Terrain Crate wish list as often being a DM. Some of these
may already be cooked but I don’t see a list anywhere.

Long list, I know, but most of these I have as card board and
would love to move to plastic as you showed in the video, something that is more durable. Not that I want to hit anything with a hammer.

Fantasy:
– Doors: Open and closed and even better if you can create one that can be open or closed. But, lets not just have plain old doors. How about spiked gates/bars that can be raised and lowered?

– Floor Traps: Many dungeon crawler board games have traps. Spike traps, a trap having a hand that comes up and pulls the character under. Fire traps with flames. You displayed a pentagram, what would be cool is a heavily cracked floor with lava flow.

– Maps: Yes, maps in plastic that I can paint the way I want that are not paper that get crushed. Large maps that can be placed on a 32mm table or one I can put up on a wall. People can print water slide stickers to put the details. Maps can be used in many games other than D&D

– Scrolls: I know I saw magic books in the video, let us also have scrolls. Rolled up, partially torn, partially open and if open large enough so I can use water slide decals for words or text.

– Coffins: Coffins that can have an open top where a DM or player can place items into such as a sword or gold or scrolls or other items

– Banners and/or Sigils: Popular in video games and as a universal marker for a objective. These should be large, wavy and even tattered with v and double V bottoms. Large enough so they can be painted easily with whatever mark, crest or symbol one would like to use.

– Items: I know I saw bunched up armor and a sword in a rock, but individual items are required as well. Meaning, sword, axe, bows, spears etc. For tables you want food, goblets, bowls of fruit etc. Many games use food for health. Bottles of wine or whiskey would work well and many of WWII movie had soldiers held up in a farm house with at least some French wine. Even individual books both open and closed.

– Sorcerer’s or witches labs and familiars: I have not seen caldrons with boiling whatever, beakers of potions and whatever I would find Merlin’s lab. Large glass jars or interesting stuff, like a head or interesting plants with heads. Of course you already have the book shelves. A Witch may have some shrunken heads on the wall or frogs ready to be boiled with herbs. With the wizards and witches I would like to see the Owl as you have as well as perhaps a cat in different poses. A wolf, raven, hawk or eagle. It would be cool if you could have beakers that of different color liquid. Extra robes and hats should be able to hung on a wall.

– Pillars: There should be Egyptian, Roman and Greek columns. Large and small as well as full and broken. There are many games like Mythic Battles: Pantheon that can easily use those pieces. Broken floors and stair cases also work well and can be used in many scenarios. What would be cool is something that looks like the temple of Athena that is crumbling.

– The Town Portal: I always wanted a portal like that in Stargate SG-1. It could be used as a town portal for D&D type games or to teleport in SciFi games. If you make it such it can be on its end like Stargate SG-1 or on the ground like Diablo III then it could be used in multiple scenarios.

– Treasure Chests: Yes, I know, but I want them to open and close so I can put my own items inside. Some can overflow with cold, some should be cursed and other just empty. I want my players in a RPG not to know what they are getting until they open it.

– Ghosts: Yes, ghosts. In many games you have the dead coming to talk to you or direct you. I have never seen either clear or translucent ghostly figures that need zero painting. They are there to help direct you to another objective. I know that you can do this with plastic as my wife has many candle bases that are clear or translucent that are fairly ornate and sculpted. Some like glass but they are not.

– Reflecting Pools and Power Shrines: In many, many video games and even older D&D it was popular to get your health from drinking from a reflecting pool of great beauty or glowing shrines that the hero must go and touch to restore his health. These could be a statue of an angle, a knight or a demon for those not so nice shrines. These also make great objective markers. For the pools, they should be deep enough so that you can use the great water making items available to make water in the pools or so that you can place an image inside the pool to show something the lady from the water in the water who gives your hero strength. It would be cool if the shrines could have a way to be used with an LED to allow it to be lighted. A glowing bulb perhaps on top. Not necessarily as part of the kit, but made such that someone who is craft can make it glow with simple tools.

– The Dungeon: The Dungeon was often the jail. Primitive jails with iron bars, floors that are hay and wood. Shackles and torture devices used to extract information from prisoners would set a scene. Having skeletons of the poor souls left to die in the cells would be a nice touch.

– The Blacksmith: Key to many dungeon crawling games is to have your character get new armor or repair items you have or to have that character get unique items crafted with exotic gems. Yet, I have never ever seen a blacksmith set. One with a forge, anvil, hammer and other blacksmith tools including items spewed about the place that are either ready to be sold or levels disrepair – junk pile.

– The Merchant with all the cool stuff: Every dungeon crawler and fantasy has some element to have the character level up his cool toys (weapons). I have never seen the traveling merchants cart or cottage or whatever trope where the hero can go to level up his weapons or armor. This should include pieces of individual boots, helmets, armor, shields, swords, axes, etc. that one can put out for display. These do not even need to be to scale. The person can simply hold the item as part of his character to show he has leveled up an item. Since we do not have the stash bag in the physical world and it is mostly paper and pen, it would be nice to at least have the stash. Even better if you have a treasure chest your character has to store his items. One that opens and you can put your items inside, again, scale may not be necessary. Many games have dragon armor, or the Red Boots of Valor or whatever, I want to paint and pick those items up as actual pieces. I know there is a limit of unique items you can make but there is no limit on the color of paint I can use.

Science Fiction:
– Laser Turrets: This year is the 40th Anniversary of Star Wars. If you search under “X-Wing Star War Trench Run” you will see all many of home brewed laser turrets. What is needed is some affordable multi piece turrets where the turret can rotate and the guns go up and down. Given the number of X-Wing players in the world with their many tournaments and given this is year is the 40th anniversary, it seems this would be an instant hit provided they are affordable. 12 are required for the Trench Run. If they can be manufactured for $30 this would work great. Molded in gray but with exterior details that can be washed or dry brushed. Even for non-Star Wars fans, all the SciFi miniature games can use laser turrets.

– Power Generator: Affordable power generator units. These are objectives in many games. Power seems to be a powerful commodity in SciFi

– Repair Bays: Fully modeled Mech or vehicle repair bays. Structures where you can see cranes and other set pieces used to repair a 40ft tall Mech. For example, in Pacific Rift, the mechs laid on table looking flatbed truck for repairs and then lifted when ready. BattleTech literature talks about these large mech bays where arms and legs can be replaced. Turrets on vehicles are put into place for repairs etc. Think of a repair garage for scifi. Make sure there large doors that can be opened and closed. If done correctly, that can also be a hanger for WWII

WWII Items
– Field Items and Objectives: While I have seen some of these things I will discuss, there are not always easy to find or you need to purchase a bunch of models to get enough for a set piece. These includes spent shells not just unspent shells. Good to put around Flak guns or howitzers. Have the ammo crates but also spent and unspent rounds. Aircraft and many armor units use 50cal belted ammo. I have never seen long belts and spent 50cal ammo for effect. While you are at it, ammo boxes of various sizes. When you are done with ammo, med kits and crates full of supplies used for supply drops including the parachutes that were dropped with the crates.

– M*A*S*H: As in Mobile Army Surgical Hospital — Seems like this is a missing set piece including beds, cots, ambulance, surgical equipment, tents, siren, water tower, etc. required for a field hospital. This was not just the Korean theater like in the TV show.

– Field junk: Pictures of WWII show us a lot or rubble and broken down parts. Tank tracks, modern metal drums, chains, rope, tank wheels or and tires. Large rubber tires filled with sand make just as good a bullet stop as sand bags and were often used in a pinch for camps when possible.

– Tents and netting: As in actual scale tents and camouflage netting I can use to cover tanks or artillery.