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Fast, Flexible 3D Dungeon Fun!
Dungeon Life: Bendy Dungeon Walls is an innovation in tabletop role-playing terrain, allowing gamers to set up 3D dungeon environments quickly and easily.
3D Dungeon Terrain has just gotten Fast, Fun and Flexible!!!
Your minis deserve someplace cool to play!
Dungeon Life: Bendy Dungeon Walls offer an excellent solution to the age-old problem of the 3D dungeon. Durable interlocking wall segments quickly snap together to form 'chains' of dungeon wall. Simply place a length of walls onto the game matt, and 'bend' it into the shape of your dungeon room. Snap it apart to add freestanding doors, and just like that, you're done! It's easy, convenient, adds the cool factore of 3D to your game, and most important...it's fast!
Build just the dungeon areas you need...as you need them. During play! No need for the gamemaster to spend hours of extra prep time setting up the dungeon, and the players don't get to peek ahead. It's easy to recycle, too...just pick up the pieces of the rooms your party are done with, and use them to build the next room! The adventure never ends with Bendy Dungeon Walls...It's a Dungeon Life!
One set (pictured above) contains 50 wall pieces and 5 doors for only $24.99!
The secret is the power of HINGINESS(tm). Each one-inch piece of dungeon wall is attached to the next with a simple hinge mechanism that allows you to place down a section of dungeon walls, and then bend it into the shape you desire on your battlefield. You can set up elaborate rooms quickly and easily, and now your miniatures will have an environment to roam around in that truly evokes the feel of the dungeon delve. Sure, there are other products out there that let you build beautiful 3D dungeons...but did I forget to mention these are FAST?! You don't have to spend hours setting up the dungeon beforehand; just build it as you go!
Also, this means you won't need to give away any secrets to your players, because they won't be able to see where you've built the dungeon (or where you've hidden it under chunks of construction paper).
Another huge benefit is that you don't need to invest millions of $$ to get enough to use. Because they are so fast and friendly, you can build the room the players are exploring, and when they are done with it, you can take it apart to build the next room. It's the ultimate scrolling 3D dungeon!
TRUE Flexibility!
The, well, flexible nature of the Bendy Dungeon Walls means that they excel at creating unusually shaped or organic rooms and passages --they're great for caverns!
A Door to Opportunity
Freestanding door pieces make it easy to tell when your doors are open or closed...just move the door to indicate it's state!
*Promotional Specials are for a Limited Time Only. Once retailers start to order in sufficient quantities, these specials will be discontinued, as I would really much rather you buy from your FLGS! (Friendly Local Game Store). Retailers: This product is currently available from your distributors...go order a bunch!
Bendy Dungeon Walls are just the first part of the Dungeon Life line! Now that you can make a dungeon quick and easy, you need to be able to put stuff in it! Not just monsters and heroes...you have minis for those. But stuff the monsters and heroes use, guard and hide behind! A little dungeon dressing can go a long way to livening up a scene, and giving a drab old dungeon a little bit of Dungeon Life!
Dungeon Life Pillars Bendy Dungeon Walls are designed for use with a standard 1" grid battle map. If you don't already have such a map, here is a convenient (and free) way to make a very cool map or two.
Simply download any of the pdf images below, and print off several copies of it. Trim off the white edges of the paper, and then use some clear tape to carefully join the pages together. Make a sheet as big as you need. For added usability, take the whole thing down to the local copy store, and get it laminated!
Dungeon Cobblestones
Dirty Ground
Initial Set-Up Tips The first time you use your Bendy Dungeon Walls, assemble them into chains of various sizes. Make a few 10 pieces long (50 scale feet), a few 8-piecers, a few 6, 5, 4, and a couple 3, 2, and leave a few individual pieces too.
During play, simply grab these pre-constructed sections and set them up on the board as you need them. Don't bother hooking the pieces together on the battlefield...just throw 'em down fast to make your room shapes, and if you need more, just set another chain down right next to the last one. This is far faster than trying to snap them together during play, and works just as good!
As you are building your chains for the first time, some clean up may be necessary on some of the pieces, to insure a good fit and good hinge-y action. Using a sharp craft knife, carefully trim off any excess flash (a leftover of the manufacturing process) around the hinges, the hinge bars, and the sides of the wall pieces, where the flash may interfere with the pieces turning properly. Also if there are any mis-aligned hinges (where one half of the hinge is higher than the other) you can use the knife to even them out, just to make really sure they'll go together with no problem.
If you do end up with any broken hinge pieces (sadly, the plastic is not invulnerable, and it does happen from time to time), just put them at the ends of your wall chains. As described above, those pieces don't need to hook onto other pieces anyway. In fact, you may want to trim all of the hinges off on these end pieces, just so you can set them closer to other wall chains without them getting in the way.
Enhancements Bendy Dungeon Walls are pretty cool, but I won't say there aren't ways you can make them even better. What follows is a couple tips I or fellow gamers have come up with for improving your Bendy Dungeon Walls experience:
REPAINTING: The Bendy Dungeon Walls come pre-painted, but the job they do in China, and the job you can do yourself with just a little more effort are two different things. If you are so inclined, you can tighten up the paint jobs on the walls with just a little bit of dry-brushing. The walls are very textured, and are designed to look good with this technique. Simply get a big old crappy brush wet with some light gray paint, and then get it mostly dry by rubbing it on some paper towel. Then rub the brush over the walls until they look the way you'd like. (It may go faster if you assemble the walls into strips for this). To go a step or two further, you can also dry-brush on a couple different colors afterwards, to liven up the paint job. Very lightly in spotty areas all over, you can add little touches of light brown, blue, and even some vibrant slimy green.
You can also experiment with different colors for your walls. Spray paint them dark brown, and then dry-brush them with light brown to make a more 'earthy' dungeon. Or spray them blue and dry-brush with white to make walls of ice. With a little imagination, you can come up with tons of different wall types. (I plan to make a few of these repaints myself and offer them here on the site in the not too-distant future!)
The doors could also use a bit of repainting, but here what they mainly need is a wash. (I tried to get them to do this in China, but it is apparently a difficult concept to get across the language barrier). Some black paint or ink, thinned down quite a bit, and then brushed over the entire door, will sink down into the cracks in the wood texture, and really make the doors look a lot better. Afterwards, if you want to go even further, you can dry-brush some light brown onto the wood texture, and this will add highlights, and further cover up where the original painters might have been sloppy with the metal colored paint.
PLACEMENT: If you have an extremely clumsy gamer or two in your group, you may wish for added stability in your Bendy Dungeon Walls. There is a miracle product on the market that can assist in this, and I think every gamer should have some in their toolkit: Poster-Tac. This sticky putty is designed to hold posters to walls and still be completely removable, and is available for dirt cheap at office supply stores and similar places.
To make sure your gamers don't knock your dungeons over, simply use little pieces of this to hold them in place at the corners or end pieces (have the clumsy guy tear off little pieces for you while you are setting the walls up...that'll teach him the penalty for being a clumsy git!). This does make set-up a little slower, but the trade-off is a more moron-safe dungeon.
Others have suggested that Bendy Dungeon Walls would be really cool if they were magnetic. I am here to tell you, this is in fact truth. I have created a Magnetic Adapter Kit that allows you to attach magnets to all your Bendy Dungeon Walls pieces, and also now offer a magnetically receptive playing surface with our new Magna-Map Combat Grid!
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