Beetles, Centipedes, and Chickens: PATHFINDER Minis

Erik Mona has previewed three new miniatures from the Dungeons Deep miniatures set. These will be coming in June, and this week we see the Mining Beetle, Giant Centipede, and a large blue chicken known as the Terror Bird.

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More info here.

 

[TarionzCousin]

First, D&D allowed the common housecat to be able to kill a normal person. Now the peasants must also fear chickens? WHEN WILL THIS MADNESS STOP?!?

 

[Grimjack99]

Blue chicken... taste just like chicken, only now with an extra hint of blue.

 

[Jester David]

It's called a "terror bird" but it's really an axe beak. But they can't call it an axe beak because that's a WotC monster and the Open Gaming Licence doesn't cover miniatures. So they just use the art for the axe beak monster and give it a different name.

 

[mflayermonk]

Those are great minis and I am looking forward to picking up multiples of all of them. I would like to request a giant crab.

 

[Mistwell]

Err...Don't we already have two of these three out there? I have the giant centipede and beetle, and they look rather similar to those two figures. I think I have a cockatrice that looks like that chicken as well?

 

[turkeygiant]

It's called a "terror bird" but it's really an axe beak. But they can't call it an axe beak because that's a WotC monster and the Open Gaming Licence doesn't cover miniatures. So they just use the art for the axe beak monster and give it a different name.

Well Terror Bird is the common name for a type of avian apex predator that really did exist about a half a million years ago, so if anything Paizo might have actually swung back into an even more accurate name with this little copyright dodge, and Terror Bird sounds cooler than Axe Beak to me anyways!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Just Baawwwwk ... for Super Chicken!

 

[BrockBallingdark]

Axe beak! Finally! So getting that one, don't care what fake name they are using!

 

[JonArkanix]

As already pointed out, "terror bird" isn't a "fake name" but the common term for these group of birds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae

http://news.sciencemag.org/paleontology/2015/04/new-species-terror-bird-discovered

http://www.livescience.com/50443-terror-bird-new-species.html