Something unusual showed up in Thinger's trend data this week: seven of the twelve fastest-rising models are D&D and tabletop RPG content. Character miniatures, dungeon scatter terrain, a full tavern building, furniture scaled for 28mm games. The printers have voted, and apparently autumn is campaign season.
This makes some sense. Days get shorter, sessions get longer, and if your dungeon master has been promising a proper tavern scene for three months, now is when someone actually prints the tavern. Here are the pieces driving the numbers.
The characters
The two highest-trending models this week are both character miniatures, which tracks: NPCs and player characters are the prints you keep coming back to for every new campaign.
Old Priest (Warlock) by boris3dstudio (Thingiverse) is the week's most-saved model, with an estimated 3.4 million prints from Thinger's activity data. The figure is a robed warlock type with generous surface detail: fabric folds, a staff, a face that rewards a careful paint job. It reads clearly at table distance, which is the test that actually matters.
Player Character Pack 02 by Valandar (Thingiverse) is the practical counterpart. Where the priest is one very specific NPC, this pack covers multiple player character classes and poses in a single download, with an estimated 3.2 million prints suggesting a lot of tables have made use of it. The pack format is genuinely useful because a new campaign often needs five different miniatures at once, not one, and Valandar's description notes a few characters inspired by a certain YouTube gaming channel's D&D foray, which is a charming detail if you know you know.
The dungeon
A good dungeon fight needs terrain that tells players where they can and cannot go. These two pieces do that without demanding a lot of print time per piece.
OpenDungeonTiles: Stock Room Barricades by PieceBringer (Thingiverse) is scatter terrain: crates, barrels, sandbags and low barricades at 28mm scale. They define the geometry of a tactical encounter without elaborate preparation. Print a dozen of these and you can stage the warehouse ambush your dungeon master has been sketching on graph paper for weeks.
28mm Stalagmites by Curufin (Thingiverse) fills a gap that modular dungeon tiles rarely bother with: underground atmosphere. A cave encounter without stalagmites is just a grey floor and a lot of explaining. These are sized for 28mm scale, print quickly in PLA, and scatter around the table however the scene needs them.
The social spaces
Not every session is a fight. The tavern scene and the throne room scene both need furniture, and these two pieces are built specifically for them.
Ulvheim Tavern by Code2 (Thingiverse) is a complete medieval tavern building at 28mm scale, estimated at 2.9 million prints this week and designed to print without any supports. That engineering choice matters more than it sounds: a building this size has overhangs that would normally require either messy support removal or a resin printer, and Code2 has solved both problems. If you want the full settlement, the Ulvheim Noble House is in Thinger's D&D collection and follows the same support-free approach.
28mm Lord's Banquet Table and Chairs by Curufin (Thingiverse) is exactly what it sounds like, scaled to seat standard 28mm miniatures. A throne-style chair version is included for whoever is sitting at the head of that table, and the designer notes that the chairs can accommodate seated miniatures, which is the small detail that makes a throne room encounter look right instead of just approximately right.
Where to find more
Thinger's D&D miniatures collection has the broader catalog: character minis, monsters, and terrain well beyond this week's trending list. If you are assembling a full set of dungeon pieces and want to know the filament cost before committing to printing a tavern plus a dozen barricades plus twenty stalagmites, the print cost calculator gives you the weight and time estimate upfront. I find this tool most useful precisely when I'm about to make a decision I will slightly regret.
The free Thinger app lets you search over 600,000 free models from Thingiverse, Printables and MakerWorld and save the ones you want to a print queue. Useful when your dungeon master announces the next session is in four weeks and you have at least fourteen tabs open.
