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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2011030" data-attributes="member: 232">With the release of the 3.5 D&D books many people have noticed that miniatures are used more often in examples of combat.  Including miniatures more into the game has been a little controversial.  Miniatures are not needed to play, but it seems that more and more people are starting to think they do.  Stand Ins Printable Figures is one of the few products that allows people to have miniatures at a much more reasonable price.      I do not normally make price a factor when it comes to pdf.  However, anyone who has looked into miniatures knows that it can cost quite a bit.  This pdf offers a solution that is much easier on the pocket book.  The product does cost 12 dollars and one does have to print this out to use the paper stand ups.  But it can be printed more then once for an almost unlimited amount of stand ups for a campaign.      This product is filled with fantasy stand ups.  There are sixty two colored ones.  The art is well done and nicely detailed.  There are stand ups of the Pirate Queen and the Knight in Full Plate.  It also has more monstrous ones like the Kali Snake Demon and Giant with a Club.  The black and white file has many, many stand ups.  Well over two hundred of them.  You get things like goatmen, gargoyles, titans, badgers, desert toughs, horses, and many others.  The art on the black and white ones are nice as well.      I like the alternative to miniatures this presents.  There are some hidden costs with having to print them out yourself but it is only fourteen pages of the black and white stand ups and one other page with bases on it for the larger creatures.  The color stand up are on four pages so it is not that bad as far as amount of ink used.  I found that printing them on normal paper works fine, but I’m tempted to reprint the color ones on a stronger paper so they last being carried from place to place.      The files involved here are large.  The zip download is a little over thirty megs in size.  The zip consists of 3 pdf files a four and a half meg cover page, five and half meg pdf for the colored stand ins, and the black and white file is a little over twenty three megs.  That may cause problems for people on slower connections and also if people want to take the files someplace to have them printed.</blockquote>

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