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Last session I handed one of my players a sealed letter instead of just reading it out loud. They didn’t open it right away. They turned it over, checked the seal, held it up like it actually mattered. The whole table went quiet for a second.

That’s when it clicked for me how much physical handouts can add.

I’ve been making simple “parchment” at home using cheap brown paper, printing on it, and aging it a bit. Nothing fancy or expensive, but once you put it in an envelope or add a small prop, it stops feeling like a note and starts feeling like an object from the world.

Now when they find a clue or receive a message, I don’t describe it, I just hand it over. Players pass it around, reread it later, and even keep them between sessions.

It’s honestly one of the easiest upgrades I’ve made to immersion at the table.

Shoutout to the YouTuber who inspired me to try this in the first place, I started with this tutorial and then tweaked it to fit my own game: https://youtu.be/yQEGVhGiXgw?is=gwDaBw4XyuEt8QaJ

Would love to hear if others are doing similar things or have ideas to push this even further.

Hey! I’ve been working on this wizard miniature for my DnD campaign and thought I’d share it here with people who might actually enjoy printing minis.

It’s a mountain dwarf wizard with a grounded, darker tone, designed to work both as a tabletop miniature and as a bust. The pose is calm but commanding, like he’s holding back a spell just before releasing it.

He also has an owl familiar nearby, and the staff is loosely inspired by the Staff of Magius from Dragonlance, with a bit of Fizban influence in the overall vibe.

I paid a lot of attention to silhouette readability so it holds up at small scale when printed, but still works as a larger display bust.

Just an Inn I made from scratch!

My players just got to Baldur's Gate and so I made a map of the sword coast region for them to buy. They are new players so none of the thought of getting a map for their trip up the Sword Coast. However, we have a new player joining who is a rogue arcane trickster. I think he'll start with the map since it seems like a great way to give the players the map since it seems exactly like something a rogue would have picked up.

It's made from two 3/8" dowel rods with some wooden cabinet knobs that I painted with craft paint. I used some cement glue to attach the printed map to the rods. I used the map from the Tyranny of Dragons book and altered the coloring to black and white then printed it out on some aged legal (8.5x14in) paper.

Here is a video with tips for leatherworking if you want to make a Dwarven dice tray, or if you are interested in leatherworking in general. Enjoy! :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1fFRVF3PYk

One of my players called it baldurs gate 3, but analogue.

Love the open source 3d tiles

Hey everyone! Wanted to share my latest project.

I designed these tokens and 3D printed them. Inside each one is a little NFC tag. I also coded a custom website, so when you tap the token with your phone, it immediately pulls up the site and rolls a specific dice (can customise it to 8d6 for a Fireball, or like just a standard d20). I built the UI so you can change the colors and modifiers. Let me know what you think!"

These are some pictures of my convention display that I do with the kind folk of r/DNDNL.

Almost every terrain piece is hand-made out of XPS, is modular, fully magnetized and painted by myself. Some parts are 3d printed such as the pumpkin village, furniture and carts. others, like the marketplace and brewery are made from scratch.

Minis are mostly sourced from Warhammer Fantasy, Frostgrave, Dungeons & Lasers, Fireforge games, is 3d printed or kitbashed from several different kits.

I would like to introduce you to the playable psychological archetype, a syndrome rather than a species for dnd 5.5**:**

The Hollow Heart — The Unliving

In Regressia, the line between psyche and reality fractures—where identity itself can decay, distort… or disappear. A world where “high fantasy collides with the strange geometry of the human psyche.”

And in that world, something hollow endures.

The Hollow Heart—also known as the tainted, the broken—are not undead… but not truly alive.

They are those who have lost, buried, or severed their own essence, leaving only absence behind.

Some had their hearts torn from them.

Others removed it themselves—locking it away for safekeeping.

What remains is a body that moves… and a self that is gone.

They are the Unliving.

What defines a Hollow Heart?

A void where identity once lived

A body that mimics life, but slowly decays

Emotions reduced to echoes, distortions, or nothing at all

A quiet, persistent hunger—for something they cannot name

Among the Unliving of Regressia, they pass the closest as human…

but the illusion never fully holds.

Themes you bring to the table:

Trauma made manifest

The absence of self

Humanity as performance

The question: if your heart is gone… what are you becoming?

Check out the full thing here

https://stephen-designs.itch.io/spacers

Personally I ran this for my friends and we had a great time, but this being my first attempt at writing an adventure for others to run and not myself I’d love any feedback I can get.

There is something insanely fishy about these caves...

The Myen-Fish set is now available on my Patreon (Link on my Profile)
The set includes two skewers, two cutters, a priest, a monitor, a whip, and one that has been gifted by the lobsterous goddess.

So not sure why this took me so long to come up with, but since allot of the investigations my players deal with are indoors, maps have been a topic of conversation quite often. But never liked the idea of constantly printing out using white board. So had an idea to keep immersion.

I printed some grid markers on blue construction paper, drew on border lines and laminated multiple sheets of it. So now I have 5 sheets of reusable blue prints for drawing out in world maps. And because they are laminated if my players find rooms not on the blueprints they can write them in to help keep their bearings.

Hey folks, I’ve been messing with a dice vault design and wanted some real feedback before I take it any further.

A lot of dice vaults look cool, but I wanted this one to actually do more at the table.

Right now it has:

• hardwood cover plate
• built-in HP tracker
• spell tracker
• concentration tracker
• death save tracker
• pencil slot
• mini storage slot
• leather-lined rolling tray
• room for a full set of dice

I’m still refining it, but I’m thinking about eventually turning it into a Kickstarter.

Main things I’d love feedback on:

• does this actually seem useful, or is it trying to do too much?
• what would you want added or removed?
• what makes you buy or skip a dice vault?
• do you prefer these as compact storage, table utility, or both?

Totally open to blunt feedback. I’d rather hear it now than after I’ve gone too far with the design.

Helloooooooo its meeee again with another free dark elf STL 😊 download link here : https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-free-female-elf-assassin-dark-elves-elf-army-32mm-scale-fantasy-790061

Happy printing 🤗