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Stunning work, but who's going to assault the Grey Havens?
Ouch, Genestealers up the sewer pipe. That fortress is about to have a very bad day.
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Stunning work, but who's going to assault the Grey Havens?
Ouch, Genestealers up the sewer pipe. That fortress is about to have a very bad day.
30s I went deep into Oakeshott and Petersen typologies, fechtbuchs, pattern welded/Wootz/Damascus/Toledo/Solingen steels, Milanese armor, composite bow resins, etc. I figure those were early warning signs of the horror to come.Actually, you're nearly 50. At some point in the next few years, you'll wake up one morning with the urge to read a book about WWII.
Pretty soon you'll be able to quote 38t chassis production numbers for every year of the war, and the different StuG model numbers that used them.
You'll be able to tell people the difference between a German schwerepunkt strategy and a kessel deployment. Largely unprovoked, it must be said.
You'll end your days yelling 1944 bomber strategies at the nurses in the home.
Fight it as you must, but it's coming...
Well maybe not Castle Greyhawk but I did take a pretty good stab at Tegal Manor.This what I imagine robertsconley has in his house. All of Castle Greyhawk laid out in Dwarven Forge.
Mega kudos for point this out. I probably won't their dungeon pieces but the accessories are at the right price point for me for what you get. If there anything like the bits and pieces from other fantasy sets they offered over the years like from Mage Knight, they hold up well and look more than good enough.Speaking of Dwarven Forge, has anyone picked up the Wizkid's budget versions - "Warlock Tiles" I think they are called? They didn't look half bad from my brief glance at them.
How do I summon one of those?
This reminds me of the joke where the grad student finds a frog and picks it up. To his surprise it says if you kiss me I'll turn into a beautiful woman. He smiles and puts it in his pocket.
I saw the Wizkids tiles at my FLGS and I am considering them. I have gamed in a couple campaigns using a friend's Dwarven Forge and although I love the heft and overall quality of the pieces the one bummer was that they weren't ideal for putting scenes together on the fly (@ robertsconley if you disagree with me please share how you manage it!).Speaking of Dwarven Forge, has anyone picked up the Wizkid's budget versions - "Warlock Tiles" I think they are called? They didn't look half bad from my brief glance at them.
I dunno, in comparing companies you could just as easily say Wizkids is a large established company with enough capital to sustain new product and provide customer service while Dwarven Forge is a little company that needs Kickstarters just to fund projects. The big difference in my opinion is that Dwarven Forge is more artisanal and higher quality but with Wizkids you get the benefit of a big company who is able to churn these things out en masse. I really want to go with choice #1 but the banal, practical side of me says take choice #2.My 2 bits on this. Dwarven forge only makes tiles. They've been doing it for over a decade. WizKids is doing it today. Will they tomorrow when you decide you more tile? Maaaybe? Probably you'll be searching for then in the aftermarket for a higher price.
That said I think the two sided floor tile idea is brilliant.
No question it has the capital. But the question is will it keep doing it. Look at someone like Google. Do they need to shut down all those products that any other company would kill to be behind? No. They just lose interest or cease to see it as the most profitable way to use their limited resources. WizKids might do just the same.I dunno, in comparing companies you could just as easily say Wizkids is a large established company with enough capital to sustain new product and provide customer service while Dwarven Forge is a little company that needs Kickstarters just to fund projects. The big difference in my opinion is that Dwarven Forge is more artisanal and higher quality but with Wizkids you get the benefit of a big company who is able to churn these things out en masse. I really want to go with choice #1 but the banal, practical side of me says take choice #2.
Just keep in mind that there are two broad categories of Dwarven Forge. The ones you put together like tiles like the Dungeon and Cave pieces, and the ones you assemble like Cities, and Castle pieces. It would be very difficult to use the later two on the fly.. I have gamed in a couple campaigns using a friend's Dwarven Forge and although I love the heft and overall quality of the pieces the one bummer was that they weren't ideal for putting scenes together on the fly (@ robertsconley if you disagree with me please share how you manage it!).
If you build dioramas then there rarely never enough. If you do what I do and build out a "window" of where they are adventures then all you need is enough to cover a 3' by 3' area plus 50% to handle odd layouts. That much more doable. I exceeded that with my buy of the 1st DF kickstarter. Came under that with my cave buy largely because I decided to go with painted. With next dungeon ks (5th?) I opted in at the $10 and just bought the sets I wanted mostly add-ons that were useful (like the traps) or to add variety.My 2 bits on this. Dwarven forge only makes tiles. They've been doing it for over a decade. WizKids is doing it today. Will they tomorrow when you decide you more tile? Maaaybe? Probably you'll be searching for then in the aftermarket for a higher price.
Words fail me. Still, that's like a 12" figure right? right?