Hope this doesn't hijack the thread but... when I read the title I thought you were talking about a third thing. Looking around for the new D&D Miniatures line in local RPG store I have found a box with label "Dungeon & Dragons Miniatures", not Chainmail, which had inside 5-6 unpainted minis. The front side of the box depicted a Minotaur. What was that?
They weren't plastic. I believe there were 8 sets (Heros I-III, Monsters I-III, and Dragons I & II). I have most of them, except the dragons sets. The miniatures are exactly the same as the Chainmail minis (just repackaged for mass market retail), and they came with Chainmail cards as John mentioned. The last set (Monsters III) came out just before Chainmail was cancelled, and that was the only place to get the Hill Giant that was supposed to come out with the next wave of Chainmail, which never appeared.johnsemlak said:Yeah, it was 5-6 plastic unpainted minis. Though not officially Chainmail (Chainmail minis were metel) they did come with Chainmail stat cards.
I think overall there were about three sets of these minis. They were basically to be used by PCs for they're characters as far as I can tell.
Cthulhu's Librarian said:They weren't plastic. I believe there were 8 sets (Heros I-III, Monsters I-III, and Dragons I & II). I have most of them, except the dragons sets. The miniatures are exactly the same as the Chainmail minis (just repackaged for mass market retail), and they came with Chainmail cards as John mentioned. The last set (Monsters III) came out just before Chainmail was cancelled, and that was the only place to get the Hill Giant that was supposed to come out with the next wave of Chainmail, which never appeared.
WOTC put out some 3e D&D minis about the same time that Chainmail was being produced. They aren't technically Chainmail minis, though several of the CM sculpt were sold in those boxes. You can still run across the occasional box set (like the minotaur one you described) or blister pack, though they have been OOP for a while now.Li Shenron said:Hope this doesn't hijack the thread but... when I read the title I thought you were talking about a third thing. Looking around for the new D&D Miniatures line in local RPG store I have found a box with label "Dungeon & Dragons Miniatures", not Chainmail, which had inside 5-6 unpainted minis. The front side of the box depicted a Minotaur. What was that?
Thanee said:Hey!
Does anyone know, if WotC is going to republish the older editions of the D&D miniatures?
I havn't got any of those yet, but heard that the older ones are not available anymore.
Bye
Thanee