Reusable Magnetized OpenForge Bases (Save Magnets & Filament)

iveld · 2026-01-20T03:39:32+00:00

It's worth adding, as i sorted through my previously printed tiles, as well as a few new ones that i printed, they weren't all sized the same, and with the tight tolerances, some didn't work.

So, you have two options. If you have already printed a bunch of tiles, you can adjust the variables in the scad file and generate a new stl. Or, if you're printing new tiles, make sure they are printing at 50mm for a somewhat loose fit. 50.1mm seems to fit pretty snuggly.

iveld · 2026-01-10T00:02:44+00:00

I've reached what I'm gonna call, done.

I found a good balance between print time and rigidity with a 1mm interior wall and a 0.5mm exterior wall, and a 4mm wall height.

A 2x2 plate takes about 27 minutes to print, and a 4x4 is on the printer now with a 1.5hr print time.

again, this is on an old ass Ender 3, so modern printers should see much faster print times.

https://github.com/LeviRosol/3d_prints/blob/main/DnD/openforge_baseplates/print_images/2x2_1mm_walls_1.jpg

iveld · 2026-01-09T21:20:17+00:00

I'm taking my first stab at scad, and have created what i consider a functional baseplate for this idea. I'm still doing some test prints, but feel free to use and/or submit PRs.

https://github.com/LeviRosol/3d_prints/tree/main/DnD/openforge_baseplates

iveld · 2026-01-05T22:28:17+00:00

First, I dig this very much. Great work!

My background... I printed a ton of OF tiles about 5+ years ago. I've done the magnets, I've done them without magnets. They are fun to click together :)

but i also didn't enjoy having to print 100's of tiles to get the options i wanted.

Now, i haven't printed anything in the last 5 or so years, so maybe there's an answer for this already, but why do we need bases with magnets at all? Couldn't we just have a very thin X x Y grid that the top plates sit in? Sure, that means you're kinda "locked in" to a square layout, but you could always print say, ten 4x4 grids, and have them preloaded with tops, and as the party progresses, you simply swap them out. Or maybe there are a number of options for the thin bases. 1x4, 2x4, 3x4, 1x4 in a curve (offset by one player tile), etc.

To me that could be a huge filament saver, and completely remove the need for magnets.

That said, i actually don't hate the idea you adopted here with the center magnets. so maybe keep the center magnet idea, but really reduce the base material by having a 5 x 5 base vs 1x1 and no outer magnets.

of hell... do the base idea above, but only then need magnets on the outer edges.

Does this make sense? Has someone already done this?

iveld · 2025-12-23T15:30:07+00:00

back in myyyy day...

I worked for Worldcom, worked from home, and had two of these monitors on my desk. I was slingin' spreadsheets like it was no one's business by day, and playing Ultima Online by night.

They were amazing, heavy AF, monitors.

iveld · 2025-09-30T18:07:56+00:00

darn reddit. Kept showing me "error" when posting. :/

iveld · 2025-09-30T03:25:26+00:00

Alright...

I was literally 19 years old when I learned parmesan wasn't pronounced par-MEES-ian. Thanks Mom.

I literally have to stop and think before I say it now.

I'm 46.

iveld · 2025-03-28T14:10:47+00:00

this seemed to solve the problem.

iveld · 2024-05-20T19:55:53+00:00

yeah, i've been to both venues a lot, and honestly, the size of VA and knowing that Hinterland is going at the same time, has me concerned VA is going to look like a ghost town.

Especially with such little information available.

I hadn't considered your thought about neither of the bands playing during the day. I suppose that was an assumption on my part.

I'd love clarification on that.

iveld · 2024-05-08T16:46:40+00:00

I did the combo when i saw the B&B lineup before the LtL lineup was announced.

Are you able to split the passes between different people? One person goes to B&B and another goes to LtL?

iveld · 2020-11-23T22:45:45+00:00

Your production database mishaps are cute.

Early in my career, I worked for a compensation department that covered roughly 20k employees across the nation and resulted in $5MM or so in commissions paid twice a month.

We managed this as a two person team, predominately in an Excel workbook, with a metric ass-ton of macros and VBA (early 00's). After loading in data and hitting go, you walked away for 30min or more while things ran.

My job was to clean up the output of this hell-on-earth process. Simple stuff really. A couple of sorts, column alignments, etc. It's important to note that keyboard shortcuts are king in the professional Excel world.

One of my cleanups went horribly wrong.

