Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Dungeonalia Dungeon Deep Dive

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Apologies for being late to this particular party. It’s probably too late to do a pledge, but I’m going to try to finish up some Shatterpoint minis to clear the decks for my Dungeonalia project.

Dungeons for any other setting than SciFi. Is it a thing? Does it work?

There is a scene in Batman Begins where Batman fights a bunch of crooks in a maze of shipping containers. Could be considered a dungeon, although possibly not a very interesting one.

A warren of back alleys and side streets could be interesting, and would fit into virtually any time period. Think of the scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where Indy chases Marion in the basket.

Dungeonalia – what’s your entry in the contest?

It’s also a bit of an early spring cleaning challenge — two years ago I received the Core Space: First Born Kickstarter bundle, and after opening it up and looking at it, it promptly went on a shelf, never to be looked at again. I’m going to try to paint up all the figures and see how far through the campaign I can get by March.

Papercraft terrain – Lazy way of DIY or high skill building but on a different plane of existence?

Well, I won a Golden Button for what was largely a papercraft terrain project, so I may be a little biased 😉

Seriously though, I go back and forth on papercraft vs. MDF or resin/plastic terrain. I like building MDF kits, but I hate painting them. I’ve recently been painting the plastic terrain that comes with Star Wars: Shatterpoint, and I have to say I’m having most of the same issues that I have with MDF.

Given its fragile nature, I will generally use papercraft kits for one-off games, where I can’t justify investing in something more substantial, and I don’t think I’ll use the terrain again. That said, my Dracula project started out with a bunch of papercraft buildings I had built for a different project and stored for several years.

I keep looking at the bins of paper terrain I have and thinking that I should just recycle the ones I don’t think I’ll need again (I can always print and build new ones later). My wife says I should donate them to the local game shop, but then we’re back to the fragility issue — I can’t see a paper building lasting long in a game store/club environment.

When I first made the switch from Heroclix to “proper” tabletop gaming I bought a few of the Battle Systems kits — they seem like a happy medium in that they’re more robust than papercraft, easy to store, and you can build different things with them, but on the other hand, setup can take forever.