Eight Large Uncommon Minis in Angelfire--what'll they be?

[Kae'Yoss]

Just a brown bear, I'd wager.

Cheers!

Why? Just because he's brown?

 

[MerricB]

Why? Just because he's brown?

That and the lack of spikes.

More seriously, a were dire bear would begin to take it out of the point value that DDM is comfortable with.

Cheers!

 

[Felon]

More seriously, a were dire bear would begin to take it out of the point value that DDM is comfortable with.

And heaven forbid that should happen....

/sigh

 

[Ogrork the Mighty]

Smylodon/Dire Tiger/large cat of some sort, Equiceph

I'd love to see these two!

I'd also love to see some common beetles...

 

[MerricB]

And heaven forbid that should happen....

/sigh

It will happen in the near future (Underdark) when there are 8 figures with two statcards: one for 200 pt play, and one for Epic play. (Kiddoc has been saying some very good things about Epic play).

Cheers!

 

[Kae'Yoss]

And heaven forbid that should happen....

You need to get the proper point of view of the situation.

You seem to see it from the Whiny-13-year-old-fanboy point of view: "Oh, no, a figure that isn't playable in sanctioned events! I want to die now!!"

You have to see it from the Wizards-of-the-Coast-employee point of view: "We're marketing it as something you can play in three ways. We should make sure that the figures are useful to some degree to all three ways to play."

 

[Felon]

You need to get the proper point of view of the situation. You seem to see it from the Whiny-13-year-old-fanboy point of view:

My view is that you are trying to dance around the board's policy against personal insults in what, to your brain at least, must seem like a clever way.

You have to see it from the Wizards-of-the-Coast-employee point of view: "We're marketing it as something you can play in three ways. We should make sure that the figures are useful to some degree to all three ways to play."

Same old song. The question is, who do you cater to primarily? Some folks want to insist that the D&D minis should cater primarily to the Heroclix crowd, while others think that they should cater to the people who actually play the game that's the basis for the miniature--you know, D&D. Others still try to insist that a happy medium can be arranged, despite constant evidence to the contrary.

 

[Nightfall]

Uhm...back to uncommon minis that are huge.

Okay so we have two more... that brings up to what, four now?

That leaves 4 more.

Anyone care to make a few guesses more?

 

[Greylock]

Of the commons, why is it always kobolds and orcs? Where are the goblins and hobgoblins?

 

[CM]

I would like to see another big bugbear, perhaps a spellcaster. There's actually six goblins and five hobgoblins available, and only four (soon to be five) kobolds.

Swarms would be cool. I think a big wave of rats or bugs would make a great large figure. The night twist would fill in a gap in the number of large plants. A few uncommon medium outsiders like the mezzoloth and canoloth would be rocking. I don't play eberron or FR chult games, so dinosaurs are a big "meh" for me. I'd be surprised if we don't get a magma hurler in the next set or two. A couple of large uncommon candidates are left in the miniatures handbook, too--the ramadeen, the scaled stalker, the ghirrash, and the khumat.

What I don't want to see is goofy stuff like the ironclad mauler (dire bear cyborg), the lhosk (drider from beneath the planet of the apes), the lumi (no-necked floating-head people), and the phargion (someone likes droidekas a little too much).

While I normally don't like the idea of revisiting older stuff so soon for a new version (like the UC minotaur we've been hearing about), I would like to see a UC dire wolf. That's a common animal that lends itself very well to large groups, and should have a UC version. They did it for ogres and trolls, so why not wolves?