Future of D&D Miniatures

MerricB

Eternal Optimist
Supporter
I'm feeling very out of touch; I managed to miss some major announcements about the future of D&D and the D&D Miniatures line. Oh well, I'm catching up now.

Source: Wizards, through the coverage of their seminar by Living Dice:

Later in 2010, the Lords of Madness miniature set will be released. It won't have a visible miniature in it, instead being fully random, and consisting of 1 Huge miniature plus 5 other miniatures per pack.

The big feature of this set is it will be the *only* set of (random) D&D Minis in 2010, and they'll be going forward with the one set/year from now on - or until they change their minds.

Of course, they're doing other non-random sets for specific customers, such as the gargantuan Orcus miniature ($75) which will be released to hobby shops only; and there's also the Beholder pack release coming up (not mentioned in the seminar, but talked about by Bill Slavicsek in his Ampersand column).

Cheers!
 

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Nikosandros

Golden Procrastinator
Also, with less miniatures being produced, WotC won't provide any more minis with demo packages. Both the last Game Day and the D&D Encounters' kit have tokens for PCs and monsters.
 

DaveMage

Slumbering in Tsar
As long as it's a huge set, I'm good with one set/year.

I have plenty from previous sets, so all I'm looking for are monsters that haven't been done yet.
 

MerricB

Eternal Optimist
Supporter
As long as it's a huge set, I'm good with one set/year.

I have plenty from previous sets, so all I'm looking for are monsters that haven't been done yet.

The same. Unfortunately, with one set/year, it's likely it'll be full of ones that *have* been done before - goblins, kobolds, orcs. Those sorts of things - because there'll be no always-in-print introductory set.

What they're doing for the Dungeon Tiles is really nice: master sets which are always in print, and then limited releases of speciality tiles.

Cheers!
 

darjr

I crit!
A master set of miniatures would be cool. Now only if I could decide what would be nice to have in such a set.
 

mhacdebhandia

Explorer
A master set of miniatures would be cool. Now only if I could decide what would be nice to have in such a set.
There's an opportunity to tie in with the D&D Essentials line - provide miniatures for all of the "classic" monsters included in the Monster Vault and other such products.

The Monster Vault will already have tokens for them, but still.
 

Steel_Wind

Legend
Perhaps.

I guess that the problem with D&D plastic minis is the same that was experienced with lead and pewter minis generally in past decades.

These products last a long time - they don't just "go away". And they often get resold.

At a certain point, the market becomes so saturated, it is difficult to get people excited about them. They have enough and when they want more - they go to resellers for their plastic, not boosters and cases.

I expect the mini market will come back again at some point. But it will be a while.

For now, I'm buying Star Wars minis in the secondary market and enjoying them for use during RPG play. Great product.
 

I'm just glad I have just about all the minis I need for my D&D game. I think I have about 2,000 DDM's so I have most of my bases covered when it comes to monsters.

One thing I really hope to see is the remaining 2 Huge Chromatic Dragons. We still need a Huge Blue and a Huge Black (the one with the rider doesn't count - try using it in your game without your players asking why the Dragon has someone riding them! :hmm:). If one or both of them are in the next Huge set I will be a very happy man.

Olaf the Stout
 

DaveMage

Slumbering in Tsar
I'm just glad I have just about all the minis I need for my D&D game. I think I have about 2,000 DDM's so I have most of my bases covered when it comes to monsters.

One thing I really hope to see is the remaining 2 Huge Chromatic Dragons. We still need a Huge Blue and a Huge Black (the one with the rider doesn't count - try using it in your game without your players asking why the Dragon has someone riding them! :hmm:). If one or both of them are in the next Huge set I will be a very happy man.

Olaf the Stout

Agreed on the dragons.

I'm hoping we can see a gargantuan green dragon one day too....
 

Sammael

Adventurer
Agreed on the dragons.

I'm hoping we can see a gargantuan green dragon one day too....
It'll be a 4E green dragon, though, and I'd greatly prefer a 3E one.

Perhaps the best "edition free" choice for a gargantuan green dragon would be Cyan Bloodbane from Dragonlance.
 

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