Tomb Thursday P22: Tomb with a View P2

Tomb Thursday is coming in hot with another TTRPG Egyptian post that’s sure to pique your curiosity. You’ll probably just want to nudge your party Rogue to check for traps a little more than usual, is all.

There wasn’t just one pyramid ever made, right? Many stunning tombs were constructed to house fallen Egyptian kings, their royal families, and their priests, among other notable individuals. Even the wealthy elite would forge their own fancy resting places (on a smaller scale, of course) to house all their wealth for the afterlife. Hence, our reasons for showcasing another tomb after our previous version.

Besides, we’re not putting in all this 3D-printing elbow grease to simply put down the same 3D-printed building over and over again. That blasé repetition will dampen the gametable vibe rather than enhance it. We only share STL files that we’ve fully printed and painted ourselves, so if you see it on our little ol’ 3DRPG DnD blog, you know it’s good. 😉

Thankfully, there are several Egyptian enthusiast creators who understand our RPG perspective and want to ensure we have plenty of scatter terrain options. Iain Lovecraft’s jampacked Desert Adventures Kickstarter comes with several Tomb STLs, and today we’re going to share the above-ground version.

We stuck with our core, tried-and-true three-step sandy paint scheme, as it looks especially good on building scatter terrain (and our terrain tiles). We still prefer the darker version on smaller scatter pieces. We used Pokorny Paint Deep Lava as a random drybrush on the statues and urns to add to the overall weathering effect. We’re going to circle back and touch up those two stone pieces in the very front steps and add a little GSW Turquoise Ghost Dipping Ink to ’em since that looked so darn good on a recently completed piece.

Sadly, for whatever reason, we’re unable to locate our interior images, so we’ll have to show you the tomb’s innards via the artist’s rendering. What we especially like is the cool trap door opening that indicates your next movements are down…and down. You’re basically 3D-printing just two pieces: the core main piece and its roof (for this particular setup). Everything came out swell in FDM for us.

Besides our newest Tomb building, we wanted to showcase a couple more minor pieces. The first are these Giant Tropical Plants by Fantastic Plants and Rocks. Egypt is renowned for its diverse array of tropical plants, particularly in the Nile Valley and Delta regions. So, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary to include a few of these in your overall desert terrain library. These may not appear in the middle of a vast desert, but they could certainly be found in more populous cities.

DM Ben liked these because they felt rather oasis-esque to him. Army Painter Speedpaints have several wonderful greenish plant options, including two of our favs: Forest Sprite and Ghillie Dew. We used a simple brown for the plant roots and then added a little smattering of yellow drybrushing here for sand-sake.

Fantastic Plants & Rocks is a really affordable monthly Patreon, so be sure to check them out. Additionally, they have recently completed their Volume 4 Kickstarter, which is worth a look and a late pledge if you missed it.

We’ll close this latest weekly edition of Tomb Thursday with this fun planter scatter terrain piece. This 3D print is also from Iain Lovecraft’s Desert Adventures Kickstarter (and the Plants 1 subset). This will likely be placed in one of the nicer rooms.

DM Ben wants to introduce some contrasting green colors into these gameboards to lighten things up a bit, as the heavy use of our core sand colors can be overwhelming on the eyes at times.

Until next time!