D&D Double sided dungeon tiles

Since Covid is going on and we cannot get together to play D&D right now I figured it was a good time to create some new game tiles to be used in the game. The way I see it you can never have enough different tile sets and other area scatter for your game. There is no better way to help immerse your players into the world you have created.

I have showed you some single sided tiles I have created  this is a more detailed explanation of the process of making these tile sets.

 So I have designed 8 new tile sets, but this time I am making them double sided, to help save on space in storage.

Warring: These tiles take a lot of tiny pieces and constant repetitive steps so if you get frustrated quickly this might not be a project for you to take on. They are not something you can whip up in an hour or two.

The Base of the Tiles

If you will be making a lot of different sets or you want blank bases on hand just go to town and create them in bulk so when you’re ready to create a new set the bases they are already done. Then all you have to do is embellish them to your liking.

When you get to the point where your painting your sets, try to paint the whole set at the same time so that you will not have to try and color match them later.

Materials I Used

Dollar tree foam board

To help you estimate how much foam board you will need for your set. You will get 96 (2.5 X 2.5 inch squares) out of 1 piece of foam board which will create 48 full size base tile blanks )

Cereal box

How to Make the base

I will be using 1 piece of foam board to create 40 full size tiles and 16 half size tiles for each of my sets.

I found the best way to cut the foam board into the tiles is to

1.       Cut foam board into 3 sections each 10inchs wide.

2.       Using my cutting board to slice each section into 2 ½ inch slices

3.       Cutting the 2 ½ inch slices into 2 ½ X 2 ½ inch squares

4.        Finished 2 ½  X 2 ½  squares

Now you will need to cut up pieces of cardboard into ¾ X ¾ inch squares you will need 20 of these for each tile.

Putting it together

For each whole tile you will need

(2) 2 ½ X 2 ½ inch squares of foam board pieces

(20) ¾ X ¾ inch squares of cardboard

Glue the cardboard squares together in groups of 4

For 2 half square tiles you will need

(2) 2 ½ X 2 ½ inch squares of foam board pieces cut in half

(20) ¾ X ¾ inch squares of cardboard  12 of them cut in half

Glue the cardboard squares together. (8 )solid squares in two groups of 4 (24) half squares glued together in six groups of 4.

Parts once cardboard parts glued together

Remove paper from one side and place glued cardboard parts onto foam board like this

Glue the blank tiles on top of pieces with cardboard pieces.

Just like a sandwich :)

You now have finished blank pieces for future use

 

You will also want to make tabs to hold them all together to make one of these tabs

Cut 3 pieces of cardboard into 1 ¾ inch long buy ¾ inch wide pieces

Glue them together

Cut corners on angle to get the following shape

Tile set 1