Dragon Vindaloo
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Echohawk said:
Arn't they poisonous and cancer causing now too?
I heard this the other day... guess I can't smoke them anymore.
Clueless...Educate Me About D&D Miniatures.
- Thread starter Ulric
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Arn't they poisonous and cancer causing now too?
I heard this the other day... guess I can't smoke them anymore.
megamania
Hero
Plastic Crack is very addictive especially if you like to tinker and do touch up paint jobs on them.
I have everything released thus far (minus a few promo figs and Iconics).
Something else not mentioned are the starter packs and maps.
There are three starter packs. Harbinger (good luck on that one), Aberrations (very hard to find) and Wardrums which is roughly a year old but can be gotten still. The map adventurers they are doing work well also.
Figured if you are looking into miniatures, you may also want support stuff for them.
Though covered- Sizes- go from 1/2 inch (Tiny Flaming Skull), to 3/4 inch (small halfling), to 1-1 1/4 inch ave (Med humanoid), to large (2-4 inches) to huge ( 4-7 inches Elderich Giant) then the Iconics Garg (8 inches Black and Blue Dragons) to Colossal (15 inches Red Dragon)
There is a thread here somewhere talking about miniatures that compares the Blue Dragon family-
Med (Wyrmling)
Large (young Adult)
Huge (Dracolich)
Garg (Old)
Wyrmling is roughling 1x1x1 in size.
I have everything released thus far (minus a few promo figs and Iconics).
Something else not mentioned are the starter packs and maps.
There are three starter packs. Harbinger (good luck on that one), Aberrations (very hard to find) and Wardrums which is roughly a year old but can be gotten still. The map adventurers they are doing work well also.
Figured if you are looking into miniatures, you may also want support stuff for them.
Though covered- Sizes- go from 1/2 inch (Tiny Flaming Skull), to 3/4 inch (small halfling), to 1-1 1/4 inch ave (Med humanoid), to large (2-4 inches) to huge ( 4-7 inches Elderich Giant) then the Iconics Garg (8 inches Black and Blue Dragons) to Colossal (15 inches Red Dragon)
There is a thread here somewhere talking about miniatures that compares the Blue Dragon family-
Med (Wyrmling)
Large (young Adult)
Huge (Dracolich)
Garg (Old)
Wyrmling is roughling 1x1x1 in size.
Shadowslayer
Explorer
Howdy Ulric.
Just a couple random thoughts:
The Minis game itself is fun, and creative in its own right (but in different ways than the rpg). Takes about an hour to play a match.
My main advice is to get your Starter set, then run to Staples and get the maps laminated. Make sure the staff lay them flat and not rolled up in a tube. (Roll them in a tube while they're still warm and they'll never straighten out) I made myself a large folder out of a carboard box so I could store them flat rather than in a tube.
If you like, you can collect maps too. The D&D Fantastic Locations line each have 4 maps, 3 of which are DDM legal and also suitable for RPG use, and 1 map just for the RPG. (At least the maps aren't randomly packaged!)
Don't put your expectations too high on the paintjobs. I understand they're painted by machine, and if you've ever done your own, you may find them lacking. But if it doesn't matter to you, then these are great. I don't completely repaint them, but I often add a highlight layer and some sand on the base to make them pop. (I find many of the DDMs to be too dark...lightening the color of the base sets them off nicely.)
The minis are sturdy enough to just throw them in all in a tin together, but protect your cards. Get a card binder, or at the very least, get some of those cheap card sleeves. Then you can track hit points with wet erase marker right on the card. If you have 2 of the same mini in your warband, do something to differentiate the 2. I just put a gold star on the base and a matching star on the cardsleeve.
Just remember that its real easy to spend a LOT of money on these things, When you buy a booster and you don't get enything that's new, it might be time to hit ebay and buy them piece by piece.
Ulric said:
Just a couple random thoughts:
The Minis game itself is fun, and creative in its own right (but in different ways than the rpg). Takes about an hour to play a match.
My main advice is to get your Starter set, then run to Staples and get the maps laminated. Make sure the staff lay them flat and not rolled up in a tube. (Roll them in a tube while they're still warm and they'll never straighten out) I made myself a large folder out of a carboard box so I could store them flat rather than in a tube.
If you like, you can collect maps too. The D&D Fantastic Locations line each have 4 maps, 3 of which are DDM legal and also suitable for RPG use, and 1 map just for the RPG. (At least the maps aren't randomly packaged!)
Don't put your expectations too high on the paintjobs. I understand they're painted by machine, and if you've ever done your own, you may find them lacking. But if it doesn't matter to you, then these are great. I don't completely repaint them, but I often add a highlight layer and some sand on the base to make them pop. (I find many of the DDMs to be too dark...lightening the color of the base sets them off nicely.)
The minis are sturdy enough to just throw them in all in a tin together, but protect your cards. Get a card binder, or at the very least, get some of those cheap card sleeves. Then you can track hit points with wet erase marker right on the card. If you have 2 of the same mini in your warband, do something to differentiate the 2. I just put a gold star on the base and a matching star on the cardsleeve.
Just remember that its real easy to spend a LOT of money on these things, When you buy a booster and you don't get enything that's new, it might be time to hit ebay and buy them piece by piece.
Kae'Yoss
First Post
Shadowslayer said:
I don't know. They're not up to what Peter Lee or even a skilled layman could do, but I think they got me. They're not that bad. They got better over time, too. And it's way better than painting a hundred minis yourself (unless you have that kind of time on your hands).
Oh yes. So much better than metal minis. Drop a DDM figure on the floor, you pick it up. Do that to a metal figure, you gotta go get the glue and get the legs and the sword back on.
Dragon Vindaloo said:Arn't they poisonous and cancer causing now too?
There was indeed something with the old plastic - it didn't conform to the new European standards. But the second batch of Bloodwar (to be shipped to Europe) had a new kind of plastic that does conform to the new standards, and all figures thereafter will be made of the new plastic.
Olaf the Stout
Legend
Shadowslayer said:
I thought that they were painted by hand but that they were done somewhere in Asia, much like most cells from animated TV series. Does anyone know for sure?
Olaf the Stout
Oryan77
Adventurer
If you want to view pictures of WotC minis, I really like using Vesivus's site:
http://www.vesivus.com/minis/index.htm
You can sort them by race, class, set, ect ect
I also sell minis here in the Marketplace forum. If you're interested in my stock, you can view my stuff by following the link in my sig.
http://www.vesivus.com/minis/index.htm
You can sort them by race, class, set, ect ect
I also sell minis here in the Marketplace forum. If you're interested in my stock, you can view my stuff by following the link in my sig.
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