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Hello and welcome back to the Gallant Goblin!
Today I have another interesting set
of dungeon terrain to share with you.
These sets are from Dungeons & Lasers, who
sent us this review set to share with you.
These sets are designed to be modular,
affordable, and easy to assemble.
And they come in both a fantasy set
and a sci-fi set, and let me tell you,
modular sci-fi terrain is hard to come
by outside of the 3D printing market.
These sets come unpainted and on sprues,
so they do take a little bit of initial prep,
but that’s what helps make them affordable.
The initial set of Dungeons and Lasers terrain
came with a set of scatter terrain objects
like stairs and trees and altars and
columns and portals and stocks,
and sci-fi capsules and beds and
consoles, among many other things.
We’re going to review this set in a separate video
because there’s so much in it to share with you.
For now, let’s get a better look at
the Dungeons and Lasers terrain!
When you first take the tiles out of
the box, they’re on sprues like this.
At first I thought I needed my little
clippers to get the tiles off the sprues,
but I quickly realized that they just snap
off pretty cleanly when you bend them.
You may want to clean them up a bit afterward
with some clippers or an X-ACTO knife
if you’d like them to look perfect,
but they were pretty much good
enough for me right off the sprue.
Included in the fantasy box are 78 double
connectors, 20 single connectors,
14 four-inch walls, 27 2-inch walls,
7 2-inch walls with an archway,
6 2-by-2 floor tiles with a grate, 12 2-by-2 floor tiles
with a standard design, and 12 2-by-4 inch floor tiles.
The sci-fi box has pretty much an identical distribution.
Included in the sci-fi box are 78 double
connectors, 20 single connectors,
14 four-inch walls, 27 2-inch walls,
7 2-inch walls with an archway,
6 2-by-2 inch floor tiles, 12 2-by-2 floor tiles with an
alternative design, and 12 2-by-4 inch floor tiles.
So, for each of these core sets you get 168
one-inch tiles of floor space to play with.
Putting your build together is quite easy.
just flip the tiles over, attach either a single
connector or a double connector,
depending on whether you want to attach two
floor tiles together or just a floor and a wall.
And then start connecting your tiles.
The connectors fit quite snuggly, as you’d want them to,
so it does take a little bit of pressure
to get them in sometimes.
Once your floors are together, you can
slot your walls and doors in quite easily.
The fantasy design features brick walls and doors,
little gratings along the bottom of
the walls for water to flow out,
and some cracked stone and
bricked up windows and doors.
The set comes unpainted in this dark grey color.
The walls are full height—2 inches—which is ten
feet in game terms in both D&D and Pathfinder.
Your minis will fit in just fine, as you can see.
The sci-fi set includes corrugated steel floors,
panels, conduits, canisters, power supplies,
and all sorts of little details that
make it look like the interior
of a functional mid-tech kind
of space station or starship.
Here you can see some unpainted
Starfinder minis who fit right in.
And note that even with larger medium-
sized minis like our Vesk friend here,
you can fit two minis next to each other,
side-by-side, without any problems.
Here’s a sample build using just the fantasy core set.
This build used pretty much all the pieces I
had except for a couple of the connectors.
As you can see, I was able to build out several medium-
sized rooms and hallways with just one set.
Since the smallest floor pieces are still 2x2, you
can’t build any 5-foot hallways with this set,
and, of course, you’re limited
to 90 degree wall formations.
But for the price, you get quite a lot for your money.
Here it is populated with some scatter terrain and minis.
This isn’t the scatter terrain from the
Dungeons & Lasers stretch goal box just yet,
but a lot of that will serve a similar purpose.
As you can see, it’s quite easy to make
functional rooms with this set.
Now, another thing that sets this terrain
apart from some of their competitors
is that this set arrives unpainted.
I wanted to try a very quick paint job of
my own to see how they would look.
Here’s my first attempt at painting the fantasy set.
This was a three-step painting process:
I just primed the tiles with
some flat black spray paint,
then painted a few random rocks
to give them some variety,
and then dry brushed the whole
thing to bring out the details.
You can use your own creative mind and talent
to make these look however you like.
I just wanted to do something
quick to see what was possible.
Another thing you may be wondering is why a
lot of the walls have those little holes in them.
Well, that's to hang some accessories.
The Stretch Goal box has quite a few little
decorations that you can attach to your walls
including shields, turrets, control
panels—all sorts of stuff.
If you want to really clean up your build, there’s
one more little attention-to-detail I’ll point out.
When you have two floor tiles attached
to each other but no wall between them,
there’s still this little unused hole between the tiles.
Each set comes with a lot of these
little plugs if you want to fill the hole
and make your build look a little bit more neat.
Let’s see another build I did with the sci-fi set.
Again, the number of pieces is
the same as the fantasy set,
but I tried putting them together
in a slightly different way,
with one larger room with a more interesting shape.
You can really put these builds together very quickly.
This one took me between 5 and 10 minutes tops.
Here it is populated with some Archon Studio
Starfinder minis, which we’ll be reviewing soon.
So consider this a preview.
I don’t have much sci-fi scatter terrain yet,
but when I bust out that stretch goal box, I’ll
certainly have a lot more to add to this build.
Now, let’s see what the two base sets
look like together on the gaming table.
You likely won’t be mixing your fantasy
and sci-fi sets, though you never know…
the adventure I wrote for DMs Guild called I Am
Your World features some interesting sci-fi twists
and it's currently on sale!
As you can see, the two sets together pretty much
fill up my gaming table, which is quite a feat.
Another interesting feature of the Dungeons
& Lasers terrain is that it’s stackable.
It’s quite easy to pick up a room and just
plop it down on top of another room.
For actual gameplay purposes, you may need
to move the second floor back to the table
if players want access to the underlying room,
but it’s pretty cool to be able to do that.
The Stretch Goal box even includes
a couple of different staircases
to link the various levels of your dungeon together.
You can pick up a base set of Dungeons &
Lasers terrain for $40 [USD] plus shipping
from the link in the video description below.
The Stretch Goal box is $20 [USD] plus shipping.
They have a lot of other add-on packs as well
including minis, stairs, pillars,
doors, and extra connectors.
One neat thing you can add on are specialty
rooms with different wall and floor designs.
Each room set contains 3 long walls, 6 short walls,
3 long floors, 3 short floors, and 3 doors.
The rooms come in six different variants:
torture chamber, engine room, hall of heroes,
xenogensis cell, warlock altar, and A.I. Center.
Each room costs $20 [USD] plus shipping.
Finally, Dungeons & Lasers is launching a new
Kickstarter to bring out a new set of dungeon terrain.
There are lots of newly designed rooms,
the inclusion of half-walls, which are one-inch high, as well as the full-sized walls they already have,
plus some cool-looking new dragon minis.
If you’re interested, you can visit
dungeonsandlasers.com to learn more.
The Kickstarter launches on August 25, 2020.
If you have any questions about
the Dungeons & Lasers terrain,
please leave them for me in the
comments section down below.
Many thanks to the folks at Dungeons & Lasers
for sending me these sets to share with you.
Also, as always, thanks to our
sponsor, The Deck of Many.
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