D&D 5E Official Dragonlance Minis Are On The Way!

Wizkids has announced a set of 49 official Dragonlance prepainted plastic miniatures. You can pre-order them now for an early 2023 release.

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The sets available include:

Dragonlance 7 ct. Booster Brick
Dragonlance Kensaldi on Red Dragon
Dragonlance Promo Takhisis Box 1 Retail
Dragon Army Warband
Kalaman Military Warband
Draconian Warband


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pukunui

Legend
Sigh ... I want to be excited about this, but I just can't. With the rising prices on the secondary market and the ridiculously expensive international shipping, I just can't justify buying minis anymore. I am a sad panda.
 

Do you believe Hasbro could hire M&H to rewritte the original trilogies as a "remake" or "reboot"?

* What about the vampire kenders created by lord Soth in Sithicus? In my game Sithicus remains as dark domain, but not within the demiplane of the dread, but in the Shadowfell within the Krynnspace.
 

I’m no longer a collector (been out of that stuff for years), so consider my advice in that context.

* If you’re looking for basic monsters, DON’T buy the random packs! You’re unlikely to get what you’re hoping for, so you may end up with lots of minis you don’t want.

* Stores and online often sell singles from the random packs. Sometimes the price for one mini seems steep, but it’s cheap to spend $10 or $20 on one mini than hundreds of dollars hoping to get it randomly.

* WizKids has “battle packs” (or whatever they’re called) with a handful of related minis together. Great for getting a band of skeletons or goblins or whatever. Unfortunately, those packs are like $50 for 5 or 6 minis, which is still a lot if you’ve got a big collection yet to build.

* WizKids also sells TONS of nice unpainted minis for all kinds of monsters and heroes (D&D, Pathfinder, MTG, and maybe even Critical Role are all licenses they have minis for, and they’re all on the same scale). These are cheaper and you can get exactly what you want, but you have to paint them yourself—some people really enjoy that, and others hate it.

* Other brands of unpainted minis exist; Reaper, Games Workshop, etc. Price and quality ranges wildly, and sculpts may not match the artwork in your D&D books

* BEWARE: You will never have enough minis for all common monsters! You will always find yourself wanting more of them. They will begin to take up space and eat up cash, and you’ll find you never use most of them. These are the reasons I dumped them from my life.

* Consider generic minis, such as chess pawns or wooden meeples. You’ll never need to worry about whether it looks quite right when they’re generics, you’ll spend far less money, and you’ll get more use out of each.

* Consider tokens or standees; tokens are flat cardboard, and standees are cardboard attached to a lil plastic base or folded to stand upright. These are cheap, light, easy to store, and have art printed on them. D&D has official tokens, and Pathfinder has official standees, so exact artwork matches are possible! Or print your own with EXACTLY the art you want! If you lose one or need more, no big deal, just print a few more. (I do this, it’s want more economical than real minis. Also I glue my homemade tokens to wooden circles from the dollar store craft section.

* Jellybeans, coins, and dice are all classic techniques too. Dice have built-in HP tracking functionality, and jellybeans give your players a tangible reward for every kill.

Hope this helps.
The 2D/3D Icons acrylics are quite nice and much cheaper.
 

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Villager
I wonder how we get the Takihisis promo miniature.
Currently the only way to get the promo Takhisis is from a retailer (we don't know if there will be a Takhisis or Lord Soth in an alternate sculpt in the core set -- these are iconic minis so I would be disappointed if they were only available as a promo).

For every case a retailer orders of the Dragonlance minis (32 boosters), they get a free promo mini of Takhisis to provide as a customer incentive item. They are expressed prohibited from selling the promo miniature directly, however some retailers do sell them contrary to this.

While many retailers will give you the promo if you order/buy a case from them -- not all do, and some will still charge you an extra amount if you want the mini. Other retailers will offer you the mini if you buy a certain $ value of items from them (which is one of the permitted ways they are to be used).

Some of these "retailer promos" will trickle their way to eBay as well, so keep an eye out for there for one. Prices are all over the place for these promos, usually averaging between $25 to $50. I anticipate these Dragonlance promos will sell for a ridiculously high price on eBay.
 



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Villager
Whoops! I meant "If the render was accurate to the final product," not "If MG was accurate in what they posted"! (I love you guys!)
Thanks Arnie. The sculpt of the render is usually exactly how the mini will appear, although some of the finer details may not be as well defined. However, the painting of each mini is pretty random so who knows how closely the mini you receive will be painted to look like the one rendered. With this mini mainly just being painted with black and gold, if they don't do something creative with washes or drybrushing, this mini could look pretty poorly painted.
 
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Arnie_Wan_Kenobi

Paranoid Robot Lamborghini
Very accurate, as is all info you will find on MinisGallery.com :)

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Thanks Arnie. The sculpt of the render is usually exactly how the mini will appear, although some of the finer details may not be as well defined. However, the painting of each mini is pretty random so who knows how closely them mini you receive will be painted to look like the one rendered. With this mini mainly just being painted with black and gold, if they don't do something creative with washes or drybrushing, this mini could look pretty poorly painted.
Yup. I bought a full set of Legends of Golarion. Talk about "random" painting. ¯\(ツ):D
 

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