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Labyrinthine encounter
I've been running a big multi-planar campaign in the CS D&D game over the last few months, and the week before last we finally hit one of the set-piece encounters I had designed the whole thing around in the first place. I wanted a big battle inside of an Escher/Labyrinth 3D environment, with people walking on the walls and performing crazy acrobatic moves to leap across the board. Once I started actually building the thing, I quickly realized you wouldn't be able to see where anyone was or reach the minis to move them around. I ended up with the following compromise:
It all worked surprisingly well. It's cut out of foamcore, with my standard 1" presentation pad grid glued on top. Foam-to-foam joints were made with pins jammed through, and the vertical supports are bamboo skewers. The consensus in the end was that blue tacky stuff was the best way to hold the minis on upside down. We only had one failure, and the comedic timing could not be faulted, as the character had just fallen on their face. Players could choose which plane's gravity they were affected by, with an acrobatics check to see if they could twist around properly to land on their feet. Standard falling damage rules applied. The encounter was dramatic, and provided an excellent backdrop for the sacrifice of one of our players who just graduated and moved away.
It all worked surprisingly well. It's cut out of foamcore, with my standard 1" presentation pad grid glued on top. Foam-to-foam joints were made with pins jammed through, and the vertical supports are bamboo skewers. The consensus in the end was that blue tacky stuff was the best way to hold the minis on upside down. We only had one failure, and the comedic timing could not be faulted, as the character had just fallen on their face. Players could choose which plane's gravity they were affected by, with an acrobatics check to see if they could twist around properly to land on their feet. Standard falling damage rules applied. The encounter was dramatic, and provided an excellent backdrop for the sacrifice of one of our players who just graduated and moved away.
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You so have to start running a game when you come home. I'm delighted envisioning gaming nights around the dining room table.
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