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[Baron]

Years ago, a thing called geomorphs were somewhat popular among D&D gamers. They are essentially square puzzle pieces of a dungeon, cavern, or some kind of a moduler map with the edges of each piece tileable with other pieces.

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_castle_grodog_level_03_geos_low.jpg

http://images.boardgamegeek.com/images/pic338289_md.jpg

Instead of using White Wash City PDFs (which I personally think $90 for a bunch of PDFs is extremely overpriced, just my opinion), or buying a bunch of O scale buildings, or even building them myself out of foamboard....

....thinking of doing a Dundjinni/Campaign Cartographer style map, gridded to a 1" scale, and then cut into pieces and glued onto foamcore board.

The result would be a building and the immediate surrounding squares on one piece that can be placed beside another with a different house/building/road/etc.

You can have essentially the same generic town but lay them out differently for each town.




Anyone ever do that? Curious to hear of any methods, tricks or ideas others used tackling this project.

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[Jordan Peacock]

For your "final product," are you hoping for three-dimensional buildings, or are you just going toward flat map tiles now?
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[Baron]

I think I'll just leave them flat with a top-down view and non-directional shadows. I'd like to go the distance on 3D building, but I just don't foresee the motivation to take on that large of a project.
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[Fuzyfeet]

I have almost all my Legos I've ever had, so one day we used those. We take four of the green tiles and build on that. We've played with a projector over a table, white boards, etc, and we like the Legos. We can customize the mini and with all the new sets no genre is out of reach.

I not a fan of static maps, but there was a white boards style map that fit together like a jig saw puzzle at one point, and I like those...
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[SlasherEpoch]

We use a whiteboard, dry erase markers, masking tape, and empty cans and cups for scenery...
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[Tavis]

We use a whiteboard and dry erase markers, old Space Hulk, Heroquest and Advanced Heroquest scenery and tiles, various bits of wargaming terrain.

I've been pondering getting something like Dunjinni, but what we have already does everything we need!
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[Jordan Peacock]

[Baron]

Well just playing on the weekends with my friends, yah, we use a grid-covered white foamcore board. I taped a piece of plexiglass over the surface. It's not too big but it works as a dry eraser board.


But the geomorphs are necessary for the conventions. I don't like bringing the old brown grid mats to a convention. Especially Gen Con. People have to pay to play my game, I put demand in myself to make it worth their money.

A 3D town of a generic Deadlands town would be nice, and could be done. However, I think for the fact I have to travel to get to Indy, I think the geomorphs are a better way to go.

I started last night on the first tile. I could get Dundjinni, but with a copy of Photoshop, well, Dundjinni can be avoided.

Plus all the user-created items on their website provides ample supply of overlays that will fit nicely.

I'll post up the first tile after I'm done. Nearly done already.
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[Jordan Peacock]

[Baron]

Going off with what you said, here's a few tilesets. I haven't broken the buildings down or the elements within, but it's a start.

I know I didn't make the walls totally vertical like something such as Dundjinni or Campaign Cartographer would produce. This style I did is just a personal preference. It removes the outter ring of squares but shows more of the building and sign.

The stagecoaches, cacti, animals, etc. will all be mounted on foamcore just like the main tilesets. They can be arranged anyway on the grid so you can custom change the layout of each tileset.

*Note - The bulls at the bottom are highlighted red as I plan on using them as the gorgon stampede. The tumbleweed of course it's a given there.


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[Baron]

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[Sheriff Axly]

Hey, those are really cool! I love the Diablos with the red glow.

Blue chip to you.
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[Shimwee]

Diablos? aren't they bulls? with the red indicating they are agressive?

[Baron]

Yeah they really are just bulls with red around them. I'll either photoshop a texture layer over them to look more like gorgons.

The Los Diablos are described as closer to mutated Texas Longhorns. I think visually large bulls would be more intimidating than some longhorns.
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