Do you plan on playing the new D&D Miniatures game coming out?

[Dark Jezter]

This is a poll asking who here planning on playing the upcoming D&D Miniatures tabletop strategy game.

 

[Green Knight]

Already laid out the cash for some of the Entry Packs from Amazon ($14 a piece on Amazon, rather than $20).

You ought to have put another poll option for those who just want the D&D Miniatures Handbook, though. That'll have the Mass Combat rules, along with new Feats, magic items, Prestige Classes, and even Core Classes, so people may want to get that and not the miniatures. Ah well.

 

[Wombat]

Most folks know my PoV on this one. I don't battleboard my games for the most part anyway, I paint my own metal figs, primarily as gifts (though some people treat their figures are fetishes and good luck tokens), and I don't see the need for what is essentially just a stripped down set of rules that are already available in D&D.

Now if the rules offered something substantially different (e.g. true mass combat) I might have some vague interest, but otherwise not. Of if the miniatures were metal rather than plastic and were not sold randomly I might develop an interest in those. I already own the combat rules. If I wanted, I could run a "mass combat" a la the core books to equal effectiveness with the miniatures I already have on hand.

But as it stands, I see no need or use for the game. I only have so much money I can spend and this seems a pointless investment.

For those of you who will be picking up the figures and rules, I hope they ultimately suit your needs and that you have a great time with them! (as usual, this statement is intended to be 100% sarcasm free ... which will probably have to be my tagline soon...)

 

[Dark Jezter]

Already laid out the cash for some of the Entry Packs from Amazon ($14 a piece on Amazon, rather than $20).

You ought to have put another poll option for those who just want the D&D Miniatures Handbook, though. That'll have the Mass Combat rules, along with new Feats, magic items, Prestige Classes, and even Core Classes, so people may want to get that and not the miniatures. Ah well.

Speaking of which, does anybody know what kind of new core classes, feats, items, PrCs, etc. will be in that book?

 

[tetsujin28]

If the minis weren't A) random, and B) fugly, I'd give it a shot.

 

[Green Knight]

Speaking of which, does anybody know what kind of new core classes, feats, items, PrCs, etc. will be in that book?

Let me see if I can dig up a link for you. I know that the Core Classes have been brought up, before. One of them's the Marshal, a Commander type class, which has an aura which grants bonuses to his allies.

 

[Green Knight]

Go here. It's a page on MerricB's site.

http://www.geocities.com/merricb/minihand.htm

The new classes are:

• Favored Soul, a divine sorcerer
• Healer, divine caster, gets his Wis bonus to all cure spells
• Marshal, has auras that improve his allies
• Warmage, arcane caster, gets his Int bonus to spell damage, can cast in light armor without arcane spell failure

 

[Dark Jezter]

Thank you muchly, GK.

 

[Mouseferatu]

You ought to have put another poll option for those who just want the D&D Miniatures Handbook, though. That'll have the Mass Combat rules, along with new Feats, magic items, Prestige Classes, and even Core Classes, so people may want to get that and not the miniatures. Ah well.

Exactly. I have less than zero interest in miniatures and wargames; I don't even use minis in D&D unless a specific combat involves over a dozen combatants or is othrewise so complex that I have no choice. But I'll be getting, or at least perusing, the Minis Handbook for rules and concepts I can mine for my D&D games.

Still, given the question actually posed by the poll, I had to vote "No."