Crafting ultimate dungeon tiles for D&D and more! 

Looks fantastic! And you explained it better than I did. REALLY well done. All my best--Professor DM.

Those are great. I don't have many of those tools tho

It's 'Theater In The Round'. It's stagecraft, like would be done in theater. All the same tricks and techniques of creating sets for plays are applicable with this Theater In The Round 'ultimate dungeon tile' business. This is how many plays are done, and tabletop gaming is a theater, with acting, improv, and of course - sets and props.

i was super psyched about udt at first, but the ‘is it a circle?’ question is just so counterintuitive to me and my peeps

I'm a simple man, someone crafts some UDT - I like and subscribe.

For social scenes, this is the perfect solution, and it works well for small dungeons too.

This is awesome! Where are some of your miniatures from? Are they 3d prints or did you purchase them? If so where from? Great job on the dungeon ultimate dungeon tiles. Looks amazing!

I can't be the first person to ask this: Where did you get your desk storage?! Would you be willing to do a video on your workspace and tools?

What model is your wood burner.I can’t find one that has that long wand

Nice build. Ever consider flipping them over and building another set on the underside? I like the two sided battle mats.

Really lovw the woodgrain effect and the way you build like real framing principles.

This is going in my saved videos under "dungeon craft" to pull up when I'm doing my next terrain project.

Amazing work, definitely some good applications for terrain. A question, where u got them trees from? They're a beauty!

Now I need pizza

Those are only good is your players dont move around, especially in other ttrpgs where some characters can move up to 80 ft per turn and are encouraged by the system to do something other than just "pile up"

If you revisit this, maybe do different ones like lava, swamp, snow, or desert terrain! Love your videos ❤

Awesome idea, awesom-er execution. Always in for a good time when you post your videos

Any recommendations to create a 'base' for Overwatch/Blade Runner/Cyberpunk type city settings? Would love to see your take on that.

This is great tutorial. Thanks. I have been wanting to make a UDT board for Call of Cthulhu. CoC is perfect for abstract distances.

Dont't suppose you have a link for the bald mini with the backpack?

So cool to see your build on UDT. I love the concept but I play a lot of solo skirmish games or just solo RPGs so I either need a bit more real estate or none at all. I'm still going to make a couple just to try it out on my group

Great builds, very nicely done. I noticed you did not apply concentric rings to represent the movement zones, what was the reason for this design decision, curious? 🙂 Your description section is excellent too.

What was the purpoe of adding dish soap to the brown paint while working on the wooden floor?

Excellent video, very nice UDT build. My understanding is UDT is like a theater stage and is meant to use zoned ranges for combat via concentric rings: i.e. Close 30'-60' (10M-20M), Near 60'-90' (20M-30M), and Far 90'-120'(30M-35M), Off board 120'(35M+). Zoned combat is a way to speed up play by removing a lot of book keeping surrounding tactical combat movement, and UDT is mid-point between theater of the mind and fully built out scale terrain on a grid. For those unfamiliar with Zoned Movement for combat, the 'spotlight' of the stage, aka the Close area is where melee combat occurs; Near is out of melee reach but within range for missiles etc; Far is usually considered out of range for missiles but within hearing range; Off Board is out of the action. During movement, a character can move anywhere within the Close area or into the Near area if not in combat, and a player in the Near area can move into melee, out to Far range or 180 degrees to the opposite side of their current position relative to Near. The great thing about zoned range is that you don't have to create scale maps for the whole dungeon, you can just plop your UDT down any time it is needed, add some very basic terrain and remove it when it is no longer necessary. A limitation of zoned movement for combat is the abstraction can limit the tactical options some folks might be used to by removing the 'grid'. If you want to try an even more abstract and cheaper alternative to UDT, Index Card RPG (ICRPG) has a terrain and movement system played using, surprise, index cards or drawings / printouts of a location w/o a scale, there is no actual moving of minis except from card to card, it is more theater of the mind and is very abstract. You just write, 100' (30M) hallway or 20'x20' (6Mx6M) room on an index card and slap it down. The cards can be used with minis, dice, paper tokens scraps of paper to represent objects and beings. These can then be connected to make a whole dungeon. See the Runehammer website for more on this system. If you want to skip the crafting, Etsy is a good source for ready made UDT, if you are limited on space or need portable UDT there is a great place on Etsy called, Gripmats, who sell vinyl foldable UDT for very reasonable prices, I own several Gripmats and I highly recommend them. Finally, to checkout all of Professor Dungeon Master's UDT and Zone Movement related videos, go to his RU-vid site, DungeonCraft > Playlists > Ultimate Dungeon Terrain - UDT. You will find links to episodes: 67, 83, 88, 92, 100, 125, 134, 136, 154, 290, and episode 383: The ULTIMATE GM SCREEN and how make it." I also recommend, episode #82.

These look great! If you wanted to add 1 inch squares to these how would you go about doing so?

The light gray you apply at 3:25, after the darker gray, is dry brushed as well?

Nice build, great take on the Professor's tiles.

Very cool idea and very cool looking 👍🏻

great paint!!!

Another awesome build! I really want to incorporate these types of boards for when the party is traveling through the woods/mountains etc. My fear is that the one player who always wants to split up the party... will then ask to split up the party! Do you have any suggestions?

These are really lovely. The Professor would be pleased

Great take on UDM! I also really like your scatter terrain. Did you 3d print the barrels and boxes at :07?

Easily your best video. LOSING MY MIND OVER THE AOE CUT. It’s going viral :)

An interesting variation of using the wooden disc as the base, and then cutting the stone tiles and wooden planks out of foam to glue on top, rather than the original XPF foam disc, and cutting/drawing the patterns into that. 👍👍👍👍😎😎😎😎 I think that Black Magic Craft might have done UDT in a similar style to this. Yours came out brilliantly, by the way. Kudos to your adaption. 😊😊😊😊

I’m inspired 🙌😃

Really cool. 👍

Great build! I love seeing how other people approach color and texture on their builds!

These are awesome tiles Adam! You've given me some inspo for my first batch of table top terrian. :D

Thank you for this, I’ll be making it soon! 😁

A-ma-zing

Awesome video! Just wanted to say that if people cant find the round wooden boards using cake drums is also a good option. Theyre a fiver from my pound store and surprisingly sturdy.

Simplemente genial. Me encantan estos dioramas. El nivel de detalle es bellísimo.

Those are a pretty dang good idea. I should do some.

look awesome man, simple and pleasing

Those are so useful and so nicely done.

The wooden one looks sooooooooo nice.

Awesome to see you again!

An excellent take on UDT!

This approach does not allow for creating large battle scenes where distance is used as an important factor of tactics. This particularly affects archers and mages.

Beautiful work!

Content de te revoir, c'est une super idée… ça me tente vraiment!

they look awesome !

Love it!

They all look awesome 🤩

Really nice video! Good instruction and inspiration.