D&d Minis Hurrayyy!

[trancejeremy]

Starter pack = $20 - 16 figures (1 rare, 5 uncommon, 10 common)
Booster pack = $10 - 8 figures (1 rare, 3 uncommon, 4 common)

For Mage Knight, I think they are now about $7-8 for 4 or 5 figures. So it's a pretty good deal compared to that.

On the down side, the figure selection really sucks. There are only 80 figures, and the distribution is wonky.

27 rare, 33 uncommon, 20 common.


Follow on sets will be worse. Only 60 figures.

Personally, I think that is what will cause the game to flop. Wizkids has a much better distribution style. 6 different levels.

Part of the fun of MK was finding a unique (level 6) rarity, kind of like winning the lottery (albeit on a lesser scale). And while you do end up with a lot of loser figures in MK, there's a fairly big variety (usually 100 figures or so in a set). This also looks like all the cool looking figures will be rare. In MK, some of the cooler figures are pretty common.

I mean, for instance, we know the Mind Flayer will be a rare figure. So you'll have to buy 27 boosters to get one (on average).

What they should have done, IMHO, is made the Mind Flayer an uncommon figure (or common), and made a specific Mind Flayer the rare figure. ie, Harold the Mind Flayer.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

If there's a gnome mini, I'll be a customer for life. I haven't seen a single gnome mini, ever. Won't someone please think of the gnomes?

 

[d4]

Re: Re: Re: beating a dead horse

Figure shipping in there, and that 1-1.50 cheap plastic miniature is right up there with a decent pewter one that is a lot higher quality, which I can just go pick up new at my FLGS, and get exactly what I want.

i did say that $1-1.50 was the high end of the scale of the figs i've seen and bought on ebay.

even so, even with shipping added, i'd rather pay that for a bunch of figs i can pull right out of the box and throw on my gaming table as opposed to buying a decent pewter fig for three to five times that price, as well as having to buy brushes, paint, primer, and matte spray and spend the time to paint it, before i can get it on my gaming table.

in the end, the "cost" of the pewter fig from store is higher for me in time and materials. and between the secondary market at my FLGS, ebay, and online retailers that sell singles, i imagine i won't have any trouble finding exactly the figs i want.

i love using miniatures to handle tactical combat, but i absolutely hate painting them. prepainted figs will be a welcome addition to my gaming supplies.

 

[Mark]

As I understand it, there are going to be eighty figures total. They've revealed photos of 31 of them thus far on their site. Is there a list somewhere of of the remaining 49?

21 PC Types

Arcane Archer
Axe Sister
Cleric of Corellon Larethian
Cleric of Order Cleric of Yondalla
Dwarf Axefighter
Elf Archer
Elf Pyromancer
Elf Ranger
Evoker's Apprentice
Gnome Recruit
Half Orc Fighter
Half Orc Monk
Halfling Veteran
Human Wanderer
Man at Arms
Sun Soul Initiate
Sword of Heironeous
Tiefling Captain
Wild Elf Barbarian
Wood Elf Skirmisher

Magical Monsters

Azer Raider
Barghest
Bearded Devil
Centaur
Earth Elemental
Fire Elemental
Hound Archon
Medusa
Mind Flayer
Werewolf

 

[d4]

the thing that bugs me about that list:

7 elf PC figs, 1 dwarf PC fig.

come on, give them stunties some love!!

i hope future expansions balance out the races. maybe the next set will have 9 dwarves and only 3 elves. somehow, i don't see that happening.

 

[Bagpuss]

Actual game-play can also benefit from random packaging. Wizards is aiming with the D&D miniatures not only to boost miniatures use in role-playing but also to build up competitive tabletop play within the D&D universe. Sealed box tournaments, even sealed-box dungeons or encounters are instant possibilities.

Drat! WotC had my idea before me. What the hell is "competitive tabletop play" (with regards to D&D) that they want to build it up, I've never heard of it before. Every D&D game I've played in has been "co-operative tabletop play" is everyone ment to play Chaotic Evil backstabbers nowdays?

 

[mmu1]

If there's a gnome mini, I'll be a customer for life. I haven't seen a single gnome mini, ever. Won't someone please think of the gnomes?

Balto Burrowell, Gnome Illusionist.

http://www.reapermini.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=385&cat=&page=1

 

[shouit]

Collectable Minis and Games Workshop

What would really really suck, is if any "official" DnD game required you to have their plastic minis. Like they run at GenCon right now. That is what GW does, any official Warhammer game has to have the real Warhammer mini. If WotC did this, it would ruin the fun, I think..

 

[Olive]

Re: Collectable Minis and Games Workshop

What would really really suck, is if any "official" DnD game required you to have their plastic minis. Like they run at GenCon right now. That is what GW does, any official Warhammer game has to have the real Warhammer mini. If WotC did this, it would ruin the fun, I think..

I'd be really surprised if they did. Their attitude hasn't been 'you must use official character sheets' etc like GW's.

Do gencon games allow 3rd party stuff?

 

[Mark]

It would be a long, long time before WotC could produce enough miniatures, in a great enough variety, so that they could attempt to institute such a policy. It isn't going to happen.