Iron Gryphon Studio - Ep 25 Ritual Circle Centerpieces part 2 (modular dungeon terrain DnD wargames)

Firstly i forgot to put the instagram handle in the video, so here it is
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Here it is guys...part 2.
A few more lovely ideas for your dungeons and campaigns. I really enjoy making weird and bizarre artefacts and curiosities for homebrew encounters to really spice up those encounters for the adventurers. No dungeon is complete without some kind of weirdness.
And the best thing, it was all made with basic hobby supplies and its totally modular.
Below is a few links for those in the UK, for anyone wishing to buy any of the things i use frequently on my channel. For me, these are the things i use in almost every video (so, the main stuff). Also its worth saying that these are amazon affiliate links, and Iron Gryphon Studio claims a finders fee from the amazon seller with no additional cost to you (the buyers) whatsoever. So feel free to support the channel by clicking through these links to purchase your hobby supplies. Thank you very much :) happy crafting
A UK link to Amazon for the Proxxon Hotwire table - www.amazon.co....
A Uk link to Amazon for the Matt Mod Podge - www.amazon.co....
A UK amazon link for XPS Foam board - www.amazon.co....
A UK Amazon link for A Balsa Wood bundle pack - www.amazon.co....

[@mikepeters8132]

The crystal floating over that star-well is fantastic. The portal/door is so useful!

[@irongryphon]

The portal opens so many ...doors for in-game shenanigans. Could be a permanent "dimension door", or a doorway to a demiplane, or other inter-dimensional space. Endless options

[@sw33n3yto00]

Made six of the standing portals, and used them as teleports. Rolled a d6 anytime someone went through, and they showed up at the numbered door. Players loved it! Thank you!!!

[@irongryphon]

Great use of the standing door terrain 👍🏻🙂 happy to hear everyone liked it. Really appreciate this comment, thank you

[@Digitarii]

I really love what you did with the doors! Brilliant ideas!

[@irongryphon]

Thanks dude 👍🏻 there's honestly so many options for these

[@michaele1407]

GREAT CRAFTING, LOVE YOUR WORK, TRY TO BUILD SOME, THANKS FOR INSTRUCTIONS, LEARING ALOT FROM YOU

[@irongryphon]

No worries my dude 👍🏻🙂 glad I can help. Thanks so much for watching

[@RevRaak]

That portal door!!!! Wow!

[@irongryphon]

Thanks buddy 👍🏻😀Which insert did you prefer?

[@RevRaak]

@@irongryphon I love the idea of acetate, for some transparency. I think I'll play around with some poly-fill to simulate steam at the bottom?

[@irongryphon]

Ooh nice idea 👍🏻🙂

[@jean-baptistehautebas2785]

Woah, this is getting better and better. Keeping the cristal upside down to lock the chains is really clever. This modular door too. All of us can see you're really into it, so much possibilities with this door. Keep up the good work, this is good. I'm really enjoying your videos

[@irongryphon]

Thank you very much 👍🏻😀 simple solutions to problems are my specialty...sometimes 😅

[@jean-baptistehautebas2785]

@@irongryphon Not only simple and not sometimes, your crafting skills and final items are really top tiers :3 Sending you some good vibes. Waiting with envy your next videos

[@irongryphon]

Cheers bud, you're very kind 🙂👍🏻

[@BayushiGemma]

Very creative enjoyed all 3 of your creations, may give one or two a try.

[@irongryphon]

Thank you 🙂 I have a few more in mind that I'm going to try in the near future 👍🏻😀 thanks for watching

[@stevenyuko]

I’m quite sure i’ll be making these! ❤ love modular design terrain

[@eBiCrafter]

Thank for sharing your ideas, buddy

[@irongryphon]

And thank you for watching my ideas 👍🏻🙂 very much appreciated

[@sjmarham]

I know I'm a bit late to the party, but you could create a variant of the skull tower. etch multiple symbols around each "ring", don't glue the rings, maybe magnets or a central stick, and let the players rotate them to solve some form of cypher pointing towards statue on the far side of the room.If you cut the symbols through, utilising concentric interior circles/masks behind the symbols, you could use an to illuminate all of them when the last symbol slots into place. I might try this. Keep up the good work.

