Dr.Bedlam Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Awright, peoples, I want your input.I work with a lovely bunch of people, but my Secret Santa... well... has a thing for dollar stores. This was given to me as a sort of joke at work... "Yo, dawg, I heard you like dragons, so I put a dragon in your dragon so you can dragon while you dragon..."Now, far be it from me to speak ill of a gift giver, but this thing is awful. ... but it occurred to me that it could make a fine piece of Frostgrave terrain. The sponge cube in the background, below the French nut, is about an inch by an inch. Anyone have any ideas as to what I can do with this? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Palmer Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) Oooohhh! The endless possibilities! What a wonderful thing for terrain purposes! I would consider making it some sort of multi-level temple structure, covering over the tops of the two skulls with flooring, making them some sort of alter/sacrifice areas. Then construct a staircase, or ladders leading up to those levels. Then I would pry the gems out, paint the whole thing like stone, and then glue the gem eyes back in. If you wanted to put it on a base, then I would consider breaking it up a little; snapping the top of a wing off and perhaps a horn and gluing the broken bits around on the base to give it the real ruined looked. Edited December 17, 2015 by Chris Palmer 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deguello Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Some sort of idol. Would go good in the d&d 5e modules. It's really kind the right size for that sort of thing 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator Froggy the Great Posted December 17, 2015 Moderator Share Posted December 17, 2015 Either dull it down with a lot of black ink or mask the gems, spray it black and drybrush like a stone statue. It'd be killer if you worked it into a wall or building. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Palmer Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Another idea would be a place like in King Kong where they tie the girl as an appeasement sacrifice to the giant ape; except this would be a place to tie two victims as appeasement sacrifices to some fierce dragon that plagued the city. Put a floor and a pole to tie victims to on the top of each skull. And perhaps some skeletal remains scattered about. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug's Workshop Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Yeah, it screams "Dragon Cult Temple" altar to me. Bonus points for putting a couple chips of dry ice into the skull cauldrons. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai-Mongar Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 I wonder if you could make some kind of fountain out of this, with liquid of some sort pouring out over the top of the bowls or out of the skull eyes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocPiske Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Battery operated tea light under a Reaper Bones flaming sphere in each skull. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guildenstern Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 That thing is so awful it's AWESOME!!! man you could do so much with it I totally agree with dragon altar type idea - and making it look like stone. You could even add a couple 'ruined' walls, with a bit intact, to the sides, making it look like it was once a more imposing structure or temple. You could make mystery liquid (or blood) flowing out of the cups. Maybe have one knocked down and broken? Depending on what the material is that it's made out of I think you could do a lot ala "ancient decaying altar/temple". you could put a bone pile in one (or both) of the cups. I'd fill it - top it off with a piece of paper or cardboard or plasticard - so it looked like it was completely full, and put the bone pile on top of that. More so it could be seen. You could just put it at the bottom as well, if you wanted a more of a surprise thing going. love the ladder idea as well. I would be inclined to making it look like skeletons, or make it out of bones maybe, something creepy like that. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aromaticpose Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 You might be interested in this blog post: http://shedwars.blogspot.com/2015/11/frost-grave-terrain-build-part-5-dragon.html The writer has a bunch of examples of his Frostgrave Terrain creation, and he's using a few cheap dragons so that things weren't too bland. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 (edited) This... Then I would pry the gems out, paint the whole thing like stone, and then glue the gem eyes back in.Plus this...Battery operated tea light under a Reaper Bones flaming sphere in each skull. And that ink business Froggy mentioned... Add a bunch of baking soda snow everywhere it will fit and use it for Frostgrave. Edited December 17, 2015 by TGP 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitchen_wolf Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Frostgrave is already really bleak and gray. So instead of stone, how about bronze? With a heavy patina to demonstrate abandonment, of course. I understand that those can get pretty big: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crowley Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 That is SUCH AN AWESOME PIECE!!! You need to thank your secret Santa for knowing you so well. Also, I need to find better dollar stores. Keep us posted with what you do with it! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Bedlam Posted December 17, 2015 Author Share Posted December 17, 2015 She tells me it was literally a buck. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGP Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Are the Skullz sized properly for tea lights? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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