Have you ever made 3d terrain to play on?

[bluekitsune13]

My original introduction to The Fantasy Trip was actually through Heroscape. Anyone remember that game? The best part of it was the terrain. It came with plastic hexagon terrain that you could connect and stack to make your battlefields. Very cool. I was on the fan Heroscape forums, and there was this guy who posted his flocked terrain. Originally he bought the game for the terrain to use with TFT, but then started playing the actual game. His site is here at meleewizards.com.

Anyway, I sold most of my Heroscape stuff long ago. I'm not sure I want to buy back any of it, as it would be expensive. Instead I was thinking of trying to make my own. What I was thinking of buying up some MDF hexes pretty cheap. Then I could glue them to a board and texture it. The only problem with that is I couldn't change the layout too much. Sure I can make terrain that could lay on top, but it would be weird to put a river in the middle or something.

Has anyone else tried making some 3d terrain for the game?

[Chris Rice]

I just use my Heroscape stuff. I think there was a Kickstarter for something compatible but can remember the name.

[bluekitsune13]

Hyground is what you're probably thinking of. I think they are coming back with a new Kickstarter, since the last one didn't succeed.

[Chris Rice]

Originally Posted by bluekitsune13

Hyground is what you're probably thinking of. I think they are coming back with a new Kickstarter, since the last one didn't succeed.

Yes that was the thing. It looked very nice.

[Turhan's Bey Company]

I've been 3d printing game terrain for a little while now; you'll find a few designs here, for example. There's a wealth of printable terrain out there (look, for example, for "OpenForge"), but it's mostly based on square grids, so I have to do my own floor designs. Since I work primarily with GURPS, my designs use 1-inch hexes, but that's trivial to scale to any desired size.

[larsdangly]

the meleewizard web site playing surfaces were really cool; I haven't seen those for a while but remember them well. Notice that he used heroscape terrain as a base, meaning a 1.75" hex size. I suspect that all the sturm und drang about 1.5" hexes is really about the desire to shift the physical components of the game to a scale where there is at least the possibility of this kind of elaborate table top play surfaces. If so, I strongly advocate it; I enjoy my flat cardboard chits but the game will grow faster and in more exciting ways if it can tap into the miniatures skirmish game materials and community. TFT is such a natural for that, as it is both a very fast playing, fun skirmish combat engine and a roleplaying game. If it were my business to revive it, I would definitely try to pivot into a place in the market where the game play is like it always was (plus or minus some spell or talent you think would be cool), but the materials of the game evolve into something more ambitious.

[The Wyzard]

Heroscape terrain was fantastic, and isn't that expensive to buy large lots of on EBay, if you'd like to have a table full of it.

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Back when I was a teenager and wanted to get serious about WH40k, I tried making some terrain out of papier mache. It came out pretty bad. Maybe I would have gotten better with practice.

[JohnPaulB]

Originally Posted by bluekitsune13

My original introduction to The Fantasy Trip was actually through Heroscape... ...

Has anyone else tried making some 3d terrain for the game?

I did old school back in the 1980s I made a sandbox board 6'x4'. I actually put dirt in it.

Molded hills, roads, rivers.

Had HO trees and props, 15mm buildings.

Did a hexless grid: 1 inch = 1 hex.

With all that space a player could really utilize the terrain.

Great for goblins on wolves or cavalry charges too.

Could set up wilderness, crossroads inns or a city using this space.

Some powerful playing went on.