Showing posts with label Roleplaying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roleplaying. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Kev's Lounge Paper Minis: Champions Series




We've started a Patreon page and have launched a new line of paper minis, the Champions Series!

What is this all about?
Minis are a wonderful tool to represent your character on a table top, and this fun new concept aims to take that to the next level! Rather than giving you a single mini in a dynamic, but fixed pose, we'll give you a kit containing the same character in a variety of poses so that you can use the appropriate mini for the encounter!



In each set, you'll find the character in the following poses:
• Battle pose
• Standing, at ease
• Seated
• Unconscious
• Mounted on a horse

You'll also get a mini of their horse, riderless, and you'll get a small portrait of the character that you can attach to your character sheet.

We've already released two characters, and there will be a third one coming out soon!
 
The Templar represents a human female fighter. Find out more and get a free paper mini



The Mage represents an elven male spellcaster. Find out more and get a free paper mini.


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Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Kev's Lounge Tokens for digital tabletop gaming on Roll20!

If you're a fan of playing on the digital tabletop platform Roll20, and like the work we're doing, you'll be happy to know that we have several sets of tokens available on the Roll20 marketplace!


Roll 20 Tokens Set 1: Dramatis Personae
A pleasing variety of heroes and protagonist

All sorts of interesting characters that one is likely to encounter during urban adventures

Roll 20 Tokens Set 4: Servants of the Serpentine Queen
A selection of snake-themed enemies from cultists and snake men to medusae and a marilith!
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Thursday, January 26, 2017

New Kev's Lounge Paper Minis: Wondrous & Magical

The time has once again come to bundle some of our wondrously magical paper minis into a single convenient pack! This set also contains a brand new exclusive mini, the Magnanimous Djinni, possibly our biggest paper mini yet!

This set, named Wondrous & Magical is packed with creatures and creations of a magical nature is perfect for adding a touch of the mystical to your fantasy roleplaying sessions!

Kev's Lounge Paper Minis: Wondrous & Magical Cover

Kev's Lounge Paper Minis: Wondrous & Magical!

We're extremely grateful to those of you who support us... It enables us to devote more time to these allowing us to put out better sets and release more stuff more often!

Paper Minis - Wondrous & Magical Group Shot

Miniatures in this set:
• Iron Guardian
• Water Elemental
• Rising Phoenix
• Magnanimous Djinni
• Foreboding Spirit
• Gargoyle
• Faerie Dragon

The set also includes an artbook which has lots of photos of the minis in action, and includes nice high resolution copies of the artwork for each character. The artbook also includes a lot of sketchbook art that explains a little of the design process that went into each character.

artbook pages

Cutfiles coming soon!
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Monday, November 7, 2016

Paper Minis Set: A Day at the Market

Between clearing out dungeons and braving the wilderness, a party of adventurers needs to stop in at town to rest up and restock! Being within the walls of the city does not mean that the adventure is over though... There is a lot of room to throw in a challenging encounter while they're in the middle of their shopping sprees and this set includes a nice variety of merchant NPCs perfect for those situations!

A Day at the Market Deluxe Edition CoverA Day in the Market Basic Edition Cover

The Basic Edition includes just a single version of each mini, giving you 6 unique designs for a nice low price. The Deluxe Edition has loads of customisation options allowing for a massive variety of minis, with tens of thousands of unique combinations.

Get them here:
• A Day at the Market: Deluxe Edition
• A Day at the Market: Basic Edition


A Day in the Market Deluxe Group Assortment
This set includes an apothecary who can supply the party with potions and oils, a herbalist who can mix up some poultices and remedies, a baker who can supply them with rations and food, a smith to do a variety of metal work and repairs and a pair of clerks who can help them out at any other store they land up in!

The figures are scaled to 28mm, and will look good alongside most popular brands of miniatures and all manner of 28mm scaled scenery. Each model has a distinctive front and back, and both sides feature rich and gorgeous detail. The detail is boosted by the high resolution of the PDF, and the colours have good contrast to make them pop at a distance!

Cutfiles are being worked on and will be available soon!
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Friday, October 14, 2016

Paper minis set: Touched by Darkness!

With Halloween just around the corner, we've packed a bunch of our wonderfully scary and dark villains into a single convenient pack! This set also contains a brand new exclusive mini, the demonic Serpentine Queen!

