Building CRAGMAW CASTLE for Lost Mine of Phandelver Adventure (Ep. 21) D&D Crafting
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- #TheStorycraftSociety #Episode21 #LostMineofPhandelver #CragmawCastle
Did you just buy the D&D starter set to run for your friends? Does your table look a little empty with just a paper map? If so, I would love to have you join me over the next few months as we build all the terrain you will need to play this awesome adventure!
Over the next 2 weeks, we will build the terrain for the next adventure site: THE CRAGMAW CASTLE!!
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"Start the damn thing!" The best advice i've ever heard!
Absolutely!
"An object at rest will stay at rest until acted upon."
Well done! I have seen all of your videos and you deserve ALOT more followers!
Thank you! I hope I get there soon!
Newest subscriber here Garman, this video is great! Really good tips! I totally know what you are talking about! I've been an airbrush artist for years and have plenty of unfinished and forgotten projects haunting and accusing me! Another tip is something I learned from painting. 'Don't let your technique get so complicated that it's no longer any fun.' I switched to crafting a few months ago and love it! I can't get enough of channels like yours! Keep up the awesome work and remember, 'The only critic you have to overcome is yourself.'
Thank you for your support! I think that’s a ghost that haunts anyone with a hobby! And I will admit I’m my own worst critic!
@@StorycraftSociety It's like I told my kids when they were in school and would get upset when someone else won something or got noticed and they didn't. It's not about winning anything! It's about expressing your creative self and enjoying doing so! I've always loved this quote from Stephen King. (I'll paraphrase it.) "You don't do it for the money, or you're a monkey. You don't even do it for love, although it would be nice to think so. You do it because to not do it is suicide."
Another good piece of advice. Walk away if you’re feeling burnt out. I have to remind myself all the time to just get up, go do something else for a a half hour/hour or so, and then I can come back to something with fresh eyes.
Exactly I think that can be a huge way to refresh yourself
This is a great motivator, and a great reminder that everyone hits roadblocks or points in projects - big or small - that make them slam on the brakes. And the best thing you can do to overcome that is run through the wall and start taking bites out of the thing.
This really resonated with me, I've been working on a to-scale (roughly 4 feet x 6 feet) recreation of Claugyliamatar's lair from Sleeping Dragons Wake, which was supposed to be for a big celebratory in-person game with my group over thanksgiving weekend. I had been working on it for most of September and all of October, but with Covid, all of our thanksgiving plans were canceled and thus so was the game, so my motivation slowed to a crawl.
This video has made me want to finish it, even though I'm not sure when I'll get to use it, if ever - just to have the finished project under my belt and to stand back and see it completed, to see that time and money and material actually put to use and not wasted.
Thank you! Sometimes you just need to get going and knock out whatever that project that needs to be finished!
Thats so awesome. Great video!
I appreciate your niche of modelling creating these specific set pieces (no one else has this content). You do good work, this has helped me a bunch!
Thank you!
Good artist borrow, great artist steal.
Yoinks!!
I say that all the time! And you’re welcome to steal it, I encourage it!
@@StorycraftSociety Thanks for the reply! I have been building this project for my family's game. Good foam-fu! I've learned quite a bit just from this video.
That’s awesome! Be sure to snap some pics and send them our way!
@@StorycraftSociety Will do!
lots of great advice in this video "like start the damn thing" this video had some excellent tips as well as advice that everyone could use or hear great video like always
Thank you so much!
@@StorycraftSociety your welcome
Completely understand the "start project jitters". But like you said "start the damn thing"
Another issue I come across is my own negativity. My head tells me "no one is gonna like it, it looks rediculous". Then I remember my friends are awesome and really appreciate what I bring to the table.
Thank you for your videos and your simplistic way on what you do!
Thank you! Sometimes it just helps to stop worrying and start doing and just move past it!
Simple common sense tips, but ones which I needed to hear. Thank you for putting yourself out there and sharing that I'm not the only one who has trouble getting a project started.
Absolutely! Sometimes that little push is all you need!
Very interesting and different than your other videos. Cool, dude.
Thank you!
This week, Garman answers the age old question:
"How do you eat an elephant?"
"One bite at a time."
Story Craft Society fans. One bite at a time. 😉
That's right, you just have to keep going!
Awesome advice Garmin! I'm excited to see how you continue with each room in this castle!
Thank you!
Looks great! And I feel your trepidation!!
Thank you!
Another great episode!
Thank you so much!
I make all project modular, so I'm only working on it a piece at a time and when you look up its all done. This also help with revealing to the players ( they only see it in pieces and not in whole). Modular components can be reused in other games as different places (assuming I mix things up so they don't loo the same every time). Lastly, modular components can be stored easier. I don't have a giant room to store stuff so I have to be clever about it.
I actually prefer to make all my stuff as modular as possible as well!
