"Dungeon Crawl – Barrow of the Frost King" Topic

Getting ready to delve into the Barrow of the Frost King Solo adventure for Warrior Heroes (Two Hour Wargames). It's a combination standard WHAT dungeon crawl with a strong link to the new Luck of the Draw series games in which card draws determine what your next room is, what you encounter and what your loot is.

So being a typical "shiny objects" gamer I have been assembling the terrain and figures needed. On ebay I found some Call to Arms terrain from Skyrim barrows, and then some fantastic Draugr minis from Gripping Beast's "Ragnarok Line" (sculpted by Colin Patten).

First up are *part* of the Draugr (yes, why buy a few when you can buy an army!). I wanted to give them the feel of being in a dungeon as opposed to basing them on stones and grass like I normally would. Since the figures are all cast on a support base and then glued and primed on MDF bases, I couldn't place them on a dungeon base. I happened to have some model train stone work contact paper left over from another project, and so experimented with cutting and gluing them to fit.

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I'm pretty happy with the bases, could use some touch ups and it saved me from having to clip the figures and then drill & pin them to dungeon bases.

Next – Dungeon terrain!

Nice idea on using printed paper texture for their bases! Figures look great!

What type of dungeon tiles are you going for? Full 3D, or 2D, 2.75D, or ______? Inquiring minds want to know… I've done all three types: full 3D, 2.75D (vertical chipboard walls using textured printouts applied to the chipboard), and flat 2D. All have their merits and debits. Cheers!

Thanks! I'm doing 3D walls and terrain. I usually use a Ultimate Dungeon Tile and place other terrain on top. In this case I got some bargain price Elder Scrolls Call to Arms "Bleakfalls Barrow" terrain and some older resin stuff I had.

Here's UDT used in other dungeon crawls, here's an Underdark encounter.

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I go back and forth with UDT. Do you prefer it to a tabletop?

I love the concept of UDT, but it is not for me. I am a full-blown tabletop war gamer. For RPG sessions, I only use the Chessex vinyl wet-erase mats. For tabletop miniatures games, I use 2D printed dungeon terrain, 2.75D terrain, and full-blown 3D terrain.

I love the crafting side of terrain-making -- it is too much fun for me to ever abandon, in spite of 3D Printers. Cheers!

Sgt. Slag,

Same here, I've been playing with minis for probably 55 years. Fantasy has taken over my brain. I've got loads of terrain and minis.

If I do a dungeon crawl, I like using the UDT. If it's a battle, then I'll use my tabletop terrain like this clash between an Iron Hills caravan escort and Easterling raiders.