This set, name Touched by Darkness is perfect for adding some horror to the All Hallow's Eve sessions you undoubtedly have lined up!

Touched by Darkness Group Shot

Click here to get your copy!


We're extremely grateful to those of you who support us... It enables us to devote more time to these allowing us to put out better sets and release more stuff more often!

Touched by Darkness Group Shot

Miniatures in this set:
• Dark Elf Sniper
• Hierophant of Ixithulhu
• Diabolic Warlock
• Serpentine Queen
• Evoker
• Ophidian Zealot
• Vampire

The set also includes an artbook which has lots of photos of the minis in action, and includes nice high resolution copies of the artwork for each character. The artbook also includes a lot of sketchbook art that explains a little of the design process that went into each character.

artbook pages


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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Paper minis set: Into the Wild!

We've bundled several of the latest minis into a single convenient set. There's also a brand new exclusive figure in the form of a Young Green Dragon!
The set is named "Into the Wild" and is packed with things to encounter while travelling through the wilderness!



The set is available here: www.rpgnow.com/product/187731/Kevs-Lounge-Paper-Minis-Into-the-Wild

We're extremely grateful to those of you who support us... It enables us to devote more time to these allowing us to put out better sets and release more stuff more often!

Into the Wild Group Shot

Miniatures in this set:
• Froglodyte
• Ranger
• Wood Elf Sentinel
• Young Green Dragon
• Half-Orc Barbarian
• Satyr
• Leprechaun

The set also includes an artbook which has lots of photos of the minis in action, and includes nice high resolution copies of the artwork for each character. The artbook also includes a lot of sketchbook art that explains a little of the design process that went into each character.

artbook pages
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Monday, May 16, 2016

New ultra-customisable paper minis: The Brotherhood!

 An impassioned monk delivers an emphatic sermon to his brothers!
(Scenery sold separately)


Any well-developed fantasy world is bound to be packed with hundreds of religious orders and cults.  This set of 6 customisable high-quality paper miniatures is designed to allow you to easily create the devoted followers of virtually any cult or holy order you can imagine!














Get The Brotherhood set  at Papercraft Dungeon!

 The set includes monks/cultists in these 6 poses, along with a massive amount of optional details and a wide colour pallette to choose from, allowing you to create the members of virtually any cult you can imagine!



There are many different ways to use these guys in your games!



  A group of Necromancers unleash a burning army of Skeletons upon the adventurers!
(Necromancers made with this set, other figures and scenery sold separately)



   The vicious Snake Cult attacks some innocent monks!
(Cultists and Monks made with this set, other figures and scenery sold separately)

The figures are scaled to 28mm, and will look good alongside most popular brands of miniatures and all manner of 28mm scaled scenery. Each model has a distinctive front and back, and both sides feature rich and gorgeous detail. The detail is boosted by the high resolution of the PDF, and the colours have good contrast to make them pop at a distance!

The models are designed with removable, interchangeable bases. This allows you to store the figures flat when not in use.

Get The Brotherhood set  at Papercraft Dungeon!

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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

New Paper Minis set out now! A Night at the Tavern...

Some might say that the tavern is as important a setting as the dungeon in role-playing games... Indeed, many an adventure starts off in one, and more than a few end off in one. This new batch of paper minis was created to give life to encounters that take place in one of those interesting establishments!

Your tabletop tavern can now be home to a grouchy old innkeeper, 4 vivacious young barmaids and a rather imposing bouncer!



We're actually releasing two different editions of this set. The Basic Edition, which includes the 6 minis pictured above, has the nice, low price tag of only $1. There is also the Deluxe Edition which is customisable and offers an incredible amount of variety and diversity! In fact, there are almost half a million unique combinations meaning you could easily have a completely new set of employees at each tavern your party visits during their campaign!



Here we have just a small glimpse of the variety offered by the Deluxe edition:


That's just 4 out of ±78000 possible combinations for that barmaid!





The two editions of this set are available now on Papercraft Dungeon:

A Night at the Tavern (Basic edition)

A Night at the Tavern (Deluxe edition)


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Saturday, January 4, 2014

The D12 Calendar Returns!

 

Last year we released a d12 calendar to ring in the new year and it was a tremendous success! This year we're bringing it back a whole lot better! This set is themed to the 4 classic elements - Fire, Earth, Water and Air - plus a fifth one: Life.

