Is it just me, or are WotC minis...

[Mercurius]

...kind of silly?

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mg/atg

I just couldn't take those seriously if a DM pulled one out and said "a goofy Yuan-ti Anathema! Be vewy afwaid..."

 

[Furry_Thing]

They'd be less silly if they didn't come in random booster packs.

But hey, what do you expect from cheap (quality, certainly not price) plastic mass production thingums? Warhammer quality these things ain't.

 

[Jhaelen]

Well, as someone recently noted there are now over 1000 DDM minis. Isn't it to be expected that some of them look silly? I think you'll have a hard time finding a mini line of that size that doesn't include a couple of bad ones. The two Huge rares I got from this set were the Elder White Dragon and the Shadow Hulk. The former is simply awesome and the second pretty nice.

Despite the randomness, of all the boosters I've bought so far (about 40) there were only two which I felt weren't worth their money.

The last two sets were a bit low on the quality of the paint-jobs, but it seems with the forthcoming set we'll see an improvement again.

 

[Lab_Monkey]

I used to be a huge plasticrack addict. At peak I had something like 10,000 DDM figures. My interest started to wane with War Drums when I felt the sculpt and paint quality was below the standards set by previous sets. On a whole I just came to realize the these little bits of plastic weren't worth anywhere near what I had invested in them. I managed to sell the collection and was happy with the amount I received for it (although it was probably no where near the amount I had invested).

To the point of the topic though- it is nice to have a figure to represent a concept the DM is describing. Sometimes, as in the case of the anathema, a silly sculpt can detract from the immersion in the game, but on a whole I think DDM adds quite a bit of value to the play experience. I just wish they weren't so expensive to collect.

 

[Vorput]

lol

Degenerate Cultist of Orcus ftw!

 

[Mistwell]

I actually like most of the WOTC minis myself. In fact, I just bought all of these at GenCon:

 

[jensun]

I actually like most of the WOTC minis myself. In fact, I just bought all of these at GenCon:

Personally I like the Anathema although I could have done without pulling three of them.

Now, if you had mentioned the Hellwasp Swarm then you might have had a point.

Personally I think the enormous carrion crawler looks silly although it freaked my players out a bit. One of them had just come back from Manilla and was comparing it to some of the bugs he saw out there.

 

[Ander00]

I find a lot of my favorites are from the earlier sets, the newer ones being full of sculpts that look like rejects from some freakish cartoon. Of course, the early sets had their share of stinkers as well and some of the newer minis are pretty cool, but nowadays I am content with just picking up a handful of commons/uncommons per set.


cheers

 

[charlesatan]

Personally, the sculpts for me are in the mid-range. Not as bad as the first few sets but it's seen better days as well.

For some of the sculpts, I think it's a hit or miss. The Carrion Crawler does look a bit goofy (I blame the eyes) but sometimes it might work.

P.S. Yes, we have lots of bugs here in Manila...

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

I generally only like the large minis, which tend to have ok paint jobs, due to size.
I also love the "clear" minis, brillaint for ghosts, elementals etc which is simply not possible in metal.

However, I don't have to worry about painting or breaking them, nor carrying the ton weight metal minis are!

IMHO, the various animals, elementals, lot of the giants, elementals, ghosts, most of the dragons and large+ planar creatures are all perfectly fine on the table.
A few of the human/oid ones are ok for characters.

Nice ot be able ot put 20+ kobolds in a plastic tub, of about 6 or 7 different types, for when you play Keep on the Shadowfell

(I seperate all the human-sized ones into plastic tubs of type: human-armoured, human-light amrour; goblin; kobold etc, so it's handy to plonk 'em down on the game board).

I may add magnets to their base to add a little stability/weight, and use a magnetic grid board.