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A deep cellar room tiled over three printout pages, whose wood-plank floor has been largely, and none-too-gently, removed, revealing an even deeper, stone-floored cellar beneath, the whole full of all kinds of weird & wonderful items, from bookshelves and scattered papers on the upper level, with its chipped, plastered walls, to curious statues and a red mosaic floor-inlay magic circle on the lower. This is a glorious example of Inked Adventures' products at their very best, with a huge range of visual potential story hooks. The entire floor has an inch-square grid across it, which looks only as if it is part of the flooring - that's something really special - and this even extends to the rickety wooden staircase leading down from the printed-in doorway, despite the fact the stairs are drafted with perspective showing how they descend, so the whole still looks entirely natural. A one-page colour drawing of the complete room rounds-off the package, showing how the whole should look when finished, which can be copied & pasted for use in a separate personal description of the Cellar for game-use. Inspirational!
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Inked Adventures' "Modular Dungeon" system is a good way to create tabletop dungeon floorplan layouts, but for me it really begins to come alive once some props and counters are added. This deceptively simple rectangular Crypt Room has its props built-in, and comes with a separate stand-up stone slab tomb door, giving a number of options for an adventuring party to explore, without making the whole feel at all cluttered. A real gem of a piece. My only question is - when can we expect the matching Inked Adventures' "Crypts, Tombs and Catacombs" pack, noted as "forthcoming" now for over a year?
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Quite a specialised add-on to Inked Adventures' "Modular Dungeon" system, this stand-up "doorway" comes in two versions, one with a dark, circular tunnel-entrance arch, the other with this entranceway magically glowing, each surrounded by bones. It might be thought to work best as a free-standing object in a room, as the skeletal surrounds don't match up with any other of the Inked Adventures dungeon items currently available, but that difference would work equally well to highlight an access-route to somewhere more dangerous, when set against the "normal" dungeon walls. Although drawn as a simple square, the surround could be cut easily by hand into a curve to mirror the central arch for variety, and that centre cut out as well, either to leave open as "inactive", or to insert a different view, maybe something self-designed and printed onto transparent film. Production values are of Inked Adventures' usual high standard, the one drawback being the rather wasteful "parchment-edge" to the printout page, which will be simply discarded. Some matching bone-lined floors and walls might have been an interesting addition here to open up greater game-use options, though as it is, a decent focal-point for an adventure.
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A splendid collection of dungeon floorplans, items, door and hazard counters, with the option to add stand-up doors in two different formats (with or without supporting walls), the whole prepared in a delightful hand-drawn style reminiscent of British artists like Ronald Searle (who drew the original "St Trinian's" cartoons) and William Heath Robinson (who famously drew many imaginary complex machines made out of old bits and pieces, connected by lengths of knotted string, scraps of wood and so forth). The defining elements of all are no truly straight edges, and an eye for detail where needed. Here, that means things such as small texture markings on the stones and occasional irregularly cracked flagstones.
All the expected modular items are included for basic corridors and rooms, using a standard grey stone colouring, although one or two smaller rooms and stairways have cream-yellow flagstone shadings instead for variety, an effect which recurs more fully for the larger chambers. A few of the smaller rooms are more exotically-decorated still, with patterned or wood-plank floors, a nice touch, while a couple of special rooms, one on two levels, the other an Idol Chamber, provide the icing on the cake, with extra emplaced items, encouraging their use as focal points in any adventure. And to get you inside, there's even an overgrown ruin tile with stairs leading down to the first doorway.
In general, the pieces print out clearly and cleanly, though the overgrown entrance and Idol Chamber tiles have colouring a little too dark in places, not a major fault. The "worn parchment edge" border to every page is wasteful however, as it's simply going to be cut off and thrown away. Be careful in doing so, as there are a couple of compass roses, a north pointer, and some interesting curlicues among the marginalia which could have game use as well. The only real lack is an index page showing thumbnails of the set, which would have made planning what needed to be printed much easier. Even so, these dungeons are just itching to be cut-up, board-backed/laminated and above all USED!
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I really liked this tile set. It seems well thought out, and I like the artistic style. I hope they create more in this series.
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Very cool, but less professional than the other products. They are obviously scaled up, and are block-ish... Still cool if you want to make a nice large/epic dungeon map... I got foam board at the dollar store, and filled both sides; it fits together mostly good.
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Its Billiam Babble and its free. Its inspiration in PDF form.
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5 star freebie for the Inked Adventures floorplans. I hope they do more in different radii.
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While it may not be the most convincing stock art around, the quality of the pages is still well above average. About 95% of people shouldn't need anything more.
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I really love this art and the artist has done a great job of getting the most out of a top-down perspective. Good work!
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Excellent set of floor plans. We just use the basic rooms and corridors, but once photo mount sprayed onto foam board they give a fantastic lift to a dungeon crawl. Wish I'd had them way back when.
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Usually dungeon geomorphs are a crude and small. While I get the decision to make these the size that they were to accommodate printing 10x10 square tiles, the great drawing detail means (to me) that they need to be used on the table for players. Not being able to have a 1"=5' tile for table top use is a detractor for me. I wish there were jpgs available so I could print at the scale I want, either larger for table top play or smaller for use with a virtual table top.
Including the tiles layed out for both US and A4 printing as well as GM notes pages (also in US and A4) was a nice touch.
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I picked these up to go along with the other inked adventures purchases I've made. The only downside to these is the scale, as I've gotten spoiled with the other products being the correct scale for minis. I can't ding the stars for that though since it was my lack of reading the size before I purchased it, and it's easily remedied with photoshop. The detail stands up even when zoomed in to change the scale, and the art style mixes with the other products like the 'modular cut up sections' packs so you can drop pieces in.
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Some very cool dungeon mapping accessories from Inked Adventures!
I love the artwork and the old-school feel of the maps.
However, the scale put me off...I'd love to see an option to print these at 1" = 5' scale so that we could use these with minis...
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Crazy cool set of modular Geomorph Tiles... the combinations are endless. And with the neat feature of overlapping introduced on his blog, the endless possibilities just got endlesserest :)
I thought the smaller size squares would bother me more than they do... the fact it, I can get a pretty big map built using a lot less real estate.
The black and white scheme is easy on the old printer budget and actually looks pretty awesome on the table.
Great job on a great set!
Now for more :)
onemonkeybeau
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