Dwarven Forge

Dwarven Forge LLC is a company that creates three-dimensional polymer tiles for use with tabletop role-playing games.

In the mid-1990s, Stefan Pokorny, an artist who played Dungeons & Dragons, started to paint the 25 mm miniatures that he used to represent his characters.

He was disappointed that his carefully painted miniatures were displayed on maps pencilled onto on graph paper,[1] so he designed and created some hand-painted resin-based three-dimensional tiles.

[2] The other players liked the tiles, and since Pokorny was struggling to make ends meet as an artist,[3] he founded Dwarven Forge in 1996 as a side business.

[1] Tiles were originally cast in resin, but that proved to be too brittle, so Dwarven Forge eventually switched to a more durable PVC polymer marketed as "Dwarvenite".

[5] The live-play D&D show Critical Role has featured Dwarven Forge since some of its earliest use of 3D tabletop terrain for battle maps.

A dedicated gaming room is necessary, as you'll need plenty of shelf space to store the Dwarven Forge boxes and a large table to build on."

Typical dungeon floor plan built with Dwarven Forge tiles. Note giant mushrooms in lower right and LED "torch" in upper right.
A scenic build in which all items are made by Dwarven Forge except the miniature smith, the two lanterns, the wagon and horses (though they do offer those), and the photographic background in the tunnel (which is Niton Tunnels 10.jpg by Simon Burchell).