About scenery and improving

We are always trying to offer more and “do it better” for our subscribers, and there are few better examples of this ethos than the way we have changed our approach to scenery from our first bundle to today. In the beginning, which was two years ago but feels like a decade ago, we took a very conservative approach. No better example of this than the leafless dead trees that come with the Welcome Pack and the Whispers in the Swamp bundle. Now, there’s nothing wrong with these trees! They are simple. They are straightforward. Not every DM or GM uses scenery, but for those that do a few dead trees on a battlemap can add atmosphere for players and maybe even some interesting elements if an encounter turns to combat.

Subscribers seemed to appreciate the scenery were offering and asked for more, including some nudging us to be more ambitious even if big means more resin and more print time. Fast forward and that is exactly what we have done. From the Dragon’s Keep Vault in Heist at Dragon’s Keep, we try to make our FDM friendly scenery both easy to print and something that will wow players when it is on a tabletop. These are playable! They are scaled for 32mm and we believe they can add a lot to a session, to make it more immersive, more interesting, and to make combat more strategic.

More recently we’ve started to do “double duty” scenery to give our subscribers even more optionality. Even if you don’t write Winford’s Watchtower into a campaign, it doubles as a great forest-themed dice tower!

Our most recent scenery piece, The Argonaths of the Abyss, can be playable scenery that represents the kind of classic Dwarven architecture familiar from fantasy epics or the two Argonaths can be printed as bookends for a collection of your favorite TTRPG books fantasy novels.

They are optimized for FDM printing and are hollow so they can be filled with sand to give them the weight these stone dwarf heroes or kings need to stand strong on your bookshelf from now until the fall of man. We always try to respond to feedback from our subscribers. The creative team and our sculptors have really had fun “going big” with some of our scenery in 2024 while we still offer smaller scenery pieces in many of our bundles. We can’t wait to show you what we are up to next! Check out all of our best scenery pieces. Print one up and get that wow from your group!