(I posted this to a gaming forum, figured I'd copy it here)
My buddies and I started a D&D campaign recently. It's my first time playing D&D, or any game where we've made significant use of miniatures, so it was an interesting one. The problem, however, is that we put our miniatures on a plain grid, and use whatever's laying around to make rooms. "Ok, these pencils are the walls, and this paint jug is the door". That's no good!
So this weekend, I decided to do a quick dungeon project. Well, quicker than other stuff I've built, anyways. Tedious, of nothing else.. I watched almost the whole first season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent while making these. 14 episodes =~ 12 hours.
Anyway, I took pictures of the finished works. The walls and floor are foam insulation, and the doors are textured plasticard on small MDF bases. I didn't have the foresight to do WiP shots while I was building it, sadly, so all you get is the finished product. Here are what I built:
4 x 6" walls
4 x 5" walls
4 x 4" walls
4 x 3" walls
5 doors
2' x 2' base
I set up a quick pair of rooms using most of the walls/doors. Here it is:
