Harrowing Halls - Dungeon Tiles: A D&D Accessory [Anglais] [Broché]

As someone who has multiple copies of almost every set made, I can easily say this is one of the best sets yet.

Most of the non-3D tiles in the package have the wood floor pattern. It's similar to the wood floor that is on a few of the older large tiles of building interiors, but not exactly the same. Most of the tiles are plain wood on one side and a fully detailed room or part of a room on the other. With these tiles, you should be able to make the vast majority of any civilized interior space you need. I think the tile shown on the cover is a strange choice since it is not representative of most of the tiles in the set.

There are two sheets of 3D tiles. Once you assemble them you get a staircase, a couple of 5' high platforms, a couple of 10' platforms, a double door, and a few tables. The beauty of these is that one side is wood and the other side is stone. Just take them apart and flip the sides to change texture. I see getting a lot of use out of the stairs and platforms with my old standard stone dungeon tiles.

Overall, this set is great. You can probably make do with one set if you don't make anything too big, but with this being the only set with a lot of wood floor and having the 3D pieces I would get two.

This set contains only 4 boards of tiles, nearly all of them plain wooden-plank flooring. The rest of the tiles are specific rooms, with beds, tables and sofas in place. That sounds great--for the start of an encounter. After combat begins, that table is going to go flying...but the image doesn't go away, of course. I would have preferred a selection of furniture tiles to add to the plain flooring to create and adjust rooms as needed. I am also trying to figure out why these tiles are considered "harrowing." They all depict a quaint, and rather serene, well-to-do home/tavern/inn. This makes them highly specific and difficult to combine with other sets to make a proper map.

The remaining two boards of the set are little die-cut pieces that fit together to make 3D terrain features, like a staircase. There are no instructions included on how to put these things together, and honestly, I don't really care to, so they are still unpunched from the boards. These things are useless as they do not match the pre-printed tiles (you can make a little table that sits up on the tile, but then there are also tables painted flat to the room tile itself?) and they simply are not portable. If you were interested in making a permanent diorama, these might be just what you want. But if you are looking to make a map with the "bird's eye view" perspective to plan out an encounter, the 3D pieces don't work out. They also take up valuable space in the pack: there are only 6 boards of tiles per set, and now two of them, a full third, are wasted on this junk.

My advice: buy this set on sale. The wooden flooring will come in handy here and there, but not too often (I've used this set only once, and only 2 of the tiles at that). If you miss it before it goes out of stock and the print run is over, don't waste your money paying the insane prices that these tile sets end up going for on the after market. This set simply isn't worth it. Also, WotC is putting out "Master Sets" in the essentials line soon, and they seem to have selections of all the previously released sets--chances are those will be a better collection of tiles you can actually use.

The set is pretty nice, and the wooden textures can be useful for some campaigns. Most of the set is composed of wooden rooms (one side with furniture and the other just the wooden floor) and there are some 3D tiles that doesn't fit my gaming needs.

This set would be a lot better if the room tiles were wooden in one side and stone in the other, and some of the 3D tiles (everything but the platform and the staircase) were furniture to customize rooms.

Overall I thought this is the least versatile set, but it is still worth having.