Kev's Lounge

Kev's Lounge Fantasy Scenics: The Humble Hovel out now!

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:20:00 +0000

The Humble Hovel is finally here! This is the first of a series of 3D papercraft buildings, excellent for tabletop wargame and RPGs using miniatures.

Buy The Humble Hovel at Papercraft Dungeon now!

• A detailed, beautiful and customisable 3d papercraft building

The set includes a layered PDF, which allows you to customise the end model.
3 x Wall Options x 3 Door options x 3 Window Options x 3 Roof Options x 2 Roof Strut Options x 3 Indoor Floor Options x 12 Outdoor Ground Options = 5832 unique possible combinations!

We've also added the option to add a 1 inch grid to the floor for those of you who use them, though you can leave it gridless for use in miniature wargames.

The roof and walls can be removed to provide easy access to the interior. The design is reinforced quite cleverly to add surprising strength and durability to the completed model.

• Bonus Furniture Pack

The set includes a bonus 3d Furniture Pack, this includes:
• A table and chairs
• 2 beds
• A shelf
• A chest

You can change the floor textures in the PDF to match the floors in your hovel, as well as making the furniture items completely compatible with every Kev's Lounge Dungeon Tile set released to date!

• Fully illustrated, easy to follow instructions

65 page instruction manual, in PDF format, optimised for screen view to save you ink, and bookmarked for easy navigation. Details every step of the process with clear, full colour illustrations.

Miniatures used in pictures are strictly for illustration purposes and are not included in the purchase. Photography by Bronwyn Sharrock Photography.

A small preview

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:35:00 +0000

Yeah, I've been away a while again. All sorts of things have been keeping me busy, and here's a sneak peak of one of them.

The Humble Hovel is the first of a series of 3D buildings, excellent for tabletop games from Dungeons & Dragons to Warhammer. The roof and walls can be removed to provide easy access to the interior and it comes with a bonus pack of furniture items to decorate the place and provide some cover and terrain advantage in game. The furniture pack is designed to be completely compatible with every Kev's Lounge Dungeon Tile Set released to date.

Buy The Humble Hovel at www.papercraftdungeon.com now!

Kev's Lounge: The Web Comic

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:57:00 +0000

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"Kev's Lounge - A place where games are played and Coca-Cola is consumed. Risk, Axis and Allies, Zombies, Mordheim, Settlers of Catan and Dungeons and Dragons are but a few of the games discussed." Those words have been in the header bar for about as long as Kev's Lounge has existed, but they've never really made a lot of sense.

The way it all started, is that I finished highschool back at the end of 1998. We all went off to different colleges and the group dynamic kinda fell apart. At the end of 1999, I bought a copy of Risk, the classic one, and started inviting the kids around once a week to play, and that kinda cemented the group back together, giving us all a reason to hang out on a regular basis. We used to play in the lounge, hence "Kev's Lounge".

After a while, we started playing other games too... We went back and dug out all the games we used to play in high school, like Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, and a whole bunch of interesting new games we discovered along the way like Settler's of Catan, Mordheim, Axis and Allies and Risk 2210. It didn't really matter much which game we were playing... It was just a great way to spend time with friends.

As for "Kev's Lounge" as a title, back in 2004 we were all young and thought we were really hilarious and that other people would laugh themselves silly watching us hang out in the lounge playing our silly games. Kev's Lounge was originally going to be an online streaming podcast... and the only thing that really stopped it was that not a single one of us was willing to watch and edit the video down to something that would actually be watchable. Of course, it was only a couple years before some blokes invented a thing called YouTube and we got to see just how awful that idea was in the first place!

A few years later, I then went on to start this blog, and I was going to use it to talk about the games we played. If you look at some of the very first posts, that's exactly what I was doing. I found that pretty boring, so I started sharing the stuff that I'd made for the games we played instead, and that turned out to be pretty popular, so i kept doing it.

The original idea of the podcast stuck with me the whole time though, and I still think that there's a story worth telling. Back in highschool I used to draw comics, which I'd photocopy and distribute to anyone who cared to read them. I still have the original artwork somewhere, but I'm slightly embarrassed looking at it now, because my 15 year old self had a very warped idea of what constituted "cool!" Earlier this year, i thought I'd give it another try, and I landed up drawing the comic you see above. I haven't really carried on with it, because there is so much else going on in my life right now, but I think I'd like to explore this a little further. Develop some proper characters and come up with a decent long term story line. What do you guys think?

Kev's Lounge Fantasy Scenics: The Ominous Store Room launches!

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:04:00 +0000

A few of you have been waiting for this set for a while, and now it's finally here! This is the first Kev's Lounge premium product, coming in at a very reasonable introductory price of $3.99 ($4.99 under normal circumstances). The set continues the tradition of our incredibly popular Dungeon Tiles sets, but turns everything up to 11! These should be useful to anyone who uses 25mm miniatures in their games of Dungeons and Dragons, or Warhammer. These would be perfect for a subterranean variation of Mordheim when you get bored of fighting in broken down buildings.

Check out The Ominous Store Room at Papercraft Dungeon!

This wonderfully versatile set includes:

• 9 Brand New Kev's Lounge Dungeon Gigantic Rooms Tiles

These beautiful 6 x 6 inch tiles work seamlessly with all existing Kev's Lounge Dungeon tiles. They make use of the Kev's Lounge Starlinks System to keep them together, allowing you to create some enormous rooms for your most epic battles. Combined with the crate models you can create a beautifully labyrinthine, multi-level battleground for your next skirmish!

Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:

• 3 Different Textures: Stonework, Sandstone Slab, and the Kev's Lounge standard style: Flagstone

• Multiple grid options, including gridless, 1 inch and 1.5 inch, with a choice of styles for the grid lines

• Several 2.5D Hazard and Obstacle Markers Exclusive To This Set

As with every other Kev's Lounge Dungeon Tile set, you will find a great variety of hazard markers, also taking advantage of the layered PDF system to give you control of the floor background, and to add and adjust details to your liking.

• 8 "Neatly Stacked Crates" Models

These are the basic building blocks of the set. They come in a variety of sizes, and each model is completely unique. They are both really easy to make for beginners who are just starting out in papercraft scenery, and useful across the board to anyone. They serve as obstacles, and create higher ground, to take your skirmishes to a new dimension.

Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:

• Additional optional details, like dirt and mold that can be turned on and off giving you a huge range of control over the look of your crates.

• 6 "Incomplete Neat Stacks" Models

These are slightly more complex than the Neat Stacks. Basically, these are like the Neat Stacks, but with a few boxes missing They will offer a little more challenge to the intermediate papercraft modeller, and they look really good alongside the Neat Stacks. They serve as obstacles, and act as a "staircase" to the higher ground.

Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:

• Additional optional details, like dirt and mold that can be turned on and off giving you a huge range of control over the look of your crates.

• Optional colour variety, to make the crate stacks less uniform.

