I have been taking my players through a heavily modified version of the Dungeon Crawl Classics adventure Shadow Under Devils Reef. I've made a lot of changes to the adventure, keeping the bare bones of the outline and modifying the maps to my needs and the overall setting. Anyway, I knew they were going to get to this adventure soon'ish (we played session 2 last night) and so made suitable terrain for it all well ahead of time, including caves, rocks and the island itself.
Unfortunately, Blogger now has an annoying habit of loading images backwards these days and I'm not going to be bothered fixing their mistake. Sorry dear reader! So as you look through these photos you should remember to start at the end and work backwards to the beginning. Anyway, as the players arrive at the reef after a harrowing attempt to rescue the survivors of a ship wreck, beating Great White Sharks to the rescue (hint, of the eight initial survivors in the water, the team rescued only two, the rest were dinner!), they make it (just) to the reef itself after their boats are nearly destroyed by a tentacle beasty hiding in the small bay. They drag themselves ashore and two PC's stay behind to look after one of the rescued sailors (i.e. those players weren't able to join us for Session 2 and so ended up on baby sitting duties awaiting the rescue ship). The players who were able to make it last night then needed to make their way around to the ship wreck and look for any survivors, eventually ending up underground.
The key thing I wanted to point out is that, with the exception of the miniatures, the Cog and the dear moss that acts as bleached coral, everything else is made from cardboard, toilet paper, and white glue. I used river sand here as well. Amazing what you can do on the cheap. Hat's off to the inspiration provided by DM Scotty's YouTube channel DM's Craft. I did a blog post on it here. Anyway, I'm no craftsmen. This was the first time I have done any of this and it looked really nice on the table for the players. I just wanted to share this to hopefully inspire others and spur them on to give this kind of thing a go as well.
