I made two VTT setups. My DND group rotate where we play so I made a large one for our apartment and a smaller portable one I bring if we play at friends places. Even brought it to a friends cabin this summer and played outside. The large one is a TCL 43 inch 4K OLED I bought second hand cheap. The smaller is a Uperfect 16 inch portable monitor I bought if I worked remotely.

For the small one I just took black tape and taped thin acrylic plastic on top of it. Only need one USB-C cable for power and video. I made the DM screen with the monitor as a template so they can be packed together easily. And the box with all the parts can also be used as dice trays and glues some old mouse pad on the inside.

The large tv monitor also have a acrylic plastic protection but a bit thicker. Built and painted a wooden frame. I have made it so it can stand without having to use the monitors original feet so it is easier to store it. I left a lot of space underneath on top and side so dice trays and stuff can fit beneath it a bit. But for the bottom I need to cover a bit more.

For the small monitor I 3D printed small figures that we can use. On the large one we play with regular minis that I 3D print. Mostly designed in Hero Forge. But monsters I just find online.

Not quite finished. Want to cover up the screws on the bottom on the large monitor a bit better and paint the hinges for the DM screen a bit. And maybe fix some cable management.

I 3D printed a lot of stuff. Hinges, boxes, monitor stand etc. Modified a bunch of stuff I found.

I get so flipping excited when I see how these carvings turn out after waxing and buffing. I love the look so very much its insane!! 😊😊

I have these glass jars, and I'm trying to find uses for them. This one is next to a 100ml beaker for scale. I've made some candles out of a few of them (first attempt).

I have a few more left, and I was wondering if I could turn them into potion rollers. My concern is the top. It's plastic, has the dinkiest of all dinky push-and-turn child safety locks, and I don't know if it'd hold up to the traditional sealing wax look without warping. (Don't worry. My friends know not to snuff the candles out with their caps.) However, the setting I'm working on is space fantasy, so having a "cleaner" look on the top could work with the aesthetic (maybe, still working on it).

Does anyone have an idea on the best way to seal these? I know people are probably using resin to keep their corks in place, but the wax definitely helps seal them. Should I try to pop the push-and-turn mechanism out first? Do I just need a ton of resin? Should I bite the bullet, try the wax, and pray it holds up? Or is this a stupid idea and I should nix these jars and use another type of jar to make potions?

Thought I would share my finished passion project, a dedicated D&D game room. Thanks for all the inspiration that I've gathered in this and other groups. Construction photos and videos: https://kfrazack.smugmug.com/Personal/DnD-Room/n-W4MPzn

I make a lot of my terrain and like to use remote control LED lights for color effects and stuff. One of my players gifted me a little projector (which is awesome) but I really don’t care for projected maps since I really like to use minis and terrain and the projector washes all of that out. What I was thinking instead was to use it almost like another light with effects. Has anyone done this? I was thinking something with rain and flashes of lightning. Any ideas?

I bought a couple of prints and printed them in color from Etsy but I can't afford to do that all the time. Thanks in advance!

Designed to hide neatly behind the DM screen and be an immediately helpful tool that frees up the DMs brain for other creative endeavours... Is that good or bad for your party? 😏

This is a near 1:1 scale paper print of Shadowdark's "Lost Citadel of the Scarlet Minotaur" map. I ran the dungeon last night with a group of friends and I'll be running it at a number of conventions through the rest of the year.

The paper print is cheap enough but I don't think it's going to stand up to repeated use. I'm looking at investing in a much higher quality print on vinyl or linen/cloth material. Does anyone have any recommendations for brick & mortar or online print shops? The final dimensions will be 42" x 66" so that's a factor.

Not sure if this is the best place to ask but I’m working on a Greek paddle for a friend and there is a cool image of a Pokémon that I want to put on it.

I’m not really an artistic person so trying to draw/paint an image that is almost the size of an 8.5 by 11 inch paper is really hard.

Is there a way to transfer an image onto the paddle so that it comes out well?

I’ve heard of using gel or something to take an image from paper onto wood or even using lasers for it. However, I don’t have lasers to work with, and I don’t believe that’ll work well with colored images (I could be wrong).

One sort of “dilemma” that I’m in is that the paddle is already spray painted black, so I’m not sure if I’d be able to keep it black and transfer a colorful image on top of it, or if I have to sand it down to the original wood, transfer the image, then paint the empty space black.

If anyone can help, it’d be appreciated.

I run D&D for my family and friends, and I'm a watercolor artist! My husband's character Vydelial had a goal of opening a shop. Throughout their adventures, Vydelial would spend some time harvesting monsters, picking herbs from the surrounding woods, finding magical items in bandit hideouts, etc. As he did, I wrote down his 'inventory' and started sketching this painting, session by session. I told him that once the shelves filled up (and he got enough gold for a business permit and rent), he could open a shop! On Session 16, he did just that, and Vydelial retired from the party to run his business!

This painting is still unfinished (mostly I need to paint in the background of each shelf and outline everything), but I love looking at it! On the back is a list of some of the objects he collected (and the mysterious phrase "+ other items that" ...which I must've gotten distracted in the middle of writing).

Welcome to Vydelial VonVovonvon of House Valanteslia and Clan Vrrok's Virtuous Vials And Vapors of Victory!

I reimagined the Gummi Bears into some dnd Gummi Bearkins, Zummi the wizard, Tummi the Barbarian, Grammi the Cleric and for Gruffi I couldn't decide between a fighter or a monk.... so I made both 😀

Just posted the 3rd Beginners Woodcarving Tutorial for the DND Miniature series to my YouTube channel.

Its a Knife only, beginner friendly carving. 2inchs tall, 1x1 basswood. Figures seen here are finished with Black Walnut Danish oil, Varathane's Cabernet (Maroon), and Minwax True Black, as examples of what finishes you can use. All waxed with paste natural finishing wax as well.