This downloadable papercraft kit allows you to make a d12 that's about 10cm or 4 inches in diameter. It doubles as a 2013 desk calendar, so it's got an excuse to sit on your office desk in case you ever need to work out how much damage your barbarian's great axe would deal in the middle of a week day afternoon!


This free set, which I mostly made just for fun, also includes some cool bonuses:
• A really nifty customisable paper mini: This one's a flirtatious barmaid to keep the ale flowing for your heroes during their downtime at the tavern between dungeon crawls! There are several layers allowing you to change the colour of various parts of her outfit and her hair, with thousands of possible combinations!
• Keeping with the elemental theme, the set includes markers with the Elemental Icons in activated and deactivated states. You could use them as part of a puzzle where heroes need to activate them in order to unlock something, or simply as a decoration or power-up. Layers allow you to customise the base texture to match any of those in our dungeon tiles sets, or our forthcoming Meadow set.

Get it from Papercraft Dungeon now! It's completely free!

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Monday, April 1, 2013

A Luxurious Lair: Council Chamber released!


This set contains brand new Kev's Lounge papercraft dungeon tiles, and markers, along with 3d papercraft furniture, and a pair of innovative spiral staircases to add a third dimension to your dungeon delves! With the various layer options this set will allow you to create hundreds of completely unique pieces that can be arranged in nearly infinite combinations. Perfect for table top wargames, skirmish games and RPGs.

Get your copy of A Luxurious Lair: Council Chamber now! Only $4.99

 
This wonderfully versatile set includes:
4 Brand new and highly customisable Kev's Lounge Dungeon Gigantic Round Rooms Tiles

These beautiful 6 x 6 inch papercraft dungeon tiles work seamlessly with all existing Kev's Lounge Dungeon tiles. They make use of the Kev's Lounge Starlinks System to keep them together, allowing you to create some enormous rooms for your most epic battles. The tiles are perfect for representing the various floors of a large tower, and can combine with the tiles in other sets to create large rooms with rounded corners.

Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:
  • 7 Different Interior floor textures and 11 exterior floor textures which can also be left out entirely if you choose.
  • Multiple grid options, including gridless, 1 inch and 1.5 inch, with a variety of choices for the style of the grid lines
  • Additional optional details, like dirt and splatters that can be turned on and off giving you a huge range of control over the look of your tiles

Several 2.5D Hazard and Obstacle Markers


As with every other Kev's Lounge Dungeon Tile set, you will find a great variety of hazard markers, also taking advantage of the layered PDF system to give you control of the floor background, and to add and adjust details to your liking.

Innovative 3d Spiral Staircases


These papercraft staircases are designed to look good on the table, and allow miniatures to stand on the steps. Each staircase allows a simple build, or a challenging one, to suit your tastes and level of skill.
Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:
  • 7 Floor textures:  Damaged Flagstone, Herringbone Paving, Horizontal and Vertical Wooden Floors, Flagstone, Stonework Floor and Sandstone Slabs.
  • Multiple grid options, including gridless, 1 inch and 1.5 inch, with a variety of choices for the style of the grid lines
  • Additional optional details, like dirt and splatters that can be turned on and off giving you a huge range of control over the look of your tiles
Highly customisable furniture pieces.


Chairs, shelves and a big ol' table. You have a lot of control over what's on the shelves where you can choose between neatly stacked books, or untidy piles of them, or alchemy themed clutter, or weapon/trophy displays. You could even come up with your own unique combination! The table can be bare, or covered with your choice of clutter.
Layered PDF gives the following awesome features:
  • 7 Floor textures:  Damaged Flagstone, Herringbone Paving, Horizontal and Vertical Wooden Floors, Flagstone, Stonework Floor and Sandstone Slabs.
  • 3 Wood Textures
  • Hundreds of combinations for the shelf, thousands for the table!
Easy customisation

A new feature for Kev's Lounge Sets, this one has control panels built right into the PDF page. Simply click the buttons til you find something you like and send it to the printer!


Fully illustrated, easy to follow instructions
36 page instruction manual, in PDF format, optimised for screen view to save you ink. Details every step of the process with clear, full colour illustrations.
Miniatures used in pictures are strictly for illustration purposes and are not included in the purchase. Photography by Photos by Mick.
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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Kev's Lounge Paper Miniatures: Blazin' Bones out now!



