MTG — Ring Tempts You Tracker (Barad-dûr)

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.stl` into Bambu Studio.

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

3. Two sub-parts named `body` and `labels` appear, locked at exact

   coordinates.

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

   anthracite, or dark grey for Barad-dûr.

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

   or copper.

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.stl` and 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 `.scad` is 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.js` pipeline (~$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.