New Wotc Mini Previews...

[Ogrork the Mighty]

I must say that the quality of the minis continues to improve in leaps in bounds. Those new minis look very impressive; a tremendous improvement over the Harbringer set.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/iw/20041210a&o=

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Why must that be a half-orc chain fighter? Human would have been much better (yes, I play a human fighter with a spiked chain right now)

 

[Mark]

Why must that be a half-orc chain fighter? Human would have been much better (yes, I play a human fighter with a spiked chain right now)

You could always take a file to the face and do a little plastic surgery. What's his Charisma?

 

[pogre]

I'm happy to see this line continue to improve. I'm not sure how much more they can improve, but generally big monsters are easier to paint to a higher level, more quickly, than say elves or humans.

 

[Li Shenron]

These last 4 kind of seem quite poor to me... :\ I think there was another DeathKnell preview a few days ago and it was much better than this IMO.

 

[JoeGKushner]

The beholder is awesome but once again, a rare.

I'll do my usual. Buy a few packs (perhaps) and see what happens. I bought two of the last one and was completely underwhelmed. Right into the closet of 'could be used as generic NPCs'.

 

[Bagpuss]

The guy doing the preview says... "I will never have too many Beholders" arn't beholders solitary in which case surely two would be too many.

 

[KB9JMQ]

Wow, I like the beholder. Hope I get one.
Sure now they put out a Bullywug just as soon as we finish up with a whole village of them (use Kuo-Toa mini as subs)

 

[Kae'Yoss]

You could always take a file to the face and do a little plastic surgery. What's his Charisma?

12 IIRC. And in our campaign world, there's no such thing as a half-orc.

 

[MerricB]

The beholder is awesome but once again, a rare.

I'll do my usual. Buy a few packs (perhaps) and see what happens. I bought two of the last one and was completely underwhelmed. Right into the closet of 'could be used as generic NPCs'.

The general consensus is that Aberrations was underwhelming.

Deathknell, on the other hand, is looking very interesting indeed.

As rares in it, it is likely we'll see the following
* Beholder
* Ettin
* Couatl
* Mummy Lord
* Death Knight (?)
* Griffon
* gold dragon
* Mina, Dark Cleric
* Rask, Half-Orc Chainfighter
* Guenhwyvar
* an Aspect of some deity

Other figures:
* Bullywug Thug (common)
* Undying Soldier (uncommon)
* a necromancer
* a large bear (uncommon?)
* Skeleton Warrior

There will be 13 undead figures in the set.

Cheers!