MTG — The Ring Tempts You Tracker (Barad-dûr Plaque)

A two-piece tracker for The Ring tempts you, the keyword from

Magic: the Gathering — Tales of Middle-earth (LotR).

When a card says "The Ring tempts you", your Ring grows in power

through 4 escalating levels (cumulative):

• I — Legendary: Your Ring-bearer is legendary, and creatures

•   with greater power than it can't block it.

• - II — Drain 1: Whenever your Ring-bearer attacks, each opponent

•   loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

• - III — Kill blocker: Whenever your Ring-bearer becomes blocked

•   by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of

•   combat.

• - IV — Discard: Whenever your Ring-bearer deals combat damage

•   to a player, that player discards a card.

The plaque is a Barad-dûr (Dark Tower of Sauron) silhouette

with 4 circular pockets running up the tower body and the level

numeral + ability summary inset beside each in a second filament

colour. As your Ring grows in power, move the small One-Ring marker

UP the tower toward the apex.

What you print

The body+labels are a coordinate-locked two-colour print:

• ring_tempts_combined.stl— ASCII multi-solid (body + labels) for

•   Bambu Studio's Split to Parts workflow. Recommended.

• - ring_tempts_body.stl— filament A (dark tower body) — single-

•   colour fallback if you don't have AMS.

• - ring_tempts_labels.stl— filament B (gold ability/title plugs)

•   — drop into the body's recesses if printing the parts separately.

• - ring_tempts_marker.stl— the One Ring marker (~7.5 mm Ø,

•   1.4 mm thick), separate part.

Bambu AMS workflow (recommended)

1. Import ring_tempts_combined.stlinto Bambu Studio.

2. 2. Right-click the imported object → Split to Parts.

3. 3. Two sub-parts named bodyand labelsappear, locked at exact

4.    coordinates.

5. 4. Assign filament A (dark / structural) to body— black,

6.    anthracite, or dark grey for Barad-dûr.

7. 5. Assign filament B (gold / accent) to labels— gold, brass,

8.    or copper.

9. 6. Slice. Print flat on the bed, no supports.

Why combined STL with named solids? Bambu's "Add Part" workflow

rearranges coordinates — the labels would land off-centre from

the body. A single ASCII STL with two named solids + Split-to-

Parts preserves the exact alignment.

Single-colour fallback

If you don't have AMS, print only ring_tempts_body.stland accept

a monochrome plaque — the engravings are recessed 0.6 mm and remain

legible. Or pause-and-swap filament at the layer where the labels

start to get a manual two-colour finish.

Print settings

• Bambu Lab P2S or any 0.4 mm FDM

• - 0.2 mm layer height, 3 walls, 15 % infill

• - PLA Basic

• - No supports

• - Plaque: print front face UP on the bed (engravings recessed

•   at top; cleanest engraving floors)

• - Marker: flat (it's symmetric — either face down works)

Source

Full parametric .scadis included. Variables at the top of the

file control print height, pocket layout, ability text per level,

title position, and fonts. Want a different silhouette (e.g.

Minas Tirith, Helm's Deep, Mount Doom)? Drop a new 1024-pt

silhouette SVG in the folder, replace tower.svg, and re-export.

The Barad-dûr silhouette was generated with Runware FLUX via

this repo's scripts/runware/silhouette.jspipeline (~$0.001/img),

then converted to SVG via png_to_svg.sh. The prompt was:

Barad-dur dark tower of Sauron, jagged spires, Eye of Sauron at

top, simple bold black silhouette on white background, no detail

Fan content for Magic: the Gathering by Wizards of the Coast

and The Lord of the Rings by the Tolkien Estate — not

affiliated with either.