The Crooked Street

The First Goblin Arkitect

Fill stood looking at the house across the street with a swell of pride in his small goblin chest.

Calling it a house assumed a certain amount of short-sightedness on the viewer’s behalf. It had walls, certainly, and a roof of sorts, but the agreement between the two was informal and subject to change.

Fill, unbeknownst to himself, was the first goblin architect in The Hill.

Before Fill, goblins lived in buildings but did not build them, not properly. The Hill was already ancient by goblin standards, which is to say it had been there before anyone could remember who first set it on fire. Goblins patched older structures, wedged planks into cracks, nailed ladders to walls that had not asked for ladders, and filled empty spaces with temporary add-ons and lean-tos.

Temporary was important. Temporary meant you didn’t feel bad when it collapsed.

But this was different.

Fill hadn’t patched a building. He had decided one should exist.

He hadn’t drawn plans—Fill distrusted paper, having once fallen through some—but had instead stacked things until they stopped falling over quite so fast. The front door was higher than the back door, despite both opening onto the same street. The windows did not line up with the floors inside, which made conversations through them exciting and occasionally dangerous. A balcony jutted out at an angle that suggested confidence rather than physics.

Fill admired it.

Across the street, several goblins were also looking at the house.

“Is it finished?” one asked.

Fill squinted. Somewhere above them, a plank creaked thoughtfully.

“Yes,” Fill said. Then, after a moment, added, “Probably.”

This answer satisfied no one, but it was the best answer anyone had ever given about a building in The Hill. As Fill continued to stare at his house, a dog wandered over to it and cocked its leg.

Fill sighed. 

Welcome to The Hill.

What Is Crooked Streets?

Crooked Streets is a modular 3D printable terrain set designed to let you build a full tabletop board where no two buildings are the same.

Using a small core set of printable pieces, you can create:                                                 Leaning houses, Narrow alleys, Overhanging balconies, Ramshackle towers, Dense  vertical streets                                                                                                                         All designed to be:                                                                                                             Easy to print                                                                                                                               Easy to paint                                                                                                                         Easy to rearrange                                                                                                                       This is terrain built for playing, not just admiring.

What Do You Get?                                                               

This set includes:                                                                                                                     5 ground floors,                                                                                                                         5 roof variants,                                                                                                                        10 floors,                                                                                                                                  10 scaffolds,                                                                                                                             1 Goblin Dog,                                                                                                                             1 Dog Kennel

There are 3 sizes of building footprint, 70x70, 70x90 and 90x90. 

All files provided as:                                                                                                            STL files, ready to print, support free.

Everything you need to build an entire chaotic neighbourhood from a single pledge. Including a dog. 

Why It’s Different

Most terrain sets give you one building repeated five times.                                   Crooked Streets gives you one system that builds dozens.                                     Because the pieces are modular and stackable:                                                               You can build wide or tall.                                                                                                   You can build cramped or open.                                                                                         You can create sightlines, choke points, vertical dominance.                                         This isn’t five buildings.                                                                                                         It’s a toolkit.

Printing & Compatibility

Designed for:                                                                                                                   Standard 28–32mm scale miniatures                                                                               FDM printers with 0.4mm nozzles                                                                                       No single core piece is designed to take excessive print time.
Buildings are split intelligently for efficient printing.                                                         

You don’t need a print farm. You need a weekend.

 Who It’s For

This set is for:                                                                                                                   Skirmish gamers who want vertical play                                                                       Narrative gamers who want dense city fights                                                           Oldhammer lovers                                                                                                           Goblin enthusiasts                                                                                                               Anyone tired of identical MDF boxes                                                                                      If you want your board to feel like a place, not a grid — this is for you.

 Delivery

All files will be delivered digitally through MyMiniFactory as soon as Kickstarter releases the funds.                                                                                                                               No shipping delays.
No physical fulfilment risk.
No waiting months for containers.

You print when you're ready.

 Why Back Now?

Backing this Kickstarter means:                                                                             Supporting the growth of The Hill                                                                               Unlocking future expansions                                                                                         Getting the full set at launch pricing                                                                                  This is the foundation neighbourhood.                                                                              More districts will follow.....

Where are the Stretch Goals?

There are none, this isn't a cash grab its a community project. However if we can get to 30 backers as a thank you there will be an additional roof pack released.

If we can get to 40 backers then there will be an extra floors pack released.

Fill wandered quietly around the district, lost in thought. Shapes for other buildings rolled around his head, gently calling to him to be built. His feet eventually brought him to a standstill outside his house.

Well. Nearly.

He stood instead in the empty space beside it.

A goblin lad hunched over as he approached. Fill could tell with a single look that the lad was going to try and set fire to the house. Arson was to goblins what swimming is to fish.

Without thinking, Fill bent down, scooped up a discarded brick, and lobbed it at the lad.

Because throwing is to goblins what throwing is to fish, it missed by a significant distance. It did, however, startle a puffin, whose sudden and indignant flight startled the lad enough to reconsider setting his fire.

Fill missed the entire exchange.

He was already planning the new building in the empty space.

What if the doors actually opened this time…