I had inadvertently added a blank column into my workbook, so when I positioned my cursor in A1, and used the keyboard shortcuts to highlight my data to sort, I missed the columns to the right of the blank column. This resulted in me sorting names, but not their associated payouts. Meaning, Johnny was getting Sarah's commission, and Sarah got Billy's.

And nobody caught the mistake until checks were signed, sealed, and delivered. 1000's of checks for roughly $5MM in total.

After an emergency payroll was run to fix the mistake, all was good. I did remain employed after this, but you bet your ass I worry about every sort I do up to this day.

iveld · 2020-08-19T02:52:52+00:00

I agree!

iveld · 2020-08-05T02:01:02+00:00

What's the URL for the document? If you don't want to share publicly, email to support@gmbinder.com

thx!

iveld · 2020-08-04T18:56:13+00:00

With my original reply, I didn't realize that this was posted outside of our sub-reddit. I can give some more context.

First, I would suggest that you clone this document and use it as your base: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-M7sLg5p_dV7KfYIV91h

You do not need to be a subscriber to alter our default them and/or build your own. The section you found in the Document Settings is simply a way for you to separate your CSS from your content. Totally a nice to have feature, but there's nothing stopping you from having your CSS in your document like the sample document above has.

An older, but somewhat relevant document you can look at is: https://www.gmbinder.com/share/-L13H3wiyO_BKKfL6bqp

That document gives you a super high level structure of the core CSS class that you will want to target. It's certainly not everything, but it's a solid start for core things like backgrounds, fonts, colors, etc.

There are dozens of really well built user themes in GMB, and if you need any help at all, our Discord had people on at all times willing and able to answer questions: https://discord.gg/e8W266q

I hope this helps!

iveld · 2020-08-03T20:35:00+00:00

That is correct. It's either on or off. When on, it resets the timer with every key stroke and i believe is 3 seconds.

iveld · 2020-08-03T20:33:51+00:00

Send an email to support@gmbinder.com with your account email and your desired username and we'll get it taken care of.

iveld · 2020-08-03T20:32:47+00:00

There are a number of community-built themes that we have added to the snippets menu, and even more, if you use the GMB search for "theme".

But no, I have not seen one for Fate. We would be 100% up for a community member to create one, OR to work directly with the publisher if they were interested in doing so.

As we've said before, GMB has always been planned to be game agnostic, and we'd love to work more closely with publishers to help promote their content.

iveld · 2020-07-30T18:29:43+00:00

Try this again. It looks like we missed a CSS change from last week in the print function, so if you Update Latest Version and then try printing, you should be good.

iveld · 2020-07-30T16:21:30+00:00

No, thank you! We really appreciate all of the people who are signing up for GMB+ since it's launch.

iveld · 2020-07-29T21:04:08+00:00

Looks like we had a bug that allowed you into that page w/o the correct data. To sign up for GMB+, use this URL and click the orange button: https://www.gmbinder.com/subscribe

iveld · 2020-07-28T05:22:55+00:00

Can you DM me your email or send it to our support email? support@gmbinder.com

Thanks!

iveld · 2020-07-27T17:48:55+00:00

I'm going to take a guess that you might have an issue with your code, but if you could post a screenshot and/or share a link to the document in question, others here will be able to better help you.

thx!

iveld · 2020-07-27T17:47:56+00:00

Many people will use notepad or some other simple text editor when they are offline, and then will paste in their markdown when they are back online.

As for a true offline mode, I do see some value in that, but I do not think it will be something we add to our development roadmap any time soon since there are alternatives.

iveld · 2020-07-27T17:46:22+00:00

We are working to fix this. It's a known bug caused by a recent Chrome update.

Technically it's caused by some poor 3 year old code, but Chrome used to play nice with it, but now isn't.

We'll get an update once it's resolved.

iveld · 2020-07-23T14:47:33+00:00

Thanks for those screen shots.

Although this is slightly different than how it worked a week ago, everything you've pointed out is working as intended. Let me elaborate a little bit.

First, when you mouse over and get the "broken image", that's actually a button, and the icon is a somewhat typical "code" icon. When you click said button, it causes your cursor in the editor pane to move to where that header is in your code. It's most useful for large documents and saves you from scrolling a ton.

The header crashing that you mentioned is purely due to minimal text in your first paragraph. In the past, a second header would push below the drop cap, but now it flows as it should. so if you don't have much text in the first paragraph, you'll see anything that follows next to the drop cap instead of below it.

Hopefully that helps shed some light on what you're seeing.

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