Movable dungeon terrain

[iago]

(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:

[deadly7]

Interesting. For my D&D campaign, we just covered the game mat with plastic and used markers.

[iago]

Heh, we used to do that. At this point, though, I'm more into painting than playing, so it makes sense to work on this kind of stuff. :)

[Newby]

That's way awesome. Nice work. We just used mats. :P

[trust]

that looks like it took forever, congrats on your patience

[Blaze]

Painting all of that would have taken forever, and it looks really good. :)