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Pledge here: Tabletop Towns

I have been working on a project with a friend which has just gone live on Kickstarter. We've been playing D&D for years and we've both made and used most types of scenery including traditional resin, print and play PDF buildings etc etc. After talking to some of our friends we came up with the following concept for some scenery:

We wanted it to pack away flat
It had to look good
It had to be useful
It had to be quick to assemble and put away

Thus the idea for Tabletop Towns was born. We welcome comments and suggestions but most of all we welcome your pledges.

Saw this eariler today, some really cool stuff. I wish you had gone in the same direction as the cardboard GW Fantasy terrain but this stuff is cloes enough.

Unfortunatly its in GBP, which makes me hessatant to back. Plus some other projects have swallowed my kickstarter budget for the time being.

Still though its some really cool stuff.

So, printed boxes?

Neat enough idea, I used to own something similar, a modular cardboard castle for advanced D&D which was able to be folded up.

Do you have anything more complex in mind in terms of shapes and styles? There's a lot more than can be done than just boxes!

For example, it seems like you could easily have slanted roofs instead of flat roofs if you make the basic shape that tucks into the side a pentagon instead of a square. And you could incorporate an overhang on to the ends of the roof piece too to add extra realism and hide the join.

That'd be a simple way to improve the product.

For stuff like castle towers and battlements , you could have a separate piece that fits snugly around the top of the box to form battlements, that's how the flatpack castle I owned handled things.

Its a nice enough idea and interesting enough to see. My main concern would be that it isn't anything over and above what one could produce at home with a bog-standard printer. There are already plenty of papercraft suppliers out there where you can buy the PDF for a couple of dollars and print/assemble the designs yourself. Most people have access to a colour printer of some description and a pack of cardstock is cheap enough; the only real expense is ink costs but even that isn't much if you are printing only a table worth's of buildings. I did some myself for a Western board - the PDF cost me $2 and I had a table full of terrain in an evening. It's a good concept though - the world needs more affordable terrain so best of luck.

Looks cool, I tried to back but the shipping to the US was too painful. 7 pounds ($10+) shipping for 6 small cardboard boxes is prohibitive.

My suggestion is to make the shipping free to the US which would probably bring in a lot more US backers.

snaggled wrote:
Looks cool, I tried to back but the shipping to the US was too painful. 7 pounds ($10+) shipping for 6 small cardboard boxes is prohibitive.

My suggestion is to make the shipping free to the US which would probably bring in a lot more US backers.

The RoW backers on kickstarter products wish the US kickstarters would do this for international shipping

Yeah, but since they are paper and pack flat, going from 5 pounds to 10 or even 25 when the package size really won't grow and the weights are going to be low seems a bit much.

I know international shipping isn't cheap, but these are likely going to fit in a document mailer and since postage/shipping is based on volume of the package as well as weight, the differences in the levels when the packages are not getting that much bigger is just silly.

I don't disagree that the multiple set international shipping for this particular kickstarter is a bit steep.

Hi All,
We did consider pitched roofs and they were discarded for a very specific reason. You can't stand a figure on a pitched roof!

There are other technical reasons for sticking with a simple box too, the size of final product being one. also one of the design specs was to make these dead quick to put up and take down. Additional gubbins makes this a slower process. Pitched roofs may make an appearance later as an add on.