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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 8164787" data-attributes="member: 3457">Aside from edition changes, I have posited this before actually, the minis don't even accurately reflect their size categories accurately anyway. The move to squares for measurement on the grid, with a medium being one square and a large being FOUR squares resulted in some awkward looking minis on bases. People discussed this back when 3.5 came out, like how a horse went from 2 squares long and 1 wide to 2 x 2 in a square shape. Have to fill that base and giants all became GINORMOUS as an example. The Hill Giant mini is 2x the size of classic minis that scaled well with 25mm and even 28mm scale minis to, while technically 16' tall, to positively dwarfing all medium creatures. I have the wizkids Hill Giant and he is about 4mm too tall. He's about 3 minis tall and at 16' should be 2ish tall. What I have found is Reaper comes closer to the sizes listed in the various MM before 5e and are affordably priced. I have their fire giant warrior and he also has that look of 4e giants, the dark dwarf look. My wife painted their female frost giant and she was dwarfed by my wizkids frost giant. The wizkids minis are so easy to paint though. I don't worry about the bases matching up with "squares" and sometimes ponder going gridless for non dungeon encounters anyways. It seemed, even in 3e, kind of ehhhhhh. Now for my money you can not beat, I mean NEVER, EVER, beat Otherworld Miniatures and how well they have scaled their metal miniatures line across the whole range. They look classic, they are beautifully sculpted and proportioned. They are 28mm and fun to paint. Their Pig Faced Orcs are the best and they even have some Drow Minis based on Erol Otus drawings from Vault of the Drow including the priestess from the cover with her snake whip in hand. Unlike Reaper the female minis don't look and feel fragile. Their dragons also scale properly like Reaper's dragons. They are expensive but wonderful classic aesthetic high quality minis.</blockquote>

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