I've been following this channel for over a year and only this week have I started to watch the early videos.

Crafting and painting miniatures is the final frontier for me in this hobby, but resolved to give it a try based on your videos. I've been DMing for since the 90's and something I've never attempted.

you forget, not only are they cheap and easy to make, but also they LOOK really friggin good too!

Why build your own dungeon? because it's awsome!😎🔥🎸 🐉

Great video, I was considering buying at one point until I realized how expensive it was. I bought all the stuff to start making myself, and this video helps out a lot. Thank you, Professor

Mostly crafting info already known, but cool to see where you started with crafting. I bought hard into Dwarven Forge, but I also find negative spaces superior to walls.

I like to play somewhere in between theater of the mind and terrain; I have a dry erase battle mat and markers, with simple cardboard tokens to represent players and some NPCs (monsters get drawn, usually just a circle with a letter in it). We still use our imagination to visualize, but the specifics are laid out regardless just to reduce confusion and to give the technical players something to use without explaining every combatant’s position in detail. By the end of the year tho I’m hoping to make enough terrain to justify buying minis, and I’ll switch to that.

Thanks for putting these out! Grateful to be able to exploit your knowledge and experience.

I bought some dungeon tiles from WOTC, and they were good, but this video takes things to another level. Really inspires me to try new things. Great video!

This is definitely another fun video. I've made the decision to start using tiles for the games my kids and I play. This is the beat hobby ever. I really appreciate all you do for the community Professor. Thanks A Bunch!😁

Oh, dear--I'm in trouble now! What started out as a small gift is about to blossom into full total obsession!!! I admire your artistry, oh revered Professor Dungeon Master. I am about to go to school on your videos. Thank you!!

Simply amazing. I wil start to craft those for my next campaign. Painting on the other hand...I'll do my best.

Thank you for doing this video series. I look forward on watching the rest of the videos and making some dungeons.

This is fantastic stuff. Totally glad I found this channel.

I just use a set of dry-erase tiles ("The Master's Atlas" by Stratagem). It's a easy, cost-efficient halfway-point between "Dwarven Forge"-style model-tiles and dry-erase grid-maps. You can just draw things like extra walls and stuff on them when you need to and if you are doing something more "theater-of-the-mind" you can just slap a few down for a quick battle-map.

Love to see the wooden stairs in the Inn. Cheers!

Great video, I like the dry humor. Well done.

I just made a whole box of these tiles in just two days these are awesome you can make a ton for very cheap good work and thanks for ideas and crafting inspiration

I never want to order Dwarven Forge again. I'm liking and following.

*Neat .* *Thank you for the crafting tips .*

Great stuff!

Great versatility... and I want to travel through your sewers! I must know how you craft the little walls.

Never used terrain...but am definitely going to make some and use it... just started painting mini's..now to craft some terrain.

I have no idea why I only ran across this channel now...but...happens! Glad I found it just the same. I am a big fan of DMScotty and Wyloch and I've been building terrain for just over 2 years now. I now have an embarrassing amount of terrain but, hey, reasons right? Like you, I am pretty frugal and I also don't like the walls that the name brand stuff has. I started DM'ing a few months ago and vary between theater of the mind, use of terrain, and even hybrids variations of each. I appreciate why you don't use terrain for the Lovecraft stuff. Use for a dragon?...yes! Use for C'thulu?...probably not.

Cause it's fun. Oops don't want to anticipate the climax.

Great channel!!!!

If you got pencil and paper a 2d terrain works in a pinch

A tip for new crafters: If you've never done much with an Xacto knife before, don't buy an Xacto knife! Don't buy a knock-off either. Go to Amazon and search for B01J21POXK and see the Fiskars product that comes up. You don't have to get it from Amazon, that's just a convenient place most of the world can search for it easily. I would normally not be suggesting you pay a premium for a Fiskars product ($9 with one blade!?), but I'm going to this time and I hope the Professor will approve. But … the blade Does Not Slip, at all. I can't say that of a generic Xacto-type knife nor the branded ones. They always do. An experienced crafter doubtless knows how to deal with that, but if you don't, I'd say get the better tool and avoid getting to learn what realistic blood looks like. 😁

How many rooms and passages would you recommend crafters start with? I've made two rooms and three hallways, thus far. These tiles are super simple and fun to make, by the way. I tried the ultimate terrain with foam insulation, but I found it tough to work with. Maybe I'll revisit UDT in the future.

The first crafting video 😎

I like cheap easy to make easy to store portable sounds good I've liked and subbed but the real kicker for me is you look like Egon Spengler from Ghost Busters. (Bet you get that a lot huh?)

im gtting to the origin , i will try those craft

Nice swagger

ok, so they're super cheap and fast to make and something that almost every DM wishes they had. does anyone sell dungeon pieces like these? It seems like a cool product that would easily undercut the pricey and/or heavy alternatives.

cool

I"ve played mostly TotM--with hand drawn paper maps & simple minis (chess pieces or other scavenged from board games) and never got into the more 3d variants you show here, let alone some of the more elaborate sets available. I've done that kind of modeling too, with HO gauge trains. What are your thoughts on paper minis & paper maps? (like Zen: zenseeker.net/PaperMiniatures/Fantasy.htm) Even a shoe box is getting to be a bit much to carry around these days. I don't currently play at home--either traveling or online. Speaking of which--what's your take on online play? Totally bingeing on your channel! It is so refreshing to find like minded gamers who aren't locked into a particular system. Looking forward to soaking in more great material! Thanks so much for posting!

Yeah I can see why you wouldn't do this for call of cthulu. A large amount of the horror in that comes from the players' own imagination.

Hey can someone give me a link to the theme at the beginning and in many of his videos I’m making a grim dark campaign and can’t seem to find this theme

Could make the dungeon crafting quicker by buying tiles that already habe a "stone tile" finish. Heh!