Nagging question

[sjmiller]

I have been wondering this for awhile, but have been too busy to actually research it, so I ask here. Have all the creatures from the Monster Manual been made into DDM figures? I realize that not all ages of dragons have, or ever will be, but what about the rest of the book?

 

[DaveyJones]

no.

most of the animals haven't yet either. also many of the aquatics. and a few of the things with wings.

 

[Voadam]

Good Question, but I doubt it. Lots of really big things in the MM. Starting from the beginning have they made an aboleth yet?

 

[bento]

Aboleth hasn't been made yet.

My sneaking suspicion is more than half, but not nearly as many as you think...

 

[Dykstrav]

It's a pretty good chunk, but not nearly all.

One of my favorite things to do when a new set comes out is to take the Monster Manual off the shelf, flip through it from front to back, and note how many of them are actually minis nowadays. There are lots of them, but there are also significant gaps (most notably the rust monster, as discussed on another thread).

It seems like every set adds another two or three monsters from the Monster Manual, but they also retread alot of the same territory over and over again so that common monsters (such as orcs, hobgoblins, skeletons, ey cetera) are available to newer players. I don't even mind that, because my goblin horde is now impressively large.