• 5 "Disorganised Crate Clusters" Models

These are really interesting pieces that add an immense amount of visual flavour to a dungeon scene. Each is a unique pile of crates stacked in a random, haphazard fashion. These are a little fiddly to put together, providing a satisfying challenge to the more seasoned papercraft modellers, while not being too difficult for their less experienced brethren. These provide a visually interesting bit of cover terrain that would not be out of place in any dungeon, or street scene. These are particularly great for skirmish games that use visual reference to measure cover.

Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:

• Additional optional details, like dirt and mold that can be turned on and off giving you a huge range of control over the look of your crates.

• Optional colour variety, to make the crate stacks less uniform.

• Fully illustrated, easy to follow instructions

36 page instruction manual, in PDF format, optimised for screen view to save you ink. Details every step of the process with clear, full colour illustrations.

Check out The Ominous Store Room at www.papercraftdungeon.com!

Miniatures used in pictures are strictly for illustration purposes and are not included in the purchase.

Free Potion Counters for D&D

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:08:00 +0000

This set adds 6 new potions to the previous set that made a simple task of keeping track of potions and ammuntion during combat in Dungeons and Dragons . I've designed them in such a way as to make it very easy to get nice attractive double sided counters that are perfectly lined up. Single sided counters are a pain when they're upside down!

I'm sure you'll agree that these are some really nice looking counters!

Download Kev's Lounge: More Potions Counters at Papercraft Dungeon

You may also be interested in our excellent range of free dungeon tiles:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

Free Gold Coin Counters for D&D and other Fantasy RPGs

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:26:00 +0000

I'm sure you all remember my other counters designed to make it easier to keep track of gold in Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy RPGs. This accessory is an add-on to the previous set of Gold Coin counters and adds denominations of 500 and 1000 Gold Coins, for those heroes that love carrying huge amounts of gold on their person at all times. To illustrate just how insane that sort of behaviour is, the tokens include accurate illustrations of piles of 500 and 1000 gold coins on them.

I've designed them in such a way as to make it very easy to get nice attractive double sided counters that are perfectly lined up. Single sided counters are a pain when they're upside down! I've also taken into account the fact that the tokens are pretty big, and to get away from having gigantic square tokens, I've given them an interesting octagonal shape.

You should only need one or two copies of the first page, but you may want to make several of the page full of 1000 Gold Coins tokens in case your party wins the lotto on their next quest. Got a similar add-on set for the Silver being worked on (amongst various other projects), and perhaps copper will come soon after that. Gotta say I feel really sorry for the party that has to walk around with enough copper pieces to actually need those though! How many of you want tokens for electrum pieces? They're kinda old school, but I'll make some if enough people want them. Leave a comment below!

Use the counters like you'd use Energy in Risk 2210, or money in Monopoly. The denominations are marked by size in addition to the printed detail so that you can tell them apart at a glance.

Download Kev's Lounge: 500 and 1000 Gold Coins Counters at Papercraft Dungeon

You'll definitely want to check out the other sets of coin tokens:
Gold Coins
Silver Coins
Copper Coins
Platinum Coins

You may also be interested in our excellent range of free dungeon tiles:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

Modular Outdoor Battle Tiles: Rocklands, Crosses and Junctions, and Free Dungeon Doors!

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:46:00 +0000

Yeah, it's been a while... But I'm back again! The good news is that while I've been gone, I've spent a lot of time working on some awesome stuff that I'm certain you guys are going to love.

To celebrate my return, and to say thank you to all of you for your years of support, I present to you the most awesome free set I have created to date! Seriously guys... it makes my other stuff look amateur by comparison.

This is the second of several sets of modular tiles that assemble into a large battlemap for your outdoor battles in Dungeons and Dragons and other such roleplaying games that use miniatures for combat. They are scaled to work well with most popular brands of 25/28mm miniatures, so they may even be useful to players of Warhammer as a quick battle ground layout.

The Rocklands sets are designed to represent an outdoor area with barren sandy low ground and rocky high ground, but are also fantastic for representing natural caverns and tunnels that have a more organic shape than man made dungeons. This set features 10 stunningly detailed outdoor tiles that work seamlessly with the first set to give you a huge range of options. It also includes the Kev's Lounge Starlinks system to keep the tiles together and in place, and more importantly it includes 3 amazing dungeon doors, that are not only superb in their detail, but also have moving parts. That's right ladies and gentlemen... These doors open and close!

In the interests of stepping up my game and being the professional I'd like the world to see me as, I have also included a fully illustrated 12 page instruction booklet in PDF format, optimised for screen view, (but more than suitable for printing) to help you put it all together with the least amount of confusion. However, Jim Pacek over carjackedseraphim.blogspot.com has posted an alternative method for making the tiles in this post. Thanks for the support Jim! It's always nice to see my stuff being used!

Through the magic of the Layered PDF the set has options for a 1 inch grid which is useful for Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Ed and 4th Ed combat rules, which can be turned off for those who use miniatures but prefer a more organic and natural movement system.

Download Kev's Lounge: Rocklands Set 2 from Papercraft Dungeon! It's free!

The villainous necromancer Sunambral The Blackheart ambushes the party with his undead army before they even enter his subterranean lair!

The stalwart adventurers stand before the grim, aged door of the dungeon and pause a moment to get over their fear of the horrors that will greet them once they enter.

A good look at the beautifully detailed double doors featured in this set. Yes, they do open, and they look damn good while doing it!

Combine with the Rocklands Straights and Corners, Dungeon Corridors Tiles, Huge Room Dungeon Tiles, Small Room Dungeon Tiles and Bigger Room Dungeon Tiles to add even more variety to your battles!

Dungeons and Dragons is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast. Warhammer is a trademark of Games Workshop. Used without permission. No challenge to their status is intended. Miniatures in photographs are for scale purposes only.

Free Platinum Coin Counters for D&D and other Fantasy RPGs

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:28:00 +0000

Finally, the last of this collection of coin counters, Platinum, has arrived! This set of counters is designed to make it easier to keep track of platinum in Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy RPGs. I've designed them in such a way as to make it very easy to get nice attractive double sided counters that are perfectly lined up. Single sided counters are a pain when they're upside down!

Currently the set comes in 5 denominations: 1, 5, 10, 50 and 100. You will probably want to make a few copies, particularly of the 100 copper coin pieces. You'll want at least 4 each of the 1's and 10's for each player and a bucket load of 100's if you need to keep track of high volumes of cash.

The Gold, Silver, and Copper coins are already out.

Use the counters like you'd use Energy in Risk 2210, or money in Monopoly. The denominations are marked by size in addition to the printed detail so that you can tell them apart at a glance.

Download Kev's Lounge: Platinum Coin Counters at Papercraft Dungeon

You may also be interested in our excellent range of free dungeon tiles:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

Free Copper Coin Counters for D&D and other Fantasy RPGs

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:16:00 +0000

Sorry to keep you all waiting. Here are the copper coins at last. This set of counters is designed to make it easier to keep track of copper in Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy RPGs. I've designed them in such a way as to make it very easy to get nice attractive double sided counters that are perfectly lined up. Single sided counters are a pain when they're upside down!

