Alternatives to WotC Minis
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Marius Delphus
Adventurer
Not having read the whole thread, I will simply put forth my own preference:
For PCs and important NPCs, I want my metal minis, lovingly hand-painted and sealed etc. Nothing else will do.
However, for undifferentiated, "horde" type adversaries, I would dearly love a "bag o' orcs," "box o' kobolds," or some such thing. I would leap at the chance to buy these unpainted (i.e., cheaper)! See also: plastic military minis. I absolutely do *not* want metal for this use: too heavy, too expensive.
For monsters somewhere in the middle, custom sculpts with a halfway decent paint job would probably more than satisfy me. The D&D minis would fit the bill here were they not randomly packed! Non-random plastic minis of comparable quality would certainly get my attention.
If I'm taking the trouble to lay out a tabletop combat, this has the following effect: the players have their own, special minis of their characters, they see a horde of bad guys (maybe I'd paint little letters or numbers on the backs of their heads so I know who's who), and then when a *painted* mini comes out of the stash, they pay attention... "hey, who's that?" kind of attention, like when Gothmog appears in ROTK.
Yeah, that'd be cool.
For PCs and important NPCs, I want my metal minis, lovingly hand-painted and sealed etc. Nothing else will do.
However, for undifferentiated, "horde" type adversaries, I would dearly love a "bag o' orcs," "box o' kobolds," or some such thing. I would leap at the chance to buy these unpainted (i.e., cheaper)! See also: plastic military minis. I absolutely do *not* want metal for this use: too heavy, too expensive.
For monsters somewhere in the middle, custom sculpts with a halfway decent paint job would probably more than satisfy me. The D&D minis would fit the bill here were they not randomly packed! Non-random plastic minis of comparable quality would certainly get my attention.
If I'm taking the trouble to lay out a tabletop combat, this has the following effect: the players have their own, special minis of their characters, they see a horde of bad guys (maybe I'd paint little letters or numbers on the backs of their heads so I know who's who), and then when a *painted* mini comes out of the stash, they pay attention... "hey, who's that?" kind of attention, like when Gothmog appears in ROTK.
Yeah, that'd be cool.
I just picked up the D&D Basic Set. Those mini's look great! Much better than the terrible paintjobs that originally came out. Anyway...
* Not sure how important it is, but I sure like them stat cards. Shove 'em in a CCG box, take out the ones you need, throw them and the mini's in a box and go.
* It didn't work for counters, and they tried it with metals for a Drow adventure whose name escapes me, but a miniatures pack to accompany a prewritten adventure would be darn neat, sorta like the Basic Set. No, I have no idea how to do it. Mebbe those introductory WotC adventures??
Cedric.
aka. Washu! ^O^
* Not sure how important it is, but I sure like them stat cards. Shove 'em in a CCG box, take out the ones you need, throw them and the mini's in a box and go.
* It didn't work for counters, and they tried it with metals for a Drow adventure whose name escapes me, but a miniatures pack to accompany a prewritten adventure would be darn neat, sorta like the Basic Set. No, I have no idea how to do it. Mebbe those introductory WotC adventures??
Cedric.
aka. Washu! ^O^
Davelozzi
Explorer
Sammael said:
Me too, though I wasn't watching the credits closely enough to see if he was listed by name there. However, he is named in the Games Workshop minis line:
http://store.us.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.us?do=Individual&code=99061462026&orignav=9
Same deal with Lurtz, the big uruk-hai from the first movie:
http://store.us.games-workshop.com/storefront/store.us?do=Individual&code=99061462001&orignav=9
Marius Delphus
Adventurer
Thanks, Merric and Dave. Sorry to derail the thread.
My point was, as a DM and consumer I'd be highly interested in both plastic minis of about the same quality as D&D Minis (non-randomized singles, preferably) and even cheaper, unpainted "bulk" plastic minis (non-randomized multiples, preferably). I'm also not interested in plumbing the secondary market for D&D Minis others are selling. Anyone else feel the same way, or is this thread too far gone?
My point was, as a DM and consumer I'd be highly interested in both plastic minis of about the same quality as D&D Minis (non-randomized singles, preferably) and even cheaper, unpainted "bulk" plastic minis (non-randomized multiples, preferably). I'm also not interested in plumbing the secondary market for D&D Minis others are selling. Anyone else feel the same way, or is this thread too far gone?
Marius Delphus said:Thanks, Merric and Dave. Sorry to derail the thread.
My point was, as a DM and consumer I'd be highly interested in both plastic minis of about the same quality as D&D Minis (non-randomized singles, preferably) and even cheaper, unpainted "bulk" plastic minis (non-randomized multiples, preferably). I'm also not interested in plumbing the secondary market for D&D Minis others are selling. Anyone else feel the same way, or is this thread too far gone?
Due to the economics of scale, I'm not sure how successful it'd be if the line dealt in singles, actually. From what I remember, the set up cost for plastics is actually higher than metals, though you recover a lot from creating in bulk.
However, I well might be wrong, so I'm very interested in seeing what occurs.
Singles don't interest me as much as the possibility of buying packs of themed figures (orcs, ogres, giants, etc.)
Cheers!
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