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<blockquote data-quote="Twowolves" data-source="post: 5794374" data-attributes="member: 18093"><p>People keep saying this every time Paizo has a smash hit of a product.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which could be another way of saying "They know their target audience with an uncanny degree of accuracy".</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's where I counter that Wizkids did such a good job of colation that buyers of the Pathfinder Battles set don't <em>have</em> to buy multiple cases to get a complete set. No guarantees, but effectively every factory sealed case will contain at least one of every mini, and a preordered case gets you the huge dragon incentive mini. Not every potential customer cares about that sort of thing, but for those that do, the colation is pretty sweet. I only bought half a case and a few individual boosters at my FLGSs and I got 34/40, and 3 of the ones I'm missing are eitehr common or uncommon. Plus they intentionally made the Common minis the sort you would actually <em>want</em> multiples of, like zombies, skeletons, goblins and orcs, cutting down on the infamous "ANOTHER dwarf?" problem of DDM.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A little late to the reply here, as Erik Mona has already addressed this, but they did not set out to make them a different scale, and I'm not sure what part of any of my posts implied that they had. In fact, I specifically pointed out that the scale discrepencies (of which there are only 2-3 out of 40) were being addressed, which wouldn't be needed if the differences were intentional. Size creep has been happening for decades, as a casual glance at any Ral Partha mini vs Reaper mini in my collection will tell you. "25mm" morphed into "28mm" and is hovering around "32mm" now. IMO, the "humanoid" minis in this set are smaller than the "heroic scale" minis that are common in Reaper's line now, so they do seem a little anorexic to me, but that's ok. I mostly paint the PCs/major NPCs that are the "heroic scale" and use the prepaints for monsters and mooks, and the slight difference just emphasizes the spotlight on the PCs, IMO. But to me, the paintjobs on these are head and shoulders above what DDM ever put out, and for a debut set, things only look better down the line.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Twowolves, post: 5794374, member: 18093"] People keep saying this every time Paizo has a smash hit of a product. Which could be another way of saying "They know their target audience with an uncanny degree of accuracy". Here's where I counter that Wizkids did such a good job of colation that buyers of the Pathfinder Battles set don't [i]have[/i] to buy multiple cases to get a complete set. No guarantees, but effectively every factory sealed case will contain at least one of every mini, and a preordered case gets you the huge dragon incentive mini. Not every potential customer cares about that sort of thing, but for those that do, the colation is pretty sweet. I only bought half a case and a few individual boosters at my FLGSs and I got 34/40, and 3 of the ones I'm missing are eitehr common or uncommon. Plus they intentionally made the Common minis the sort you would actually [i]want[/i] multiples of, like zombies, skeletons, goblins and orcs, cutting down on the infamous "ANOTHER dwarf?" problem of DDM. A little late to the reply here, as Erik Mona has already addressed this, but they did not set out to make them a different scale, and I'm not sure what part of any of my posts implied that they had. In fact, I specifically pointed out that the scale discrepencies (of which there are only 2-3 out of 40) were being addressed, which wouldn't be needed if the differences were intentional. Size creep has been happening for decades, as a casual glance at any Ral Partha mini vs Reaper mini in my collection will tell you. "25mm" morphed into "28mm" and is hovering around "32mm" now. IMO, the "humanoid" minis in this set are smaller than the "heroic scale" minis that are common in Reaper's line now, so they do seem a little anorexic to me, but that's ok. I mostly paint the PCs/major NPCs that are the "heroic scale" and use the prepaints for monsters and mooks, and the slight difference just emphasizes the spotlight on the PCs, IMO. But to me, the paintjobs on these are head and shoulders above what DDM ever put out, and for a debut set, things only look better down the line. [/QUOTE]
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