Currently the set comes in 5 denominations: 1, 5, 10, 50 and 100. You will probably want to make a few copies, particularly of the 100 copper coin pieces. You'll want at least 4 each of the 1's and 10's for each player and a bucket load of 100's if you need to keep track of high volumes of cash.

The Gold and Silver Coins are already out. Platinum will be out soon.

Use the counters like you'd use Energy in Risk 2210, or money in Monopoly. The denominations are marked by size in addition to the printed detail so that you can tell them apart at a glance.

Download Kev's Lounge: Copper Coin Counters at Papercraft Dungeon

You may also be interested in our excellent range of free dungeon tiles:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

Free Silver Coin Counters for D&D and other Fantasy RPGs

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:47:00 +0000

Following on from last week's Gold Coin counters, this set of counters is designed to make it easier to keep track of silver in Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy RPGs. I've designed them in such a way as to make it very easy to get nice attractive double sided counters that are perfectly lined up. Single sided counters are a pain when they're upside down!

Currently the set comes in 5 denominations: 1, 5, 10, 50 and 100. You will probably want to make a few copies, particularly of the 100 silver coin pieces. You'll want at least 4 each of the 1's and 10's for each player and a bucket load of 100's if you need to keep track of high volumes of cash.

The Gold Coins and Copper Coins are out already. and Platinum will be out soon, and after that I may do sets with higher denominations.

Use the counters like you'd use Energy in Risk 2210, or money in Monopoly. The denominations are marked by size in addition to the printed detail so that you can tell them apart at a glance.

Download Kev's Lounge: Silver Coin Counters at Papercraft Dungeon

You may also be interested in our excellent range of free dungeon tiles:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

Free Gold Coin Counters for D&D and other Fantasy RPGs

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Tue, 25 May 2010 02:40:00 +0000

Finally back after a long absence. Very long story and I won't bore you with it, but to say sorry I bring a gift of gold! This is a set of counters designed to make it easier to keep track of gold in Dungeons and Dragons and other fantasy RPGs. I started with Gold cos Gold Pieces are one of the most common forms of currency in fantasy settings, and that means that they will be pretty useful to most fantasy role players. They'd even be good in a Mordheim campaign. I've designed them in such a way as to make it very easy to get nice attractive double sided counters that are perfectly lined up. Single sided counters are a pain when they're upside down!

Currently the set comes in 5 denominations: 1, 5, 10, 50 and 100. You will probably want to make a few copies, particularly of the 100 gold coin pieces. You'll want at least 4 each of the 1's and 10's for each player and a bucket load of 100's if you need to keep track of high volumes of cash.

Silver Coin, Copper Coin and Platinum Coins sets are out now! I've also just added an add-on for this set to give you tokens for 500 and 1000 Gold Coins.

Use the counters like you'd use Energy in Risk 2210, or money in Monopoly. The denominations are marked by size in addition to the printed detail so that you can tell them apart at a glance.

Download Kev's Lounge: Gold Coin Counters at Papercraft Dungeon

You may also be interested in our excellent range of free dungeon tiles:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

Journeying in the Dark: Kev's Lounge Discovers Descent

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:54:00 +0000

The Game

Descent: Journeys in the Dark by Fantasy Flight Games sat on my shelf for 5 months before we even gave it a go. That was a huge mistake! As we have only recently found out, this is one of the most fun games that has ever been played here in the old lounge (which is in fact a dining room) and since that first game, Descent has become the game of choice and we've played almost nothing else.

Descent is basically your average dungeon crawl RPG distilled and refined to its very essence. You have a dungeon and it's loaded with monsters and treasure. One player will take the role of the Overlord... He controls the monsters and tells the story. You could say he's something like the Game Master, except that he's actually competing with the players rather than merely facilitating their adventures. He can win the game by causing the heroes to fail in their mission. The other players take the roles of the heroes, and they progress through the dungeon killing monsters and looting treasure and gaining advantages which gradually make them strong enough to eventually kill even the mightiest of dragons! They work as a team against the Overlord and can win by completing their quest before he kills them all.

Each game session revolves around a single self contained quest. The box includes a booklet with 9 such pre-written quests and several additional official and fanmade quests can be downloaded from their website to make sure you always have something new to play. While most RPGs are based around roleplaying (duh) this game is purely about the action, so while the quests do have stories, the stories are really just there to give each dungeon some flavour and are relatively light. The monsters are there to be killed not for conversation!

The heroes, similarly, are handled with action in mind. The box includes 20 hero character cards each with a corresponding miniature figure. The illustration and name give some clue to each character's background, but otherwise the card is concerned with the game related specifics like stats and special rules, and in this game it is all you really need. The way you manoeuvre your character in combat and how to best use his/her special ability is really all that matters. The hero cards offer a great deal of variety. Some are strongly focused either on Magic, Melee or Ranged combat, and others that are multidisciplined or simply jacks-of-all-trades. Some heroes will have a lot of hit points, and some will move faster. Each hero also has a special ability unique to them that gives them a specific advantage. Further variety is added by the skill decks and by your choice of starting equipment. It is entirely possible to play the same hero multiple times and still have a different game each time because of a different array of skills and equipment. The heroes start off relatively average but get stronger as the game progresses. While there is no true level advancement system, the characters are made stronger through the purchase or looting of better equipment and treasure can be spent to add additional skills or to make you stronger in a specific combat discipline.

The Overlord's job is to reveal the story elements of each quest to the players as they progress and to control the monsters. He is also equipped with a deck of cards that allow him to add new monsters to the table or augment the abilities of the monsters already there. The deck also allows him to spring traps on the heroes to slow them down and do some damage to them to soften them up. The deck also acts as a time limiter of sorts to keep the game from lasting forever. Each time it's used up and reshuffled, and each time a hero dies they lose conquest tokens and when those are gone the game is over and if they haven't completed their quest they have lost and the Overlord has triumphed.

The bulk of the game revolves around turn based tactical combat. Heroes manoeuvre and attack monsters and vice versa. Movement is handled with a grid system with each hero and monster having a speed stat dictating how many squares they can move in their turns. Attacks are based on a clever dice-based system that is both simple and quick to handle. The box includes a special set of dice that allow any attack to be resolved with a single roll and that speeds things up quite nicely. There are 3 controller dice, one each for Melee (Red), Ranged (Blue) and Magic (White) attacks. Then there are a series of dice which I think of as Augmentation Dice. Yellow ones enhance range significantly but do little extra damage, while the green ones add extra damage but do little for your range. Finally there are the black Power Dice that just add a little extra to range or damage. The weapon you have equipped dictates which controller die and augmentation dice you'll roll, while your heroes aptitude in the relevant combat discipline dictates how many power dice you get. It's simply a matter of rolling that handful of dice and adding up the range counters to see if you reach your target and then adding up the damage markers to see how much you hurt him. Each roll also gives a certain amount of surges which can be spent to activate extra abilities that the weapon in question has.