[@irongryphon]

I might just make one of those anyway mate 😆👍🏻 that sounds like a great puzzle

[@furiousfart116]

Looks great👍

[@irongryphon]

Cheers 👍🏻😀 thank you for watching

[@zombielandiii2711]

Crafter of the month award. The nearly infinite combinations for the door is a must have at the game table. Love your work.

[@irongryphon]

Aww cheers zombieland 👍🏻😀 I don't even have a speech prepared 😅 Yesss so many possibilities for this portal door, having the party figure out it can be turned/rotated to point at different symbols on the floor to open portals to different places could be an interesting game hook

[@zombielandiii2711]

@@irongryphon The door is a foam or wood door? Or is it from cardboard or what... 😅 The thing is that I'm thinking about the door has to be too thin to fit in?

[@irongryphon]

I've made the door out of balsa wood, but used bits of coffee stirrers on the back of it to strengthen the balsa cos it's so soft

[@zombielandiii2711]

@@irongryphon Curious how today in a channel called rp archive the guy there uploaded a video with something similar you your doors. We all see that your idea was the first. ; )

[@irongryphon]

Oh really. I'll have to check that out 😅

[@dmmomma]

Love Love Love

[@irongryphon]

I'm glad you liked it 😀👍🏻

[@owenoulton9312]

Hi, there, greetings from Canada. I've been following the Black Magic Craft channel by a fellow Canuck and just discovered your channel. I actually don't do gaming scenery, but rather 1/35 scale dioramas, about double the scale of gaming stuff, but a lot of the same techniques apply. Your stuff is similar in construction to Jeremy's at BMC, but with your own artistic take. Great stuff!

[@irongryphon]

Thanks buddy, greetings from England 🙂👍🏻 yes I've seen BMC, he often makes terrain which I've been planning/making a similar video for 😅 so I have to delay mine otherwise it looks like I'm copying him. I've been making terrain for about 20 years now, But I guess now we're really all making the same stuff as eachother and sharing our ideas online. Thank you for watching 👍🏻🙂

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

Awesome job mate. Love the modularity - I share that obsession :D Weirdly enough I did something pretty similar as the doorway this week - great minds think alike! Also that blood doorway is grim as hell and I love it.

[@irongryphon]

Haha thanks mate, yes I saw a multi portal type video you did recently, it was very nice. I like making some weird/grim/creepy stuff thats useable in games. You sound as though you're from the north of England as well 🤔

[@RPArchiveOfficial]

@@irongryphon haha, well spotted ;)

[@andrewtate4897]

to make a large gem like that you could hot glue a few glue sticks together let em cool cut your gem-like shapes in dip the whole thing in hot water ( just before boiling) the whole thing will go clear then just drop a glaze on it ( or even drop a coloured diode light under it to shine up.

[@irongryphon]

Great idea, never thought of that. I may give it a try next time 👍🏻

[@michaelanderson2166]

The door of this episode and the ball of last are the best and most useful. Especially the door.

[@irongryphon]

Sooooo many uses for this door, and so customisable too. Just make a little insert to suit the game type, and voila, it's like a brand new portal

[@harrietcraig7817]

I haven’t gotten to the portal door yet (which seems to be a hands-down favourite), but I had to pause it to say the floating crystal is FREAKING FABULOUS. They all are-but that one stopped the cameras. Ok, on to the doorway to....?????

[@irongryphon]

Hahaha 😅 thank you very much. Hope you like the doorway just as much

[@christietitlow3783]

@@irongryphon YES!!!!!!!!---GORGEOUS Love the variegated templates--what a clever way to maximize its functionality. I'm torn; but I think the crystal still wins. Mercifully, we don't have to choose....just LIKE!!!

[@irongryphon]

Haha cheers 🙂 glad you like the different styles. Honestly I feel like a circle in the middle of a room can open up so many possibilities for different builds, centrepieces and displays. There's just something about a circular room that seems more foreboding

[@christietitlow3783]

@@irongryphon Absolutely---that is, if you consider being completely and vulnerably exposed foreboding. No place to hide... This ritual circle is simply inspired and inspiring--thanks!

[@irongryphon]

Glad I could inspire you a little 😊👍🏻 thank you so much for watching

[@kwiatkowskimike7124]

Awesome

[@irongryphon]

Cheers bud 👍🏻😎

[@echodelta2426]

Great! Like the ability to interchange the door feature within the stone portal.

