Pathfinder 1E Details on Paizo's GameMastery Line

[fafhrd]

Me, i question that logic. I'd be interested to see if the advent of D&D minis has negatively impacted the sales of, say, Reaper. It seems to me that the cheap, pre-painted minis make it more likely that "on the fence" gamers now use minis in their game. Does this type of player _only_ buy pre-painted minis, or does he sometimes buy a metal miniature when what he's looking for isn't available in plastic?

Erik, I used to buy unpainted minis. I failed arts and crafts as a kid and have zero interest in painting. I used to try to pay people to paint my minis. Then WotC came out with their line and I haven't looked back. Don't know that I'm your audience. Not even sure that I represent much of a demographic. But I do exist.

 

[Nightfall]

Erik, I used to buy unpainted minis. I failed arts and crafts as a kid and have zero interest in painting. I used to try to pay people to paint my minis. Then WotC came out with their line and I haven't looked back. Don't know that I'm your audience. Not even sure that I represent much of a demographic. But I do exist.

So do people that believe in UFOs. Doesn't mean WotC will sell them rides on their dime.

Just saying Fafhrd, they made a decision to do it this way. You'll just have to accept that.

 

[fafhrd]

I was simply responding to Erik's probably rhetorical question. I don't have any delusions that they'll change the product line just for me. I thought I had properly prefaced my comments, but I always forget the darned softening emoticons!

 

[Nightfall]

Riigghtt...

Anyway looking forward to all this.

 

[MonsterMash]

We should have the sketches that the minis were sculpted from available by the end of the week! They are hot!!!

Keith Strohm
Chief Operating Officer
Paizo Publishing, LLC

Great, now start saving my pennies to buy these when they come out.

 

[Gez]

Dark Elf Sanctum (August 2005, $15.95)
By Wayne Reynolds, Mike Mearls, and Christopher West
In a darkened chamber deep below the sunlit world, a diabolical dark elf priestess weaves rhymes of magic over an ancient portal arch. What foul entity answers her summons, and what will happen when it emerges into the world of man? A Compleat Encounter featuring a dark elf priestess, the summoning arch, and an otherworldly monstrosity.​

Are you trying to compete with, or synergize with, WotC's Fane of the Drow (the Fantistic Location by Gwen Ketsrel) ? 'Cause it's about the same thing, but with a map/battlemat instead of minis...

Hopefully, it'll have better editing, despite being in the Compleat Encounter line...

 

[woodelf]

Here's your answer from this player who fits the description above:

No, I will not buy a metal miniature (by itself) that is not pre-painted plastic, even if there is no plastic equivalent. I have no talent for painting and am not interested in the slightest in trying.

So don't. I have a box of minis, from back when we used them all the time (now i use them occasionally). A few of them are painted, from when my brother decided to try mini painting. Most are not. It never even occurred to me to paint them, and the vast majority of gamers i've known have never painted any of their minis. Back in the Day, we always thought of painting as a wholly separate activity from gaming: some people gamed, and some painted, and some happened to be into both hobbies, but none of the gamers i knew. Minis more than sufficiently fulfilled their purpose without painting, and none of us were interested in spending the time that would've been required to paint minis, when we could be spending that time gaming, or making chars, or reading game books.

So, i, too, have no talent for or interest in painting minis. Not really seeing that as a strike against unpainted minis, however.

 

[woodelf]

Erik, I used to buy unpainted minis. I failed arts and crafts as a kid and have zero interest in painting. I used to try to pay people to paint my minis. Then WotC came out with their line and I haven't looked back. Don't know that I'm your audience. Not even sure that I represent much of a demographic. But I do exist.

Interesting. I think that an unpainted pewter miniature (assuming it's well-sculpted) is much better looking than any pre-painted plastic miniature i've seen--in large part because of the greater detail metal can hold, just as Paizo has said. And, until Dragon started having color, it hadn't even occurred to me to paint miniatures, nor that unpainted miniatures were somehow incomplete.