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Revisiting Zanzer Tems Dungeon

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Back near the start of October 2012, I posted on DailyEncounter that I was starting to rebuild Zanzer Tems dungeon from the Basic D&D starter set. I had an initial burst of activity on the project, doing 4 or 5 casts of each mould I own for about a week. And then I dropped my tub of plaster. 5 kilo of dental stone plaster blasted out across my kitchen floor, and went everywhere. I was able to recover about a kilo of it from the pile that formed on the floor, and did a few more casts, but dirt, stray hairs, saw dust from the guinea pigs, and general everyday grime had got into the plaster as I was scooping it back up and ruined the plaster.

Luckily, this accident coincided with a lack of foam core to glue onto, my wife stealing my tacky glue, and a set of crazy work deadlines that occupied me for most of the next 3 months, and i’ve literally just come out of this period of nightly coding. And then, as luck would have it, on friday night, I had to go to my local hobby store, and I was able to pick up some more foam core boards and some new glue.

With several inches of snow keeping my family trapped at home, I had most of Saturday to do some glueing…

I’d bought a pack of 5 A3 sized foam core boards. This was a change for me, because i’d bought a large A1 sized board to use on my last project, the dungeon for the Rise of the Underdark launch event, The Sun Never Rises by Shawn Merwin, that we ran at the Drowathon (a UK D&D Tweetup event). The A1 board was unmanageably large and I ended up with huge amounts of it unusable after being glued and cut. My theory on the a3 boards were they would be easier to move around and glue onto.

Turns out I was right. I glued 19 ‘rooms’ onto 4 of the boards before the glue ran out. unintentionally, I ended up fitting adjacent rooms onto the boards adjacent to each other.

I left these to dry over night and took a craft knife to them this morning, cutting out each room. Unfortunately, the foam core is cheap, and its papery top surface often peeled away. In addition, the tacky glue I bought was the shops own and on a third of the room, 1 or 2 bricks hadn’t stuck properly, meaning I had to snap them away, find a replacement, and find enough glue to restick them.

ZTA3BoardThe biggest room, and side rooms, glued onto an A3 board

ZTBoardStackA stack of boards

ZTLaidOut1All the glued rooms laid out, you can see how I split the 26 square long corridor in 2.


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