Dungeon Tiles Challenge! Make Terrain on the Cheap

How to make quick & cheap dungeon tiles for D&D, and how will you make them?
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[@mitythunder1198]

Oat

[@modelsfromscratch]

Yes, all hail the Öat Brother⚔️⚔️⚔️

[@aidandalton6526]

brother do you have any oats?I'm famished

[@skeletonwithhat5077]

Oat yes

[@masterbasher9542]

Don't forget cans. Especially cardboard from can cases. Only bane is, needing to deal with the grooves, but in an improv manner; it can easily add character! :)

[@frikipenguin]

It always amazes me how at the start things look mundane and I can’t imagine how simple cardboard can become stone. And then you magic them into it. You brilliant son of gun.

[@terrain4print]

By far the most charming terrain creation channel currently, love it!

[@ScratchBashing]

I'm just here for the gratuitous öates shots. .. Okay, maybe I will do the challenge?

[@BardsCraft]

Oats are aesthetic

[@BarringtonDrive]

Made a set like this 3 years ago and it is STILL being used in my weekly games ❤

[@jacklinbloodmoon9696]

This would be a great craft for me because I have a freaking ton of cardboard and cardstock in my closet. Also, I love your Channel it gives me great ideas to do for D&D and other Hobbies I have

[@BardsCraft]

Good luck with the cardboard!

[@negotiableaffections]

You have found a sweet spot where skill meets simplicity - and, WOW! it works brilliantly. Of course, if any crafters out there really 'get-off' on edge-banding this could really be the project for them. Real cool build!

[@kimjensen4977]

I appreciate that you promote each other's channels. I didn't know about Franky D. Crafter before. :-)

[@thedobber2322]

Great video as ever BC, much appreciated by this peasant. Many thanks for the intro to Franky's as well.

[@michaeldavidson7125]

Your videos are so close to being ASMR I love it

[@achillemalldelioncourt6166]

Wow, really suprised with the outcome. Looks amazing.

[@demonstructie]

My favorite crafting Dolph Lundgren impersonator

[@rking1106]

New cast member for the Rocky remake

[@modelsfromscratch]

Excellent challenge. ⚔️⚔️⚔️Will see if I can find something in the shed and have a go - to my past tiles I added a few blood splatters - gave them some accents. Great collab with Franky D 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@HAMalte]

This was JUST what I needed! I've wanted to do the dungeon craft professor's "ultimate dungeon terrain" for a while, but I am foamless here and wanted a cardboard version! I went with frankies version, so I could do a double sided circle with a classic dungeon on one side, and a forest/grassland side on the other.

[@張祥安-d2b]

These tiles are great! I'm not working well with the XPS foam so I'm surely will give this one a try

[@BardsCraft]

Alright, good luck with the tiles!

[@davidbrown4849]

Love your dry humour. Don't worry, everybody in the galaxy starts dry-brushing with too much paint.

[@J2982able]

I dry brush with a wet brush at first and eventually, it just works out xD

[@andywoodburn4555]

These look phenomenal!! I have a set of my own tiles that I crafted a while ago using printouts from Warlock's Homebrew. I initially glued the printouts to sets of index cards I glued together to make them thicker like I do with my paper minis but they felt flimsy and light. Then I got the brilliant idea to glue the already existing tiles down to some thicker corrugated box cardboard I filched from work. Hey, we're recycling/throwing it out anyway so why not? Anyway, after the tiles dried I carefully cut them out (I emphasize careful because unless you have a razor sharp box cutter/scissors this part could take a while) and numbered them so if I really liked a layout or map I could build it again and again in the future. After that I painted the sides black with some acrylic to hide the corrugated pattern on the sides but something was still missing. My tiles looked too neat and perfect so I roughed them up with a crumpled ball of foil and dry-brushed some more black paint on top and wiped away any excess paint to give them a weathered look. Though I'm not actively working on anything prop/terrain wise I may give this a whirl to build some "ultimate dungeon terrain" or an all purpose board like I've been wanting to do for a while.

[@VerbenaComfrey]

I'm trying to move away from plastics and foams, I am very excited to see all-paper or all-cardboard options!

[@jesperpetersen6105]

Great as always Bard, if you want to spare the cardboard the rock crushing you could add cracks and texture to the tiles before gluing them on.

[@BardsCraft]

fair point

[@coleenknickelbein8063]

You are one of the most entertaining crafters that I watch And I'm always amazed by what you can do with cardboard. Another gorgeous peasant build! Thank you for continuing to make videos during this time. Hope you and your loved ones are safe.