The game is surprisingly enjoyable... At it's core the mechanics are simple and efficient as those of Risk, and that allows for a fast paced and exciting game. The game itself takes a few hours to play, but time flies and you're never bored. A word of caution though: Don't play it in the evening if you have to be up early the next day, particularly if you are playing for the first time and are not familiar with the rules. It can easily take 6 hours to finish a quest even though it says 2- 4 hours on the box and it's going to take longer if you have to constantly refer to the rulebook. The rulebook is also not as well written as it could be, and often the rule you need is not where you expect it to be, and at other times it's just plain confusing.

Miniatures

There are 60 monsters miniatures in the box.
9 Beastmen (More like Beastman from Masters of the Universe than the goatlike gors from Warhammer)
9 Skeleton Archers
9 Spiders
6 Hellhounds
6 Sorcerors
6 Razorwings (Something like gigantic vampire bats)
3 Nagas (Gigantic snakes with human-like heads rather than the kind from Warcraft)
3 Manticores
3 Ogres
2 Giants
2 Demons (kinda reminiscent of the Balrog from LotR)
2 Dragons

The monsters come in 2 different colours of plastic, Red and Cream. The cream miniatures represent average joe beasts with lowly stats while the red ones represent what we have come to call "bosses" with better stats and extra abilities.
These minis have a lot of value outside of this game too if you play Dungeons and Dragons or any other game that uses fantasy miniatures. The Dragons, Giants, Demons, Ogres, Manticores, Nagas, Hellhounds and Spiders are particularly good. The Razorwings and Beastmen don't have corresponding creatures in the Monstrous Manual, but with a little creativity you could use them as something else (the beastmen would make good unarmed bugbears for example). The Skeletons and sorcerors are both quite usable and have existing counterparts, it's just that there are better miniatures available for both, and the scale is slightly smaller than standard so these minis might look a little out of place.

There are also 20 unique hero miniatures, which cover a nice mix of races and classes.
2 Male Human Wizards
2 Male Orc Warriors
2 Male Human Rangers
2 Male Human Warriors
2 Female Human Wizards
A Male Minotaur Warrior
A Female Elven Rogue
A Female Human Rogue
A Male Death Knight
A Male Orc Wizard
A Female Human Warrior
A Male Elven Battlemage
A Male Orc Rogue
A Male Lizardfolk Barbarian
A Male Human Rogue

All the figures are pretty decent in quality with reasonably good sculpting detail for what they are. They don't quite measure up to the vastly superior metal miniatures or even the Games Workshop plastics, but those are in a different class designed with a different purpose in mind and these are just fine for what they are. You could easily use them with other miniatures in other games if you wanted though. The scale may be a bit of an issue however, as these figures seem markedly smaller than most commonly available brands. They would work okay with the old Ral Partha figures but they are noticeably smaller than the GW and Reaper stuff and certainly smaller than the D&D minis available currently. The women, rogues and rangers might work, but the warriors look a little puny. The Orcs are way too small by modern standards being smaller than the average human mini, and the minotaur is barely big enough to cut it as a GW Gor, but you may find some use for them by using them as something else.

The miniatures are quite paintable though I have found that it requires a little more patience and quite a bit of care to get right. The moldlines are more tricky to remove than usual as the plastic is soft and a little rubbery, and because the moldlines tend to run through tricky areas like the hair and armour. The plastic is also a little resistant to water-based paints. The detail is pretty good, but it's not as clean and crisp and pronounced as the detail you'd find on a good metal mini, or even on a GW plastic one. This means that in a lot of cases simply drybrushing the mini won't pick it all out, so you do need to do some manual layering to make the most of it. A painted Descent miniature isn't going to win any painting contests, but the extra colour does a lot to bring them to life and can really add to the beauty of the individual pieces.

If you enjoy board games you may also be interested our reviews for Risk 2210AD and Zombies!!!

Is Kev's Lounge dead? Definitely not!

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:50:00 +0000

Hi guys... There has been some speculation that this blog and all the associated projects have been abandoned. That is to be expected I suppose, given the amount of time that has passed since anything has been posted here, but I'm here to tell you all that reports of this blog's death have been greatly exaggerated!

The short explanation for my absence over the last 4 months is that I haven't had much spare time as my graphic design business has been keeping me incredibly busy. I have had some time, just not enough time. The dungeon tiles and counters I create for Kev's Lounge generally take a fair bit of time to create. There are ways I could speed up the production I suppose, but in my mind that'd only cheapen what I'm trying to do here. I do it for the art, and I don't like taking shortcuts. There's a sense of satisfaction I get from the pieces I produce, knowing that I've created something that looks good to myself and to anyone who downloads and uses it. Every piece that I design gets built and added to my collection and gets used at the game sessions that the crew and I hold here weekly, and if it's not ready for my games table, I won't put it online.

Here are some previews of the various projects that will be posted here in the near future:

New Dungeon Hazard and Obstacle markers. Got a big set of these on the way as soon as I finish up some of the last bits of artwork. The set will include all the markers already released in the dungeon tile sets as well as a several new markers to complement them. Pictured above are some of the new rubble markers, a chest marker and 2 bedroll markers.

The second set in the Rocklands outdoor tiles. The first set was limited to a serpentine linear trail, while this set includes crossroad sections and t-junctions making this set infinitely more useful! Naturally it will also include more hazard and obstacle markers, and like it's predecessor it will come with a 1" grid or without one. Also in the pipeline are a set of proper instructions for the assembly and a 1.5" grid for the Mage Knight crowd.

Brand new sets of tokens to follow on from the Ammo set. These sets are focused on Supplies and Money. Pictured above: One of the new Potion tokens, an Olive Oil token. a Standard Rations token and a Gold Coin token. The finished sets will include over 30 new double sided token designs with multiple denominations of all the common coin types, a range of ration types, a variety of consumables like spell components, and several new potions and poisons. Silver Coins and Gold Coins are now available!

There are several other projects on the drawing board, including further expansions to the dungeon tiles allowing for non rectangular rooms and angled and curving corridors. There will also be new papercraft doors in a variety of styles which will be a great improvement in both style and appearance on the previous ones.

Lastly, I intend to spend more time on articles for this site including reviews and possibly tutorials so that it doesn't sit quiet in between projects like it has in the past. Lately we've been playing a lot of Descent here in Kev's Lounge so I may write about that a little in the coming weeks while I get the new sets finished up. If you have any thoughts on things you'd like to see, please leave a comment!

Modular Battle Tiles: Rocklands, Straights and Corners

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:02:00 +0000

Thought it may be time to get out of the dungeon and in to the open air! This is the first of several sets of modular tiles that assemble into a large battlemap for your outdoor battles in Dungeons and Dragons and other such roleplaying games that use miniatures for combat. They are scaled to work well with most popular brands of 25/28mm miniatures, so they may even be useful to players of Warhammer as a quick battle ground layout.

