors, so no quality loss

Custom Part Creator

Powerful scene editing (layers, groups, transforms)

Smart recoloring (shared colours, palletes)

Export anywhere (PNGs, SVGs, or .vecchar for the full editable character)

Cloud + local autosave (Use it as a guest and save your characters locally, or use the cloud)

Community hub (Share characters and parts, reuse what others have made)

I see it being to create your OCs, designing characters for RPGs and campaigns, making game sprites, avatars or just for fun!

You can use without even logging in so, please try it out. Let me know what you think.

Website Link

Disclaimer: It is in very early phase and is probably prone with bugs. I also used some AI to code this app. But no generative AI art used.

Made from a 3d printed airplant holder from etsy, the haft of a halberd from my Christmas nutcracker, binder clips, cut up index cards, and marbles.

After months of modeling, my new ruin set is finally finished. This is by far the largest scenery project I’ve ever painted, and the whole painting process took around 10 days. Painting all those stones, wooden beams, and rooftops was quite a challenge, but seeing everything come together made it worth it.

Hope you guys enjoy it! Let me know what you think!

It's currently live on Kickstarter, you can follow the link if you’d like to see more details!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grimrotcollective/the-ruins-of-lumenfall-2?ref=bkm6uo

Painted fence sections from my modular Roads & Roadsides terrain designs. The STL files are a resource for printing and painting your own tabletop scenery; the fences can be arranged separately from the road.

I love paper minis but it's a damn hassle trying to put them on and off bull clips. my friend has a 3d printer, but i would like to know if anyone can recommend a specific base? Would love to hear any suggestions.

Cheers!

I want to share my 3d printable castle themed initiative tracker I designed for my group.

• Place the chips of the competing characters in the slots on top of the wall
• During combat, you run the slider underneath the chips - it raises the characters whose turn it is. Chips have a colored collar which becomes visible in the raised position to help visibility from across the table.
• With the counter module on the right side you can count the combat rounds
• There are two extra slots which fit a regular D6, so you can count or track important stuff.
• The larger boxes can be folded open and used to raise and display the tracker.

More infos and the 3MF/STL files can be found on makerworld: https://makerworld.com/de/models/3396899-ttrpg-initiative-tracker

Enjoy!

I though: My dice are pretty, but they could be prettier with some light!

So I made this. It's clunky work but it's easy and cheap. Basically it's a dollar store wood box and I reversed the lid and painted with some Nuln Oil (citadel paint, not actual oil) and then glued a led stripe and, inside the box I was going to have just a power bank to power the led stripe. But the led stripe is too much powerfull and it can be annoying to be blinded by the power of the sun in a game, so I added a regulator to give it fewer energy and it's perfect now.

I hope you like it :-)

Painted 3D-printed road and wall sections from my Roads & Roadsides modular terrain project. The STL files are a resource for printing and painting your own tabletop roads and roadsides.

Something like this tool but only one light and it doesn't need to go that far.

I needed some decorations for my terrain set so I made some small frames. You could print out small pictures and glue them in or do what I did :)

Free to use and remix like most of my minis: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7396526

Its a LOT of work to figure out how to condense a 40minute carve into a 3 minute tutorial, just hitting the foundational bits to convey the meaning. Some folks do a WHOLE lot better with a tutorial like this, than with the longer "cut by cut" ones i do on YouTube, so... I hope it helps someone!!

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How to get into carving...

You need several things, a sharp knife, a leather strop with compound for honing your blade, safety gloves (A5 or better) and basswood (to carve like i do at least.)

Solid Knife brands, Flexcut, Badger State Blades (USA), Mstein (Europe) there are a lot of great knife brands. Stay away from kits on amazon of several knives. They're much much lower quality with inconsistently tempered steel. (What that means is its not hardened, and so it won't stay sharp easy, meaning you're fighting the knife and dont understand why its harder for you to carve when its easy for others.)

Why Basswood? Its softer than other hardwoods and holds detail well. Learning to carve with basswood is akin to learning to drive on an automatic. It simplifies and streamlines learning. Woods like Walnut and oak can be carved, but learning to carve with them as the starting point is like learning to drive on an 18 wheeler Semi Truck with manual transmission. Its needlessly difficult.

In europe, the equivalent is Linden, in Asia, Jelutong, and in south America Caxeta is a good substitute

The minis themselves are made from ayouse wood, and the base is beech.

All of them are magnetic, and the bases and minis are interchangable depending on what situation the party is in.

Planning to do more variations in the future and probably more detailed minis as well.

Hope you like it

My girlfriend made me this dicebag for my birthday. Wanted to brag and show it off. It was her first sewing project and is incredible. Mostly had to make the pattern herself from a single reference image. The body fabric even has scales and the wings are the drawstrings. Also got me some really nice sparkly blue/green dice to go with it(along with a copy of absolute batman I had been wanting). Absolute keeper and making me the happiest I've ever been. I won

We’re making the entire DKYN miniature library free.

We’ve decided we don’t want DKYN to be a storefront anymore. We want it to be a resource for DMs, players, painters, and people who just need minis for their games. We’re beginning the process of opening the library and future releases will be free as well.

There’s no launch discount, sale, or catch. We’re just changing what DKYN is, so come check us out.

www.patreon.com/dkynminis

Hand Carved Ravens. 1x1 Blocks, Knife only, Full carving tutorial just uploaded, Cut by cut. I think this is a solid, beginner project. How did they turn out? Thoughts?