Inked Adventures: Modular Dungeon Cut-Up Sections Basic Pack (similar to WHQ floor plans/DnD dungeon tiles)

[Billiam Babble]

I've given birth to a monster.

The Basic Pack is twice the size it should have been.

It's been dragging me through hellish portals.        

But now IT LIVES!!



Okay I know should really start a separate thread for this but the link really does need to be here for the moment - just for my own sense of closure!

I'm trying to work out how to do promotions or comp copies without emailing. It's a mighty 35 Meg - no compromise on quality reduction! (My yahoo account maxes out at 25mg - no wait, maybe it can be zippy zipped ...)  
Mortis gets a free copy because he eats first around here, maybe the rest of you can afford the £2.57 ($4) introductory price (okay, trust me it'll stay at that level for a long time, it's just that I think my partner will leave me if I don't at least pretend I'm in it for the profit so I'm pretending that the normal price is $5.50).  Failing that, it being a recession and all, regular members must PM/email me for a comp copy, and I'll try and squeeze the bugger down the phone line.  There's a preview of some of the pages on DriveThruRPG.  Let's face it, I couldn't have made it this far without you guys.  If I get rich and move abroad, I'll remember to write to you all ....

Okay, I'm not going to leap ahead too fast, but now the road is becoming clear for small expansions, freebies and cheap stuff ...

First I need sleep ...

Hurrah!  

[Talsin]

May i be the first to say:

CONGRATULATIONS!

Like almost everyone i have been following this thread, but having nothing to contribute i haven't joined in yet. But the knowledge that you have finished the first pack must be an amazing feeling.

therefore, i toast you mr babble!

Genius.

*bows out, to the sound of rapturous applause*

[Billiam Babble]

Yay.   Thanks, Talsin.  
I seem to be without grog , which is good because tomorrow's a work day.

[BobbieTheDamned]

Just saw your basic pack release advertised in the miniatures page news feed  Looks like you're moving up in the world

[SamuelF]

My word... Well done sir!

It looks absolutely beautiful

Remember to make sure that people know that this awesome product is out there. Peddle yourself shamelessly!

Anyways I hope it does as well as it deserves. Good luck!


(ps- Considered getting it printed? I'm sure independent game stores would stock it, especially if there was a range of expansions etc..)

[Billiam Babble]

RobertTheDamned wrote

Just saw your basic pack release advertised in the miniatures page news feed  Looks like you're moving up in the world

Once you get into those onebookshelf databases you end up in all sort of lists.  I was giggling at being 95 in the 100 hottest items on one site.  

[Billiam Babble]

SamuelF wrote

(ps- Considered getting it printed? I'm sure independent game stores would stock it, especially if there was a range of expansions etc..)

I'm printing a copy to photo-paper right at the moment and thinking to myself "crikey, I can barely afford the paper or cartridges to print my own copies!"

At some point it might be worth me chatting to a printers' just to see how much a short run would be (for one project at least), but then there's storage and distribution as well.  I have a friend who is an esoteric book publisher and he literally has rooms filled with shiny unsold paperbacks.  Also there's the dilemma of multiple pages for certain sheets.

- oops phone just rang ...
hold that thought ...

One idea was to sell a few sheets on card with a CD-ROM.  This could also be posted out  (I could even sell them on Ebay! - where the vintage market is at it's mightiest!)

I'm a little behind on the times, but I've also discovered that there's these printer type things which cut out shapes, like for decoupage ... perhaps more on this in a different thread ...

Hey, here's thumbnail preview sheet of all the pages in the Basic Pack:

[Billiam Babble]

How many skulls for the Throne of Khourne?
I was concerned the other night that I had discovered my "inner Goth"

Wall details for my new Tombs/Crypts set -pre-colour - it's not all going to be like this - these are for the older "catacomb" area.

[Billiam Babble]

On the One Monk Forum / Card Board Warriors forum a chap called Sammo has been constructing some massive levels

Notice what he's been doing with those curved sections. :)

See also: Samo's other pics on my thread at Cardboard Warriors.

[Billiam Babble]

An in-progress teaser ...

[Billiam Babble]

Okay another one ...

This is part of the rough layout for the main sections of the crypt:

[Billiam Babble]

Some more photos of test pieces from the new Tombs' pack:



I'm enjoying the versatility of the Alcove Room when corridors are added.

Also, silly receipt doodles ...

 

[MortiS-the-Lost]

3D tombs?
Statue stand ups?

show us more!

[Billiam Babble]

Okay.  I've given in.  The new tombs set will actually include a 3-D reversible tomb and dais, along with a reversible coffin.  The tomb may also double as a stand-up sarcophagus.

Pre-colour work:





The plinth-dais-tomb-base should be two "squares" - 2 in long appx.  I have trouble printing to exact scale from jpgs.

I refuse to include any objects more complex than a cube in this pack, before anyone starts suggesting statues, and so on. ;)

[Billiam Babble]

Un-weighted paper assemblage test
(with short DnD chill zombie)






(photos via phone - please ignore the scotch tape - life is just too short tonight ...)

[MortiS-the-Lost]

Awesome! back on the 3D stuff again!

could I request a slightly larger ornate tomb that would sit comfortably in a 2x3 squares area?

[Billiam Babble]

Thanks.  I finally "folded".  Geddit?  
(I'll get me coat)

The coffin looks good as well.

Right at the moment I'm under some pressure to finish the rest of the pack*, but maybe I can do a large tomb at a later date, just for you or as a separate page/pack for pennies.

*Not so much "pressure", as a handful of Cardboard Warrior forum members demanding that they have the opportunity to buy another set. :o  Naturally, I've told them that the pack will be "too perfect" to be shared with the world - I shall hoard it for myself forever, mwhahahaha.

I can't remember where you said it, but you mentioned something about using the thin walls ... ah yes, the HQ advert thread - excellent, mail me when you want. :)

[Billiam Babble]

I'm adding this here for sheer randomness
This is the pre-colour scan for the artwork for a pack which will hopefully be released with a set of cardboard skeletons.

Burial Mound:

 

(click thumnail)


 Watch this space!

[Billiam Babble]

Not sure what I'm with this one, i.e. which beasts are to go in it.  (It's for an encounter pack - so it's basically a background plus figures) - but I guess I could throw in a campfire for now as well.  It's a forest clearing, but it's designed to be repeatable/modular as a crossroads, rood, corner, clearing etc.  



I know that I'm an artist because I get excited about a project and as soon as I'm anywhere near completion I shout "What am I doing?!  This is all SH*T!?!"

[Billiam Babble]

Silly real life stuff and day job are really getting the way of productivity atm!

(Although, I'm finding blogging remarkably easy, because I only have to type and post links.)

Here's some uncoloured decrepid corridors bits for the new Tombs pack (above).

Maybe I should just sell them on rustic parchment, like this? ;)