Tomb Thursday P32: Royal Aspirations

Greetings, fellow sand crawlers! We’re one day closer to another coveted DnD gaming weekend, so that can only mean one thing – it’s Tomb Thursday, princesses and princes! Let’s dive in!

We’ve made plenty of monsters in this adorable little TTRPG desert series of ours. All are ready to pounce once those undisturbed tomb doors are finally pried open, but what about all the royalty those final resting places were actually built for? We need more fancy-pants options for DM Ben to build storylines around so our one-shots have someone behind the veil barking all those unrealistic demands.

DM Ben wants to introduce a competing-for-hire adventuring party for the first mission and let that dynamic play out during the dungeon tomb crawl, but who’s doing the hiring? Why, a paranoid, snooty royal couple, that’s who.

Here are some other potential storylines we might incorporate:

• The current Royal family wants a tomb cleared of evil.
• The Prince wants a valuable arificat recoverd that belongs to him.
• The Princess wants the party to smuggle her away from her husband.
• The Tomb must be raided to cover the family’s extravagant spending.
• The existing King and Queen are said to be impostors.

And that’s just to name a few. DM Ben is likely to lead with the Prince’s buried brother wrongfully claiming a powerful, rare artifact as his own for the afterlife, and now the acting royal King and Queen want it back, or they won’t properly ascend into the afterlife. All previous retrieval attempts have failed miserably, so they’re calling in the top two adventuring teams to finally get it done.

Our first royal, this bad a$$ Egyptian lady, was really hard to source. We checked all the usual suspects too: EC3D Designs, Iain Lovecraft, Loot Studios, and MiniaturesCraze, but just came up empty. We even thought it might have been Fat Dragon Games. It’s no surprise we lost track of this one, since this STL was printed via FDM, and we haven’t tried that 3D printer for miniatures in ages.

Still, we had to share as Resident Painter, Kimmy Utah, picked the palette here and she nailed it. We certainly wouldn’t cross her, would you? 😉

Our second featured TTRPG 3D print today comes from good ol’ Loot Studios and their Voracious Sands set. Meet Darius Sandwalker – a dashing prince if we ever saw one. Love this miniature’s confident pose and all the charming lil’ details that come with it! There’s a little two-face vibe going here: charming and eloquent in front of his yearning public, but ruthless and plotting behind closed doors.

Once again, Kimmy Utah painted this confident ruler because if we had asked DM Ben, he would have had a stroke. We love her use of greens, mixed with hints of red. We knew this was going to be our starting ruler the second we laid our eyes on this marvelous DnD STL. Wouldn’t he just be perfect for your next Tomb Crawl, too?

Until next time!