Caverns on the cheap for D&D

 

Not much painting going on right now, but I did get to pull out my cheap and easy cavern tiles for our D&D game over the weekend. So I'll show these off instead.

These are made from carboard, paper towel, toilet paper and white glue (PVA). I showcased the DM'sCraft YouTube channel a few posts back and he has a stack of cheap and easy ways to make terrain, including caverns.

The stalagmites are DwarvenForge, but everything else (excluding the miniatures of course) are made from cardboard and Paper Mache as the DM's Craft shows. Painted it up with cheap acrylic paints. Its sold and can take a beating and it worked great on the table as you can see. Not the best cavern terrain available but is the cheapest and you can make as much of it as you want in any shape you want it. You can see the different shapes I've used in the photos.

The tile above was made from a rubber gym mat. Very light weight but it does turn up at the edges a bit.

The sabretooth tigers are from Iron Wind Metals.

I'm pretty happy with these. Cheap and do the job nicely.

Krampus, the Christmas demon, from Reaper Miniatures

 

Happy New Year and a very Merry Eastern Orthodox Christmas to you all. Got to love the mix-ups caused by different calendars across the centuries. Anyway, this just means that I'm not out of the Yule season yet with finally finishing this mini!

Krampus is a Christmas demon who punishes naughty children, kidnapping them on the 23rd of December. He carries a Christmas Bag of Holding made from wicker and brass (you can see the naughty kinder trying to escape) and carries a Ruten to swatch the backsides of misbehaving children and adventurers alike, making him a perfect baddie for any Christmas adventure.

There is a good write-up for his stats for 5e of D&D over at DMDave's blog (find it here), and there is an excellent video for an encounter with Krampus from Professor Dungeon Master (PDM) below. Both also give good backgrounds into who Krampus is.

Can our plucky adventurers save the naughty kinder before Krampus carts them off to turn them into goblins (or worse!).

Krampus is definitely going to make a cameo for my RPG groups next Christmas themed adventure at the end of the year. Only 11 months to go!