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Harrowing Halls - Dungeon Tiles: A D&D Accessory (4th Edition D&D) |  | Creator: Wizards RPG Team
Brand: Wizards of the Coast
Category: Book
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 24637
Media: Paperback
Edition: Crds
Pages: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.6 x 0.5
MPN: 25151
ISBN: 0786953977
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9780786953974
ASIN: 0786953977
Publication Date: March 16, 2010
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Product Description
WOC25151 DU6 Harrowing Halls Dungeon Tiles - 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons RPG by Wizards of the Coast
Illustrated cardstock terrain tiles for use with the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game.
This D&D Roleplaying Game accessory gives Dungeon Masters an easy and inexpensive way to include great-looking terrain in their games. This set provides ready-to-use, configurable tiles and three-dimensional enhancements with which to build exciting encounter locations.
This accessory contains four double-sided sheets of illustrated, diecut terrain tiles printed on heavy cardstock, plus two sheets of three-dimensional terrain elements, allowing you to create platforms, staircases, and other dungeon fixtures.
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 Not As Useful or Harrowing as You Want June 8, 2010
R. Martin (Philly Suburbs, USA)
This set contains only 4 boards of tiles, nearly all of them plain wooden-plank flooring. The rest of the tiles are specific rooms, with beds, tables and sofas in place. That sounds great--for the start of an encounter. After combat begins, that table is going to go flying...but the image doesn't go away, of course. I would have preferred a selection of furniture tiles to add to the plain flooring to create and adjust rooms as needed. I am also trying to figure out why these tiles are considered "harrowing." They all depict a quaint, and rather serene, well-to-do home/tavern/inn. This makes them highly specific and difficult to combine with other sets to make a proper map.
The remaining two boards of the set are little die-cut pieces that fit together to make 3D terrain features, like a staircase. There are no instructions included on how to put these things together, and honestly, I don't really care to, so they are still unpunched from the boards. These things are useless as they do not match the pre-printed tiles (you can make a little table that sits up on the tile, but then there are also tables painted flat to the room tile itself?) and they simply are not portable. If you were interested in making a permanent diorama, these might be just what you want. But if you are looking to make a map with the "bird's eye view" perspective to plan out an encounter, the 3D pieces don't work out. They also take up valuable space in the pack: there are only 6 boards of tiles per set, and now two of them, a full third, are wasted on this junk.
My advice: buy this set on sale. The wooden flooring will come in handy here and there, but not too often (I've used this set only once, and only 2 of the tiles at that). If you miss it before it goes out of stock and the print run is over, don't waste your money paying the insane prices that these tile sets end up going for on the after market. This set simply isn't worth it. Also, WotC is putting out "Master Sets" in the essentials line soon, and they seem to have selections of all the previously released sets--chances are those will be a better collection of tiles you can actually use.
 Pretty good... June 6, 2010
Michael A. Tighe (Columbus, OH)
The pieces are thick cardboard so they're pretty sturdy, but they're more of a gimmick than a great play aid. How many brawls are you going to have in a tavern? How many will you have in a fairly basic dungeon. If you've got money burning a hole in your pocket, they're pretty good, but nothing amazing.
Not enough 3D, but good indoor rooms June 2, 2010
Martin V. Walser (Virginia Beach, VA, USA)
The Good: The indoor room elements are really nice. There are furnished and unfurnished versions of the rooms on opposite sides of the tiles.
The Not So Good: I like the 3D elements, but there were too few. They make a bit of a deal promoting the 3D elements of the set, but when you open it, you feel a little disappointed there aren't more. Even though they are reversible (stone and wood sides for each 3D element), constructing and taking apart the elements are bound to cause rapid wear and tear.
This is a really good set if you want indoor tiles - inn rooms, taverns, houses, etc. As a 3D set, it's only OK.
It's really more a of 3.5 out of 5... but Amazon doesn't do half stars.
3-D More Trouble Than Worth May 25, 2010
Ryan Hipp (Grand Rapids)
I am also really excited to see a set that has indoor settings. I like that the one side is "wooden" interiors, and the other side is "stone" interiors. But at the risk of sounding like I don't know what I am doing, it actually took me quite a long time to figure out how to assemble the 3-D tiles, and I am still not sure if I am doing it correctly, because the 3-D tiles once assembled are not especially stable for me. I'm not sure what pieces i am supposed to use for the cross braces, so it becomes about as stable as a house of cads. There are NO INSTRUCTIONS on how to assemble the tiles other than the small example printed on the inside back cover sheet.
Another thing I don't understand with these tiles (being relatively new to using tiles) is what the little white triangles mean, (again, there are no instructions with these sets). Do the triangles represent elevated terrain? What about the black areas on tile sets like Forest of Fear? Is this a "pit" or does it just mean areas you can't walk? Its not really visually clear.
 Essential Tile Set for the D&D Junkie May 10, 2010
B. Paul
Harrowing Halls is great set that can easily be adapted to either a spacious and elegant castle or the sterotypical inn or tavern. It has excellent atmospheric quality. The 3D elements really kick this set up a knotch. My one complaint is that a simple diagram to show how to put the stairs together would have been very helpful. I bought one and then a second just because this set is *that* good. Great value for the money.
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