Old Dwarven Forge Pictures–The Ruined Temple

[Originally posted on Dwarven Forge forums 2009 Jul 01. In looking for these pictures, I found better ones I took a week later. So I’ve posted these up in place of the original ones, from the perspective of an adventuring group making their way through].

Came home from work, and found boxes of DF awaiting me! Dinner can wait, let's see these things in action! [This was just at the release of the Return of the Ancients II.]

Ok, so I made this out of two sets of each RoTA I and II - I managed to use every piece except for the wall inserts... (d'oh! I just realized that the special mosaic intersection came with 3 sets... at least I remember not to put both in there!)

So the adventurers find the location of the ancient ruined temple. They proceed cautiously through the entrance...

I also found a few pictures of just messing around with various configurations…

Secret spinning doors, and secret spinning walls!

Old Dwarven Forge Pictures-Misc

Another repost with pictures… This was probably the biggest layout I had made up until that point. I had been collecting DF for a several years, but didn’t really have chances to use it reguarly or often until then.

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[Originally posted on Dwarven Forge forums 2007 Dec 15. Game date 2007 Jan 27.]

More random pics from the days before that Star Wars game...

This was taken during a Living Greyhawk mod I was running

1) The two parts (i didn't have enough room to connect them): The abandoned mines the goblins were using as a hideout (in the background) which led to the underground pool slightly lower (in the foreground)

2) Even before entering into the mines, the PC's have discovered the goblins' penchant for traps...

3) ... especially for Stump, the dwarvedn rogue/fighter who manages to fail something like 15 Reflex saves in a row.

4) Fighting one of the goblin shaman's and his pet

5&6) The pool room which even the goblins avoid...

7) ... because of the Otyugh that lives there!! (well... ok, so i didn't have to correct mini... 8-)

8) AJ having fun with the DF afterwards

Old Dwarven Forge Pictures–Star Wars Minis

Another repost with pictures…

[Originally posted on Dwarven Forge forums 2007 Dec 12]

I've been cleaning up my computer files when I found some DF pics from earlier this year. This first set is a set up for a quick Star Wars Mini's battle...

1: The overall layout which AJ (in the back there, who was thrilled to play with DF!) help to setup... We pretty much just pulled out all the Sci-Fi pieces I have and tried to put them together... around 5 each of starter set, passage set, and alpha expansion, with 2 beta.

2: The heroes racing to extract the vital information from the central computer core

3: Vader leading his entourage to counter them

4: Quickly taking out the forward guards, Mace Windu, Yoda, and Obi-wan sense the apporach of the Sith Lord

5: "Bastila, retrieve the data while we hold them off!"

6: Melee ensues...

Old Dwarven Forge Pictures–Fane of Tiamat

This was originally posted on the Dwarven Forge forums. At the time I had been playing a lot of Living Greyhawk, and they had allowed some of the commerical products to be used in home LG games. The Red Hand of Doom was a well written, and quite fun module that I ran my home group through. Looking for the pictures to repost, hard to imagine that was almost 10 years ago now!

There was also a project undertaken by the forum folks to build a mapping program by taking pictures of the tiles from above and make renderings from them. It was called TileMapper and worked very well. Its not in development anymore as there is a DF produced version with the successful kickstarters now.

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Hey guys! Sorry I haven't been around - been having a great gaming since I got a regular group together...

For the past 9 months, I've been running them through Red Hand of Doom as a Living Greyhawk campaign. It's been a blast, and now they're about ready to head off to the BBEG's HQ, so it's my chance to show off some more DF once again!

Thanks the TileMapper crew, I've been able to preplan the map and I wanted to get some feedback about it before we play in a couple of week. Rater than try to recreate the map exactly, I went for a similar feel while making it doable with DF. Specifically, are there any suggestions for the hallway between room 3 and 4?

Old Dwarven Forge Pictures–Storage Drawers

[Originally posted on the Dwarven Forge forums 2009 Apr 18]

I snapped a few picture of the storage drawers from Target that Aracon mentioned here(http://www.dwarvenforge.com/dwarvenforums/viewtopic.php?id=3110). As he said, they were very near perfect and hold DF very snug. http://www.target.com/Sterilite-7-Drawer-Craft-Cart-White/dp/B000MQ62IG/sr=1-1/qid=1236818542/ref=sr_1_1/179-5141942-2139726?ie=UTF8&frombrowse=0&index=target&rh=k%3A7%20drawer&page=1

The first two pictures shows the whole drawer and cabinet. The DF boxes next to it should give an idication of its size (it was hard for me to image on the Target webpage). Also, it comes without the wheels attached, and I'm leaning towards not putting the wheels on.

The next picture shows the contents of one drawer with just one RoTA set in it. The one after that filled completely up (in this case, with one of the bonus 4-way intersections).

Because there was some play between the top of the DF and the lid, I cut up some of the bubble wrap that came with the individual pieces and put a layer on top of the pieces to give them some cusion to prevent the occasional scratch. The first picture is hard to see (sorry!), but you can make it out beneath the lid in the following one.

Oh, and I thought I'd show how well the DF boxes protect the pieces. When one of the UPS boxes came, there was a large hole in the side of it. Sure enough, whatever punctured it went deep enough that it pushed through the peanuts inside and punched a hole in the white DF box. But the styrofoam in there absorbed it completely without any damage to the pieces.

Thanks again Aracon for the drawer suggestion! I've been looking for something like this for years! Though, yes, my girlfriend also now pokes fun at me for buying a "girl's scrapbook" drawer to hold my "man dolls". 8-)