Dungeonalia – Necrothrall does Drow (and other beasties)

Today I finally ran the game for 6 players. They had a blast. The spider tyrant caused the correct level of horror, one of the players refused to look at it for like 5 minutes. The game went on for around 6 hours, now my throat is hoarse and I’m knackered. They killed the spider tyrant after a brutal fight and one the scenario.

I also didn’t expect to win the monster prize. I’m genuinely humbled.

So with this final post I’ll bring this project to a close and start planning the next one-shot. I’m thinking crab people.

I’ve got a cleric in the group, and he can summon a spiritual weapon, so I’ve gave him options.  I got these from etsy.

They had a white prime, I wanted them to be bright. They then got a couple of coats of imperial fist yellow contrast to make them look radiant. Then I painted the flames. The base was pre-textured to look like sand, so that got a coat of vallejo pale sand, with a light wash of agrax.

I’ve done a few beasties. The first is a wizkids yeth hound, because I wanted something challenging to throw at the players. Again the sculpt isn’t great but it’ll do.  The others are a frog and an otter from Mantic’s naiad frame (I found them in a box by themselves under my desk). One of my players is a druid, I don’t know what help a frog and an otter will be, but the option is there for her to wild shape into them.

I’ve done a few elite drow. These are the wizkids Nolzur’s Marvelous Miniatures, they’re not the best sculpts but they are different enough that I can use them as more specialised super racist elves.

I’ve painted them up similarly to the other drow.

Another player character.  Again mostly done using contrast paints and a light ivory drybrush to pick out the details.

The flames were undercoated white and were given a coat of a yellow contrast. Once that dried I painted the top third to half of each flame with the only opaque orange that I own, which isn’t shite. Then I did the top half of each orange area with a deep red. Finally I did the very tips with a dark grey.

This was my first attempt at smouldering wood. So I started that by painting the wood. I used vallejo stonewall grey washed with agrax earthshade. Once dry I used flesh tearers red contrast around the base of the flames, pushing it outwards in where I thought would look natural.  Once dry I stippled on some dark brown over the red, overlapping it over onto the grey, then I stippled on some black around the flames, focusing in on where the heat would be the most intense.

A couple of my players needed miniatures for their characters, so here’s the first a dragonborn barbarian. The brief was a green dragonborn that doesn’t have massive tits, because why would a reptilian creature have boobs? So that’s what’s she’s getting. The miniature was painted with contrasts and was given a light drybrush of ivory to pick out the details.

This guy caused a bit of discussion on the unofficial hobby hangout.  It’s a wee dragon guy hatching from an egg that I got as freebie from an etsy seller. I also got this baby owlbear doing a sploot.

I just gave them a hit of contrast and a light ivory drybrush. Then picked out the teeth, beak and eyes. Finally I gave the rocks a drybrush, put some geek gaming scenics pine forest ground cover on the owlbear’s base and painted the rims.

I’ve painted up some scatter. Some of this came with the mantic wagon (and it fits quite nicely in the back), the rest I got in my advent calendar last year. My camera didn’t quite pick out the colour of the fish in the barrels, but trust me they’re slightly blue.

I’ve acquired a few wagons for this scenario, after all a merchant caravan needs well a caravan.  The 4 wheel one is from Great Escape Games, the 2 wheel with the horse is from Mantic and the the last one is a 3d print my mate Rob gave me.

For the base for the wood I used stonewall grey (vallejo), which I washed with agrax earthshade.  Once that was dry I gave them a quick drybrush with stonewall grey again. For the metal parts I just used a dark brown. The cloth was done with canvas (vallejo) which was washed with agrax again.