Dwarven Forge Terrain

[eldargal]

Dwarven Forge (http://www.dwarvenforge.com/) produce a range of modular dungeon, cavern and medieval building kits that can be used to put together rather impressive structures for DnD games, RPGs or tabletop games. All in 25-28mm scale, not cheap, but nice and useful. All pre-painted as far as I know, which adds to the cost but in this case it is worth it, in my opinion.

There are many limited edition sets which are gorgeous but I can't preview without having like 8 posts, so check the website out thoroughly if you are at all interested.

For example you could use the Dungeon Sets to produce a fully modular Warhammer Quest board:

Rooms and Passages
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Room___Passage_S_4b84713c189a2.jpg
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/room%20and%20passage%209.jpg

Fantasy Floor
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Fantasy_Floor_Se_4b8710eb2f72e.jpg

Wicked Additions 1
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Wicked_Additions_4b914593eac52.jpg

[eldargal]

Dungeon Sets continued:

Room Set
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Room_Set_4b871c2ba6955.jpg

Square floors
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/6__x_6__Square_F_4babdc6849033.jpg

Advance Builders set 2
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Advanced_Builder_4b85add471ccb.jpg

Combination
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Room-Set-16314-4.jpg

There are lots more dungeon set kits on their website.

[eldargal]

Again you could use the Medieval Set for Warhammer Quest and RPGs etc, or a large building for Warhammer:

Building Set
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Medieval_Buildin_4b96b5012e59a.jpg
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/medieval-building-set-16394-6.jpg
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/medieval-building-set-16394-11.jpg

Expansion Set
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Medieval_Buildin_4b96b219aa01f.jpg

[eldargal]

My brothers have used these to have a cavern system with a removeable roof/hill so you can play WFB on the outside and have characters and skirmishers/small regiments go into the inside for ab objective.

Basic Cavern Set
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Cavern_Set_4b9c0905cc36a.jpg
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Cavern-Set-16355-4.jpg
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Cavern-Set-16355-5.jpg

Ice Cavern set
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/ALL2.jpg4edfd87785175.jpg

[eldargal]

Ice Cavern set continues:
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/ICE-15.jpg

Cavernous lake set:
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Cavernous_Lake_S_4b96b146aa9bf.jpg
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/lake9.gif
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/lake8.gif

[eldargal]

They also have some accoessories and misc. pieces:

Woodland Accessories
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/lake8.gif

Tavern accessories
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Tavern_Accessori_4b96b3d43499c.jpg

Medieval furniture
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Medieval_Furnitu_4b8716ae176ed.jpg

Dungeon accessories
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Dungeon_Accessor_4b85a9a272184.jpg

[eldargal]

I'll include small preview of the scifi set here:

SciFi Starter Set
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Sci_Fi_Starter_S_4b85aba6c4172.jpg

Scifi Passage set
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Sci_Fi_Passage_S_4b85ab76260af.jpg

Alpha Expansion
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Sci_Fi_Alpha_Exp_4b85ab10abd50.jpg

Gamma Expansion:
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Sci-Fi-Gamma-5.jpg

Probably more Star Trek than Warhammer 40,000, but whatever floats your boat.

[eldargal]

Ok, just one of the limited edition sets:

Realm of the Ancients
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Realm_of_the_Anc_4b871a2992b3a.jpg
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Realm-of-the-Ancients-Set-16409-4.jpg
http://www.dwarvenforge.com/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/Realm-of-the-Ancients-Set-16409-1.jpg

[Mr.Pickelz]

All i gota say is, "Wow!". My jaw is pain from hitting the floor so hard.:D

[Wildeybeast]

Warhammer Quest just got a whole lot better!

[Dyrnwyn]

One of my buddies has owned a set of the Dwarven Forge dungeon tiles for yonks. They're pretty interesting, but they can be a pain and a half to set up - sometimes you want to do room shapes that the pieces just don't allow. Still - much more immersive to play on than a vinyl mat with wet-erase marker on it.

[L192837465]

As cool as that stuff is, MY GOD is it expensive

[eldargal]

Yep, as with all modular kits you can't be as creative as if you made it yourself. The advantage is, of course, the amount of time saved. Not to mention the fact that not everyone has the skills to produce such quality scenery anyway.:)

One of my buddies has owned a set of the Dwarven Forge dungeon tiles for yonks. They're pretty interesting, but they can be a pain and a half to set up - sometimes you want to do room shapes that the pieces just don't allow. Still - much more immersive to play on than a vinyl mat with wet-erase marker on it.

[faolan]

Curse your brothers, they have all the cool toys.

At least they don't have a monopoly on cool sisters as well! :D

[=Angel=]

No sir, I don't like it.
The level of detail is nice, lovely in some cases, but the fact that even the water breaks up into squares would pull me out of any immersion.

Scifi stuff is nice, but the edges aren't as crisp as I'd like.(this could be the paint)

I think the tavern is very well done and is the ideal environment for what they are producing- a regular environment that lends itself to tiles but not "machined" regular, that would require greater precision or even seamless-ness.

[eldargal]

Yes I have to admit the water squares annoy me too. We tend not to use them except as edge pieces in WHQ/DND/Whatever.

[L192837465]

No sir, I don't like it.
The level of detail is nice, lovely in some cases, but the fact that even the water breaks up into squares would pull me out of any immersion.

Scifi stuff is nice, but the edges aren't as crisp as I'd like.(this could be the paint)

I think the tavern is very well done and is the ideal environment for what they are producing- a regular environment that lends itself to tiles but not "machined" regular, that would require greater precision or even seamless-ness.


It's an abstraction for D&D. It makes it SO much easier to note where the hell you are. Trust me when I say that non-abstraction of waterlines makes people live or die when fighting something with lightning

[eldargal]

It's like every hill being neatly terraved for 20mm bases though, in my opinion. Makes sense from a practical perspective, really hits the suspension of disbelief.

Still love Dwarven Forge, but I do understand the issue with the water pieces.

[L192837465]

Also, are you referring to the 5x5 squares of water or watever? That's to fill in large lagoons, the coastlines are all pretty well done, imo.

[Skeith154]

For my part i use alot of monsters in my Warhammer games, a monster nest like that is perfect. as are the caverns i noticed. i may just have to get some of them to toy around with.

[chromedog]

I've got those two SF sets. Every time I think of adding more to what I have and go to their site, they're out of stock and an unknown time until restock (I've emailed).
I'm thinking of just getting some Hirstarts moulds and doing some resin casts of my own to add to them. It'll cost about the same and take less time.