I used the library 3D printer to make the Little Monster Eyeball by David Hagemann from Thingiverse. The original model has been scaled down to 90% using our slicer software, and I used PLA with a 0.1mm layer height. This was made in four parts. The pupil is a thin disk of black using so little filament it gave no cost in our software. The green iris cost a mere 4¢, the yellow eyeball about 37¢, and the red goo was close to $1. There was some minor stringing, but detail was surprisingly good for FDM technology. This picture doesn't really do it justice, especially for the veins in the eyeball and ridges in the iris. If you need an eyeball, especially for anything related to Halloween, I strongly recommend this project.
But why am I making an eye? Well, it's game night, and I am scheduling this post in advance so it should not spoil a surprise for @sapadetzero. We're celebrating his birthday with a session zero in the new campaign he is launching. He mentioned resurrecting (heh...) his old character Angus MacFife as our benefactor to kick off the adventure.
TIME FOR BACKSTORY! A couple years ago, Angus was a member of our party in an Acquisitions Incorporated campaign run by another Dungeon Master (DM), and his pompous demeanor led to the nickname, "Lord White Privilege." Over the course of the adventure, shenanigans ensued, and the DM dropped the ancient evil relics of the Eye and Hand of arch-lich Vecna. Angus promptly chopped off his own hand and gouged out his eye to seize power by ...equipping... these relics.
So that's why he needs a 3D printed eyeball for his birthday and in honor of the new campaign he is running as DM now.
Anywhoodle, more stuff happened, and Angus became undead, so we started calling him Lord Wight Privilege. When we were playing last, we were all building up our settlement as a cover for a deathtrap dungeon intended to feed the souls of hapless adventurers to his phylactery, and designing the town to siphon gold out of the pockets of those adventurers first before they went to their inevitable doom in the labyrinth below.
Keep an eye out! We'll see what is in store for Lynx Skywalker and Company later.
