u/Terracronus

Rune Log is a quiet and slightly occult detective word game. Villagers bring you petitions in the shape of runic scripture. You decode it cryptogram-style, with anchor words, letter patterns, repeated glyphs and context clues.

But the decoded line rarely answers the question directly. You type your own conclusion in plain English, and the game judges it. Paraphrases work and wrong answers get caught. Sometimes the truth is a gut-punch and sometimes it's a little funny.

It has a five act story mode where your reputation shifts with how well you read the Rune Logs, an endless mode with procedurally generated cases and a mode where you can generate your own rune puzzles and export them.

It's a solo project and my first release. It'll be out this August on Steam. Wishlist helps a lot!

RUNE LOG

Really pleased with how this came out!

It's an Eberron-inspired lightning rail piece, printed in layered filament to give it that raised, illustrated look. I wanted the blue elemental energy to pop against the greyscale train, and the texture from the print gives it a nice almost engraved feel in person.

Doing an airship one next, effectively the same but with orange accents for the elemental ring instead of blue.

What other Eberron-specific things do you think would look good in this style?

I’ve been working on a small project called MiniTap for a little bit and thought some people here might find it useful as I now consider it finished. It's 100% free.

The idea is simple, you create a small profile/card page, copy the generated link, and write it to an NFC tag. You put that tag somewhere on a miniature and then when someone taps the tag with their phone, it opens the page. It doesn’t use accounts or a backend. The data is encoded directly into the generated URL, so it’s just a static webpage.

I originally built it with tabletop use in mind, especially for things like player minis or item cards. You can use it here: https://terracronus.github.io/MiniTap/

It's inherently only compatible with NTAG215/216 due to the size of the generated URLs. You can however, use a URL shortener on the created links to house them inside NTAG213 tags as those are generally cheaper. Please read the information on the repository if you run into any issues, specially with file hosting.

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/Terracronus/MiniTap

I also have a 3D Printable base avaliable to hide the NFC tags under your minis (https://makerworld.com/en/models/2702169-minitap-base). Otherwise a bit of nicely sculpted clay will likely work well to hide them too.

I'd love some feedback! For me this is a little something to add a bit of magic to the minis I print for me and my players.

I wanted to share a bit of my 3D printing journey, in particular for anyone who might be going through a similar situation.

I started my miniature printing journey about 5 years ago with a resin printer. Loved the detail it provided, printed a bunch of stuff but the highlight for me was always printing minis for my D&D games.

I was careful with PPE but not as careful as I should have been, it's not an exaggeration to say I basically washed my hands in resin more than once. The result was I eventually became sensitised to it. Developed a rash and soon after decided to sell my SLA printer. I was honestly really sad about it but couldn't in good conscience keep it around when I knew it was bad for my health.

I thought my miniature printing days were completely over, the thought of moving to FDM for minis felt like a massive downgrade. But I also did FDM printing already, almost for as long as I'd done SLA, and had seen on social media a bunch of posts of the quality you could get.

I researched for a little bit, and was lucky in that I had an A1 which has a lot of support in regards to FDM miniature printing (r/FDMminiatures is amazing btw). Took some doing but eventually I got there. I know I'll never get the same amount of detail I did when I was doing SLA, and a part of me wishes I'd been more careful, but getting about 90% of the way there with a non-toxic system is frankly good enough for me. Got a long way to go to keep calibrating to get even better results but think I'll get there.

I've attached images of the last resin mini I did and the same model but the first FDM version I was happy with, both after minimal post-processing. I honestly think after paint I'd have to look really closely to even be able to tell them apart.

I wanted a way to pull up lore or art for my minis just by tapping them with my phone. I ended up building a tool for it, and I wanted to share it with you all here in case you want to use it.

It’s called MiniTap and is hosted on GitHub and is fully free. Basically, you put a cheap NFC tag (like an NTAG213) under your miniature's base and design your character card and you'll get a link. When you add that to the tag and then scan it, it pulls up the profile on your phone.

How it works: I built this with zero backend. There is no database, no server, and no login. The entire app is just a single HTML file, and all of your character's data is encoded directly into the short URL that you write to the NFC tag.

What it can show:

• Character name, class, origin, and a text description.
• Media links: It auto-detects and renders images, looping videos, or even fully rotatable 3D models (.glb, .gltf, or .stl).
• Customizable colors so you can match the theme to your character.

Hiding the NFC tags: You can just stick an NFC sticker under a normal base, but if you want a really flush fit I also designed some 3D-printable base adapters that work for HeroForge and Eldritch Foundry and likely others too. The mini will still fit in a 1" grid, it'll be 1.06" wide.

Links:

• The Website: https://terracronus.github.io/MiniTap/
• 3D Printable Base Adapters: https://makerworld.com/en/models/2702169-minitap-base

Let me know if you guys have any questions or run into any issues setting it up. I'd love to see what you do with it!