Necro-Fancy Furniture

Hey! Necromancers need furniture, just like the next dastardly dude. Besides, who doesn’t like doing a little DnD furniture shopping to kick off the upcoming weekend? 😉

Last week, we picked out our monster minis for Tresendar Manor Area 11 inside D&D Beyond Acquisitions Incorporated 5e module. Today, we’ll focus on our scatter terrain to set the creepy room mood.

Here’s the module’s Workshop room description and what we have to work with: “A long table has been pushed into the northwest corner of this room, with three corpses of male humans piled beneath it. Each corpse is naked to the waist and wearing colorful tights. Visible on the chest of one corpse is a sigil of a draconic skull pierced from the bottom by a sword.”

The authors certainly aren’t going to make this room decor easy for us, never fear – we have some terrain tricks up our sleeves.

We always like to start with a centerpiece to act as our “boom” moment when an unexplored room is first revealed. And for that, we called upon STL Miniatures and their marvelous Magic Item Vendor Set. It was part of their epic Fantasy NPCs Kickstarter. We’ve seriously lost track of how many STLs we printed from that crowdfunding campaign.

Resident Painter Kimmy Utah answered the paintbrush call and colored this beauty up for us. This necromancy table has all the must-haves: crystal ball, quirky bottles, scroll piles, mystery skulls, and many more spooky details. We quickly snatched this one from our studio display cases as a no-brainer (pun intended).

DM Ben added a second table to the large room as necromancy requires a lot of table space! He also wanted something with more room underneath it. So, he grabbed a cool table that he had purchased from an eBay seller in Italy. A miniature can stand on top of it during a fight, and there’s plenty of room for the necromancer’s past victims underneath it.

That corpse pile is by EC3D Designs and is from their fantastic Beasts & Baddies II Kickstarter…a must-late-pledge if you missed the original run. DM Ben is a little nervous about painting this one himself, but he might muster up the courage and give it a simplified dirty/bloody effect and avoid any of the granular details.

The map also appears to include some bookcases or shelves against the wall, so we utilized a small cabinet that we also acquired from another eBay seller many moons ago. Before 3D-printers and Etsy, eBay was an absolute gold mine for DnD artisans. The only drawback is that the pieces were often rather delicate.

Lastly, these selections are more than sufficient to complete this room setup, but DM Ben thought one more horrifying piece would complete the narrative. EC3D Designs came through again with this Automation Table from their Bolts & Brimstone Kickstarter.

DM Ben colored this lab scatter terrain himself…no eyeballs, no problem, right?! If the necromancer was carving draconic sigils into people’s chests, this furniture item seems appropriate.

Solid choices, wouldn’t you say? Go big or go home, baby! Now, about those shadow monsters…

Until next time!