Disposable Heroes Paper Minis (Fantasy)

[Messageboard Golem]

Disposable Heroes is a collection of 180 paper miniatures. Simply print out the desired miniatures, cut, fold, and tape (or glue) - and you're ready to use them in your favorite fantasy campaign.

This set contains 30 heroes, 30 humanoids (goblins, orcs, etc.), and 30 undead (zombies, ghouls, etc.). 90 in color and 90 duplicates in black and white. Each mini has a picture on the front and a solid black silhouette on the back.

Never run out of fantasy miniatures again!

 

[Crothian]

Paper stand ups seems to be getting popular as a nice alternative to miniatures. Politically Incorrect Games has this nice selection of 180 paper stand ups for easy use. Disposable Heroes Paper Minis is an eleven page pdf created for easy printing of these stand-ups. It is a pretty basic product, easy to use and assemble.

The stand ups are come as both color and black and white. There are ninety of each and the same pictures are used over again given one a choice of using either the black and white version or the color one. The pdf comes is a zip file a little under three megs in size and when unzipped the file is still a little under three megs. The pdf has a cover page, a page of directions, four pages of color stand ups, four pages of black and white stand ups, and the final page is an advertisement.

The art on the stand ups is pretty good. There are three categories of creatures presented here. There are three different artists used, each takes a different category y of creatures. The first group is the heroes, stand ups that can be used to represent the player characters. They are drawn by Yoosuk Chung. The second group is undead, drawn by Rick Hershey. It is a decent collection of a variety of types. The third are all humanoids like goblins and orcs. They are done by Thomas P. Reidy. Almost all the pictures are of humanoids, and there is nothing in here of greater then medium size. There is nothing objectionable about any of the pictures either.

There is not a lot to cover in this review. This is a nice collection of stand ups, I like that each picture is color and black and white for a choice of either. It makes a nice alternative or addition to miniatures.

 

[Messageboard Golem]

I purchased this along with a load of the dungeon tiles from 0one games to use in my running D&D 3e campaign. If you're looking for a summary, I'd say this product is worth buying if you're specifically looking for this sort of thing. Which, if you're looking at it (or this review), you probably are looking specifically for a cheap mini's product.

I print all of my stuff out on an old HP LaserJet III, which is terrible with graphics. So this review has more to do with what the mini's look like in the PDF. Though printing concerns will factor in, as you'll see.

The art is better than I expected. I had to pull out some of the more risque mini's when playing with my kids, but that was no big deal. There aren't that many. I like the inclusion of mini's in both black and white and color, especially with my limited printing options.

The layout could (and should) be better. Blocks of mini's are scattered across several pages at random. If not for this, I would have had a set of these professionally printed. But since they use up twice as many pages as they should, it would be more expensive than it's worth to have Kinkos run off a batch.

Still, it's far better than buying, storing, and painting metal mini's and I like this product significantly more than Steve Jackson's Cardboard Heroes line - partly because of cost. If a few of these get destroyed, so be it. I print off another sheet.

If I ever get around to get some professionally printed, I'll comment on this review to let everyone know what they look like. But I've zoomed in and inspected the art in PDF form and they look like they'll be excellent when printed from a high end printer. I would guess any printer in the LaserJet 4550 / 4600 line or above would turn out remarkably excellent Disposable Heroes.