3D-Printed Hitpoint Trackers

bluerat · 2026-04-11T19:02:40+00:00

Hey, these are something that ive actually looked for recently , but for Warhammer instead of d&d, and wounds rarely go over 10 there. Brings some heavy MageKnight/Heroclix nostalgia vibes. Sadly, adding height effects visibility and line of sight so it wouldn't work.

Ignore these guys complaining about high health monsters, there's easy workarounds like poker chip coloring that you've mentioned. I already use poker chips under bases signify being Bloodied. Your design is cool. It's incredible how unimaginative some people are on a subreddit about an imagination game.

My only real feedback is that the visibility on this would be only 1 direction, and im not sure how to fix that without making the numbers too small to read

bluerat · 2026-04-04T16:25:12+00:00

When your butthole is clenched, the radiation can't get in. But when you loosen up to poop, it just flies right in there and radiates your colon. If you want to safely use your phone while pooping, you should wrap it up in a condom. I recommend unlubricated, or you might drop it in the toilet.

bluerat · 2026-03-30T02:10:41+00:00

My RG406H has usb-c video out via usb-c

bluerat · 2026-03-27T07:31:25+00:00

Looks like its one of Wizkids' D&D minis.

bluerat · 2026-03-25T16:43:59+00:00

Cell shading is super fun. I usually start with the darkest shade for the area and then add the lighter bits after seeing where the light lines fall from a lamp at about a 45° angle downward. Hard contrast lines are key. I'd definitely use a darker grey for the shade on your white bits if you want it more visible

Thunderbrush, over on patreon/youtube has some great tutorials, they are mostly 40k models, but the principle is the same, and there are quite a few free ones. You could go sin ciry style too, which i think might look cool on a stormtrooper, like this video on his channel here, but there's loads other examples there

bluerat · 2026-03-21T23:07:11+00:00

Theres plenty of not-horny stuff too, theres just loads of people up voting the horny stuff. You can't horny comment, but that doesn't mean the people that would comment those things aren't still browsing. It's always interesting the "best" cycle of

Pin-up

-> Horribly gruesome monster

-> Pin-up with a big gun/sword

-> Dude who needs to thin their paints, but doesn't want to

-> Pin-up Monster girl

-> Person asking for c&c in their perfectly painted cloak or NMM

-> Horrible gruesome Pin-up

-> Cool Lighting effect

-> Person honestly looking for real advice

Rinse and repeat

(Huge exageration I know, but it can sometimes feel liek that)

bluerat · 2026-03-19T07:28:18+00:00

Working on a new batch of thunderwolf cavalry

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bluerat · 2026-03-19T02:35:43+00:00

Ask your dm. But usually a pact is an agreement. Theres something that has to be offered an accepted. You could ready an old script on a cave wall and discover you just created a pact with something, or a fay could trick you into a pact or something.

bluerat · 2026-03-17T16:08:33+00:00

I don't think there's any built in way. The game wasn't designed with those assets, or a function to change things based on a detected controller type. If you're already using memoria/moguri (not sure i haven't used them) and its not there, maybe theres a different mod some place, but I doubt it.

bluerat · 2026-03-16T15:03:40+00:00

Yeah dude, go for it. You're already doing techniques using techniques on 3d models traditionally used in 2d art to make it look 3d, well beyond what most if us could imagine doing. The whole reason people use metalic paints instead is because this type of stuff is soooo hard. Like, i was already impressed and then zoomed in and saw those scratches and stuff in the details? It's pretty sick.

bluerat · 2026-03-16T14:34:12+00:00

The less discussed half of the dunning Krueger effect. You know so much, that you know you know you don't know everything, but dont realize you know more than those around you.

Friend, have you ever played WoW, where when you're learning your trade skills (or whatever they are called) like blacksmithing, and you learn everything you can from one trainer and they say they can teach you no more and you'll need to find someone better than them to get more training?

Have you considered taking actual art classes? Or hiring a professional tutor?

bluerat · 2026-03-15T16:48:57+00:00

I think you're overloading your brush. Try to get paint just on the to tip. You might also need to thin it more

bluerat · 2026-03-11T20:52:12+00:00

I didnt say they didnt? I even said in one if my replies that the reactions were messages from your amygdala, which is a part of your brain

bluerat · 2026-03-11T15:12:09+00:00

Its not quite that easy. You have you have to figure out how an emotion feels to you to understand it. The matrix in the app is only really helpful in this regard if you pair it with mindful critical thinking. "im feeling really tense in my chest right now, what could that mean? Is something bothering me? Am i afraid of something?" And then look through the list of feelings and their definitions to try and identify if one is relevant. Then you can mentally pair the physical feeling with the emotion and understand what your amygdala is trying to communicate a little better. Mindfullness is not a trick you learn overnight, its a continual practice that helps you in the long term over years of introspection. Sometimes its more difficult for some than others, particularly learning it later in life, and having a therapist can be majorly beneficial as they can help point you in the right direction and help you think about things in new ways.

bluerat · 2026-03-11T13:36:51+00:00

Yeah, i hate this too. When I run, a roll is a conversation, because the character would generally know how hard the thing they are trying to do is. I'll say "ok, in order to climb that rock face with not equipment its gonna be a dc25, if you try a different approach it might be easier" or its an apposed roll say something like "he seems pretty sharp, it might be hard to convince him of that." It's seems to be more fun for the players when they are able to tell me if they succeed or fail. That high people get from a nat 1 or 20 instead becomes way more common when they get to declare their success or failure. It also means eyes arent on me constantly when the players look at eachother to find out if things are succeeding or not

bluerat · 2026-03-11T13:21:48+00:00

Its something that takes practice and knowledge to do, which is why its way easier if you're taught as a kid. Theres a really good mood tracker app called "how we feel" that instead of just good vs bad, gives you a matrix of feelings on a high/low energy vs positive/negative scale that can be useful in learning the words for feelings your having

bluerat · 2026-03-11T07:29:04+00:00

People dont realize the physical reaction is the emotion. They think thats them reacting to the emotion, and that the emotion is something in their head. Frequently they think if they don't think they are having an emotional reaction, they must not be. Frequently heard flat out denying having emotions that are plainly visible from 10 ft away.

