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

[shaylon]

Overall I would call it a weak set based on those pics.

-The Visejaw Croc looks very generic to me, not a good paint job at all.
-Yuan-Ti Malison? I hope they repaint it. Hell I wish they would resculpt it.
-Dwarf Brawler looks incomplete to me.

The Sahaugin looks awesome though!

 

[Klaus]

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.

 

[lukelightning]

"I like big butts and I can not lie..."

 

[Shortman McLeod]

Um, yeah, these are just really bad. They look frankly like total junk. Something I wouldn't even buy for a nickel apiece at a garage sale. Yuck.

Oh, come on. For a nickel apiece at a garage sale you know darn well you'd buy them.

 

[frankthedm]

Oh, come on. For a nickel apiece at a garage sale you know darn well you'd buy them.

I've gotton real minis at that price at garage sales. Heck, most of these fail in comparison to the Battlemasters minis.


Hey, did that angel fly out of Dreamblade? I kin da likeit, but it sure looks out of place.

3.5 Ettercap was the best version of the thing ever. The new one is an uttercrap.

Ogre is slight improvement over the 3E jar-jar ogres. Still have seen better.

No fragging way a spider sould ever be a rare. Especially not after halloween.

 

[Odhanan]

I don't like the way the monsters are redesigned.

The minis themselves aren't any worse than the previous ones: some are good, some are average, some suck. That's the new design that is weak, I think. I MUCH prefer the old ettercap, for instance.

 

[GreatLemur]

Man, a lot of these minis just look like hell. I don't use miniatures, and I've never even owned any pre-painted minis, so maybe this is par for the course. They're not really meant to be scrutinized at five times their actual size, after all.

I've never particularly cared about ettercaps one way or another, so I can't say this redesign really bugs me.

That angel is a bit crappy looking. I think they were going for a really ambitious effect that the medium just failed to support.

I actually really dig the new dryad look. Sexy tree women are a dumb idea.

The Blood of Vol fanatic looks completely badass.

That sahuagin is pretty lame. Kobolds already had the "cutely pathetic scaley humanoid" angle sewn up. Sahuagin oughta look like this.

Ogres are lookin kinda different. Maybe not a good change, but probably not a bad one, either.

That harpy looks like ass, but I definitely support the idea of male harpies in general. This whole one-gender-species bit ain't something I can buy into.

 

[NarlethDrider]

I'll apply some green stuff & another set of limbs to the ettercap if necessary----moding minis is fun & I need some spidery companions to go w/my ogre skirmisher-fiendish huge spider drider I hope to use that mini one day

redesigning is fun, I'm building my 4E world one drawing at a time---hopefully I'll get the art thread up tomorrow---yea, I even have a version of an ettercap

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

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.

Looks like an ordinary bugbear to me. The one from 3.5 actually creeps me out. The 4th edition one looks like a muppet from the Dark Crystal or Labyrinth.

 

[pawsplay]

The Eternal Blade looks like a cross between Christopher Walken as Feng and Bjork.

The Yuan-Ti... is red.