Recently, my DM finally gave me a bit of advance warning for a terrain setup he needed! Okay, so it was 2 days notice... and he wanted lava. Lots and lots of lava!
So, tasked with making a ton of lava, I envisioned a cracked and torn landscape, with lava crisscrossing the scorched earth.... which you just can't do with a single straight and a single curve. So, I made a 4x4 "X" intersection, a 3x4 "T" intersection, a 6x6 circular pit, a 4x4 wide lava tile, and a 4x4 wide-to-narrow piece. Thus armed, I made a huge layout, and presented it to him.
Then, he told me it needed to be a lava field!
Sooooo.... I made a 7x7, perfectly tileable ground tile. And since I was pressed for time (and thus couldn't base them on foamcore), I set to connecting them with the old standby, masking tape:
On either side of the lava field, there were two strips of land (5 of the 7x7 CW ground tiles), and the lava itself was 5 connected sheets of 6 tiles:
Here's a shot of everything taped together, before we flipped it over:
The lava battlefield (with land) was a total of 35" wide (almost 3') and 56" long (over 4.6')!
More pics to come, pending approval from higher ups... some minor sneak preview stuff from Something Below is included!
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