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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5283182" data-attributes="member: 6957">Dang, I was looking forward to linking to a video of Bill Gates getting 'pied'. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />And yes, I still think that is silly and crappy, though I do not believe that I ever used the term 'stupid'. WotC was concerned primarily with their flanking rules, my approach is to broaden the area which can be considered flanking, rather than over simplifying the method.It was not a 'stupid' decision, but rather an informed one, but, nevertheless, a decision that I feel was ill advised, resulting in silly spacing.And it is not 'sculpting decisions' that are 'crappy' in regards to D&DM figures, it is the sculpting itself, caused in part by their choice of material. Details are soft and shallow, lacking precision and depth. This is because they use a low impact resinous plastic, rather than either metal or high impact plastic. This is not as noticeable on larger figures, but are quite obvious on Medium sized critters and smaller. The lack of detail is aggravated by poorish paint jobs that can often be described as 'slapdash'.There are many, many companies that create much more detailed miniatures, in part because they utilize either a hard plastic or metal. The 'advantage' of D&DM figures is that they are prepainted (though badly) and are often inexpensive. My preference is to paint the miniatures myself, and to have better miniatures to start with.Do not be surprised when folks comment that badly painted, soft detailed figures look 'crappy' - they are being compared to well painted crisply detailed miniatures that don't look crappy. The downsides of the 'not crappy' miniatures is that they are proportionally more expensive, and are either unpainted or painted aftermarket for a fee.If it makes you feel any better, I am not fond of either the detail or the paint job on the Reaper prepainted miniatures. I limit my purchases of the Reaper prepaints to larger figures, in much the same way that I limit my WotC miniature purchases. The paint on the Rakham prepainted miniatures, on the other hand, is better, and the miniatures themselves more detailed, but they are much more expensive. (They also do not have many figures that interest me, but that is not by lack of virtue.)And, with the miniatures game folded into 4e, it seems that WoC is not all that happy with miniatures sales, unless things have greatly changed in the last six months or so. When last I read they had dropped down to a single large release per year, with one offs such as the recent Orcus and possible Beholder set separate from the random sets.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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