Friday Fun Day! Time to Drill Til Ya Can’t Drill No More

One of the trickiest things about being a 3D Print blogger is keeping track of where the gosh darn print originally came from – it can be absolutely maddening to locate your source and give credit where credit is due. Today we’ll do our best!

So not only can we not confirm the original download source, but we can’t even tell you exactly what this is. We just know it came from Thingiverse (click for DM Ben’s collection) but files notoriously come and go from their platform without any notice. Such is life, ey?

We think it’s some sort of Dwarven Loamship and it could be from Arian Croft of Pocket Tactics (aka DutchMogul). So our apologies if we’re mistaken but everyone should still check out his maker page as he has all sorts of free tantalizing STLs to download for your next D&D game.

Now how on earth would you incorporate this mechanical digger into a future D&D encounter? Well, we all know Dwarves and Gnomes are never satisfied and just want more and more…and more treasure. So, they’ll whip up all sorts of contraptions to dig deep for rare and valuable minerals.

Well, sounds like a fun outdoor encounter between city destinations if you ask DM Ben. Maybe the party here’s loud mechanical drilling noises up ahead and they decide to check it out. The group might come across this broken down, abandoned machine that is 50+ feet deep in the ground, and now they just have to know what this crazy looking was looking for…is there anyone inside this wacky contraption?! Even better, maybe the Dwarven digger is being ransacked and the party comes to his aide in exchange for a cut of his final loot.

DM Ben is going to use this as a piece of scatter terrain for one of the early encounters inside Wizards of the Coast’s Dragon of Icespire Peak adventure. There’s a fun Dwarven Excavation Quest that could use this mighty mechanical beast.

How might you put this one in your own game?!