Feb 24
Ben’s feverish room building exploits continue with his interpretation of Thunderspire Labyrinth’s Duergar Workshop (which lies deep within the Northern Fortress of the Horned Hold).
The game group couldn’t conquer the first tower without eliminating Urwol, the Master Smith. Thus, the guys needed a whiz bang encounter with some terrain that would leave a lasting impression. Ben felt this blacksmith chamber was the perfect location.
Key detail pieces and building notes include:
- Two blacksmith kilns ( large & small) for Urwol to start the process
- Anvil-like stone tables to pound the metal in place
- Dry-brushed flock from Skullcrafts to show metal shavings remnants
- Lots of snapped off weapons to demonstrate a fevered production pace
- Crystaline Counters to act as the burning fire
- Trinkets to show a little smithing variety
- Hirst Arts molds (#203, 701, 76, 75, 71, & 70) to put it all together
The 3-D terrain really made this Duergar showdown sing but in the end, the good guys won. Do you have some cool rooms coming up in your dungeon crawls (such as a spider’s lair, excavation pit, etc)?
February 25th, 2010 at 2:44 am
This room totally blows me away. I’m pretty jealous.
Hope you don’t mind, but I used your stuff as an example in my latest post about dungeon mapping (don’t worry, I only had good things to say). Keep up the good work.
March 1st, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Thanks for the kind words. It was fun to put together. We had to get really creative on some of the assembly. You are absolutely more than welcome to use any photo within our site (but we do appreciate the proper web address accreditation). Sharing our stuff with fellow gamers is what it is all about…here’s to a better game.
April 13th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
Many thnks for writing such a fascinating post. All too often you see the same thing over and over so this makes a refreshing change.
May 17th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
Ben says the same thing over and over again? Trying to keep the Pile reviews as robust as possible (mixed in with a lot of home-brewed items). We’ll keep trying to get more innovative. I would try our http://www.youtube.com/bensrpgpile2 for some alternate content.