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

[DaveMage]

Swarms would be cool.

If they really do them right, they should be flat-topped to be able to put another mini on top of them, thus indicating that mini is inside the swarm.

 

[Greylock]

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.

I guess them's the breaks with random packs then. I have enough kobolds to choke my cat, but no hogoblins and only a couple of gobs.

 

[CM]

I guess them's the breaks with random packs then. I have enough kobolds to choke my cat, but no hogoblins and only a couple of gobs.

eBay is your friend! You can get ten hobgoblin sergeants or bladebearer hobgoblins for $7.00 shipped

 

[Nightfall]

Ebay or IconUSA.com.

That's where I managed to land two of the rarest of the rare huges, Red and Gold Dragons respectively. Relatively cheap too. (Well not CHEAP, cheap, but certainly cheaper than Ebay.)

Swarms, I think would be a great idea.

Bugbear spellcaster, ESPECIALLY a Warlock, I think would work great. CE has very few compentent spellcasters, arcane or otherwise.

 

[Felon]

Swarms sound cool, on paper anyway. But if we're talking dimimuitive creatures, I'm not sure how well they'd work as minis. They'd just be these big, rough-textured, pock-marked blobs.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

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.

There's two problems with that sentence: First, you're doing the very thing you accuse me of, and second, you misunderstand me: You're not supposed to be the whiny fanboy, but you do accuse others of that by your snide remarks. You don't see where it is coming from. When we say that really big minis would break the frame of skirmish gaming, we are not saying that because we worship skirmish above all else, but because we try to think like a WizE.

So stop lashing out at everyone please, thanks.

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.

I do think that they can keep producing DDM without abandoning one or two of the three camps. And then, of course, is the fact that they market the product as something you can use in three ways. If they get biased, they'd either have to ditch that marketing strategy or start lying. Neither of these choices looks too good.

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

I'd say that goblins get far more treatment. We have 4 kobolds so far (pre Angelfire): Warrior, Skirmisher, Champion, Sorcerer, and now we get the soldier.

We have Goblin Sneak, Warrior, Skirmisher, Adept, Silent Wolf, Snig, Blue, Dekanter.
We have Hobgoblin Warrior, Spelltitched Zombie, Bladebearer, Sergeant, Urthok.

So we are pretty even there.

Orcs, on the other hand, are enough. The problem here is that kobolds, goblins and hobgoblins are mostly LE, while only orcs are mostly CE. So while CE has one savage humanoid filler, LE has three!

A few uncommon medium outsiders like the mezzoloth and canoloth would be rocking.

Yes, the yugoloths didn't get any attention so far. Poor things.

I don't play eberron or FR chult games, so dinosaurs are a big "meh" for me.

I agree again. Dinosaurs are just not the thing for me.

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?

I'd say that we should get any versions of other dire animals first, but you're right: If any dire animal deserves an uncommon slot, it's the dire wolf.

 

[Nightfall]

Uncommon Dire wolf = fine by me.

No more Dinos (not like I play in Chult OR Eberron that much, Khorivare or Xen'drik) = fine.

More Loths than 0 = EXCELLENT!

Kaeyoss and Felon STOPPING the bickering = priceless.

For everything else, there's Scarred Lands.

 

[Felon]

No more Dinos (not like I play in Chult OR Eberron that much, Khorivare or Xen'drik) = fine.

The thing about dinos is that you don't need D&D to produce them. You can buy plastic dinos at a toy store--heck, at a dollar store. That's why the "fiendish T-rex" last year was such a burn.

Kaeyoss and Felon STOPPING the bickering = priceless.

Be pleased to hear I've taken the first step towards peace: putting KV on my ignore list.

EDIT--Thanks for the iconUSA link. Anyone know the cheapest place to order a box of Angellfires from?

 

[Morpheus]

Anyone know the cheapest place to order a box of Angellfires from?

You can get a case for $114.99 with free shipping at www.popularcollections.com.

 

[Nightfall]

Yeah Popularcollections.com has decent prices too.

Felon,

I'd certainly agree with you there. I didn't see the need, and I STILL don't see the need for something like that being a huge. There could have been something else for CE that would have worked out alright instead of that.

Well ignoring a guy not a BIG plus but certainly stop the immediate flame down.

And, Felon, you are quite welcome. I hope it works out for you.