[@matthinton19]

Can't wait to make some tiles once I'm back from work. Made a small abandoned house mini sprues and a model box. Very very rough but happy to have made my own

[@aaronjones1752]

Great show can't wait until the next one

[@Carpetcleanerman]

Awesome. Doing the classic basic craft and still feels new and inspirational. For texturing the cardboard floor tiles i am wondering if it would make sense to apply a technique normally used for foam bricks. Put the cut tiles before glueing to the cardboard in a tin together with small stones and shake vigorously. Have to try out. Damn you Lukas, now i have to craft. Again.... 😎

[@BardsCraft]

I don't believe the tin can with stones technique would work with cardstock, but you can always give it a try. The cardstock needs more pressure to get textures, perhaps you have to shake extra vigorously :D

[@Carpetcleanerman]

@@BardsCraft you are absolutely right. Tried but didnt work. However, you might take a proper stone and texture cardboard before even cutting cardboard into strips. Just tried using sheets of cardboard from food packaging before cutting into 25mm x 25mm scares. That seems to work. With Cardboard that has sort of softish back I am just trying to brush cardboard with wet brush to soften cardboard and then structuring. That seems to work just as fine.

[@dinihtis]

Each and every video inspires me to continue playing and DMing tabletop RPG, keep up the good work dude.

[@mikegovan3203]

Looks excellent. Tiles turned out great

[@klara7273]

OMG THANK YOU! Ive needed a video like this for so Long until o found this :0

[@xerogenesis2003]

I’m a fan of cutting a cheap sponge into small squares to paint dungeon tiles, instead of dry brushing.

[@CrankyPantss]

Those look great! Well done Mr. Bard, Sir.

[@Tobirot]

This is epic

[@Chill1332]

I don't play table top games but I DO like action figure photography. And these tiles would be perfect for diorama pieces!

[@chrisnash9478]

Excellent video. I'm going to dump out my son's breakfast cereal, and try your technique tonight. How many of each size/shape did you end up making?

[@jimsullivan5113]

**swoon** the two most handsome geeks are teaming up for a vid. I might not survive!!! Yay for mor instructional vids.

[@Craz38]

Take a look at the channel Crooked Staff Terrain for paper textures that you stick on instead of paint for 2.5d tiles. Yours still look good though 👍

[@BardsCraft]

Yeah lots of good stuff there, would probably make some of his stuff but I won't get a printer just for that

[@eBiCrafter]

always love your project bro👍

[@natedamak]

Check out DMG’s tiles, very similar style!

[@nicobreukels1747]

THANKS ! haha, gave me insane inspiration ! :)

[@VelourYeti]

I appreciate your recommendation; however, I will stick with Freedom Units. 😂👍🏻

[@ericheckenkamp6091]

I like quartering evenly too much to use metric. Just because I have 10 fingers doesn't mean I have to use a base 10 counting system. Also, unpopular opinion, but Fahrenheit is a much better system for measuring atmospheric temperature as it relates to human comfort.

[@BardsCraft]

I suspect you are a goblin

[@ericheckenkamp6091]

@@BardsCraft That doesn't make me wrong.

[@jahvyn]

@@BardsCraft pa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[@jennythyme1729]

Cool video! Not changing to metric any time soon, though... 😂

[@thecraftingbrothers9448]

Great video. Easy way to make tiles. I would love your opinion of our tiles. Thanks

[@BardsCraft]

Thanks! Quickly checked your channel but didn't find dungeon tiles, did I miss it?

[@thecraftingbrothers9448]

@@BardsCraft Here it is, thanks. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i5fElHxjaderfJI I am going to accept your challenge as well

[@thecraftingbrothers9448]

@@BardsCraft Hey there... there are two videos at the bottom, one is "Dungeon Tile Challenge" and the other is "Building Amazing Dungeon Tiles" hope you get a chance to look and we are definitely taking on your dungeon tile challenge this week!! Look forward to it👍

[@logans1091]

Thanks for the inspiration ;)

[@gigaflynn_]

Remember that stone had bedding planes, which the brush marks can look like. :-)

[@wardingo492]

Suits all my crafting needs cardboard does. Where the frickin hell do ya get foam in lockdown

[@Thomas-np3gi]

For the first 10 seconds of the video you are holding a tile that seems to have magnets on the edge, is there a video about those?

[@klausreviewscraftrestore3152]

i wish i had crafting talents like yours, but my skill is in making furniture.

