Purchased to provide even more variety for my Worldworks village

if you have the cash to print up alot of color graphics this is a great set. the trees look good as well as the fences. if you want to have a vast ammount of hills available to you you'll need to spend some cash as these are ink intensive terrain peices.

It's just trees? True, but, they're beautifully done and perfect for small wodded areas. One tree, however, is basically one page, so if you want a forest, it will be expensive.

This may be one of the most under-appreciated sets around. Hills can be created in one inch or one-half inch height. I found the one inch just didn't look right, but the half-inch are just right. The hills assemble quickly and easily, while the "textures" are great when printed on sheet size labels and affixed to foamboard. Additionally, the gridded green texture makes a quick sheet of bases for paper miniatures.

Very neat little set. Several sizes of tents in various colors. The ubiquitous wedge tent being the most plentifull. In various colors. Would have like to see more white colored tents. Good value though!!!!

Nice set! Easily transported. Well detailed. An excellent addition to the portable line!

Another very good product from Penguin Labs. The building models themselves are quite good, on a par with the Wizards Of The Coast paper buildings, but perhaps not quite up to Microtactix's colour Vyllage On the Cheep. Doorway heights are around 35mm, making them passable with either heroic 28s on slottabases or clicky-base figures. The set comes with three sizes of building,a peasant cottage, a long house and a manor house, plus an intriguing looking village well. Each of the main buildings has a selection of three roof types - you can use these to add variety to your limited selection of buildings.

BUT

Unlike just about every other paper building model out there, these are designed to fold down flat. Having a selection of prebuilt model buildings for a tabletop wargame is one thing, or if you're hosting the game session yourself that's fine too. But travelling GMs need to put a limit on what they have to carry. Even the complex shape of the village well is designed to fold down perfectly flat.

There are obviously a couple of compromises to make this possible. The buildings are simple house shapes, without complicated gable ends or dormer windows, although they do have optional chimney stacks. Sometimes the folded walls don't entirely fold up straight, and need a little coaxing to get them to fold down correctly. One minor glitch is that the instructions don't make it clear whether the folds on the end walls are meant to fold inwards or outwards - in fact I think either way works reasonably well.

If I was building a large number of these, I'd maybe reinforce the edges of the base with a tab folded back to make a double-thickness rim, and maybe do the same with the unglued edges on the end walls.

In summary, a nice piece of paper engineering from Penguin Labs.

If you like 3D buildings and objects, these plans are an inexpensive way to create your game world. I have seen the materials produced by other companies in more durable substances like plastic and they run into the hundreds of dollars. You can easily spend $500 to $1,000 outfitting the world of your dreams. This is a better use of your money.

First impression - I didn't like this product. Making the base unit 4" squares seemed too small, as you'd need to make lots of these to cover even a small dungeon area.

But, having looked at it again, and built up a couple, I have to say that if I was going to use fold-up terrain for a dungeon this would be the product I'd use. There are a couple of major flaws, but it offers several major advantages. 4" is actually a very useful size, and one of these tiles can be thrown together in 5-10 minutes, so a reasonable selection to cover most dungeon needs could be done in a couple of hours.

First off, the biggest problem with paper terrain for RPGs is transport - as a travelling GM I want to minimize the amount of stuff I carry with me to games. Although cardstock terrain doesn't weigh much it can be bulky. These really do fold down completely flat, and can be popped up fairly quickly. I think you could carry enough for typical dungeon delving in a standard ring binder without too much difficulty.

Another nice touch is that because of the choice of colouring (lots of greyscales) these print out equally well on a B&W laser printer, which makes churning out all the pages I'd need for a dungeon much quicker and cheaper than if I needed to use an inkjet for full colour.

Are these going to last as long as resin terrain pieces? Obviously not, how long they do last will obviously depend on the strength of cardstock you use, but the basic construction of these pieces looks nice and sturdy.

There are, as I said, a couple of flaws in this product, but nothing that can't be cured with a little creative papermodelling or careful planning. For a start, by design all the walls are 5ft thick, considerably thicker than some dungeons or building interiors. If you design your own dungeons, this isn't a problem, you just design it with this limitation in mind (in fact it makes dungeon mapping a lot easier, and it takes me way back to the days of designing Wolfenstein 3d maps, which also had the same limitation)

Next, some of the walls are drawn with open or closed doorways. I don't find this particularly useful, as doors are likely to be opened and closed freely in a dungeon, plus you're not necessarily going to want to have doors where they're placed on these walls. If I ever use these, I'll model doors seperately, blu-tacked to the walls in the correct locations.

The most technical problem is with T-junctions and crossroads. The instructions say this is done by cutting standard 4" walls into 1" lengths, and using these for the corner squares. Of course if you do this, then the 1" sections will have a gaping hole visible on one side of the corner. I'd solve this by remodelling some of the support pieces with the wall texture, so they fold out to form one side of the corner wall (Hey Pengiun Labs, how about releasing that as a freebie on your website?)

In Summary - not perfect, but a very, very useful product. If like me you don't want to store or transport bulky pre-built card dungeons, if you can overlook the limitations, and either live with the flaws or rectify them with a bit of papermodelling, then this might be the dungeon terrain kit that you're looking for.

The Paper Playground series of products are really nice for making your own paper minatures. The art quality is pretty good. It is worth the money. It is much cheaper than buying dragon minatures.

These terrain pieces look great and with the supports the hills are easily sturdy enough to hold a lot of metal minis. I will buy more in this series.

Chromatic Dragons is a great, well-designed product. The textures and attention to detail is excellent, down to different horns, crests and frills for the different dragon species. The dragons look quite true-to-life (well, true-to-fantasy, but you know what I mean).

My only complaint is that the instructions could do with more pictures. There are good "this is how you assemble it" pictures, but some more examples of finished product would be nice, especially given the variety of styles and poses. The website has good pictures along these lines, so it's not really a problem.

Good work, Kent, keep it up!

Hills, streams, hedges, Bridges. add in their Trees Packs, for woods and Forests, and you can create all the terrain you need for a really good war.

These are very nice, very real looking cardboard cutouts. They are a little rough at first look, but the work on the trees is very well done.

These trees are a good deal, and a good accessory to gamming. Well worth a look, and a purchase.

I tried making trees with lichen + pipe cleaners, it gave very realistic results but they are so fragile and voluminous I gave up on making any more. But this product solves my problem!

A very nice product, you get 9 types of trees: Oak, Autumn Oak, Dead Oak (could be used in winter too), Elm, Sugar Maple, White Pine, Fir, Cherry, Weeping Willow. Make sure you download the demo to get Birch, giving a total of 10 trees.

The drawings are gorgeous, assembling them is reasonably easy. If you want to make smaller trees (bushes), you can use the resize function of your printer driver to shrink the images, so that gives you more variety.

Overall I give it 4 stars, it is a very good product. For future products I would like to see taller trees, like 8-9 inches tall, to give the feel of an older forest.