Light Up Your Foggy Streets With Tabletop-Art Lanterns
January 10, 2016 by brennon
Tabletop-Art have shown off some new pieces of terrain which can be used to shed a little bit of light on proceedings. Here we have both the Small Lanterns and Small Street Lanterns which could be used in a whole range of different games.
These small lanterns could be place on the tabletops of dungeons or in the middle of larger buildings in both modern and Steampunk style games too. You could use them as part of terrain to play around with glow effects and give the buildings a lived in look.
These Street Lanterns on the other hand could be used in the Batman Miniatures Game to give you the pools of light that your heroes and villains will be trying to avoid on the streets of Gotham. Also in the same vein as before you could dot these around the streets of a Steampunk town.
What do you think?
"You could use them as part of terrain to play around with glow effects and give the buildings a lived in look..."
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Awesome!
suetoniuspaullinus, Agreed. What about playing a game were the lighting is the only lighting. Example build a steam punk docks on the thames warehouses etc and play it in the dark so your line of site are the pools of light or lantern yo take with you, but be careful every one else can follow your progress that way and also not every thing likes the old naked flame. Will I get some, is our nearest star the sun? Will I get these I am not sure, the train hobby guys and girls have been doing lighting systems for decades.… Read more »
Downside of that is that it favours those with good eyesight so some arguments may flare up over what can and can’t be seen as a player with good eyesight may be able to see something on the edge of a pool of light which a player with bad eyesight can’t.
You could fix that by ruling that if either player can see it then both can, which means you only get the tactical advantage of the first shot. In systems where there’s no insta-kill that’s not a big issue.
However I think the practical aspect of needing to see the dice you roll and whatever cards/unit lists your system needs would make it impractical.
You could partially solve that with dedicated spaces for rolling (glow in the dark) dice, but the need to read rules (even when used as mere reference) has no solution that I can see.
Or “X inches from center of a light scource is visible” like batman, that way you can play without getting eyestrain.
…interesting idea!
they look brilliant.
I buy up the dollar store ones at Christmas, and always have a few on hand. You get a few of them wired together for peanuts. They run on two AA’s.