Andrzej (Andrew) is one of those people who needs no introduction to most tabletop wargaming enthusiasts. Suffice it to say that back in 1990s Wrocław, he was one of the pioneers of Warhammer and RPGs in Poland. Before dedicated hobby stores and major events became a thing, back in the days of rolling dice the old-fashioned way, long before the age of social media, there were people like him. People who built the scene from the ground up and helped it grow. Passionate hobbyists. Enthusiasts. Visionaries. The wonderfully crazy ones

For several years, Andrzej ran SFan, a well-stocked hobby store, before moving on to a business producing terrain and scenery for tabletop wargames. Simply put: Terrains 4 Games — literally, just "Gaming Terrains."

Handmade from scratch. Solid. Atmospheric. Full of character. Made by gamers, for gamers. The kind of terrain that genuinely fired up your imagination and brought games of W40K, WFB, LotR, BA and many other systems to life. We saw it on dozens of gaming tables at tournaments, conventions and clubs. In Poland, across Europe, in the USA, and even as far away as Australia. Many of you still have pieces of his work in your collections to this day.

Unfortunately, the past few years have hit him incredibly hard:

- A trusted collaborator took over his terrain designs and started selling them under his own brand.

- Brexit indirectly dealt a serious blow to his business.

- Shipping costs to the USA skyrocketed.

- Material prices and the cost of employing staff shot through the roof during the pandemic.

- A crowdfunding campaign on a well-known fundraising platform, intended to finance a project involving gaming mats, turned into a nightmare. Andrzej was one of six campaign creators whose funds raised from backers were never paid out by the company...

As a result, the number of orders began to plummet... :(

At the same time, health problems started piling up.

For the past two years, his mother has been struggling with serious health issues.

For the past year, his wife has also been ill.

And for the past few months, Andrzej himself has been battling a similar illness.

Moving to the Silesia region was supposed to help. It meant getting rid of the high monthly costs associated with living in a big city, as well as the rent for an apartment, a workshop and a garage used to store his terrain.

In practice, however, it brought a whole new set of challenges.

There simply aren't any people locally who can be hired at short notice to produce gaming terrain. Training someone for this kind of work is very specific and time-consuming, requiring considerable investment. And after all that, a trainee might simply change their mind and decide to call it quits... (it's happened before).

To be perfectly honest, the working conditions are seriously hazardous to one's health: carcinogenic resin fumes and fumes from burning styrene, MDF dust from jigsaws and sanders everywhere (including formaldehyde), spray paints, laminates, adhesives and solvents.

It's tough even for a healthy person. For someone living with a chronic cardiovascular condition, it's almost impossible.

Given all this, and with a heavy heart, Andrzej had to suspend his business operations at the end of December 2025.

Not because he wanted to. Because he had no choice.

He also made this decision because, on top of his mounting health problems, he had fallen six months behind on paying his now-former employees. This wasn't a matter of bad intentions or unwillingness to pay. There simply wasn't any money left to pay them with.

Right now, he has no financial reserves whatsoever. No proverbial safety net. Even covering everyday bills and medical appointments has become a struggle.

He remained on sick leave until the end of April. He's now slowly trying to get back to work, managing around 2–3 hours a day to fulfil outstanding orders. However, he still needs plenty of rest and must avoid stress — and his current situation is anything but easy or pleasant.

What he does have is an enormous amount of experience, knowledge and passion. Once he fully recovers, these are the things that can help him get back on his feet, rebuild his business and resume producing the fantastic gaming terrain we've come to know and love. :)

This fundraiser is an attempt to help a man who spent years giving something back to the entire hobby community.

This isn't a request for charity. It's about the gaming community standing together to support one of its own. Let's win this game together!

Every contribution matters. This isn't a competition to see who can donate the most.

Every form of support can make a real difference at an incredibly difficult time.

Remember:

- If you've ever played a game on a great piece of terrain...

- If you remember the days when everything was handcrafted rather than 3D-printed...

- If you want people like Andrzej to have a chance to carry on rather than quietly disappear from the scene...

Please help.

Thank you for every bit of support.

Seriously. It means a lot.

I'll be honest with you: this is the first fundraiser I've ever organised in my life. I had to overcome my own reservations, verify my identity with an ID document (and privacy is something I genuinely value), and work through all the arguments for and against this kind of support.

Over the past decade, I've helped Andrzej out of a few smaller financial scrapes on several occasions, but the situation he's facing now is on a completely different scale. After talking it through together, I decided that helping a friend in need matters more than pride.

Andrzej, well... like anyone going through a difficult time in life, he was a little embarrassed about doing this himself. But that's what friends are for, right?

The money raised will go towards:

- Paying off the outstanding debts owed to his former employees.

- Covering medical and treatment costs.

- Purchasing equipment and materials to help streamline production and enable him to make new gaming terrain