The Rocklands sets are designed to represent an outdoor area with barren sandy low ground and rocky high ground, but are also fantastic for representing natural caverns and tunnels that have a more organic shape than man made dungeons. This first set includes a set of straights and corners and includes transition pieces to link it up to the Kev's Lounge Dungeon Corridors. The second set in this series, Rocklands: Crosses and Tee-Junction s is out now! Look out for future sets which will add more options. It also includes the Kev's Lounge Starlinks system to keep the tiles together and in place.

This set comes in 2 varieties. The first has a 1 inch grid which is useful for Dungeons and Dragons 3rd Ed and 4th Ed combat rules, and the other version has no grid for those who use miniatures but prefer a more organic and natural movement system.

Download Kev's Lounge: Rocklands Set 1 from Papercraft Dungeon! It's free!

Combine with the Corridors, Huge Room Dungeon Tiles, Small Room Dungeon Tiles and Bigger Room Dungeon Tiles to add even more variety to your battles!

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Make your own Gelatinous Cube Miniature!

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:40:00 +0000

I've been pondering how I'd do this for years... decades even! Ever since I first opened my first copy of the Dungeons and Dragons 2nd ed Monstrous Manual way back in 1996. Last week while I was working on the forthcoming Dungeon Dressing set to go with the Dungeon Tiles inspiration hit me! This Cube is fairly easy to put together and uses Ink-Jet Transparencies and 2 Part Epoxy Resin.

Follow the link below to download the ZIP file, which contains the outline and art for the Cube and a PDF containing instructions on how to build it.

Download Kev's Lounge: Free Gelatinous Cube Model at Papercraft Dungeon

Once you've built the Cube, you may want to give it a nice cosy dungeon to roam around:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Door Standees
Free Open Dungeon Door Standees

Not keen on spending the rest of his life being digested, Wulfgar Wulfgarsen wisely makes a run for it…

Kev's Lounge Twitter Feed

noreply@blogger.com (Kevin) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:38:00 +0000

Kev's Lounge now has a Twitter feed! Follow us to find out when new stuff is coming out and get feedback on our progress with our various projects.

Free Open Dungeon Door Standees for use with 25mm Miniatures

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:05:00 +0000

This is an add-on to the Simple Wooden Dungeon Doors Set, rather than a full set in it's own right. It contains 3 papercraft door standees representing open dungeon doors. These are slightly more complex than the doors in the main set and it takes some patience and care to put these together, but if you have had any experience with papercraft modelling you should find putting these together is not too difficult. These should be useful to anyone who uses 25mm miniatures in their games of Dungeons and Dragons, or Warhammer. These would be perfect for a subterranean variation of Mordheim when you get bored of fighting in broken down buildings.

The PDF contains a single page with all the parts needed to make 3 Open Dungeon Door Standees.

Download Kev's Lounge: Free Open "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Door Standees at Papercraft Dungeon

These are for use with our Free Dungeon Tile sets:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

You may also be interested in our Free Counters
Free Potion and Ammunition Counters

In the dungeons danger lurks behind every door!

Free Dungeon Doors for use with 25mm Miniatures

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:27:00 +0000

This is the first set of Dungeon Door standees for use with my Flagstone Dungeon Tiles. This set was built with low level dungeons in mind, and for that reason I've designed the doors to look simple and rustic. The kinds of doors you might expect to find on a farmer's cottage or inside an old mine. These doors are old and just a little rotten. You could break 'em down with your bare hands if you didn't mind spending hours picking out the splinters. These should be useful to anyone who uses 25mm miniatures in their games of Dungeons and Dragons, or Warhammer. These would be perfect for a subterranean variation of Mordheim when you get bored of fighting in broken down buildings.

As with the Dungeon tile sets I've included a few extras like a marker for a hole in the wall and a shelf packed with books and other odds and ends that the villain might have in store for the heroes.

This is the first set of many planned Dungeon Door sets... In the future you can expect to see some wooden doors in a more grand style, iron doors, stone doors and concealed and secret doors.

Download Kev's Lounge: Free "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Doors at Papercraft Dungeon

Contents:

Page 1: 5 x Closed "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Door Standees.

Page 2: 1 x "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Door with Blade Trap Standee, 1 x Ajar "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Door Standee, 1 x Bolted "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Door Standee, 2 x Locked "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Door Standees.

Page 3: 1 x Necromancer's Shelf Standee, 1 x Hole in the Wall Standee, 1 x Bead Curtain Entranceway Standee, 2 x Broken "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Door Standees.

Download Kev's Lounge: Free "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Doors

These are for use with our Free Dungeon Tile sets:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

You may also be interested in our Free Counters
Free Potion and Ammunition Counters

Free Ammunition and Potion Counters for D&D

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:38:00 +0000

This is a set of counters designed to make it easier to keep track of potions and ammunition during combat in Dungeons and Dragons . I've designed them in such a way as to make it very easy to get nice attractive double sided counters that are perfectly lined up. Single sided counters are a pain when they're upside down!

All the ammunition items and thrown weapons in the 4th Edition Player's Handbook have been included, except throwing hammers as I doubt many people would equip themselves with more than one of those.

I've included throwing knives and throwing axes, though I don't see these as Daggers and Hand Axes respectively. Throwing knives are generally pretty lousy for close combat being light and well balanced for throwing, so you may want to treat them as shurikens in terms of stats, though it's entirely up to your DM. As for the throwing axes, I've treated them more like tomahawks, but I must confess I don't really know too much about those, having grown up on the opposite side of the world to where those were popular. I've imagined them being relatively small, about 10 inches in length and weighing relatively little so that characters might carry a few of them... In terms of stats I'd be inclined to treat them as shurikens too, but if someone out there has a better suggestion let me know. I've only included 2 Javelin Counters as it seems highly unlikely that there'd be many people going dungeon bashing with whole bunches of pointy 10' poles strapped to their backs... let me know if you think there should be more.

UPDATED! Download Kev's Lounge: Ammunition and Potion Counters at Papercraft Dungeon

Contents:

Page 1: 4 x Double Sided Green Potion Counters, 4 x Double Sided Orange Potion Counters, 4 x Double Sided White Potion Counters, 4 x Double Sided Red Potion Counters, 8 x Double Sided Single Throwing Knife Counters.

Page 2: 8 x Double Sided Single Shuriken Counters, 8 x Double Sided Single Sling Bullet Counters, 8 x Double Sided Single Throwing Axe Counters.

Page 3: 3 x Double Sided 5 Throwing Knives Counters, 3 x Double Sided 5 Shurikens Counters, 3 x Double Sided 5 Sling Bullets Counters, 3 x Double Sided 5 Throwing Axes Counters, 2 x Double Sided Single Javelin Counters.

Page 4: 8 x Double Sided Single Arrow Counters, 8 x Double Sided Single Crossbow Bolt Counters.

Page 5: 4 x Double Sided 5 Arrows Counters, 2 x Double Sided 10 Arrows Counters, 4 x Double Sided 5 Crossbow Bolts Counters, 2 x Double Sided 10 Crossbow Bolts Counters.

