D&D General What Have You Commissioned?

[jmartkdr2]

Commissioning a character portrait seem like a reasonable thing, but for the cost I'd want to know a given character is going to last, and by the time I'm sure of that I've been using the 'temporary' one for so long that I wouldn't want to change to look.

 

[iserith]

My adventuring group two campaigns ago fighting kruthiks under Sharn in Eberron. Art commissioned from Highscore Kid.

 

[MonkeezOnFire]

My human paladin of Erathis. Comissioned from Neurith Forge. I commissioned this after the campaign had been going on for a couple years. It was nice to finally have a piece of art that matched what was in my head.

 

[Mistwell]

I am in the process of commissioning a campaign specific map for post-Avernus Elturel and it got me wondering what cool stuff folks have had commissioned for they D&D games: character illustrations, customs minis, world maps, etc.

One of my DMs has commissioned a piece of character art for use on Roll20 for my PC. Which is nice

 

[Quartz]

Unfortunately, it's hard to find a place that will print a map that's 9.7' x 8.4' or so in size on a single sheet of material.

Find somewhere that does bedsheets or tapestries.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I can't say that I have - I've always made use of stuff scavenged around or bought more generically. If I were to do so, I don't think I'd ever do it for anything particularly ephemeral or transient like a single campaign or character. I'd want to be able to get my money's worth out of it and would use it persistently - like a gaming table. Trouble is, gaming tables are so expensive that they're really on the Cadillac end of things and I'm more of a Honda sort of spender.

Last year or so I made a gaming table to test things out, and ended up giving it to some friends who do a lot of gaming (including when we used to game in person). Just to give you an idea, this cost roughly $500 just in materials, that's why they are expensive. Especially if you go with hardwood. Black walnut can be 10x or more expensive than fir or pine for example. (You can't see in the photo, but it has 4 outlets with USB chargers, and a battlemap and plexiglass cover for the map area, and against the brick woodstove area are the leaves to make a solid top so it can be used as a traditional table)

 

[dave2008]

Find somewhere that does bedsheets or tapestries.

@Alzrius you could also look at an awning company. I did a custom tie-dye design for a restaurant that was printed on fabric for an awning that was something like 12' x 36'

 

[R_J_K75]

Just to give you an idea, this cost roughly $500 just in materials, that's why they are expensive.

I'd guess that number is no longer valid, at least here in WNY. I have a friend who is a salesman at a lumber yard and he was telling me Friday that the cost of lumber has skyrocketed since the pandemic. People are getting stimulus money, have time on their hands, and with lock down and quetenites are taking on home improvement projects.

 

[Sacrosanct]

I'd guess that number is no longer valid, at least here in WNY. I have a friend who is a salesman at a lumber yard and he was telling me Friday that the cost of lumber has skyrocketed since the pandemic. People are getting stimulus money, have time on their hands, and with lock down and quetenites are taking on home improvement projects.

Lumber has skyrocketed over the past year. A pine 2x4 stud was $3.50 last year. Now it's almost $10. But not because of stimulus, but because of two main reasons: 1. people are doing a lot more projects as you say, and 2. the housing market is still on fire, so demand for lumber is sky high.

 

[thirdkingdom]

Lumber has skyrocketed over the past year. A pine 2x4 stud was $3.50 last year. Now it's almost $10. But not because of stimulus, but because of two main reasons: 1. people are doing a lot more projects as you say, and 2. the housing market is still on fire, so demand for lumber is sky high.

That's largely for structural and treated lumber, though. I'm a cabinetmaker and we haven't seen increases yet like the ones experienced by general construction. I've got a feeling that's likely to change in the next few months, but as of now we (I don't know about other regions of the US, tbf) haven't experienced jumps in prices.