Got in my dwarven forge city builder kickstarter order.

http://batintheattic.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-dwarven-forge-city-came-in.html



The good news, it is a brilliant way of creating varied cityscapes on the fly. The quality is very good with only a few minor issues. (Slight warping on a handful of pieces, and magnets stronger than the glue mainly).

The bad news, well it very pricy for the amount of physical area the stuff covers. I dropped a pledge level in favor of buying more add-ons. I should have not done that and now I need a few more floors.

Dwarven Forge is beautiful, but I've never been able to justify the cost.

I'll stick to paper and home-made stuff until such time as I hit the lottery.

Have you always been a Dwarven Forge collector, Estar?  Or is this a new entry into the cult?

Quote from: VectorSigma;875373Dwarven Forge is beautiful, but I've never been able to justify the cost.

I'll stick to paper and home-made stuff until such time as I hit the lottery.

Have you always been a Dwarven Forge collector, Estar?  Or is this a new entry into the cult?

Used miniatures and props since the late 70s. But always placed them on top of dry erase mats.

But since the kickstarters started I joined the DF cult in full force

However for the next DF kickstarter, I will probably only pledge the minimum to get selected add-ons. I got most of what i needed to build castles with the the city kickstarter with the crenelation wall pieces they had as add-ons.

Believe or not I store my stuff to be portable and I am at my limit now on miniatures, prop, and DF. I went in major on the DF City because it was gap in what I had in my props. While I need a few more floors, I now got it covered especially considering that i have a two sets of the resin medieval building sets from DF.

My basic storage setup. I have four tubs now filled with all my miniatures and DF. I also can break it own for convention and take just what i need.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bt3tShjAOPs/VJe2j6CZnFI/AAAAAAAALSo/WfXvTwzGaXg/s1600/IMG_2406.JPG

I've got 25 boxed sets of the original stuff dating back to 2001, another 50 or so individual pieces, and a canvas bag that has a total of three standard Dwarvenite dungeon sets (unpainted, will go in a container when I paint them with the DF paints I bought myself at Christmas); I suppose now that they don't do the resin sets nearly as much anymore I'll have to invest in tubs when I start buying city stuff.

Got a line on a few water cavern sets first, though.

Gorgeous stuff, really. I want a referee who lives near me to buy a bunch.

Quote from: Chainsaw;875416Gorgeous stuff, really. I want a referee who lives near me to buy a bunch.

That's what I tell my group: "I buy Dwarven Forge so you don't have to."

I went big on the dungeon set, and the cavern set, but I just couldn't justify the cost for the city set: I just don't have groups battling in cities/towns often enough to merit putting a few hundred into these pieces.

On the other hand, between the Out of the Abyss campaign, and the Little Keep on the Borderlands campaign, I find the cavern/dungeon sets seeing use 3 weeks out of 4, at the least. It doesn't take but a year of that bring the "cost per use" down to less than I was spending to play in M:TG tournaments (and I'got around 4,000 very colorful bookmarks now...).

I went big on the dungeon set, and the cavern set, but I just couldn't justify the cost for the city set: I just don't have groups battling in cities/towns often enough to merit putting a few hundred into these pieces.

On the other hand, between the Out of the Abyss campaign, and the Little Keep on the Borderlands campaign, I find the cavern/dungeon sets seeing use 3 weeks out of 4, at the least. It doesn't take but a year of that bring the "cost per use" down to less than I was spending to play in M:TG tournaments (and I've got around 4,000 very colorful bookmarks now...).

Looks very cool but I know I'd never use it.

Our GM has a bunch of it but IMO it's kind of a pain to use for RPGs and once you start putting minis and terrain on the table it starts limiting the imaginative space and what can happen there.

The stuff is great for skirmish games though.

It does look beautiful and I would use it for novelty and visual appeal (especially if I wanted to show off tactical gaming at a convention or something), but it would interfere with my creative space, as already suggested.

I always play "skirmish" RPGs (TFT & GURPS etc with tactical hex maps and figures and rules that make where everything is really matter), and draw locations on paper and then use plastic transparent overlays (or print or copy them with hexes on the paper), which means I can draw locations however, and re-use them for consistency etc. If I had these and used them a lot in campaigns, it'd be a trade-off between the visual appeal of the models, and freedom & variety. Also paper with hexes works better for my rules than miniatures, and I don't have pretty miniatures to match.