D&D Minis: What's missing most?
- Thread starter JoeGKushner
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JoeGKushner
Adventurer
MerricB said:
This is true. But price is always a factor. I'd have to see what it looks like before making any final decesion, but at $40, I can buy one of the boxed sets of a dragon from Reaper which will looke 100% better than the average figure with even a half-way decent paint job.
Sammael
Adventurer
Don't forget that your $40 dragon will require several days of painting to match the pre-painted one. So, how much is your time worth? People around here charge up to $10 to paint a medium-sized miniature. I imagine a dragon would easily cost four times as much.JoeGKushner said:
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
Sammael said:
That's why I mentioned half-way decent. Larger figures are much easier to paint than smaller ones. I could paint that dragon in less than three hours including assembly. No buckles, straps, potions, backpacks and other little things there!
heirodule
First Post
I'd like to see several pieces that form a unit of soldiers. Like fighters with different weapons, archers, a cleric, a commander, a seargant, etc that all look like they come from the same culture and unit.
The hobgoblin impaler disappointed me because he really looks like somebdy from a different tribe than the earlier hobgoblin miniature.
The hobgoblin impaler disappointed me because he really looks like somebdy from a different tribe than the earlier hobgoblin miniature.
edbonny
Explorer
In no particular order:
Hellfire Wyrm
Another ooze or two (please leave out the victim fig next time) - make it huge
Gem dragons / Planar Dragons
A Dark Sun Dragon, A Dark Sun Avangion (mid to high level)
Yugoloths / daemons
Fey'ri
Chain golem
A few living spells from Eberron
Modrons (yeah, I know we won't be seeing them soon, sigh)
Hellfire Wyrm
Another ooze or two (please leave out the victim fig next time) - make it huge
Gem dragons / Planar Dragons
A Dark Sun Dragon, A Dark Sun Avangion (mid to high level)
Yugoloths / daemons
Fey'ri
Chain golem
A few living spells from Eberron
Modrons (yeah, I know we won't be seeing them soon, sigh)
JoeGKushner
Adventurer
edbonny said:
What about instead of living spells, spell effects like a Bigby's Hand or Spiritual Weapon or Burning Sphere? Or multi-purpose cards that were living but also spell effects?
I'm just a novice player that wanted to start DMing a campaign. Given that 3.5 rules depend heavily on having miniatures to represent combatants, I was surprised how hard it is to just find some average humanoids and basic monsters, i.e. a core set to get started in DnD with, not miniatures collecting. I ended up just stopping at one basic miniatures pack and one booster. Seeing this was an ineffcient way to get some basic combatants for my campaign, I ended up going to Walmart and getting a $5 tub of cavemen and sabre-toothed tigers to represent humanoids and monsters. Sure there's no realism, but it was cheap and populated my battlespace. I'm not a collector and never will be. If they really want to open up their market base, they should make just basic core sets of warriors and orcs, etc for the non-collector. Just making the packs in collector fashion like the cards doesn't mean I'm automatically going to want to snag everything out there I can.
DamionW said:
Quoth the Lawgiver:
MerricB said:
Be very, very glad that you did not succumb to the plastic crack. I've got just over 1,000 of the wee beasties now. I've even started sending packages to strangers I meet over the internet, and allowing them to send packages to my home, just so I can get more of them! Curse my luck for buying two Dragoneye boosters on a whim one day, and pulling out a Thayan Knight and a Black Dragon! I was lost before I even knew what was happening!
