The Ability to Build Your Castle Out and Up with UpWorks!
September 29, 2014 by deltagamegirl22
Soon, you can build your own castle! It's almost too good to be true! On September 30th, Jeff Martin, of True Dungeon fame (Gen Con), and co-designer of UpWorks, is launching a Kickstarter that will provide the opportunity to build a castle from the ground up!
This system will have a variety of pieces to give you total customization for your build. Do you want to detail the inside hallways for your RPG, starting in the dungeon? Would you like to take your game up through different levels of the castle- you can do both!!! This system will allow you to construct every level separately so you can lift off different sections as you explore the terrain. Even better, however you choose to paint this so it will be the perfect scene for all kinds of fans- gamers can paint it dark and ruined for RPG's and miniature games or families could lighten the scheme and make it girly for princesses. Even non-gamers could love this purely for the build! I could see this being Legos for gamers! (not that gamers may not like Legos any way- I still do)
You have to go to UpWorks website and check out the preview video. If what I said above didn't sell you on it, the video will for sure.
Will you be leveling up your castles with this Kickstarter?
All going to come down to pennies and how the bits clip together which isn’t made clear in the video. If I’m being picky the final castles look a bit ‘gappy’ too, but overall this looks like something I’d take an interest in.
I already have Hirst Arts…
Admittedly doing this is a load of work;
http://www.smallcuts.net/photo/?id=4568
But having committed to one system I’m unlikely to change.
Indeed making your own terrain is the way to go. I own many hirst arts molds and they are kind of expensive, yet, once you own them you can cast and cast and cast. It is a big time sink though as you mention. Not for everyone but if one is willing to make the initial investment of a few decent molds and then put the time in … you can get large amounts of terrain relatively cheap (monetary cost, not time cost, time wise hirst is really expensive there is no way around that).
Its hard to tell from the Video might be best to pop in to the kickstarter for a look around me thinks.
I might be interested but the past has shown that dwarven forge was Not for the gamer on a Budget so I doubt this will be better
Looks super awesome! That said … as with virtually ALL terrain projects though it is likely going to be expensive. Terrain sadly just always seems really expensive unless you make it yourself. These guys can never sell the stuff in the volumes needed to really produce affordable projects. The amount shown in the picture there would likely cost thousands … lol. We all have dreams of gigantic dwarven forge dungeons and vast castle complexes, huge miniature building authority pre-painted towns … then you do the math … and make your own (and scale stuff down because who has that kind… Read more »
OK just had another look at this project. I have a couple of questions that will need answered.
1. If we can go up levels where is the fluff to populate these levels there not all going to be empty room and hallways.
2. So far i have found projects like this to be very expensive anywhere outside the Country of origin as P&P can make a huge difference.
Hopefully there will be some positive answers to these and any over questions that get raised.
interesting looking kick starter?
I may be interested to see how it pans out, stretch goals, pledge levels etc.
Tabletop Workshop however, here in the UK already ran another Castle Kickstarter, and having bought some of their other kits, and seen how the Castle is progressing, I’d know what I was getting with their system.
I’ll watch this, but think it may be Tabletop Workshop if ever I have the space to build the sized castle I’d really like.
DF will have a KS3 in or after November, after KS2 has been fulfilled and this KS will include castles. I doubt UW can raise the $2M that DF’s KS’s have raised, meaning that UW will hit fewer stretch goals, and offer fewer pieces. The $140 UW level starts with fewer pieces than the $145 DF level, and, even at $100K funding, won’t have as many pieces. It’s not until you pledge at the $590 UW level until you reach the “sweet spot”.
a) it somehow does not really appeal to me … it’s not a “looks awesome” reaction
b) looking at the shipping costs … sorry, but no, thanks.