[@BardsCraft]

If you can make furniture you can cut cardboard. The only part that requires the tiniest amount of skill is the panting. But that's quite simple anyway. Good luck in your future crafts!

[@lorua92]

What do you think about swamp terrain?

[@AfflictedSkuttle]

it’s cool to see some one texturing card stock

[@BardsCraft]

lots of possibilities with cardstock :) Today I'll make wooden walls from that

[@slovakshadow1544]

What is that dwarvish-looking build at 8:43? It looks really cool!

[@BardsCraft]

It's a throne I made in one of the dwarf terrain videos

[@ImFenster]

Fellow northerner here. Where/how do you source your cardboard? Buying brand new cargo boxes is kind of expensive and you get way more cardboard than needed.

[@BardsCraft]

I get it from stuff I order or from friends. If you need to buy cardboard try IKEA. I happened to see that large packaging boxes cost only 0,7€.

[@ImFenster]

@@BardsCraft Awesome! Thanks!

[@giorgoskoutsogiannis9747]

I made a few of those a few years back after a few months cardboard bends 😕

[@gabrielegalli7866]

sorry you are very good but what kind of dyes do you use?

[@ProjectMaelstrom]

Any fast and easy way to make em "kinda" waterproof? Everybody knows that no matter what there will be some moisture from glasses etc on the table. Will a light coat with diluted white glue will do the trick?

[@leowfaitdestrucs504]

Hi sir Bard ! Can I ask you how often do you change your utility's blades ? :)

[@varvarapletneva4462]

Tell me please, please tell me if you can show all the crafts at once?

[@bluemagekill5957]

Você é muito foda!

[@halomov1]

Challenge 1:72 scissor lift.

[@warlockpetersen7810]

Big fan of your work, Lucas. Stop being so hot, it's distracting XD

[@BardsCraft]

Don't worry gym is closed :D I'll get back to nerd physique in no time!

[@jimsullivan5113]

Bard's Craft plenty of easy to do at home exercises and lifting available. At least I keep telling myself that.

[@hmmm6317]

That moment when you don't even have paints,

[@leutnant4591]

XD

[@emmettlin3255]

second!

[@Heath86]

Nope imperial measurement for life.

[@BardsCraft]

Heretic

[@Heath86]

@@BardsCraft lol sorry it is what I know best.

[@NarcJ]

Very nice but i still thinking it's has better if you cover the sides with oat card and make connections with toothpicks

[@BardsCraft]

Yes but then it would no longer be peasant-level. But really, that would make the tiles better 👍

[@dannygarrity1429]

This is the only channel that I have alerts set up for :)

[@lukehayes9627]

I've been making elementals after watching your stuff. Where can I share it with you because you're absolutely my inspiration and I want to credit you if I am showing them off? Edit: also, it is it absolutely the best to see a crafter making things on a peasant budget. Always annoying to see a video called "Simple wall textures" that starts off with, "all you'll need is a workshop, three slaves and thirty pounds of gold leaf" You builds are brilliant and inspiring

[@BardsCraft]

Best place to share your crafts is on Discord

[@Manbewbs]

Looks nice, man. i've tried using hotglue to cover the exposed corrugation of the cardboard. Just cover the side with it and press it down on some none-stick baking paper, it cools in, like, 10 seconds and cut away the excess hotglue.

[@10urion]

Really cool idea! Especially now when we should not take unnecessary trips to buy random stuff.

[@theMOSKTO]

Thank you... Where i live you can barely get the foam everyone uses for this stuff, and the one you get is VERY expensive (at least for a guy like me) i was starting to feel really unmotivated until i saw this video. Watching how pretty your tiles ended up being really motivated me to make my own out of regular cardboard!! thank you for this, great videos

[@CosmicGaijin]

I know what I’m crafting today.

[@Parkulele]

Fantastic tutorial, as always my dude!

[@boggleboi5579]

Metric system... *angrily putting on crusader armor*

[@3DPlasticFantasy]

Every time you surprise me with your great ideas. It's amazing how you turned the tiles to naturally with the random pattern cracks.

[@BardsCraft]

Thanks, I like the way the cracks were so easy to make with the pen. Those cracks definitely would require more time if it was foam dungeon tiles

[@aidandalton6526]

great craft!I like how you don't need foam for dungeon tiles

[@echodelta2426]

Very cool and simple technique. I'll go check out Franky's response to your challenge.

[@jpicassodoesstuff3622]

It's Frankie! He's got a nice contrasting style to the typical dungeons. Good stuff, both of you.

