So...this is the new Ettercap?:(

[Kunimatyu]

Reaper's prepaints are looking really good right about now...

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

sahuagin is kindof cool in the "i wanna fight 100s of these cute little guys" kindof way. Its a really good sculpt with a good paint job. yay!

Granted!

"...you and your companions are exhausted from your trip through the mountains when you arrive at the coastal village of Innsmouth..."

 

[lukelightning]

The elf conjurer looks like he's just about to sing a musical number.

The eternal blade: Princess Leia finally got some sensible armor.

Angel of vengeance? Ick. Looks like kleenex in armor.

Dwarf brawler needs bathroom break badly.

Merchant guard: Sure, it looks like he's posing. He lied on his resume and did not, in fact, major in fightering. He's a 3rd level bard but doesn't want anyone, least of all his employer, for find out.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

The eternal blade: Princess Leia finally got some sensible armor.

Glad I wasn't the only one - I was like "Is this for real, or is that a repainted Leia?"

 

[Klaus]

DeTerlizzi's ettercap is certainly better than the 3E (and apparently 4E) ones. Still, not quite as skin-crawling as "humanoid spider who traps and kills solitary travelers" ought to be.

Well, there's always the picture for the Master of Flies (iirc) from Savage Species.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Well, there's always the picture for the Master of Flies (iirc) from Savage Species.

Even pre-4E announcement, I wasn't going to get this, but I'll see if I can find the picture online.

I love me some creepy talking spiders, and I'm getting close to either just making monstrous spiders talk in Midwood or using ettercaps for an upcoming encounter, but I'd like to get an ettercap illustration that really inspires me before I make the choice to go that direction.

 

[Banshee16]

Incidentally, if you look at the poster, you'll see several creature appearance changes:

Ogre
Ettercap
Sphinx
Dryad (BLECH)
Harpy

That's not a dryad....that's a shambling mound. They must have mixed up the titles..

Yeah...not liking some of the changes.

Likely it's all about "simplying" roles. Afterall, if monsters are to be fought, then one like the dryad needn't be attractive, right?

I do like the new ogre...looks more like a smaller giant. Which is kinda what they are. But I'm not big on the sphinx, dryad, or harpy. I agree that the harpy might be like that simply because they don't want to show mammaries?

Banshee

 

[Zaukrie]

The Reaper minis look really bad in person, imho. I don't think those are a good solution for most people that are willing to use ebay.

All you all that are hating (and I don't disagree with some of the specifics), do you dislike the line in general?

 

[Banshee16]

Just because the only harpies in mythology were female doesn't mean all of them are. By that logic there would be only male minotaurs, because the only minotaur in myths was male. All the orcs in LotR were male (I think?), does that mean only male orcs (like in the Peter Jackson version...I never understood the mining for orcs thing but it was an interesting concept)?

And the word harpy comes from the greek word "to snatch." Women are called harpies in reference to the myth, not t'other way around. Of course mythological harpies were not the D&D version, which were conflated with sirens. The original harpies didn't charm people, they stole food and defiled what they couldn't take.

In LotR, they weren't mining for Orcs. They were breeding Uruk-Hai, which in the movie, was done via unnatural crossing of humans and orcs. So maybe they couldn't be bred without Saruman's intervention (in the movie). The voice over at the time they were showing the creatures being pulled out of the ground was talking about him creating Uruk-Hai.

Banshee

 

[lukelightning]

In LotR, they weren't mining for Orcs.

Yeah, that would be way to WoW. That's what you do in WoW, right? Mine for orcs?