Page 6:2 x Double Sided 10 Throwing Knives Counters, 2 x Double Sided 10 Sling Bullets Counters, 2 x Double Sided 10 Shurikens Counters, 2 x Double Sided 10 Throwing Axes Counters.

Use the counters like you'd use Energy in Risk 2210, or money in Monopoly. The denominations are marked by size in addition to the printed detail so that you can tell them apart at a glance. Different ammo types are also coloured differently so that it's very clear which ammo is which.

There are 4 different Potion counters, but they have been identified by colour rather than type. You can decide whether Healing Potions are green or red in your world.

UPDATED! Download Kev's Lounge: Ammunition and Potion Counters

You may also be interested in our excellent range of free dungeon tiles:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles For Use With 25mm Miniatures - UPDATED!

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:26:00 +0000

Freshly updated with 3 whole extra pages of corridor tiles to give you even more flexibility in building your dungeons. These should be useful to anyone who uses 25mm miniatures in their games of Dungeons and Dragons , or Warhammer. These would be perfect for a subterranean variation of Mordheim when you get bored of fighting in broken down buildings.

Contents:
Page 1: 1 x Crossroads Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x Corner Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x 40' Long Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x Blood Splat Marker, 1 x Fissure Hazard, 1 x Inferno Hazard.

Page 2: 2 x T-Junction Dungeon Corridor Tiles, 1 x 30' Long Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x 10' Long Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x 20' Long Dungeon Corridor Tile.

Page 3: 1 x 50' Long Dungeon Corridor Tile, 4 x 20' Long Dungeon Corridor Tiles.

NEW! Page 4: 2 x Corner Dungeon Corridor Tiles,, 1 x Left Shift Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x Right Shift Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x 35' Long Dungeon Corridor Tile.

NEW! Page 5: 1 x Corner Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x Left S-Bend Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x Right S-Bend Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x 10' Long Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x 25' Long Dungeon Corridor Tile.

NEW! Page 6: 1 x Crossroads Dungeon Corridor Tile, 1 x 20' x 20' Corner Dungeon Corridor Tile, 3 x 15' Long Dungeon Corridor Tiles, 1 x Trip Wire Hazard Marker, 1 x Stone Wall Marker.

Download Kev's Lounge: Flagstone Corridor Tiles v1.1 from Papercraft Dungeon
You'll also want the other sets:
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles
Free "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Door Standees

Combine with the Huge Room Dungeon Tiles, Small Room Dungeon Tiles and Bigger Room Dungeon Tiles to build any dungeon you can imagine!

Free Dungeon Room Tiles For Use With 25mm Miniatures-Huge Rooms

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:47:00 +0000

This is our biggest Dungeon Tile Set yet! 7 pages worth of room sections, hazards and obstacles to make some positively huge rooms in your table top dungeon. These should be useful to anyone who uses 25mm miniatures in their games of Dungeons and Dragons, or Warhammer. These would be perfect for a subterranean variation of Mordheim when you get bored of fighting in broken down buildings.

Download Kev's Lounge: Flagstone Dungeon Huge Room Tiles at Papercraft Dungeon

Contents:

Page 1: 1 x 40' x 10' Dungeon Room End Section Tile, 1 x 40' x 10' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile, 1 x Glue Trap Hazard, 1 x Oil Slick Hazard, 1 x Buzz Saw Hazard, 1 x Poison Cloud Hazard, 1 x Punji Sticks Hazard.

Page 2: 1 x 40' x 10' Dungeon Room End Section Tile, 1 x 40' x 10' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile, 3 x Bear Trap Hazards, 2 x Sprung Bear Trap Markers, 1 x Net Snare Hazard, 1 x Bear Trap Cluster Hazard.

Page 3: 2 x 20' x 20' Dungeon Room Corner Section Tiles, 2 x 10' x 10' Dungeon Balcony Corner Section Tile, 1 x Potted Plant Obstacle Marker, 2 x Persian Carpet Markers.

Page 4: 2 x 20' x 20' Dungeon Room Corner Section Tiles, 2 x 10' x 10' Dungeon Balcony Corner Section Tile, 1 x Steps Marker, 4 x Drain Grate Markers.

Page 5: 2 x 20' x 20' Dungeon Room Edge Section Tiles, 2 x 10' x 10' Dungeon Balcony Edge Section Tile, 1 x Trapdoor Marker, 4 x Doric Column Obstacle Markers.

Page 6: 2 x 20' x 20' Dungeon Room Edge Section Tiles, 2 x 10' x 10' Dungeon Balcony Edge Section Tile, 2 x Collapsed Doric Column Obstacle Markers, 2 x Doric Column Obstacle Markers.

Page 7: 1 x 20' x 20' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile with Mosaic, 1 x 20' x 20' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile with Fountain, 1 x Stair case, 4 x Praying Pilgrim Statue Obstacle Markers, 2 x Collapsed Pilgrim Statue Obstacle Markers.

Download Kev's Lounge: Flagstone Dungeon Huge Room Tiles

You'll also want the other sets:
Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles
Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles
Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles
Free "Simple Wooden" Dungeon Door Standees

Many possible arrangements can be made with the tiles in this set. These are just some suggestions.
With more than one copy of the set you can make some absolutely enormous rooms!

Large rooms need some help keeping the ceiling up, and are seldom empty. The set includes pillars and statues and other scenery markers to add some realism and variety to your dungeon rooms.

Use the obstacle markers to your strategic advantage in your games.

Use the Hazard markers to indicate the places where your character should watch his step in combat. Is that Persian Rug just a pretty decoration or is something nefarious lurking beneath it?

Combine with the Corridor Dungeon Tiles, Small Room Dungeon Tiles and Bigger Room Dungeon Tiles to build any dungeon you can imagine!

An interesting (unofficial) expansion for Risk 2210AD

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:02:00 +0000

While there will always be a purist desire in me to play games the way they were meant to be played, every now and then I do find something made by a fan that succeeds in making the game a little more interesting. This downloadable make-your-own Risk 2210 AD expansion seems to be a collection of all the better fan made add-ons, and it definitely seems capable of bringing the excitement back to Risk 2210 AD by changing the game for the better.

It includes:
• Antarctica (Unofficial Expansion): An extra continent, changing the dynamics of the map in interesting ways, and subject to destruction by the Global Warming command card, much like Atlantis in Risk:Godstorm. Originally put together by Geoff Burbidge.
• Tech Command Deck (Avalon Hill Official Expansion): The original Tech expansion, adding a 6th commander with a new set of command cards, changing the dynamics of the game in a way that'll make you never again want to play without it. It contains all of the cards from the original Avalon Hill Frontline Season 2, but someone has gone and created brand new artwork and it looks great. You'll still need to make a tech commander yourself though.
• Factions (Semi official): The original 6 factions from Frontline Season 3 plus 3 fan made ones. The Faction rules give each player special unique advantages and drawbacks, shaking up strategies and adding a lot more variety to games. All artwork on these was re-done by Geoff Burbidge
• Majors (Official Expansion): The original 5 add-on Majors Cards, plus a 6th for the Tech Deck. All featuring amazing new artwork.
• Commanders 2.0 (Unofficial Expansion): Adds even more depth to the commanders by allowing you to upgrade them to 2.0 versions in-game. 2.0 Commanders can play 2.0 command cards which are slightly more powerful than the standard decks. These were originally created by Geoff Burbidge, but seem to have been updated somewhat by Anton Klink.
• Advanced Tech Cards (Unofficial Expansion): Adds relics (similar to the relics from Risk:Godstorm) that give players certain advantages upon discovering them.