[@BardsCraft]

Yeah I really liked Franky's drawing instead of painting

[@FrankyDCrafter]

I have more scraps... I think I’ll make these too.

[@BardsCraft]

I guess dungeon tiles are like dice, can't have too many

[@Orivalschumi]

Dude, y make the figures? Too?

[@OnyArt]

Never thought I would be learning how to make dungeon tiles from a young Arnold Schwarzenegger... but... here we are 😄

[@AzraelThanatos]

They look neat...just don't have the room for a whole new set of tiles considering the older ones that I'd spent a while perfecting wouldn't match up with the look. Those were wood that I laser etched and painted, took a while to get the right method for painting them.

[@doelbaughman1924]

AWESOME! Is the scroll @ 9:24 made from regular paper, rolled, textured and painted?

[@BardsCraft]

Toothpick, roughed-up paper and painted.

[@ВалерийМатвеев-х4м]

Friend, you make amazing products! I want to advise you, when you paint something, wear latex gloves. So, you will leave your hands clean. And also, try to work with an airbrush. ))))))))))))))

[@ВалерийМатвеев-х4м]

@Sam Bowling Alley yes, I agree.

[@BardsCraft]

Eh it can be washed away easily :) An Airbrush is definitely something I'll get once I have the money to spend

[@ChooseyourownpathWoodcrafts]

Cool brother , from Canada , just starting doing more on my channel now I have the proxxon come check it out

[@Wallach_a]

How many boxes of oats do you go through in a typical week? 🤔🤔🤔

[@BardsCraft]

I eat 100g per day, so 0,7 boxes per week 👍

[@PheonixKnght]

You should flip them over and do a different theme on the other side

[@BardsCraft]

I might actually do that. I can add a new theme when I need it 👍

[@VerbenaComfrey]

1:54: USian here, laughing far too loudly at work about "measuring in Undercommon"

[@SgtOddballz]

If you want to strengthen the tiles and make the ends look nicer fill them with hot glue and smooth off. Then paint them black. :)

[@anneangersbach]

thank you for creating videos without XPS... to start out I find recycled stuff the better option, just because I don't want to invest before I know if I'm going to stick to the hobby :)

[@DebbieBuckland]

I make all my dungeon stuff with cardboard... sometimes ops (only when someone gives it to me) and sometimes bulsa wood

[@varvarapletneva4462]

Hi! I from Russia. me and my little brother are watching your videos and we really like!😊 Sorry for my English)

[@jagelsdorf1385]

You gave me an idea what to do with my egg cartons... Is there a time limit on the challenge? ;D

[@mramazing1769]

MAN THIS GUYS LIKES OATS. he really should get sponsored

[@MinorLG]

most of us in the US&Canada can get foamcore/foam board for $1 a sheet, and at that price, it is very easy to buy out a store for less than $20. it isn't as good as the insulation foam, but it's cheap.

[@daxshethia3384]

For anyone who actually makes these add dowels into the cardboard sides so you can stick them into larger pieces. Just add a little bit of glue to the dowel and slide it in, try not to shove it cuz after the glue holds you can slide them into bigger pieces and they won't move apart as much!

[@courtneyfasnd3637]

I was gonna say... maybe for Similar projects add toilet paper to add more texture over the top and strengthen the cardboard but then I remembered toilet paper is scarce these days smh

[@Тимофей-б8д4х]

hi, I'm a beginner do-it-yourselfer, and I would like to know how you tear your paints with glue and water

[@darkryker19]

I made tiles using this video. They are not as good as yours, but I am quite proud of how they turned out. 👍

[@MrMagual82]

Horrible. You have to live in a very dry place, without any humidity at all, for that shitty cardboard to hold up. I do that where I live and in a year I have to throw it away.

[@jasonkauppinen3475]

I think it turns out better with lighter colours. Like the Aztec style stuff. Maybe Minoan would work too.

[@TheReguViewer]

I wonder if you can add some magnets around the edges... But if its cardboard idk

[@doodledicemonsters]

Please plug the discord more often! I only found it before this video because I wondered if you had one and went looking!

[@mobeliskjones]

HOLY FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK MY TWO FAVORITE CRAFTERS BE COLLABORATING?!?!?

[@mobeliskjones]

@@jezeski2011 i think you take life too seriously, bud lmfao also i think for someone whose description says they dont like negativity, tryin to troll on youtube vids might make you a hypocrite, my dude.

[@mobeliskjones]

Awe now he deleted his comments for sounding like a douche T_T