Blackmoor Vituperative

Have you seen 3D Terrain? It’s a lot like the Dwarven Forge stuff, but it’s about a third the price because it’s made from styrofoam instead of plaster. Neat stuff. I don’t have room for it (and I am not currently playing a medieval fantasy game, sadly), but it’s some neat stuff.

But I have to wonder: is it better than using a hex map and colored markers? If the setting of the game looks exactly like what’s on the table, then this 3D terrain stuff is perfect. But if it’s not… it’s not. The problem is that when you have a 3D setup of a tower or a dungeon or whatever, then that’s what you see, regardless of what the characters see. But if you have a hex map with a few lines on it, then what you “see” is whatever your imagination can build. It can be anything.

Update: 2005-10-29: It looks like the 3D Terrain site is down. Oh, well.