Fantastic Cave Entrance

We’ve got a few terrain teasers on the plate today, and we think you’ll wholeheartedly agree these DnD scatter terrain pieces deserve your undivided Dungeon Master attention.

DM Ben is all about setting the initial scene by dropping down some simple yet effective scatter terrain pieces whenever the moment is just right! These types of DnD 3D prints help convey a critical encounter vibe and hint at what might be coming next. They’re fast gameboard drops that can really immerse your players into the scene. That’s good gamin’.

We have a couple of different examples today, and they’re both from Fantastic Plants & Rocks. They’re a mainstay in our beloved 3D printing community, and their monthly Patreon is an absolute steal at $3.90 per month. Come on, that’s just silly.  They even have a slick Kickstarter running right now, and its stretch goals are getting smashed.

Let’s start with this cool Dwarf Mine Entrance. We can’t for the life of us find a direct link to it on their MMF page, but it’s out there somewhere. As the players approach a mysterious cave, a DM can drop this down on the gameboard as a little nod of what’s ahead, before putting down all the specific cavern tile terrain.

DM Ben grabbed a paintbrush for this one as he saw a clever stone painting tip by one of our favorite YouTubers, Miniature Hobbyist. He used the traditional ASP Ashen Stone for the top portion, but was chomping at the bit to try this cool use of ASP Gravelord Grey and Occultist Cloak. We printed this model at a 5×3 d20 square area. This mysterious cave is more for effect and can even have a cool runes skill challenge with it.

Here’s the backside of the cave, so you can get a better look at how the ASP Occultist Cloak looks with a soft drybrush of light grey over the top of it. You can never have enough rock color options and schemes, right? Rocks are in so many different 3D prints in some form or another.

Next, we wanted to share these fun Mythic Rockwolves 3D prints, which are also by Fantastic Plants and Rocks. DM Ben thinks these would be fun to tease a big throw-down wolf fight warning ahead on the trail. Like, maybe the portion of the forest the players are walking into is filled with wolves who aren’t too happy about visitors imposing on their natural habitat. Villagers could have carved out a few stones to warn travelers about what lies ahead! The wolves could also be considered Gods and must not be harmed in any way!

We thought these were especially fitting to share today because DM Ben literally used the exact same colors as the cave entrance scatter terrain above – ASP Gravelord Gray for the wolves and ASP Ashen Stone for the base. We also tested another GSW dipping ink color, but it didn’t quite come out the way we wanted it to, so that color option is still a work in progress.

We hesitated to show you these because we’re considering using an edging color, such as a light grey or white, here and there to better highlight the deals, but we’re experiencing a bit of paint paralysis at the moment. 😉

Still, see how a couple of simple yet effective pieces of 3D-printed scatter terrain can help immerse your game group in a session and get that table adrenaline flowing? Evaluating STLs with this objective in mind will really expand your terrain (and miniatures) library and nudge you to try some 3D prints that you may not have initially considered.

Until next time!