Demonsub is Five Leagues From The Borderlands

In Five Leagues From The Borderlands the game suggests the use of dungeon floorplans for certain types of games, such as exploring delves, which are basically multi-level dungeons or cave systems. Monster lares and site battles, such as an old castle or house, can also use dungeon tiles if so inclined.

I’ve been on the lookout for some suitable tiles to buy, or possibly to salvage from a board game but nothing really showed up, and getting a board game just for its playing surface seemed very expensive. I didn’t want to go with a full 3d plastic layout as this would get very expensive fast and require a lot of work to paint and make ready, not to mention taking up a lot of valuable storage space.

I did look into making my own from card and free to print floor plans but nothing I found was what I liked or was in a multi-layer pdf which I cannot access due to being tablet only as I don’t use a computer.

I did find a random online dungeon generator similar to Perilous Shores which I used to create the map for my campaign and I’ve already talked about in an earlier post.

The dungeon generator, called One Page Dungeon, produced these layouts after tweaking some of the settings.

I really like the old school, simple look of these and my thinking was to maybe print these out when I needed a dungeon and use counters or some other representation for the warband and enemies other than miniatures to play games when set in a dungeon. 

Then I discovered TTCombat did dungeon tiles in mdf. This wasn’t too expensive and wouldn’t take much work in painting up. The amount you got with set A was quite a lot and would produce many layouts, just what I was after. Also, they could be packed away using very little space. I ordered a set and painted them up.

I’m really happy with the results.

I added some of my scatter terrain I use with Frostgrave and it fits really well.

This is just what I was looking for and is going to be very useful for Five Leagues From The Borderlands and I’m looking forward to using it in my games.

Here’s some more pictures playing with a different set up.