Making Crates for your 3d Dungeon or Wargame

I'm currently working on an adventure and realized I need a bunch of crates and furniture for this one.

I could just cut out a bunch of squares and rectangles out of card but I thought I'd go all out for these ones since they'll get used a lot.

Crates are super easy to make once you know how.

First get yourself a couple of bags of these....

You can get 42 wooden cubes for a dollar at the dollar store! You're already halfway there!

Next paint them all black.

Now you need to make yourself a stamper. You can find out all about making stampers in issue 1 of sword of sorcery, download all the issues here.

This is a fairly simple stamper, just a thin rectangle on each edge, a diagonal crossbar and some more planks on the inside.

Now load up your stamper with a light beige to represent your wood color and stamp every side of the crates. 

Here's what you get!

I undercoated the cubes, made the stamper and got all the sides stamped while watching a movie so they really don't take long at all. If you do enough of them at a time the first ones are dry by the time you loop back around to them to do their second side.

As you can see they look just fine and are a lot quicker and cheaper than printing off cardstock printables and cutting, folding and gluing them all.

I hope you all can find a use for these guys.

~Ripley

LoSS Soundtrack Preview

Issue 5:Lairs! is chugging along at a nice pace, but to hold you all over till it enters the world, here is the intro track to the LoSS soundtrack.

This should pop up in some promotional videos later but for now I thought you might like a listen.

listen to LoSS track 1 Rolling Thunder

~Ripley

Bottled Horrors Prop (Make a Baloney Monster)

Want to learn how to make this bottled monstrosity?

Read on below!

All players alive... so far

The portal of the Blind Burrower

Quick post, more in depth hopefully later...
The heroes have delved the depths of the Arrowblack cursewood.
They have fought many evil creatures, some innocents were not able to be saved, a war was averted (damn them) a bad boss was defeated and they stand before the yawning portal to the lair of the Blind Burrower.
Lot's of new players this week so they got thrown right in learning combat on the fly. The rope traps were stymied but the heroes are now throwing a lot of lit torches in the middle of a forest.
An attempt to set the forest on fire burning it to the ground was thwarted by bad rolls on the players part (thank god, I didn't want to have to generate rules for a forest fire on the fly).
One hero lies unconcioius in the cavers of the blind burrower, hoping that his friends live to retrieve his body.
Plus someone is playing a priest, so yeah, I'll have to come up with something for that, I haven't decided yet if the priesthood available to the players will have spooky powers or not. Considering he is still an acolyte I wont' need to decide yet.