Getting Into D&D 5e Adventures

I wanted to start off the session with a little bit of excitement before the party began the written scenario at the Dwarven Excavation.   I also wanted to make use of some awesome Dungeons & Lasers terrain I recently won 🙂

I covered the battle map for the Dwarven Excavation with a grassland mat so I can breakdown this setup and have the map underneath ready to go.  I wanted this area of the forest to look like a clearing with some fallen trees.  I used the Dungeons & Lasers The Elven Woods set for this encounter, and a few other terrain items I own.  I placed the encampment terrain in the middle.  I picked out some Woodland Scenic trees I made last year and placed them around the outside of the camp.  I then added stumps from the Warlord Games basing set to the area.  Lastly, I wanted to add some fallen and barren trees to the scenario by using the awesome trees from the The Elven Woods set.  These things are great!

I purchased a lot of the D&D 2d Miniatures in preparation for this campaign too.  It was great to see that many of the sets were specifically designed for the essentials box.  I ended up buying the Goblin 2d Minis event though Dragon of Icespire Peak doesn’t have any in the adventure.  I figured that goblins will always come in handy.  I decided to make them the bad guys for the ambush.

I thought the set up for the encounter looked great even with some of the terrain being unpainted.

I finished setting up the table, and I was ready for the game the following morning.