"Fat Dragon Launches Snap-Lock, Stackable Dungeon Terrain Kickstarter" Topic

This is a very interesting development.

I wonder what the unit cost of this will work out to be?

John T

If you read the FAQ, you will need to pay for a 3D printer (minimum. $400 USD they say, up to $1,500 USD for the one in their office), plus $.70 USD for a floor tile and $1.30 USD for a single-wall tile in materials costs. The printing of a piece takes 4 hours.

Dwarven Forge "dwarvenite" sets cost about $3.50 USD per wall piece in a ten-piece pack, though that is for a two-wall passage piece, for which an equivalent would be more expensive to print using a 3D printer. So you estimate printing the DF equivalent wall pieces using the Fat Dragon software would cost about $1.75 USD per tile (that extra wall adds a little) and take 40 hours to print for a ten-piece pack. If a printer starts at $400 USD, you would need to print in the neighborhood of 25 sets to make it worth your while (the savings of $17.50 USD per 10-pack) which would take 1,000 hours of printing as well.

Right now, while maybe the Fat Dragon is half as much, the investment in the printer and the amount of time to print the pieces to me make DF a better buy.

I wonder what the unit cost of this will work out to be?

That's the $64,000 USD question. I hope someone with 3d printing experience will chime in.

Xin

The printing of a piece takes 4 hours.

So, now with all my unpainted miniatures, I can have a bunch of unprinted terrain.

I'm excited to see this, but not particularly interested in participating yet! It would still be faster and more enjoyable to order it.

I believe this is the wave of the future: downloading 3D printer files, and printing your own pieces, whether figures, or terrain. I agree, it is still a young technology, but it is maturing faster than I expected. It is still a bit pricey, but it is coming down. I feel that DF, and competing products, are too expensive, currently, so this should pressure them to lower their prices sooner, rather than later… Cheers!

It will be when printing gets faster that this really takes off. It is a fantastic idea, and the product looks amazing, but watching my friend use his printer, it would take weeks for him printing in his spare time to have anything close to a usable size collection of dungeon tiles.

Of course there are faster printers, but they are even more expensive of off setting to the cost. I am interested in this kickstarter, but don't have the spare money to buy the 3D printer that could do this fast enough to make it worth my while yet.