Rough Terrain Cards

I posted on bsky a little while ago about the Trench Crusade kickstarter, I’d followed the project for a while and was happy for their success but mentioned it wasn’t really my vibe

Well for something that’s not my vibe I’ve been doing a whole lot of hobbying around it already lmao

A lot of games have a rule for rough terrain, moving over particular surfaces affects speed and can incur penalties or damage. I think in TC it’s called difficult terrain, and then there’s also dangerous terrain

I thought an easy way to create some scatter pieces that could be used to implement this rule would be with old plastic cards. I used an expired cinema membership and train card. Idk if there’s a standard size for these for legal reasons or if every company uses the same manufacturer but they’re the exact same size, I reckon most cards will be. Not that it matters but it ends up looking nice and uniform whatever you use, and it’ll be easy to make more later

Anyway I just slapped some texture paste and paint on one side of each card and stuck down some bits, cardboard and lolly sticks from the recycling plus some citadel skulls. The idea was to make them still basically flat so that I can store them easily and models can stand on and move through them. But using these as bases for terrain with more height to provide cover would also work ofc

 also ended up using some resin which I hadn’t before, got mixed results but I’m p happy with how it all turned out. Idk how well they show up on camera but these look great in person. I was going to add more colour and pick out the details but I kinda like the monochrome effect of base coat/drybrush/wash. These are background after all. And I can always go over them later with more detail if I want

girl, same

It was a fun little project that didn’t take long at all and should be useful in games, I’d recommend giving these a go. You can even slip them back into your wallet to transport them

Oh and I ended up backing the ks after all, the rulebook’s a mess but the basics look fun and I expect they’ll clean it up before release, plus those Sultanate minis were too good to pass up. But it’s all free online and you can use kitbashed models anyway if you want to get stuck in

Mothership Month!

A load of zines from 3rd party creators are all crowdfunding at the same time right now over on backerkit, along with the big new MoSh book and magazine. I'm involved with two of them:

Awaiting the Burning Gods is about tomb raiding on an alien world. It includes a faction of smugglers and a whole sub module for them with generators and loot, plus a one shot I wrote to induct PCs into the criminal underworld. This is a social investigation adventure, a Coen brothers style clusterfuck waiting to happen on a remote space station. Some really good NPCs in this one, not to mention all the other stuff you get

The Dose Makes the Poison is an investigation behind the facade of big pharma. I did some developmental editing on this one and it's a lot of fun, hits all the notes you want from a Mothership game but with a more Bioshock esque art deco aesthetic than usual MoSh stuff. Comes with in world audio which is always a good time in play

Check them out and support some independent creators! There's over 20 projects to look through, I personally love the look of PK49 with its Y2K punk vibes, and The Interloper looks great, Joel's stuff is always good. Every project is already successfully funded too, so you can just browse and pick up the ones you want

So many new ways to die in space. Have fun x