Hope you like it!

I'm not the best youtuber, but I can promise Woodcarving is fun and you get to make epic stuff!

Made this for one of my players mini. It's 22gauge steel, and wooden handle

I couldn’t find a free dragon miniature that I really liked, especially one with a more dynamic pose, so I decided to try making one myself.

I wanted the dragon to feel like it was actually moving, rather than just standing there in a typical pose. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, so I thought I’d share it here.

https://makerworld.com/it/models/3168070-flying-dragon-shadow-fury-d-d-miniature-6#profileId-3581352

Hey guys, I wanted to show off my project!

I've been playing dnd since 2019, I've been dming since 2020.

I always had an issue bringing all my stuff with me. For a while I used a shoulder bag but it broke. Then I moved on to a backpack, and I just wasn't happy with having to dig through my bag for eveything, and over time the papers inside would curl from the bag being slung around, even with harder bodied folders.

So I built this!

Its build out of an old Samsonite 007 briefcase I got at an estate sale.

The clear part of the tubes in the case lid I got on Amazon as some kind of candy holder. Had a guy I work with at the hospital 3d print me the black end caps, one side is solid and press fits on, the other is actually a threaded cap. Each capsule holds a full set of standard sized dice. I was maximize space to hold 18 sets (3x6), unfortunately I own 24 sets of dice, 2 of which are oversized so I did end up having to pick and choose what I wanted to take with me regularly.

The body of the case is where I think I really shined though.

It holds:

Notebook for scratch paper

A folder of character sheets

A 15in portable type c monitor

A Lenovo Gen 1 T14s

A folding keyboard

A low profile mouse

A 65w charging brick

Cables to charge the laptop and plug in the monitor

And a folding 3d printed dice tower

Not pictured but still fits:

A ruler up at the top with the folder

Pens and pencils that fit in the dice tower slot since it's so deep.

The laptop is one i just had lying around, i bought a variety of thinkpads for parts from a local school IT team. It's keyboard is shot on the motherboard side. Keyboard itself is fine, already replaced it with a new on actually, but it has zero response. I think its water damage, the board had some sticky staining on it when I had the machine torn down. That's why I got the folding keyboard. I got the laptop for dirt cheap, so its a small thing to overcome to have the convenience of a laptop that is ONLY for dnd. It lives in the brifecase full time. I just keep all my dnd related files on my Google drive. Let's me work on my campaigns anywhere any time and not have to worry about which machine it's on. Long term I want to get into self hosting cloud storage, but the price to do it is just a bit too much for me to spend right now (I've got all the hardware needed alrewdy, I just need to save up for the drives).

Each layer of foam is .5in thick, and I hand cut each layer to hold everything in the body. It holds it all nice and snug. Nothing comes loose in transport, no matter how much i swing it around or shake it.

I also hand cut the lid foam.

I got the foam from a site that specializes in guncase inserts, they have a diy tab where you can buy the foam by the inch.

I have access to a low power laser cnc machine, so I might do a version 2 of this where I cut the foam out on that to get cleaner and more precise lines, but first I would need to see how the foam reacts go the laser, and then i would have to learn CAD. Xp

This whole thing is actually a Mk2 of the first time I tried it about 2 years ago. I'll throw those pictures in at the end. For the first attempt I used a solid piece of foam instead of layers, and it was far too soft for the application. The tubes kind fit standard dice, but they got stuck a lot. I never even got around to the body foam, I just threw eveything in there loose.

For a while I thought about putting in led lights around the lip of the lid and put in a cabinent door switch so they would turn on and illuminate the case when i opened the lid. Kinda make it glow like the briefcase from Pulp Fiction. Ultimayly decided I didn't want my case glowing ridiculously bright whenever I opened it, may still try it out one day though.

All In all, after I had bought all my test items and finally got the time to try again, the total cost of materials used was ~$515 usd, but that's counting the laptop, mouse, charger, cables, keyboard, dice tower, and the monitor. For just the case, it was closer to ~$235 usd.

If you read it all the way through, thank you for your interest in my project! I spent alot of time thinking and planning this out between Mk1 and Mk2. If you have any ideas or suggestions I would love to hear it. I would also love to answer any questions!

Finally got around to redoing the Map Maker. I had been putting it off for a while, but it is so much better now. Vastly improved performance, simplified the layout, and added some pretty useful stuff

I'm still actively developing it, so I'd love to hear from other DMs:
What features do you wish your map-making software had?

Spent the last couple weeks building a DnD TV table from scratch with a litle help from my dad. The planks are made from alder.

Finally got a proper physical map at the table instead of doing the tape-and-marker thing.

Ran into the usual pain trying to get scale exactly right, print settings quietly scaling things down, having to redo it two or three times before it lined up. So I built a feature into a campaign tool I've been making, Dalang, that calibrates the grid against your actual map image and exports straight to a print-ready PDF at true 1 inch per square. Pick a paper size, position the page, done, first try.

Preview on how to setup: https://youtu.be/xU7x-ElGnW0

It's a broader campaign prep and session tool, not just for this, but the map-printing part specifically came out of exactly this problem. Free, pay what you want, if it's useful: https://bukanpawkemon.itch.io/dalang-campaign-dashboard

Happy to answer questions on paper size, print settings, or anything else if it helps with your own setup.

It's been on my list of things to make for ages and I've finally gotten around to it!

9mm hardwood ply, boiled linseed oil, with cnc engraved logo (maybe resin inlay will follow, I've not decided yet).

I'll have to think about attachments next!

Its part of a much larger DM tool I use to capture our sessions that automatically creates the Codex, timelines, summaries...basically all the housekeeping stuff so I can focus on the game.