The Tremendous Tome Kickstarter By Jeff Hall & Dave Taylor!
February 11, 2022 by avernos
Dave Taylor Miniatures has taken time away from making me weep into my coffee with his lavish art books to buddy up with Jeff Hall and release upon the world *clears throat* ... The Tremendous Tome Of Decorating Dungeons on Kickstarter right now.
Tremendous Tome Of Decorating Dungeons
The Tremendous Tome Of Decorating Dungeons (you have to say it in a voice that sounds like Christopher Lee) is now on Kickstarter as Jeff and Dave aim to help out budding and existing Games Masters to make the most from their dungeons.
The softback book is 96 pages long, currently, and is broken down to take you on a journey into the under-dark starting with planning out your dungeon, building and painting, populating it with monsters and minions and even storage solutions for when you have it constructed. As you can imagine with Dave involved it is packed with high-quality inspirational layouts lavishly displayed throughout the book so you can steal all their best ideas without having to think or anything and I'm one hundred percent okay with that!
An interesting part of this book for me is that Jeff and Dave aren't just going on a scratch building journey for the book, they look over the resources available commercially as well. So whatever your skill level or budget you should be able to get the best layout for your group that you can with the information in the book.
They have announced a couple of the stretch goals already with a one-shot adventure and an upgrade to the book itself to glorious hardback once they hit $30k which means you can both wipe it clean and use it as a cutting mat! I assume that's why they're doing it...no?
If you want a couple of examples of what you may find inside the Tremendous Tome Of Decorating Dungeons then there are two PDFs from the last free RPG days that combine building with scenarios you can grab on the Kickstarter page so it's well worth jumping across and checking out the campaign.
Also because it's full colour you can cut up the pages to make posters for the dungeon walls!
" So whatever your skill level or budget you should be able to get the best layout for your group that you can with the information in the book."
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Nice I got the email for this yesterday I’ll stick to the terrain tutor book I’ve got.
I feel this book is a bit too specific. Maybe I’m missing something but this doesn’t feel as useful as other hobby books
if you play RPGs then this is the only book you need. Other hobby books have nonsense in them like hills.
But… wouldn’t that mean… playing RPG with minis? Who does that!? oO 😉
weirdos do that
You scare me!
Indeed, if your use minis you need terrain, who does that?
Great to see Dave continuing on his Publishing ventures, I’m sure this will once again be a cracking volume for those who purchase it.
At first I thought, maybe too specific, but seeing how popular RPGs are these days I suspect it will probably be well received.
Not really my interest (like the previous Art of Set) so I’ll be giving it a pass, Armies Legions and Horses, and The Terrain Essentials by Mel the Terrain Tutor are both excellent books though!