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Gauging Interest: Simple 3D Dungeon Tiles, fast assembly
ericgrau
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Like the news post, I've had trouble finding 3D dungeons that don't take forever to assemble. So I came up with my own. Here's a 4x3 (20ft. x 15ft.) room I threw together below, with unpainted bed, chest and chamber pot miniatures to give you an idea how big it is:
It takes about 5 minutes to cut out and scotch tape a room. If you only want to cut out the floor it takes about half a minute. IIRC, printing at Kinkos costs $0.85 per 8x10 color cardstock page. That makes the sample room $0.60 in printing costs. High quality prints at home cost about the same, and doing it online is much easier for large jobs. I've recently finished a bunch of other kinds of walls and floors too, besides the ones depicted. I'd like to do doors next, then doodads like artwork and then I'm not sure.
So here's where I need help: I realize that there's not nearly as much art involved in these as a lot of commercial products, even though that's an intentional part of their simplicity. Would anyone go for these (including many other different floors, walls and doors) if sold as a PDF for a single digit dollar amount? And if not, where can I upload the lot of them to allow free downloads? The file sizes are too big to just geocities them all. Finally, I don't plan on doing detailed things since I believe that's already been done; I'm sticking with simple. But if anyone has links to vendors so I can find beds, tables, chests, houses, etc. that'd be nice for later on when I want to use them myself.
You can download the tiles here:
Floor (8x10 sheet)
Walls (5 10 inch strips)
You can print here:
https://printonline.fedexkinkos.com/?lid=quicklink_printonline
I recommend single sided 110 lb. cardstock, color. Printing double sided tends to have alignment issues, so for double sided walls I'd glue stick 2 single sided walls together instead. For clean corners, tape together separate sections. Do not fold. Forming curves is still fine. Do make use of the cutting boards at Kinkos to trim the prints.
It takes about 5 minutes to cut out and scotch tape a room. If you only want to cut out the floor it takes about half a minute. IIRC, printing at Kinkos costs $0.85 per 8x10 color cardstock page. That makes the sample room $0.60 in printing costs. High quality prints at home cost about the same, and doing it online is much easier for large jobs. I've recently finished a bunch of other kinds of walls and floors too, besides the ones depicted. I'd like to do doors next, then doodads like artwork and then I'm not sure.
So here's where I need help: I realize that there's not nearly as much art involved in these as a lot of commercial products, even though that's an intentional part of their simplicity. Would anyone go for these (including many other different floors, walls and doors) if sold as a PDF for a single digit dollar amount? And if not, where can I upload the lot of them to allow free downloads? The file sizes are too big to just geocities them all. Finally, I don't plan on doing detailed things since I believe that's already been done; I'm sticking with simple. But if anyone has links to vendors so I can find beds, tables, chests, houses, etc. that'd be nice for later on when I want to use them myself.
You can download the tiles here:
Floor (8x10 sheet)
Walls (5 10 inch strips)
You can print here:
https://printonline.fedexkinkos.com/?lid=quicklink_printonline
I recommend single sided 110 lb. cardstock, color. Printing double sided tends to have alignment issues, so for double sided walls I'd glue stick 2 single sided walls together instead. For clean corners, tape together separate sections. Do not fold. Forming curves is still fine. Do make use of the cutting boards at Kinkos to trim the prints.
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You certainly can't sell these tiles, because I'm assuming you just pulled the graphics from the Internet and pasted a grid on top.
I just printed on regular paper at Staples and then rubber cemented it onto bristol board. The tiles are now extremely durable.
And I should note that instead of having pre-sized rooms, I have 8x10 gridded sheets where you cut out any size you want. The idea is to give options to create things on the fly rather than needing to prepare everything in advance. The walls are optional, so omitting them and just quickly cutting out a floor can save even more time if you need something during a game. That's also why I printed onto cardstock rather than gluing paper onto another material; to save time.
I went through the 3.5 SRD and found every kind of floor, wall and door listed to make tiles for thosein hopes of given people everything they might need. It seems most people here are into 4e, but I don't see why it'd be much different.
I put the Town set up so you guys can download it. ( free of course)
Here is a link: 3D Dungeon Tiles
here is a link to the gallery. 3D Dungeon Tiles GALLERY
Please let me know what you think. ( I built the website too )
Hey . I'll host you for free. and put them on my quick quest 3D dungeon tile page. I'd love to do that. Just let me know and I'll get it all ready for ya.
andy