Saturday, 12 February 2011

Spell templates for Rift and Pillars of Salt

When I started playing Circle I was sticking to Baldur and Krueger. I realised I was going to need a few templates for spells and feats. I photocopied and cut out the templates in mkI Primal and used them for some time before getting really tired of them. They were practical and cheap, but they didn't look very good. I decided to make my own. I started out by making a couple of 4" Rift templates for our old friend Kromac.



Then I went on to make some Pillars of Salt for Mohsar the Desertwalker. It's a very cool spell and I find it useful to spam it from time to time, so I made four of those. I know they don't look like salt (or anything related to a deserts for that matter), but I wanted them to fit with the murky forest feeling of my miniatures' bases.



I'll keep doing more templates. Baldur's Rapid Growth and Morvahna's Eruption of Life are obvious choices, but I haven't decided how to pull those off yet. Epic Krueger's Lightning Storm is even more of a challenge. Rift and Pillars of Salt were both easy and fun to make, so I'm confident I'll give the other ones a shot as well.
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  1. Shogun4815 February 2011 at 02:36

    Good looking stuff; i really want to do something like this myself.

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  2. Druid of Orboros16 February 2011 at 15:10

    Thanks a lot. :)

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  3. Martin16 February 2011 at 22:08

    I've considered rapid growth a bit, and I'm thinking along the lines of having roots or vines burst from the base. Not so obtrusive for model placement, but still gets the message across.

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  4. Druid of Orboros17 February 2011 at 12:25

    I've been thinking along the same lines. I'm working on a similar effect on Kromacs base. For Rapid Growth I was thinking about making a 4" base with a removable layer with trees stuck on it. I don't know how practical it will be to use though... :)

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  5. Martin19 February 2011 at 18:35

    Practical schmactical. I've made tables for GothCon every year that are horribly unplayable, and people still seems to play on them. :) Just go for it.

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  6. Shogun4822 February 2011 at 03:55

    I had to come back and look at this because I am looking for a lot of ideas for Orboros spell effect stuff - I still like what you have here :)

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  7. Druid of Orboros22 February 2011 at 08:37

    Thanx a lot. I really need to make some more terrain pieces, but right now I'm trying to get my whole collection fully painted and I'm still not sure about how to make good lookig trees.

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  8. Ace13 July 2011 at 12:10

    Did you get around making the foresty stuff? I am looking for ideas on how to make those. Sticking a bunch of trees in a template seem a bad idea, as it will make it impossible for some units to be in there..

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