I think you nailed the metaphore. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Greetings,
arsthein wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2019 5:58 amHi there Weasel Chief! not going to Essen, it's not quite near and I already had my fill of travels this year (€€€!)GODofwar wrote: ↑Sat Nov 30, 2019 5:05 pm Hi, Arsthein, long time no chat. Are you goint to the Essen show?
Quite a long ways from your location I know....
You hit on a problem I am having. I need to order more stuff and I want to balance swell walls, particularly since I'm ordering KS6 solely to enable my fairly large sets of KS2 to show a lot of variation (KS2 was one of the best bargains in the KS series, but it does not feature a huge variation in caverns you can make, as we all know).
So did you come up with any ideas besides buying more Trifecta? I need 110 walls, and I doubt I'm going to buy enough Trifecta to balance that number of starters!
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The Chief Least Weasel of Valoria (Pretendant)
Totus KS Delenda Sunt, except KS7, which I won't buy....
Money, money, money. Never enough!
I'm not disappointed at all with the variety that CD provide to the existing basic pieces. New floors, new corners and new walls (if you count freestanding and swells). Although I'm not sure if I would think the same if I had more than 2 sets of KS2 and needed an equivalent amount of CD pieces to spice things up. I still use resin first too, so I'm well served by KS6, although I admit I would be better yet served with a more sensible distribution of the basic pieces in sets (being the starter, which I feel should be the remedy for all of this, the worst mistep, IMHO, I insist).
Starter needed a better balance, I agree - some left swells for example! I use my resin a lot too, and the passages in KS6 will be nice with resin cavern passages.
Which I'm more eager to check is the paint scheme, so far I'm liking what I'm hearing. If it is better than KS2 (which it seems to be the case) but not exactly like resin, it could be a nice middle ground spot to combine the 3 if you put some effort into it. Still, I plan to give it a shot to a light drybrush on the KS2 stuff on the long run (and may be CD to match it), to see if I can get them near stilll to resin. I don't need an exact match though.
I got caverns unpainted, so I'll have a paint party when my KS6 arrives and match that. Frankly, black cavern walls aren't that bad - I just tell players its too dark to see much on cavern walls even with their measly torches!
I plan on balancing the right swells with the corner filler to kind-of-align with standard walls. I hope the 1x1 walls and floors have some role to play in it too. But the "coup de grace" I'm hoping I can deliver to the matter are the freestanding walls. I expect that, being freestanding, I'll be able to make swells with them over regular floors. We'll see if that combination comes up looking good enough, and if the height-irregular nature of the floors allows for that. Finally, you can allways hide "not-so-well-looking" combinations with stalagmites.
Wow! Hadn't thought of any of this. Thank you.
In your case my good Weasel (my god you went overboard with KS2!) I don't know if you can pull this off with the need for so many walls without ending with a setup too cramped with this kind of messy attempts at balancing the right swells.
Greetings!
And greetings to you and your family. Espero que todos celebran feliz navidad!
The Chief Least Weasel of Valoria (Pretendant)
Totus KS Delenda Sunt, except KS7, which I won't buy....
We totally disagree
Hi buddies!Rabbit Burner wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:33 amWe totally disagreewe think the Horse is definitely pulling the cart, because encounters are the key to RPGs. Do you want an adventure in a cavern or in a Summoning Chamber?
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Doo doot doot do do Doooooooo. Tuna!Rabbit Burner wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2019 9:33 am
The thing to remember is that us DooFers are hardened DF builders and are used to building off-piste so to speak, so want maximum diversity and compatibility, we subscribe to that, and its frustrating when you can’t quite find the pieces you need. DF do a decent job allowing you to get smaller sets, but their economics means they cannot offer piece by piece like Lego can.
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