Aaron Mulder

My name is Aaron, and I'm a bit of a 3D-printed terrain junkie.  Battle maps are nice and all, but nothing beats actual rooms and caverns for your PCs to explore.  When I stumbled across one of the Fat Dragon Games Kickstarters, I thought I had it made!  Soon I had plenty of 3D-printable models.

But it turned out that finding the models was the easy part!  The hard part was figuring out which tiles to print.  I tried sketching dungeon maps, and besides proving that I don't have the patience for much of a dungeon, it wasn't that easy to figure out which tiles I had available, decode my sketches, and list out exactly what I still needed to print.  I felt like I spent half my day counting spots on the map and itemizing print jobs, yet I still ended up with two left doors when I needed a right!

All that drove me to create DungeonPrint Studio — a browser-based app to draw maps of dungeons, caverns, villages, keeps, and sewers using actual 3D tiles.  With Studio, you can see exactly what your map will look like, save and load maps, generate a PDF tile list of specific sets and parts, and track the tiles you've printed along with the ones you still need to print to finish a map.  Down the road a bit you'll be able to publish, share, and review maps by others.

While DungeonPrint has made great progress over the last couple years, there's a never-ending set of features and content to add.  I've come to Patreon so you can join me in this journey.  As my patron, you'll unlock extra tiles and features in Studio, so you'll able to draw maps with more of the available tile sets, save your lists of printed and painted tiles to show what you need to complete a given map, even draw maps in 3D over the top of an existing 2D dungeon map.  I aim to take your dungeons to the next level, for less than the cost of a roll of filament each month.

I've also got a number of bonuses in there for you:
•  Exclusive fan-created tiles: You can map with these tiles, and also download the STL models for 3D printing!  There are free tiles for every level of membership, and there's nowhere else you can get them.  So far this includes Doom Tiles, Prime Caverns, Catacomb Keeps, Grassy Palisades, and Elemental Alcoves, PLUS a complimentary copy of the Wet Caverns set!
•  A complimentary STL set each month, from my large catalog of past sets
•  You control which sets are released to the free tier each month!
•  Early access to new features and content

If you're really all-in, I'll let you set priorities each month for the models and features I should work on next.

Best of all, we'll be working on behalf of the entire community.  My goal is to work myself out of a job, releasing features into the free tier as my development costs are covered.  Thanks to my awesome patrons, MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED FIFTY additional sets have already been released to the free tier, and more are on the way each month!  I'll keep the Patreon open so long as we come up with more sets and features to add, but you should feel free to adjust your membership when the milestones you need are reached.

So, join me in this journey, turbocharge your 3D mapping, and let's unlock this whole thing!  Thank you!

Note: while you can design your maps in DungeonPrint Studio, you'll also need to own the corresponding 3D printer models to print those maps on your home 3D printer.  The site and the PDFs have links to each set, in case you map with tiles you don't already own.