A brand new set of Kev's Lounge Paper Miniatures. This set of 20 exquisitely detailed flaming skeletons will look great on any gaming table.

Get your set of Blazin' Bones Paper Miniatures now! Only $1.99

The figures are scaled to 28mm, and will look good alongside most popular brands of miniatures and all manner of 28mm scaled scenery. Each model has a distinctive front and back, and both sides feature rich and gorgeous detail. The detail is boosted by the high resolution of the PDF, and the colours have good contrast to make them pop at a distance!


The models are designed with removable bases. This set includes 2 sets of interchangeable bases and more are available on this shop. Another bonus of this feature is that the flat components are really compact and very easy to store because they don't take up much room at all!



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Friday, January 18, 2013

Character Portrait: The Flirtatious Barmaid

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A bit of background on this drawing:

This young lady is a minor character in the first chapter of Live By The Sword, our newly started comic.She's already made a background appearance in the first panel of the first page. This particular drawing of her is a cleaned up version of her character concept sketch that I'll be using in an upcoming set of paper miniatures.

About the character:

Cassandra is one of the more popular young barmaids at the Green Dragon, a small tavern near the docks. Her friendly demeanour and innocently pretty face get her a lot of attention and affection, and are certainly among the chief reasons that the Green Dragon is never short on customers.  She's not just a pretty face though, and she's not nearly as angelic as her virtuous smile suggests. She's cunning, educated and smart; and indeed, when she first realised that the boys found her attractive while growing up she thought to herself "I can use this to my advantage!" and she's never failed to do just that. Apart from all the coin she's garnered from overly-generous young sailors eager to please her, working at a dockside tavern puts her in a good position to gather a wealth of information, with so many travellers from so many lands passing through its doors. She realised early on that that kind of knowledge was very valuable to certain interested parties, and makes a very tidy profit on the side by selling it.

Kev's Lounge Friday Character Portraits is a weekly feature on this blog where I take a bit of art that I've created somewhere along the line for some or other purpose and present it along with a little bit of back story for you to use as in role playing games as hand-outs, or as inspiration for characters or NPCs.  Here are some more in the series:
1. Town's Guard Captain
2. Female Rogue
3. Arch-Wizard
4. Pit Fighter 
5. Skeleton Pirate 
6. Serpent Cult Assassin
7. The Gambler 
8. Flaming Skeleton

No character portrait next friday... Instead you get the second page of Live By The Sword, there will be another the week after however.

Before you go, have a look at some of the paper minis we've already released!
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

A Mini-Game of Chance: Quick gambling rules for RPGs (part 1)


If you're playing a low-fantasy, western or grungy modern role-playing game, gambling is likely to turn up at some point. It might even be a  regular occurence in some campaigns. Occasionally you might find it worthwhile to play out the games with actual cards, but if you really wanted to sit down for a round of poker every other week, you'd just have poker night instead!

This mini-game is one way of simulating a round of gambling, or even an entire evening's worth, in a short space of time, with reasonably meaningful results. It determines the outcomes based on the characters' abilities and gambling skills, rather than that of the players, and with the advanced rules in part 2 (coming next week,) it allows for cheating and bluffing with mechanics. One last benefit of this version is that it allows for virtual characters to participate without the GM having to attempt to play multiple hands of cards simultaneously while attempting to be fair.

Note on mechanics: The basic version of the mini-game presented in this article is completely system agnostic, but the advanced rules for cheating and bluffing in next week's article will use example mechanics specific to d20 games, specifically Pathfinder and Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition. They are fairly intuitive, and should translate quite easily to whichever system you are using though.

You'll Need:

A set of Poker Dice:

These are standard d6s but with special faces representing card values instead of pips. The faces are 9, 10, J, Q, K and A. They come in sets of 5, and you'll need all 5 for this mini-game. If you don't happen to have a set, you can simply use 5 standard 6-sided dice, in which case, treat 1 as a 9, 2 as a 10 and so on, with 6 representing the ace.