On the whole this set looks and plays great! The artwork has been done superbly, and the graphic design matches seamlessly with Avalon Hill's. Even if you choose not to play the unofficial expansions, the Tech cards and Faction cards in this set are by far the best looking versions I've come across and it's worth a look.

Download Here. Found on Board Game Geeks at this thread.

Free Dungeon Room Tiles For Use With 25mm Miniatures-Bigger Rooms

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:35:00 +0000

This is the third set added to our growing collection of free dungeon tiles, following the corridors and small rooms. As you may have guessed, this set allows you to incorporate bigger rooms into your dungeons, and also includes some new hazard and obstacle markers. These should be useful to anyone who uses 25mm miniatures in their games of Dungeons and Dragons, or Warhammer. These would be perfect for a subterranean variation of Mordheim when you get bored of fighting in broken down buildings.

Below is a download link to a 5 page PDF. The intention with these is to quickly construct the immediate surrounds of a battle scene so you can position the various fighters in any given combat, so unless you are planning on building entire dungeons, you should be able to get by with 1 print out of each, but it's your ink, print as many as you want! If you have the space for it on your gaming table, you could print out whatever pieces you need and give them to the players as they explore, slowly building up a full size 1:60 map of your dungeon.

Contents:
Page 1: 1 x 25' x 15' Dungeon Room End Section Tile, 1 x 25' x 10' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile, 1 x 25' x 10' Dungeon Room End Section Tile, 1 x 5' x 15' Caltrops Hazard, 1 x Wall of Flames Hazard, 1 x Dinner Table Obstacle, 2 x Barrels Obstacle Markers.

Page 2: 2 x 30' x 15' Dungeon Room End Section Tiles, 1 x 30' x 20' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile
Page 3: 2 x 35' x 15' Dungeon Room End Section Tiles, 1 x 35' x 20' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile
Page 4: 1 x 25' x 10' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile, 1 x 30' x 10' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile, 1 x 35' x 10' Dungeon Room Mid Section Tile, 2 x Stools Obstacle Markers, 1 x Crates and Barrels Obstacle Markers, 1 x Pot of Hot Stew Hazard.

Page 5: A selection of Door Markers: 3 x Closed Double Dungeon Doors, 3 x Half Open Double Dungeon Doors, 3 x Open Double Dungeon Doors.

Instructions: A) Printing:
For best results turn off "shrink to fit page" when printing it out. This will keep each flagstone at an inch square. Inkjet printers use water-soluble inks so extra protection may be needed after assembly. Laser prints should be pretty durable but the toner may scratch off with extended use.

B) Making the Room Tiles:
Use spray glue to attach it to thickish mounting board (2mm in thickness should do the trick) and cut out using a steel ruler and craft knife. Always use a sharp blade and be careful. The Room Tiles' walls are designed to overlap the black borders on the edge of the Corridor tiles, so I'd recommend doing the following with each of the Room Tiles:

1) Mark out a 5mm border on the underside of each tile, ignoring any edge that doesn't have a wall. You can do this by measuring; using a Corridor Tile as a guide, or by gluing a second copy of the room tile to the underside.

2) Cut a piece of mounting board with the same dimensions as the marked out area. This should be the same thickness as the Dungeon Corridor Tiles

3) Glue it to the underside of the tile using the 5mm border as a guide. You want to use PVA glue or contact adhesive for this, and you'll want to let it cure under a pile of books to keep it from warping.

Interlocking Tiles (Optional):
The advantage of having each room being made up of smaller sections is that it becomes modular and gives a lot more flexibility, but the downside is that the individual sections may tend to slide around on the table during a battle which can get a little annoying. If you feel like putting a little extra effort in when making the tiles you can try this approach to get the tiles to interlock and stay connected.

1) Mark out a 5mm border on the underside of each tile. You can do this by measuring; using a Corridor Tile as a guide, or by gluing a second copy of the room tile to the underside.

2) On a separate piece of mounting board, mark out an area the same size as the marked out area on the under side of the tile.

3) Mark out squares as illustrated below:

4) Cut out the foundation piece with a sharp knife and steel ruler, and glue it to the underside of the tile using the 5mm border as a guide. You want to use PVA glue or contact adhesive for this, and you'll want to let it cure under a pile of books to keep it from warping.

C) Making the Dungeon Door Markers
Print the Door Marker page on a slightly thick card stock, or stick the page to card using spray glue. Using a steel ruler and an embossing tool, score along the dotted lines and fold the card along each score mark (Tip: If you do not have an embossing tool, then a dry ball point pen will do the trick!)

Flatten out the card again and cut out Each Door Marker with a steel ruler and sharp craft knife. Always use a sharp blade and be careful. Fold each door marker again, creasing it with a spoon. Trim the bottom flap down to 5mm. It should now wrap around the edge of the Room tile.

D) Finishing and using the Tiles
For added longevity you may want to cover the tile in a self-adhesive plastic wrap, or seal it down with decoupage paper varnish. Cut the self adhesive plastic about 5mm wider than the tile on all sides and trim the corners off at a 45º angle. Slowly and carefully apply the plastic wrap pressing down firmly as you go to avoid the formation of air bubbles, and then wrap over each edge sealing it. Air bubbles can be dealt with by puncturing them with a needle and forcing any air out by rubbing firmly over the area.

Use the alongside the Dungeon Corridor tiles during your battles. Using the Dungeon Door Markers to indicate entrances. Upon discovering a trap (hopefully not the hard way!) place the appropriate Hazard Marker so that you know exactly where it is when planning your tactics in combat.

Download Kev's Lounge: Flagstone Dungeon Bigger Room Tiles From Papercraft Dungeon

This is only one set in a much bigger collection. If you haven't already, you're going to want to download the Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles, Free Dungeon Small Rooms Tiles and Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles. Follow the link for the instructions and download.

I have a lot more sets on their way, including sewers, narrow alley ways, larger rooms, and rooms with unusual shapes. I'm also working on a Natural Cave set for those spelunking goblin hunters among you, and a 3 dimensional alternative to the Door Markers. If there is anything you'd like to see, please let us know!

