D&D 5E Critical Role Miniatures Coming Soon

Fans of Critical Role will be excited to hear that WizKids will be bringing you a range of pre-painted miniatures based on the world of Exandria (which contains Tal'Dorei and Wildemount). They launch in hobby stores early this year, and include iconic monsters and player characters from the series, including a gargantuan Udaak.

 

[Dire Bare]

The PC figures... even the Blood Hunter could be from any campaign (as a Warlock).

Critical Role is a D&D property, if unofficially. All of WizKids D&D, Pathfinder, and now Critical Role miniatures SHOULD be fairly interchangeable . . . they are all D&D miniatures. This seems an odd criticism.

 

[SkidAce]

ive tried the WOTC crew and acquisitions Inc (Acquistions for the most part is a live show at cons and really doesn't take itself seriously .

The really good ones are at the beginning. Its quite a while before they start doing Con games.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

If you're paying $6+ for an iconic or really great PC mini, yeah, that isn't too bad. When half of the minis are meant to be townsfolk or backgroud figures.... not so much. A lot of the target audience for these minis already have equivalents for most of the humanoids, meaning that we're really going to get very little use out of them. If the set was filled with the Bright Queen, Avantika, Lucien, Artagan, Essek, Gustav, Vecna, The Briarwoods, etc... I'd have more enthusiasm. Not to mention it would have been good to see at least one member of Vox Machina or the Mighty Nein in each box... The monsters are uniquely Exandria. The PC figures... even the Blood Hunter could be from any campaign (as a Warlock).

I assume they don't have a member of the Nein or VM in the set because of the fact they have complete sets of each group - including Trinket - from Steamforged Games, I think it is. It's available on the website.

 

[Burnside]

But Joe is too busy making real money as a Hollywood actor/writer/producer to take a side venture into a live-streamed game.

 

[Burnside]

I think these will sell and potentially bring in more miniature sales for wizkids. I hope we get the player characters ( I wonder if they cant be made until a contract on the originals runs out?).

Critical role has the whole package
dm knows his stuff and is brilliant running NPCS, running interesting encounters

For the most part the players especially in campaign 2 know their stuff, truly invested in their characters, are all charismatic, work great together plus come up with great ways to use spells/etc

the production/set/directing is far superior to anything else out there. this weekly show is more entertaining than most tv

ive tried the WOTC crew and acquisitions Inc (Acquistions for the most part is a live show at cons and really doesn't take itself seriously .

I agree with all this except the "players know their stuff" part. Some of them are pretty shaky on rules.

Like if I played D&D professionally for six years and made six figures doing it, I'm pretty sure by now I'd know how sneak attack worked (Sam).

With Ashley, every combat round is almost like starting from scratch with a first-time player.

But all that really proves is that the rules are far from the most important element of a great D&D game.

 

[jgsugden]

Critical Role is a D&D property, if unofficially. All of WizKids D&D, Pathfinder, and now Critical Role miniatures SHOULD be fairly interchangeable . . . they are all D&D miniatures. This seems an odd criticism.

Paying a higher cost for Critical Role figures, which are not really iconically Critical Role, is not sensible. If I'm going to pay more for Critical Role humanoid figures, I want them to be evocatively representative of something uniquely Critical Role.

 

[MNblockhead]

If the creatures these minis represent are featured in the upcoming animated series they are putting out on Amazon Prime, Wiz Kids should do quite well with this line, regardless of the price.

 

[MNblockhead]

The PAX folks have a 4e book too. Sort of.

The Acq. Inc. book? That was 5e.

 

[darjr]

The Acq. Inc. book? That was 5e.

I meant the players strategy guide. Which was only the cover, but I did say sorta.

The cover is the only bit I ever saw. But now that I know there are also humorous cartoons within I kinda want it for that.

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[Dire Bare]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Joe has definitely been involved in various live-streamed games. But not on the scale of Critical Role, where the streamed game is a major focus of the participants time and energy. Manganiello isn't pulling a Mercer, so to speak. Perhaps I am splitting hairs . . . .

 

[Dire Bare]

Paying a higher cost for Critical Role figures, which are not really iconically Critical Role, is not sensible. If I'm going to pay more for Critical Role humanoid figures, I want them to be evocatively representative of something uniquely Critical Role.