Basic Mechanics:

Ante

Gambling is all about risking something to gain something bigger. To keep things simple, a single round of gambling with this mini-game requires each participant to pay an upfront fee to play. In poker, this initial forced bet is called "Ante" and even though this game doesn't necessarily represent poker, we're co-opting that word. They'd deduct this from their cash count on their character sheets before the game starts and it's considered spent. The prize is made up of the sum of all the Antes, and winner takes all.

The prize does not always have to be coin however. It could also be a magical treasure that's just been discovered, or it could be some privelege, like claim to the only decent bed in a dodgy tavern. In this event, skip the ante and just get down to business.


Turn Order

It's best practice to establish turn order before starting. It doesn't matter much in the basic version presented here, but with the advanced rules for cheating and bluffing in part 2, it can be slightly advantageous to go later than the other players. Turn order is simply initiative order, but in reverse, so the "slowest" player rolls first, and the "fastest" rolls last.

The Basic Game
Each player, in turn order, gets to roll the 5 poker dice once. Whatever they get is considered to be their Hand and they are stuck with it (Part 2's Advanced Mechanics do allow some modification). They should make a note of what their Hand is and pass the dice on. NPCs get rolled by the game master when their turn comes up in the order.

Once everyone's rolled, compare their Hands to this chart to determine who wins. If there's a tie, then the player with the highest card in his hand wins. If there's still a tie, then tied players should roll a single die each to break it.


Next tuesday we'll bring you Part 2 where we will go over the rules for cheating and bluffing and luck, and the following week,  Part 3 detailing the rules for gambling houses and handling a night's worth of gambling.

The illustrations in this article come from our comic: Live by the Sword.
All Artwork and Characters appearing in this article © 2013 Kevin Richard John Berry

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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Character Portrait: Flaming Skeleton

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A bit of background on this drawing:

This artwork  was originally created specifically for a paper miniature included as a free bonus in our d12 calendars.

About the character:

Flaming skeletons have long been a staple of fantasy... The most obvious example rides a motor cycle with flaming wheels, but this guy's not related to him at all, I swear it!
Recently I had a lengthy chat with one of my friends about the phenomenon, and how it's a particularly odd sort of idea. I figure they came about because they're terrifying, both as symbols of death and as walking examples of a terrible way to die, but perhaps the main appeal from a gaming perspective is that they're actually pretty dangerous in comparison to their wimpier unignited counterparts. We also had a chat about how this would even be possible... Bones don't seem particularly combustible. He decided (and lamented) that we'd just have to settle for "a wizard did it." Personally, making a burning skeleton seems pretty easy to me, it just takes some bones, some kerosene and a flair for the dramatic. Making that guy walk around on his own... now that's the tricky part!

Kev's Lounge Friday Character Portraits is a weekly feature on this blog where I take a bit of art that I've created somewhere along the line for some or other purpose and present it along with a little bit of back story for you to use as in role playing games as hand-outs, or as inspiration for characters or NPCs.  Here are some more in the series: 
1. Town's Guard Captain
2. Female Rogue
3. Arch-Wizard
4. Pit Fighter 
5. Skeleton Pirate 
6. Serpent Cult Assassin
7. The Gambler  
9. The Flirtatious Barmaid 

There will be another character portrait up next friday!

As I mentioned before, this guy was designed as a paper miniature. That miniature's available completely free as part of our D12 Desk Calendar set, available for free download here. He's nice and easy to build and will look great on your gaming table. Go get yourself a copy and throw this guy up against your party in your next game!
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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Free d12 Desk Calendar, includes some bonuses!



Update:
There's a new version of this calendar for 2014!

Who doesn't want a gigantic d12? It's the biggest damage die you get in most games, so why not make it the biggest die in your collection?

This downloadable papercraft kit allows you to make a d12 that's about 10cm or 4 inches in diameter. It doubles as a 2013 desk calendar, so it's got an excuse to sit on your office desk in case you ever need to work out how much damage your barbarian's great axe would deal in the middle of a week day afternoon!







The d12 comes in 6 different colour styles, so you can choose the one that suits you best!

This free set, which I mostly made just for fun, also includes some cool bonuses:
• A really nifty paper mini: This one's a Flaming Skeleton armed with a deadly pair of fiery swords
• 3 Power Circle markers for use with Kev's Lounge Dungeon Tiles, with all the floor textures available in our various sets.

Get it from Papercraft Dungeon now! It's completely free!

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