DungeonMorph Dice (Dungeon Geomorphs) adds Font & Card Deck options

DungeonMorph Font Sample
Sample of the DungeonMorph Designs in use as a font. (Please excue the many repeats and slight spacing issues. This was a simple/quick proof of concept.)

If you’re not familiar with my DungeonMorph Dice project, here is the main page.

I had actually decided to add the card deck option a week or two ago when reading a comment suggesting the idea on a message board.  I was just waiting for the right time to make it official.  These will be the complete set of 90 geomorphs, printed and laminated and cut into cards.  They will likely be 2.5″ x 2.5″ or 2″x2″.  This gives you another way to design a dungeon, or at least be inspired for dungeon design.

Then a few days ago I saw a link to a font of monsters… which made me think, why not make up a font with all the Dungeon Geomorphs?  I tried out a font creation tool and saw that it is feasible.  (The picture is a rough & simple example from the font software’s preview.) Each set will be appear 4 times in the font where each appearance will be rotated 90 degrees.  (The main character groups (uppercase, lowercase, letters/common symbols) will be reserved for the unrotated versions and then rotated versions will be available through special characters.  It is also possible we could do the font as 4 font sets for each rotation–still working out the details obviously.

So both of these (the card set and the font) have been added to the DungeonMorph Dice Kickstarter project.  See the project page linked above for details on how to get them.

Unfortunately this news blunts the bad news that I have decided that doing printed battlemats of my DungeonMorph Dice project isn’t feasible.  It simply would cost too much to print them through another publisher at full size (20″x20″ because the geomorphs are 10×10 grids where 1 square = a 10’x10′ area.)  So for miniatures use one needs to make each square in the original design into 4 1″x1″ squares where each square is a 5’x5′ area.

While I could somewhat economically print the maps myself onto 4 sheets of 11″x17″ paper and trim them and laminate each… I simply don’t see many people buying a pack of 30 geomorphs for $50 (the minimum cost I could possibly set) when one can go really upscale and buy something like Dwarven Forge for $120 or go way downscale and buy Gaming Paper for $5/roll or an erasable battlemat for $10-20.

However, there will still be a pdf of miniatures scale versions of the battlemats which you may print as desired.

1 Comment on “DungeonMorph Dice (Dungeon Geomorphs) adds Font & Card Deck options

  1. Don’t forget – you can not only rotate them but also flip the designs (mirror image), so you COULD have 8 orientations per design (though these wouldn’t correspond with the dice).