In the first five installments of this series I put together all the pieces of modern scenery that will be used in an upcoming oil refinery encounter and other scenarios in the future. I made warped-but-serviceable roads, an assortment of garbage, and some pipes, utility poles, and elevated walkways. Then I added some jersey barriers […]
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With an assortment of scatter terrain ready to go, it was time to build some of the larger elements of my refinery layout. Since my campaign takes place in an analog of the local area, I wanted to take some inspiration from the actual nearby refinery (shown here on fire, because most of the other
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The Midwinter Minis video that helped inspire the previous post also suggested using copper pipe couplers to make modern oil-drum style barrels – perfect for an oil refinery build! But there was a problem: I couldn’t find pieces of the appropriate size and shape anywhere locally. There were corners and plugs and adapters for connecting
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As the concept of a battle at an oil refinery was percolating in the back of my mind, coincidentally quite a few videos came out from YouTube crafters I follow that dealt with sci-fi or post-apocalyptic builds with components which would lend themselves well to my plans. In particular, the piping and miniature walkways from
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The real world produces trash, and lots of it. The back alleys and industrial areas where some encounters might take place in my modern-era supers campaign would likely be less than pristine in that regard, so it seemed like some mini-garbage scatter would add to the atmosphere there, as well as providing visual cues to
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The most loosely-defined item on my crafting to-do list amounts to, essentially, “make some modern stuff to use in the (slowly-progressing) Mighty Protectors campaign“. I wanted to make some scatter, such as dumpsters, pallets, and the like, but beyond that I wasn’t entirely sure where I wanted to go with it. Recently, though, while trying
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My players are terrible about keeping track of who is carrying what. They’ll take note of items they collect as they go along, but decisions about distribution tend to not get made and inventory lists on character sheets don’t get updated. This is a particular problem for healing potions, where they know the group as
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