Here’s a unique take on the standard 3d print dungeon! Dynamod has created a simple & flexible system that is easy to assemble on the fly! It plugs together fast & provides just the right amount of texture without getting in the way! (1 of x) dynamod.games
This is slick. The base trays go together magnetically, the swappable floor tiles just drop in, and the walls and openable doors plug in from the top with no magnets or clips required! Pretty without being a pain in the posterior to put together!
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You can buy starter sets already 3d printed and assembled - ready for play…
… or you can support their Patreon and get all the STL files to 3d print your own components! Patreon supporters get access to all existing files, plus new components as they are created. (4 of x)
Gaminggeek has a great video review of the product up on YouTube, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. It really shows off the system and what it can do. (5 of x)
Plus, if you are a #HeroQuest player, you’ll discover this system is perfectly suited to work with the new version. Reproducing an entire HeroQuest board with 1” squares is possible, as you can see below. (6 of x)
I have no affiliation with Dynamod Games. I just admire good design when I see it & like to share! If you do 3d printing regularly, this is a must have. (I joined the Patreon myself.) If not, you may want to give a pre-printed starter set a try.
I’ve been talking about this a long time before finding this #Buckyquote yesterday. With our existing technology, a fraction of our cumulative available man-hours could feed, clothe and house the entire world in conditions our ancestors would have called luxurious. #RainingSoup
Robert Heinlein was fond of saying “It’s raining soup! Grab a bucket!” We live in a world of plenty… but buckets are being issued to only a few. Everyone else can only catch the drops in their mouths. Now the bucket holders want to ban most of us from looking up. (2
The only thing keeping us from living in a veritable paradise is greed. Having enough for all is not sufficient. Some people aren’t happy unless they have far more than everyone else. They would rather see the soup fall on the ground than let someone else have any. (3
I keep seeing Kickstarters trying to promote sets of metal fantasy coinage for RPGs. They all look pretty… and they all cost SO much more than using real local (in my case) coinage instead. What am I missing? (Thread)
I am NOT throwing shade at the people making these. They are always sincere folks offering pretty stuff at the best prices possible - but it is NOT possible to undercut the US Mint. Most (probably all) national coinage costs much more to create than the face value.
If it entirely tosses you out of your role-playing to use modern national coinage, OK… but consider. Is “generic” gold, silver & copper coinage so VERY much better that you want to spend so much more to obtain it? If the answer is “yes”, go for it.
It is a revelation to discover how many of the ”checks and balances” of the American political system depend solely on the good will and sense of fairness of our officials. We see now that a determined group with no moral compass can completely paralyze our way of life...
... and yet, despite this huge vulnerability, hasn’t our nation more or less functioned for a long time? Well, no. It has NEVER functioned reliably for anyone but straight white males (and let's them down, too if they are low-income).
What it came down to is that the greedy ones with no personal honor finally came for a good chunk of the rest of us — so now we notice there’s no real protection against those who don’t deign to obey the unspoken agreements between white men.
@FredKiesche@garethlpowell I’ve been trying to hammer Gareth’s point #2 into people’s heads for year's. People say ”the US can't feed the world”, but in point of fact we COULD. We just don’t have the will to do so. Hell, we could feed the world on the perfectly good food we throw away!
@FredKiesche@garethlpowell Modern agriculture is so good we have to pay people NOT to grow food. This isn’t to benefit the individual family farm. It is meant to assure the huge corporate farms make insane profits by creating artificial shortages.
@FredKiesche@garethlpowell Hunger is engineered to make the wealthy wealthier. Homelessness is engineered as well. Modern materials & construction techniques could cheaply house all of the homeless. But antiquated building codes are designed to keep these techniques from being used.
A coalition of left and center Democrats (Once known as center and right Democrats when I was younger...) made this happen. The Left now needs to hold the Dems feet to the fire. Health care reform now. Black lives matter. Immigration reform now.
Immediate and decisive action against the Covid-19 pandemic. Stop the spread of armed white supremacy lawlessness. Make police protectors again instead of armed thugs. Disband ICE. Reform the courts.
For God’s sake, address the core problem of consolidation of all wealth in the hands of a tiny, tiny few. Pay workers what they are worth! Tax the ultra-wealthy. Address the economic suppression of non-whites and women.
Want to turn my spare 30” TCL Roku TV into an electronic map display table for gaming. (I never watch TV in the office anyway.) But I’m no woodworker (and don’t have the tools for it), so I can’t DIY a map case... (thread)
I found and ordered a flat VESA mount to support the TV itself, but still thinking about how to build a case without woodworking tools (or skills) that will sit atop my usual game table. (T2)
I’ve been looking at articles, YouTube videos, Etsy ads & more trying to spark some ideas. Then something occurred to me, recalling some recent Kickstarters about plastic platforms that raise your game board above the table a couple of inches. (T3)