We just did the math upthread, and you really aren't paying all that much more per figure. A bit yes, likely due to the smaller production run compared to the blind boxes for D&D and Pathfinder.

But at the end of the day, if the miniatures don't excite you enough at that price point . . . there's plenty more out there available from all sorts of companies, of course. The cost of these Critical Role minis is high, but not really unreasonable, compared to other figures from WizKids and other companies.

Personally, I'd want to see paintjobs before I made a purchase. If they are painted to the level of most blind-box minis, I won't be interested personally.

 

[darjr]

Huh some great folks worked on that players guide....

 

[BRayne]

If the creatures these minis represent are featured in the upcoming animated series they are putting out on Amazon Prime, Wiz Kids should do quite well with this line, regardless of the price.

I think only the "Grinner" and "Ravenite Dragonborn" figures would likely appear in the animated series. These are pretty much all campaign 2 based while the cartoon is campaign 1.

 

[jgsugden]

I think only the "Grinner" and "Ravenite Dragonborn" figures would likely appear in the animated series. These are pretty much all campaign 2 based while the cartoon is campaign 1.

Right on point. If they released a Briarwood box that had Lord Briarwood, Lady Briarwood, Anna Ripley, Gilmore, Sir Kerrion, Duke Vedemeyer, Professor Anders, Lady Kima, and Allura I'd think of it as a Critical Role box. Instead, when we get randos from the Empire - with the Exception of Pumat Sole, the one overlap with the unpainted line already released which proves they had come capability to overlap.

 

[BRayne]

Right on point. If they released a Briarwood box that had Lord Briarwood, Lady Briarwood, Anna Ripley, Gilmore, Sir Kerrion, Duke Vedemeyer, Professor Anders, Lady Kima, and Allura I'd think of it as a Critical Role box. Instead, when we get randos from the Empire - with the Exception of Pumat Sole, the one overlap with the unpainted line already released which proves they had come capability to overlap.

It's certainly more based on Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (I mean they're almost all just 3d renders of art from the book) than the show itself. I would say there are some figures that are basically named characters even if they aren't defined as such on the mini. The Blood Hunter is Elias de Corvo (who hasn't appeared on the show and is just named as the "Iconic" Blood Hunter) and The Grinner is Dr. Dranzel

 

[pumasleeve]

I have been played since first edition. I never needed pro-gaming and never will. I have never been able to watch more than 5 minutes of CR, its not my thing. Im not trolling, if its your thing, more power to you and there are a lot of you.

 

[Bayushi_seikuro]

It's certainly more based on Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (I mean they're almost all just 3d renders of art from the book) than the show itself. I would say there are some figures that are basically named characters even if they aren't defined as such on the mini. The Blood Hunter is Elias de Corvo (who hasn't appeared on the show and is just named as the "Iconic" Blood Hunter) and The Grinner is Dr. Dranzel

I think this is a key part. The minis in the set seem to be beasties directly from the Explorer's Guide. I know because I busted the sahuagin servant of Uk'otoa (ukotoaukotoaukotoa) out on a party.

 

[Paul3]

As a fan of Critical Role this stuff is just getting surreal to me. Their D&D game has turned into Comic Books, TV Shows, D&D Tie-In Products and every kind of merch you can think of.

The world they have created together is really turning into something of a mini media-empire. I would not be surprised to see a video-game or even their own spin-off RPG before the decade is out.

I used to watch the show from time to time, simply because Mercer was so darn good. Over time, I grew to not be able to stand one cast member and many of the fans became insufferable, so I checked out. However, my point is that despite my personal preference, I think the story behind their rise is just magnificent and I am glad that these characters that mean a lot to many people will be expanded in this way.

 

[Burnside]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. Joe has definitely been involved in various live-streamed games. But not on the scale of Critical Role, where the streamed game is a major focus of the participants time and energy. Manganiello isn't pulling a Mercer, so to speak. Perhaps I am splitting hairs . . . .

Does Manganiello actually DM at all, though? I've only ever heard him discuss the game as a player. I'm pretty sure he is not the DM of his home game either.

 

[BRayne]

I wonder also if the Screen Actors Guild or their agents might be against them doing a side TV show in their free time?

I doubt SAG would care, considering CR are all active members