Today’s plug for Gamer’s Weekend is this awesome D&D furniture I backed via Kickstarter last year. Cosmo Joe covered the essentials for when your players go dungeon crawling: taverns, offices and bedrooms! My initial investment got me the standard set up, a bar, some stools, a couple tables with benches and chairs and the most standard item to loot…beds! Well, usually the bad guys have foot lockers, treasure chests or other hidden crap that the players roll pre-emptive Search/Perception checks on before you the DM are ready. Maybe the tooth fairy left some gold coins under the pillow.
My Kickstarter donation got me some sweet stuff. Then the custodial people at my job mistook the box filled with bubblewrap and furniture as trash. ARRRRRGH!
Jonesin’ because I didn’t get to show it off, I managed to contact Cosmo Joe, wanting to know when his stuff would be available via his site. Joe did me one better, he replaced my stuff for free and in return, I bought a bunch more to give away as gifts to a couple other DMs I know. Plus the dice I showed off earlier.
Now some of you are probably asking, why do you need this stuff? You’ve got graph paper to represent the details. Or…are you building a dollhouse or something? Hey, tabletop has to compete with video games closing the gap. These days, we have the technology via 3-D printers and laser cutters to make these accessories! Why not go for it since we also have the means to have custom-made minis of our PCs and cheaper, plastic minis of monsters. Besides, I have players who like to jump up on furniture or kick a chair at their opposition!
Currently, I have the correct amount of furniture to furnish my ongoing campaign’s primary hangout…The Gatto Scontroso where the main heroes, played by Elizabeth, Matthew and Somara, recuperate whenever they’re in the Pathfinder/Golarion city of Korvosa. Sadly, we haven’t played in a while. Scheduling issues but I know getting the game back into gear is at the top of my 2018 resolutions. With this stuff, I cannot wait.
If you’re interested, please go to this link and tell them I sent you. I don’t get anything in return, I just want to spread the good word.