MoonSong
Rules-lawyering drama queen but not a munchkin
Unless you play theater of the mind, or online, or have a sophisticated projector system in you basement, you need miniatures to play D&D. Now Miniatures are a hobby on themselves, a hobby with considerable expenses, and aren't that easy to come across, specially if you live out of the states. Hobby stores are far and between, and most stock a limited variety of minis. Amazon provides good prices, but outside of the States shipping costs can nearly double the money you actually pay for them.
Cardboard cutouts are a traditional alternative, though they aren't that easy to customize and are a little fragile. I also heard people would use Lego minifigs as miniatures, and I get why. They are relatively common, easy to mix and match and with lots of different accessories. However nowadays, Lego itself has become a collectors hobby, with all the rises in price that come with it.
So is there something that can be used as minis, highly customable, readily available, and at reasonable prices? Yes it is, Playmobil Figures!
(Find the two obvious sorcerers n_n)
I've always loved Playmobil figures and toys, and started collecting them a few years back when I rediscovered them after a friend took a viking playmobil figure to class -she loves Nordic culture-. But they indeed do nice roleplaying miniatures, with lots of chances to customize, and they are on average cheap -ranging from slightly over one dollar a piece, to at most $80 for the biggest top-of-the-line sets like castles and islands-, they are also very easy to mix and match to your heats content -figures and pieces get constantly reissued in new sets so you don't need to hunt for rare old sets-. Playmobil lines are so diverse you can also find monsters and enemies for your players, with anything from ghsots, vampires, golems, dinosaurs, dragons, drakes and even humanoid drakes that can stand for dragonborn.
One difficulty though is to find good female figures, there are many good figures that do nice spellcasters, but they need a little more work and ingenuity to work as warriors and rogues. In the end they work out very well.
(Find the two obvious sorceresses n_n)
Even figures that are fairly modern can be adapted to D&D mood with a few accessories. This figure was a twenties flapper before getting a robe, a cape and a staff
As I said with some effort any figure can be adapted, but some lines are more useful that others. Lines that I have found very useful are:
-Knights
-Fairies
-Princess
-Pirates
-Super 4
-Dinos (For monsters)
-Fi?ures
The following lines also have good matches, but only on certain selected sets
-Special Plus
-Playmo Friends
-Duo-Pack
Fi?ures in particular is just GOOD, you can pull these figures apart and combine them to get way closer to your character. Even if you get a modern figure, you can always mix it with another for good effect -I got the dualwielding rogue in the second picture by mixing two different figures-. Pink packs sometimes even have a discount!
So did anybody use Playmobil figures before?
Cardboard cutouts are a traditional alternative, though they aren't that easy to customize and are a little fragile. I also heard people would use Lego minifigs as miniatures, and I get why. They are relatively common, easy to mix and match and with lots of different accessories. However nowadays, Lego itself has become a collectors hobby, with all the rises in price that come with it.
So is there something that can be used as minis, highly customable, readily available, and at reasonable prices? Yes it is, Playmobil Figures!
(Find the two obvious sorcerers n_n)
I've always loved Playmobil figures and toys, and started collecting them a few years back when I rediscovered them after a friend took a viking playmobil figure to class -she loves Nordic culture-. But they indeed do nice roleplaying miniatures, with lots of chances to customize, and they are on average cheap -ranging from slightly over one dollar a piece, to at most $80 for the biggest top-of-the-line sets like castles and islands-, they are also very easy to mix and match to your heats content -figures and pieces get constantly reissued in new sets so you don't need to hunt for rare old sets-. Playmobil lines are so diverse you can also find monsters and enemies for your players, with anything from ghsots, vampires, golems, dinosaurs, dragons, drakes and even humanoid drakes that can stand for dragonborn.
One difficulty though is to find good female figures, there are many good figures that do nice spellcasters, but they need a little more work and ingenuity to work as warriors and rogues. In the end they work out very well.
(Find the two obvious sorceresses n_n)
Even figures that are fairly modern can be adapted to D&D mood with a few accessories. This figure was a twenties flapper before getting a robe, a cape and a staff
As I said with some effort any figure can be adapted, but some lines are more useful that others. Lines that I have found very useful are:
-Knights
-Fairies
-Princess
-Pirates
-Super 4
-Dinos (For monsters)
-Fi?ures
The following lines also have good matches, but only on certain selected sets
-Special Plus
-Playmo Friends
-Duo-Pack
Fi?ures in particular is just GOOD, you can pull these figures apart and combine them to get way closer to your character. Even if you get a modern figure, you can always mix it with another for good effect -I got the dualwielding rogue in the second picture by mixing two different figures-. Pink packs sometimes even have a discount!
So did anybody use Playmobil figures before?