Motivation to do this stuff is always tough. I don't know if having a TH-cam channel makes it easier because it kinda gives you a schedule or harder because you feel like you can't take a break when you need it. Glad you built something you can be proud of, though. Me, I dunno if I'd be so tempted to cut and lay bricks like you do. I mean, if I need them, sure. But if I don't? Ancient weathered castle = lots of bricks. New, recently well-maintained castle = white-washed smooth walls and colorful fabrics indoors. I know which one I'd make more of in your place!
It’s defiantly a double edged sword for sure.
@@StorycraftSociety I'm not sure if drawing bricks might be faster … I know for anything that's old, gluing them looks better.
ahh the first cut, it's like the first step on stage to play music or even the first step into a martial arts tournament ( I have experience in all three) but you've said it your self just do it. Someone much wiser than I once said every Journey begins with the first step. currently restoring a castle for a friend that was damaged by someone dropping a weight bag on it, and because of this each problem I fix causes another but I'm enjoying the challenge but I've had to slow this project right down as it's taking a lot of thinking time. if I do this it will throw that out so I need to adjust for that. One major problem was solved last night I was watching a movie and the problem of the Drawbridge was solved by a castle actually in the movie. I also agree everything you build always looks like just random bits of garbage stuck together until that base coat goes on and pulls it all together ( it's my favourite step)
I agree, I love when all that works finally comes together cohesively!
Great advice throughout the entire video, Garmin. One thing I could add is when you start to feel overwhelmed with your project, take a step away and do something non-gaming (eat/drink/stretch/etc.) for about an hour to refocus the energy. Keep up the great work!!👍
Thank you! I think that is a really solid bit of advice!
"Good artists borrow. Great artists steal.' Great advice for terrain building and storytelling. If your players aren't familiar with certain movies, shows, comics, or novels, they're a great place to just lift plots from. If they've not played a certain adventure, yoink parts of it and use it for yourself.
As a corollary to this for players: "If you see something, no you didn't." Don't say anything about it if you saw the DM make a lift from elsewhere. If you know the plot, no you don't. The DM liked a thing, and he's wanting to share it with you, so play it straight and say nothing. After the campaign is done, then you could mention it, if you remember. But not immediately after, and definitely not during.
Can't wait to see wave echo cave. Hope you have a big table 😉 fantastic series! I will be making something similar to this for my run of lost mines for a future group. Great resource to take inspiration from, keep up the great work!
Thank you so much!
Awesome dude, I've been waiting for this one! And I have been there too, crafters slump lol you did it though well done!
Thank you so much, I hope it was some good advice!
Just curious as a wannabe player/dm, I’ve never played before but LOVE the idea of dungeons and dragons and have watched at least 100 hours worth. How would you recommend getting started on miniature sets and the method to make the habit a little less expensive?
One brick at the time.
NOOOOOO!!!! Blue marker!!!! Blue is so hard to cover. I still have dungeon tiles that have been ModPodged, painted, washed, and drybrushed, where i can still see the blue pen I used to draw the lines.
Hey Garman! I'm really enjoying your videos for this dnd adventure. I've never played, but I'm helping my adult son DM his first ever game and to create cool terrain and features. Because I'm new to creating this stuff, can you give me some dimensions of the foam used in the different components? It can be hard to tell in video. Assuming you started with 1 inch xps. What sizes are bricks/stones please? I have watched other videos in Lost Mine of Phandelver series. They're wonderful on technique. Thanks SO much for these wonderful projects.
Ok so first of all, that’s so awesome! Secondly, So on our Instagram we actually have a top down view with dimensions and stuff for the castle, and I cut bricks roughly 1/4” x1/2”
Thanks very much!
What do you do with your builds like this when you are done? Alot of the individual pieces can be reused again... but how do you go about storing or reuising cragmaw castle?
Are you really will make final cave? It will be 220x165cm!!!! Its like 2 my beds!
I suck at Finishing big Projects.
Some more credits you can add...where are you getting the music you are playing during the montages?
It’s my own! I record music for a living and have been playing music most of my life, so it’s just a little something I whipped up for the channel.
@@StorycraftSociety It's got an awesome 80's college rock feel to it. Love it! The builds are cool too. I just discovered you a couple days ago and am working through your catalog.
Thank you! And I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel! Thank you for your support!
i would pay for these templates
Well good news! They’re free!
@@StorycraftSociety ??? and please don’t say just measure the map .. lol
OH SHIT DUDE! I’m so sorry! I was responding to a couple different comments and I thought yours was on a different video! That’s my bad! So I’ve been trying to find a reliable, quick way to upload templates for people to use. But thus far it’s been really difficult for these bigger builds. I don’t know if it’ll help you, but I’ll upload a top down picture onto the Instagram with the piece on my crafting mat so you can blow it up into 1” by1” scale and use it. Hopefully that will help?
@@StorycraftSociety no worries. just followed you on IG so i’ll look out for them
Awesome! Give me a few minutes to get the picture right! and uploaded!