.Twisting Catacombs. Suggestions Thread

[Shadowheart]

Since you're asking, I've had some thoughts (not necessarily original ones):

DOORS:
- Closed ones with the same frame, but different doors in them. That way the DM can add a bit of flavour and anticipation by indicating the heroes are coming up on the wizard's chambers, or the torture room or what have you.
- Damaged doors. Whether from neglect or from attempts to break in. Shattered wood, bent metal, crooked hinges.
- Mine/tunnel entrance, to go with the tracks and cart.
- Hole in the wall. Make it so you can tell from which side it was broken through.

FURNITURE:
- Standing mirror. If possible with a seperate frame so people could add a reflective backing and make it a functional mirror. Or you could have an insert with magic swirly bits or arms reaching out or something.
- Wardrobe. More in line with what the HQ "cupboard" piece actually looks like. The one you've made would look right at home in a high status room, but I'd like to see a more rugged alternative.
- Moar bookcases. Double size one in the same style would be nice, but also a different design or two. And a lectern. Just a whole library set. It's a type of room that popped up a bunch of times in HQ.

ARCHITECTURE:
- Stairs going down. Some quests in HQ feature those. Of course it's got the same practical problem as pit traps, but hey.
- Engaged pillars. (Ones build into the wall, that is.) Matching the designs of the ones you've already got. I think they'd add a lot to the effect.
- Alcove. Just an arch placed against a wall, into which you could place a throne or an altar or whatever. (Plus it's a place for people to stick their torches.)
- Well. The water cooler of the dungeon workplace.

OTHER:
- Pottery. Large storage jars, cooking pots, tableware... basic stuff to add a more realistic, lived-in feel.
- Woven baskets. Alternative to the crates for anyone bugged by the anachronism of those. (Which might just be me.)
- Set of orbs. Orb on a stand, orb in a box, diet orb, orb classic. Just plain, undecorated balls (maybe in clear resin if that's practical). Very flexible magic items/macguffins.
- Serpent statue. As a nod to all the evil serpents (and their worshippers) in Robert E. Howard's stories. With a place to hold a large jewel or other treasure.
- Nest. For the lair of a big monster. Incorporating bones and other dungeon detritus. Maybe some seperate eggs.
- Smashed Gargoyle tile. What's left after slaying the fiend. Or knocking over a statue.
- Cogwheels. Including ones disappearing into slots in the floor and wall. Think the inside of a mill.

And there's enough funerary stuff to make up a KS by itself. Stone coffins, broken-from-the-inside lids for the wooden ones, tiles with grave markers (like when people are buried within a church), crypt entrances, ossuaries, cadaver tombs, various statues and so on.

[Redav]

- Closed ones with the same frame, but different doors in them

Or even a different style (square corners) from the point of view that the HQ expansions had two additional different styles of doors (steel and wood) plus a door of steel bars

Is the Dwarven arch an open arch only? Will there be a closed one that's say missing the stone at the top that's required to open it? Or some rune thing?

[Big Bene]

Cess Pit
Rope Bridge (over the chasm)

- Stairs going down. Some quests in HQ feature those. Of course it's got the same practical problem as pit traps, but hey.
- Well. The water cooler of the dungeon workplace.

To make depressed areas, I could think of four working solutions:

- Just pretending: a flat representation of the depressed feature.

- 3-dimensional work-around: the rim of the feature is raised somewhat, so to enable the actual sunken area to be under this made-up ground level. like a well on a staired platform or the ugly bulging riverbanks of many tabletop terrain series.

- Actually 3-dimensional: The king's way, but also very time and material consuming. You'd have to raise all "normal" features, including the floor, a fixed amount over the gaming platform, and the sunken areas fit in.

- Optical 3-dimensional: This is what I'm trying to bring to your attention: include a hologram or a lenticular photo in the model to represent the sunken parts. I'd think lenticular optic is better - the 3D effect is somewhat less convincing than with a hologram, but the colors are natural and it's much more affordeable.

[Redav]

Great looking rack! Oh, I felt dirty typing that... Only suggestion is that the crossbow shouldn't be drawn while in storage

[Big Bene]

we use a wench with an apple on her head!

Is her name Willemina Tell by any chance?

I've started to make a model (archery butt, no wench this time) but I'll have to postpone it unil next week - much work in my daytime job.

[Thantos]

@Shadowheart: Thanks for the suggestions! Big bookcase is on the way, and a lot of people want a mirror so will see if we can slip that in!

@Redav: Yea the dwarven arch is just open, hard to imagine how it would close
Glad you like John's rack xD These dungeon critters dont pay much attention to safety eh!

@Big Bene: Yea your right about the pit trap, im not sure where to source holograms But will be using the 3d method of raising the sides up so we can drop the middle a bit

Ahh - still havnt sorted the wood and stone texture on the prison door and dummy >.< lol
Do you have Sculptris installed?

[Big Bene]

im not sure where to source holograms

Me too, but there are lots of sources for lenticular foil (just google it - here's an example).

Ahh - still havnt sorted the wood and stone texture on the prison door and dummy >.< lol

Take your time, you never asked for those, so I'm happy you use them at all.

Do you have Sculptris installed?

Nope - don't even know this software. I use 3D Studio max. Will have a search for Sculptris when I got more time again...

[chaoticprime]

I bet you could sell a few of these.

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[flashie_dirk]

Two suggestions:

1. A wall of stone to complement the "wall of ice" and "wall of fire" for the Wizards of Morcar expansion
2. A sword in a stone

[slev]

Two suggestions:

1. A wall of stone to complement the "wall of ice" and "wall of fire" for the Wizards of Morcar expansion
2. A sword in a stone

But would that be a "sword in the stone" as per the modern or traditional meaning of the word?