D&D Miniatures - new spotlight and gallery

[MerricB]

D&D Miniatures Spotlight - Rules preview

Interesting information here for those of us who weren't at GenCon.

Factions are by alignment.
Standard Warband is 100 points, maximum of 12 figures.
Morale checks for figures reduced to half hp.
And other interesting info.

Gallery of Eight Iconics

Devis - male half-elf bard
Ember - female human monk
Jozan - male human cleric
Krusk - male half-orc barbarian
Lidda - female halfling rogue
Nebbin - male gnome illusionist
Tordek - male dwarf fighter
Vadania - female half-elf druid



Cheers!

 

[MerricB]

Updated list of all figures revealed so far in the gallery: (47 of 80+1)

Arcane Archer
Azer Raider
Axe Sister
Barghest
Bearded Devil
Centaur
Cleric of Corellon Larethian
Cleric of Order
Cleric of Yondalla
Devis - male half-elf bard
Drow Archer
Drow Cleric of Lolth
Drow Fighter
Dwarf Axefighter
Earth Elemental
Elf Archer
Elf Pyromancer
Elf Ranger
Ember - female human monk
Evoker's Apprentice
Fire Elemental
Gnome Recruit
Half Orc Fighter
Half Orc Monk
Halfling Veteran
Hound Archon
Human Wanderer
Jozan - male human cleric
Kobold Warrior
Kua-Toa [sic].
Krusk - male half-orc barbarian
Lidda - female halfling rogue
Lizardfolk
Man at Arms
Mind Flayer
Minotaur
Medusa
Nebbin - male gnome illusionist
Sun Soul Initiate
Sword of Heironeous
Tiefling Captain
Tordek - male dwarf fighter
Troll
Vadania - female half-elf druid
Werewolf
Wild Elf Barbarian
Wood Elf Skirmisher

Cheers!

 

[JoeGKushner]

Way too many character pawns for my liking.

 

[mearls]

Way too many character pawns for my liking.

Remember, though, that most of the character-types are probably going to end up as rares. As long as the monster-types are commons and uncommons, most packs you buy will have a bunch of monsters and one or two characters.

At least, I hope that's how the rarity works out. AFAIK, they haven't released the rarity for the individual figures. If the PC types are rares and the orcs, goblins, lizard folk, et al made commons, it should work out nicely.

Having played the game at GenCon, I'm pretty eager to pick it up when it comes out. I had fun in the demo, and with MageKnight Dungeons 3-D recently hitting the shelves I'm already working out rules for dungeon battles.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I'd also expect there to be more PC type minis in the first set, to help get things started. Then, as things move on we should probably except more "monsters".

 

[d4]

note that we've only seen slightly over half of the figs in the initial set, and the galleries we have been shown so far have been slanted in the "PC-able" direction.

for me though, i don't mind it. i tend to use more NPC encounters than monster encounters when in DM.

 

[Green Knight]

Remember, it's 4 Commons, 3 Uncommons, and 1 Rare per Booster Pack. So if the PC's are Rare, then you'll only see 1 in a Booster pack, whereas you'll see at least 4 Orcs, Kobolds, and other common monsters like that.

BTW: Merric, is that list just miniatures that've been shown on the D&D site, or which've also appeared on Gaming Report and Fantization?

Edit: Yeah, it must be. I don't see that Human Executioner we saw in the Gaming Report pics, or the Umber Hulk, or anything else of that sort.

 

[MerricB]

Just the list of figures in the Wizards' Galleries.

I expect that they have their official names there.

There are lists somewhere or other of the guesses of what's in the set, but I'm only listing the official gallery for now.

There are 27 rare figures, 33 uncommon figures and 20 common figures.

By the rarity distribution we know about, kobolds, orcs, goblins, generic human warriors, etc. will be common.

Cheers!

 

[Kevin O'Reilly]

Looks like we may have a 50/50 on PCs monsters, if this is a measure

Lawful Good 20
Chaotic Good 23
Lawful Evil 26
Chaotic Evil 32

 

[Kevin O'Reilly]

Also

Assuming the game only lasts a year (and my guess is at least 2 years support as so much of this cost is up front), we'll see at least 260-500 models!

With 80 minis in the Harbinger expansion to start with and 60 more in every expansion after that (3 each year)