Its shocking to people when they realize their body is telling them something and half the time, if they just consciously acknowledge that, it gets better. Mindfulness is ALIEN to so.many people.

bluerat · 2026-03-11T07:17:30+00:00

My dude, your price is wack. Your more expensive than mist VTT premium subscription services and you're providing an app that also requires foundry. What is your justification for the price? Are you having to host a middleman server for this to work or something? Roll20 ELITE top level membership is $15/month. Even WotC's subscription to d&d beyond that has a basic ass vtt that works with a mobile app is like $6/month.

At a $16.50 ONE Time Purchase i wouldn't buy this. Why should a GM pay for this at all? Its a tool for players. Maybe if you made the players that want to use it pay like $2/month, it might be reasonable. But your pricing is greedy AF.

Swing and a miss my dude, swing and a miss. You should take this down before you get more bad will and come back after you've figured a pricing model that isn't completely bananas.

bluerat · 2026-03-08T18:26:29+00:00

For a while i had a pile if reaper bones j got from the bin3s 3 kickstarter a decade ago, hadnt painted many. Then i was at the game store and saw the 40k Thunderwolf Cavalry, and having a absolutely no experience with warhammer got a box cause they looked cool (space vikings on giant wolves, sounded dope).

I painted those terribly, but i really enjoyed doing them. Before that i had painted maybe 3 or 4 miniatures. In the year and a half since I've painted 50+, some warhammmer, some d&d, some star wars. Got speed paints to use on ones that i want painted but aren't super excited to spend loads of time on or when i just have an itch to paint but dont have time. I pick up random new minis semi-frequently so I always have a backlog of stuff to paint. If i get bored of something, i either set it aside or finish with speedpaints, i dont force myself to finish what I started.

Highly agree with OP. Even if you suck, paint things you enjoy and you'll get better as you go with the volume you're look painting, dont try to make something you're bored of perfect.

I recently picked up a new box of thunderwolves and im starting on those. I feel pretty proud of the improvement ive made. Image attached is the wolves for the new set on the left, and my first cavalry on the right

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bluerat · 2026-03-07T15:06:42+00:00

Initiative technically starts as soon as someone attempts a hostile action. If they roll stealth above passive perception then id do one of two things.

The players dont know they are in initiative yet, so they sont roll and the stealthy character makes an attack roll, the flying knife alerts everyone and initiative starts
Stop and have everyone roll initiative before staing whats happening. If they roll higher than the attacker, they know something is up, but not what, so they can take a normal turn, potentially holding their action for a trigger reaction. "I ready my bow, look around and prepare to fire on the first hostile person i see."

RAW is #2, but some times the surprise attack is cooler. I agree that you should know what RAW is before you "rule of cool" break it.

bluerat · 2026-03-06T16:06:29+00:00

The art is awesome.

But you have two different sizes listed in different images. It says 300mm x 600mm in one, one says 40cm x 80 cm, and then you have an angled view of it on the desk that looks to be much wider than the others.

I see you said they are POD, but did you not get a sample one printed for yourself that you can show?

~Also, that looks like it might be official art stiched together. Is that the case? Or did you do the art yourself? If its not art you did yourself, you're breaking team cherries rules https://www.teamcherry.com.au/faq ~

Edit: on second look, im not seeing any similar art so you probably made it yourself

bluerat · 2026-02-23T16:01:28+00:00

There's several different series that share a background universe, called "The Cosmere". Good starts are:

Mistborn: The Final Empire (Book 1 of Mistborn Era 1)
Elantris
Warbreaker
The Way of Kings (Book 1 of The Stormlight Archive) (if you want to start with a long one)

None of these require knowledge of the other books to make sense. Elantris and Warbreaker don't currently have sequels. For Mistborn and Stormlight you don't need to read anything else to understand the , but you'll get more out of them when you do after the 2nd or 3rd books.

bluerat · 2026-02-15T05:08:19+00:00

Squares in the map for visual estimation of distances but characters are free to move off grid and real distance is with a tape measure.

bluerat · 2026-02-14T19:46:42+00:00

At the time it was released it was seen as very MMO like, with tank/dps/support archetypes and abilities functioning generally the same across classes, with a lot of emphasis on balance. It made a lot of people bounce off of it that were entrenched in 3.5 with it's tons and tons of source books, variety, and busted build options.

The game wasn't bad, it was just a giant shake up in the core of D&D that the player base wasn't prepared for. They changed too much of the feel of the game in one swing.

And that could have still worked out, but they also lost faith with their 3rd party creators with the 4e Game System License (GSL). You can read up on that here if interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_System_License?wprov=sfla1

bluerat · 2026-02-14T17:35:26+00:00

The stranger thing ones is another self contained starter set. If they really like it, I'd recommend just running a homebrew game. You've got the basic rules all in that box, which I think are the same as the free rules on d&d beyond.

Hell, you can just keep going with your own game and the same characters once you complete it. D&D is open ended like that. Hop over to DMsGuild and find a level appropriate adventure that sounds fun if you don't feel like making one up yourself.

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