[@irongryphon]

Yea it makes this more than a one use piece of terrain. Super customisable 👍🏻

[@tomusannonymous]

You could also print photos/images to put in the door

[@irongryphon]

You could indeed 🙂 limitless possibilities 👍🏻

[@michaelwellner1333]

Interesting circle platform pieces, do you have any ideas for a telescope? Was going to suggest a sundial, however a scria-bowl or luna-tic-toc reflector dish works better at night, don't forget a pyramidal lightning rod forge bowl MAGIC... General Rid Stump!!!

[@irongryphon]

I could try a telescope, like a big one at an observatory. I like that idea of the sundial aswell 👍🏻😀

[@joelruehs4386]

The portal door was my favorite. It's got so many possibilities. Great job!

[@irongryphon]

Thanks 👍🏻 it really has. I love making strange objects like that

[@AvocationNation]

SUPER COOL stuff man! I'd love to see more scatter / dungeon terrain, great stuff.

[@irongryphon]

Yeah man, these are do useful and reusable 😀👍🏻

[@marciasunman6766]

Great video as usual. Love the portal doorway. Great idea!

[@irongryphon]

Thank you kindly, I do love a good portal

[@anthonyanglemyer2748]

I love all your videos in this series I am going to make some of thee items .One of the things I found interesting is your jig you made for your hot wire table and would like to know or see how you made it . is it possible to do a video on how to make it.

[@irongryphon]

You mean the circle cutting jig? I could make an Instagram post about it if you like. And could show it briefly in a video, next time I do a circular cut project 🙂

[@HenrikLarssonArt]

Great looking Crafts, really liked the floating crystal - Cheers!🍺

[@irongryphon]

Thanks bud 👍🏻 yeah that seems to have been quite popular. I would have liked it to be an actual crystal but I would have sacrificed workability for appearance 😕

[@carrie4910]

These are great! Wondered how the floating crystals were done 😁 The jewelry things are called ‘eye pins’ I think.

[@irongryphon]

Eye pins 😀👍🏻 gotcha. I'll remember that for next time. Thank you for watching 🙂 glad you liked it

[@myoung4997]

Awesome! Really digging your videos - can't wait to build some of these!

[@irongryphon]

Thanks buddy 🙂👍🏻 they're all super useful and I expect pretty interesting to use

[@bilgatus]

Thats great looking! Thanks for sharing :)

[@irongryphon]

Thanks very much 😀 thank you for watching 😊

[@andrewtate4897]

I love the portal door, you could drop a diode under that to give it a more ethereal look. Ill be using your affiliate links I need some balsa for a Windmill project I'm building.

[@irongryphon]

Thank you so much 👍🏻 I'm a newbie at Amazon affiliate links so I hope they all work properly 😅

[@andrewtate4897]

I bought one of those balsa packs today I hope your affiliate link worked.

[@irongryphon]

Thank you very much 👍🏻🙂 you might be my first order

[@TheRedBard]

Not n the UK or I'd use the links. I wish I could find XPS easier here in the states. Looks like you use the graphite XPS (GPS) in a lot of builds, because it's denser or because its what you have on hand? As always great video, inspiring me to build a similar hyper-modular centerpiece for my tabletop.

[@irongryphon]

I will try to sort out some Amazon links for the US as well 🙂 At the moment I'm using that dark grey xps foam at the moment cos it's what I have to hand and it's taking up space in my studio 😅 Thanks for watching buddy 👍😀

[@TheRedBard]

@@irongryphon thanks for the info! Makes base coating easier than the pink stuff.

[@irongryphon]

I would always base coat any foam with mod podge and black craft paint, no matter what colour I use. It just helps to seal the foam from any spray paints or glues I may use on it during the build

[@thecraftingbrothers9448]

Love your way of cutting circles. is it nailed down? or are you eyeballing it?

[@irongryphon]

The center of the foam is pushed into a small nail, then I rotate the foam around while I keep the knife in one place this cutting a circle

[@thecraftingbrothers9448]

@@irongryphon very cool. I'm doing that next time, simple

[@anthonyanglemyer2748]

I love all your videos in this series I am going to make some of thee items .One of the things I found interesting is your jig you made for your hot wire table and would like to know or see how you made it . is it possible to do a video on how to make it.

[@irongryphon]

Hey buddy, sorry I just saw this comment, apparently sometimes KZbin doesn't show me every comment. Thanks for watching these videos I really appreciate it. Yea I could do a little video on how I made that jig. I might adjust it a little first, make it slightly better.