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This project is a modular terrain board made of the cheapest, yet aesthetically pleasing materials possible, to be accessible for students, hobbyists, and the like. A terrain board is used for tabletop games such as D&D, or in our case, Warhammer, to enhance the experience and immerse the players. The board is under $100 to build, assuming you have access to basic workshop tools (e.g., a saw, screws) and basic materials (e.g., acrylic paint, dirt). This makes it much more accessible than just buying terrain boards, since they are usually quite expensive. This board is also much more customizable than most, an added plus to making your own terrain.

Our project required a lot of collaboration and time management, deciding who does what and when. I think the entire group improved in that area, and we all worked very well together. We did not have the time to make more modules other than enough to fill the board, but we still effectively conveyed the idea even if we didn't exactly have enough to really make it customizable. We produced over a hundred blocks and managed to make them all look good, so I think we did super well in the area of physical fabrication. I also think that we did a good job at material exploration, even if we didn't use all of our ideas. For example, we were going to have a forest, and experimented with making trees out of real twigs, paper, and a combination of air-dry clay and twist ties. However, the clay would not dry at all, and it took too much time to make them, so we completely scrapped the idea of trees and replaced them with ruins.