Down into the Halls of the Damned

A Terraclips Review

Hello fellow wargamers and welcome to my first product review.   Dungeonrise: Dungeon essentials, a Terraclips product from World Works Games.   Before I coninue I have a really bad cold, so I'm going to apologise now if my sentence structure seems a bit off.

I bought Dungeonrise to act as the mainstay for my Warhammer Quest dungeon.  I did think about creating my own home built dungeon, but that would be far too time consuming.  For the lazy gamer like me this seemed to be the perfect product.  Now it was quite expensive for what is essentially a lot of cardboard and a wad of plastic clips, yet quite a lot cheaper than what the ink for my printer would have cost if I downloaded a bunch of papercraft stuff.
First impressions of Dungeonrise were "Wow, this box is quite small, I hope this is worth it."  Boy was it worth it.  The box is slightly larger than A4 and a couple of centimetres deep, and it is crammed full of card sprues.  Each sprue is jam packed with stuff.  Unfortunately I was a bit over zealous and popped it all out before it occurred to me to take a photo.  This set completely blew my mind.  The sheer volume of stuff you get in this relatively small box in its self is quite astounding but when you take into consideration that the entire set is double sided then you truely have a worth while product.  No two dungeons will ever be alike. 

 The above images are just one example of the duality of each piece.  Hmm is it just me or does the top one blend in with my kitchen worktop?  The set goes together quite well and looks pretty good when its assembled.  The following is just a small example of how many rooms you can make from one packet of clips (which unfortunately are sold separately).  I've also got loads of floor and wall sections left because I ran out of clips (not to self get more clips)

I would have put a bigger dungeon down (trust me that's barely half of the rooms I slapped together) but I didn't have the space.  But the dungeon is not the only thing you get in the box.  Dungeonrise is full of props.  Tables, chairs, book cases, a fire place, numerous stair cases, and a lectern.  Also included are two sets of spikes, to set at the bottom of a pit, which I think is a nice little feature.

So how does the product hold up?  The card is quite strong and looks like it will be hard wearing, maybe not quite as good as the space hulk floor tiles, but looks like it will have a long life span.  There is a downside to the card though and unfortunately its with the props.  Many of the fittings for the pieces of furniture are very loose (just look at the book cases) and as result flap about just fall apart if you try and move them.  This could be easily fixed with a dab of glue, but with the tables and the book cases, which are both reversible, it'd feel like a waste.  I'm also a bit worried the the smaller stair cases my wobble from side to side once i start putting miniatures on them.  But I might just glue these as the bottom of each step is more or less the same as the top.  

All in all I have to say I'm impressed with Dungeonrise and I see it getting a lot of use in games of Warhammer Quest.  I might invest in another box of clips and another one of the Dungeonrise sets.  The Vaults of Ruin set in particular has caught my eye.  Well I have my dungeon, now I'd better get around to populating it.

Until next time and happy wargaming
Necrothrall