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D&D Terrain and Ruins STLs: OpenForge, Rubble and More
Terrain is where a home printer pays off fastest at the gaming table. We picked four free fantasy pieces that cover the usual needs of a campaign: a centrepiece (an overgrown temple dais), a village building (an open-air water mill), general scatter (rocky rubble with a fallen statue) and a board-game upgrade (a 3D rubble overlay for Gloomhaven). All four are on Thingiverse under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, so you can print and remix them for your own table but not sell the prints. Each card links to the designer's original page. We do not quote download or popularity figures; the selection is editorial.
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Projects in this collection
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OpenForge - Place of Power - Overgrown Temple Dais
A raised jungle temple platform from the OpenForge terrain project, released in three flavours: a plain dais for any shrine or altar scene, one topped with a holy symbol, and an overgrown version wrapped in vines with a tree that also comes split into dais and tree for easier printing. The designer says every option prints without supports. It makes a natural centrepiece or objective marker for a wilderness session. The pieces are large, so check your bed size and allow for a long print. Non-commercial use only; credit ecaroth and keep remixes under the same license.
- Author:
- ecaroth
- License:
- Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0
Thingiverse · Updated
OpenForge - Open-air Water Wheel Mill
A small village mill with an open-sided building, a roof and a water wheel that reaches over a riverbank, also from OpenForge. It comes as three support-free parts, the main building, the roof and the wheel, so assembly is minimal and the roof can be lifted off when characters go inside. It suits a farming village, a riverside encounter or a town-building campaign. The miniature in the designer's photos is only there for scale and is not part of the files. Non-commercial use only; credit ecaroth when sharing prints or remixes.
- Author:
- ecaroth
- License:
- Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0
Thingiverse · Updated
Delving Decor: Rocky Rubble (28mm/Heroic scale)
Scatter terrain for 28 mm and heroic-scale games: three rock piles, a plate of loose rubble bits and a fallen statue, made by the team behind the free Discord (formerly Wayfarer Tactics) miniature rules. Rubble is the quickest way to make a corridor or ruin feel abandoned, and these pieces work for both fantasy and post-apocalyptic tables. Some parts may need supports depending on how you orient them, so preview the overhangs in your slicer. A dark primer and a dry-brush bring out the stone texture. Non-commercial use; credit dutchmogul.
- Author:
- dutchmogul
- License:
- Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0
Thingiverse · Updated
Rubble for Gloomhaven
A 3D rubble pile that sits in place of the flat cardboard rubble overlay tiles in the Gloomhaven board game. The designer lists six tiles, so print a full set at once. It is a fan-made accessory that only matches the footprint of a game component; it does not copy any artwork from the game. Rubble pieces are useful in any hex-based dungeon crawler too. The designer later posted an updated Gloomhaven and Frosthaven version on Printables; this card links to the original Thingiverse listing. Non-commercial use only.
- Author:
- Robagon
- License:
- Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0
Questions before you choose
- Can I sell prints of these terrain pieces?
- No. All four are licensed Creative Commons BY-NC-SA, which allows personal printing and remixing with credit but rules out commercial use. If you want to sell terrain, look for CC BY or CC0 files, or commission your own design.
- Which settings work best for printed terrain?
- Terrain rarely needs fine layers: 0.2 mm on a 0.4 mm nozzle is usually enough, and low infill keeps large pieces light. Check overhangs in your slicer first; the OpenForge pieces are designed to print without supports, while some rubble parts may need them depending on orientation.
- Will these fit my 28 mm miniatures?
- The rubble and OpenForge pieces are made for 28 mm or heroic-scale tables. If you play at another scale, scale the whole model uniformly in your slicer and print one test piece next to a miniature before printing a set.
- I have a photo of a terrain piece I want. How do I find it?
- Upload the photo to PrintWhat search to look for similar models across sources. If nothing matches, write a design brief with the size and style you want and request a custom 3D model.
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