Free Dungeon Room Tiles For Use With 25mm Miniatures

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:18:00 +0000

Continuing with our flagstone dungeon set, this is a collection of small rooms to accompany your Dungeon Corridor Tiles. These should be useful to anyone who uses 25mm miniatures in their games of Dungeons and Dragons , or Warhammer. These would be perfect for a subterranean variation of Mordheim when you get bored of fighting in broken down buildings.

Below is a download link to a 5 page PDF. The intention with these is to quickly construct the immediate surrounds of a battle scene so you can position the various fighters in any given combat, so unless you are planning on building entire dungeons, you should be able to get by with 1 print out of each, but it's your ink, print as many as you want! If you have the space for it on your gaming table, you could print out whatever pieces you need and give them to the players as they explore, slowly building up a full size 1:60 map of your dungeon.

Contents:
Page 1: 1 x 15' x 15' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x 15' x 30' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x 15' x 20' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x 15' x 25' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x Caltrops Hazard, 1 x Impaling Spikes Hazard.

Page 2: 1 x 20' x 20' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x 20' x 30' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x Spiked Pit Hazard, 1 x Bottomless Pit Hazard, 1 x Drowning Pool Pit Hazard, 1 x Level Below Pit Hazard

Page 3: 1 x 30' x 30' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x 25' x 30' Dungeon Room Tile

Page 4: 1 x 20' x 40' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x 10' x 10' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x 20' x 10' Dungeon Room Tile, 1 x Magic Vortex Hazard, 1 x Trap Door Entrance Marker, 1 x Wide Area Caltrops Hazard.

Page 5: A selection of Door Markers: 3 x Closed Dungeon Door, 3 x Open Dungeon Door, 3 x Locked Dungeon Door, 3 x Secret Door, 3 x Empty Doorway.

Instructions:
A) Printing:
For best results turn off "shrink to fit page" when printing it out. This will keep each flagstone at an inch square. Inkjet printers use water-soluble inks so extra protection may be needed after assembly. Laser prints should be pretty durable but the toner may scratch off with extended use.

B) Making the Room Tiles:
Use spray glue to attach it to thickish mounting board (2mm in thickness should do the trick) and cut out using a steel ruler and craft knife. Always use a sharp blade and be careful. The Room Tiles' walls are designed to overlap the black borders on the edge of the Corridor tiles, so I'd recommend doing the following with each of the Room Tiles:

1) Mark out a 5mm border on the underside of each tile. You can do this by measuring; using a Corridor Tile as a guide, or by gluing a second copy of the room tile to the underside.

2) Cut a piece of mounting board with the same dimensions as the marked out area. This should be the same thickness as the Dungeon Corridor Tiles

3) Glue it to the underside of the tile using the 5mm border as a guide. You want to use PVA glue or contact adhesive for this, and you'll want to let it cure under a pile of books to keep it from warping.

C) Making the Dungeon Door Markers
Print the Door Marker page on a slightly thick card stock, or stick the page to card using spray glue. Using a steel ruler and an embossing tool, score along the dotted lines and fold the card along each score mark (Tip: If you do not have an embossing tool, then a dry ball point pen will do the trick!)

Flatten out the card again and cut out Each Door Marker with a steel ruler and sharp craft knife. Always use a sharp blade and be careful. Fold each door marker again, creasing it with a spoon. Trim the bottom flap down to 5mm. It should now wrap around the edge of the Room tile.

D) Finishing and using the Tiles
For added longevity you may want to cover the tile in a self-adhesive plastic wrap, or seal it down with decoupage paper varnish. Cut the self adhesive plastic about 5mm wider than the tile on all sides and trim the corners off at a 45º angle. Slowly and carefully apply the plastic wrap pressing down firmly as you go to avoid the formation of air bubbles, and then wrap over each edge sealing it. Air bubbles can be dealt with by puncturing them with a needle and forcing any air out by rubbing firmly over the area.

Use the alongside the Dungeon Corridor tiles during your battles. Using the Dungeon Door Markers to indicate entrances. Upon discovering a trap (hopefully not the hard way!) place the appropriate Hazard Marker so that you know exactly where it is when planning your tactics in combat.

Download Kev's Lounge: Flagstone Dungeon Room Tiles from Papercraft Dungeon

This is just one set in a bigger collection. If you haven't already, you're going to want to download the Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles, Free Dungeon Bigger Room Tilesand Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles. Follow the link for the instructions and download.

I have a lot more sets on their way, including sewers, narrow alley ways, larger rooms, and rooms with unusual shapes. I'm also working on a Natural Cave set for those spelunking goblin hunters among you, and a 3 dimensional alternative to the Door Markers. If there is anything you'd like to see, please let us know!

Free Dungeon Corridor Tiles For Use With 25mm Miniatures

noreply@blogger.com (Lounge Lizard Kev) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:07:00 +0000

This set is now out of date. See the newly updated corridor tiles page for the fixed up set, now with twice as many pages.

This is our gift to all the roleplayers and wargamers who use miniatures in their games. These should be useful to anyone who uses 25mm miniatures in their games of Dungeons & Dragons, or Warhammer. These would be perfect for a subterranean variation of Mordheim when you get bored of fighting in broken down buildings.

The link below is the download link to a 3 page PDF. The intention with these is to quickly construct the immediate surrounds of a battle scene so you can position the various fighters in any given combat, so unless you are planning on building entire dungeons, you should be able to get by with 1 print out of each, but it's your ink, print as many as you want! If you have the space for it on your gaming table, you could print out whatever pieces you need and give them to the players as they explore, slowly building up a full size 1:60 map of your dungeon.

Page 1: 1 x Dungeon Corridor Crossroad tile, 1 x Dungeon Corridor Corner Tile, 1 x 40' Dungeon Corridor Section, 1 x Fissure Hazard, 1 x Blood Splat Token, 1 x Blazing Fire Hazard

Page 2: 2 x Dungeon Corridor T-Junction Tiles, 1 x 10' Dungeon Corridor Section, 1 x 20' Dungeon Corridor Section, 1 x 30' Dungeon Corridor Section

Page 3: 1 x 50' Dungeon Corridor Section, 4 x 20' Dungeon Corridor Sections

For best results turn off "shrink to fit page" when printing it out. This will keep each flagstone at an inch square, making each corridor 10' wide in 25mm scale. Use spray glue to attach it to thickish mounting board (2mm in thickness should do the trick) and cut out using a steel ruler and craft knife. Always use a sharp blade and be careful. For added longevity you may want to cover the tile in a self-adhesive plastic wrap, or seal it down with decoupage paper varnish.

Download Kev's Lounge: Flagstone Dungeon Corridor Tiles from Papercraft Dungeon!

This is just one set in a bigger collection. If you haven't already, you're going to want to download the Small Room Tiles, Bigger Room Tiles and Free Dungeon Huge Room Tiles. Follow the link for the instructions and download.

I have a lot more sets on their way, including sewers, narrow alley ways, larger rooms, and rooms with unusual shapes. I'm also working on a Natural Cave set for those spelunking goblin hunters among you, and a 3 dimensional alternative to the Door Markers. If there is anything you'd like to see, please let us know!