Stand-Ins Printable Figures - Sci-Fi Set #1

[IDA_Guy]

Stand-Ins: The Sci-Fi Set #1 includes figures for any space opera, near future, star port adventures, or galactic conflict game. You can print a squad of space marines, a bundle of bounty hunters, or a single weapon bristling robot. The figures include high quality art, with seperate images for the front and back - no outlines or silhouette backs. Figures are scaled for most table top rpgs, including the most popular space fantasy rpg in the world.

Stand-Ins are attractive and easy to use. They can be printed on paper or, for increased durablility on cardstock. If a figure gets crushed, lost or bent simply print out a new one!

The set features 125 black and white figures, including aliens, marines, justicars, time travellers, space pilots, battlesuits, gene beats, falcon folk, and even a super intelligent gorilla. Print as many as you need, as often as you need them. The B&W figures can be used as they come or custom colored to match specific characters.

As a bonus, ALL 125 figures are also presented in full color. A total of 250 figures!

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[Crothian]

Stand-Ins Printable Figures - Sci-Fi Set #1

This is the third of these Stand Ins Printable Figures I have had the chance to review. The first two were fantasy and a mix of modern and super heroes. This one is all about science fiction figures. I like the stand ins. The quality of the art in the series has always been good. The ability to just print out multiple copies is great. They come in both color and black and white images.

Interactive Designs Adventures are the people behind these printable figures. The artists responsible for this are Jacob E Blackmon and Marcum Curlee. This is a product that survives on the art. Unlike the others in the series, this one only has one hundred and twenty five black and white stand ins where the other two in the series have two hundred and fifty eight of them. However, the sci fi collection has a colored version of each of the one hundred and twenty five stand ins presented verse the sixty two colored ones of the other two in the series. I think I prefer the fewer stand ins but having them all colored.

The Stand Ins come in a zip file that contains three different pdfs. The zip file is a bit big at over twenty two megs in size. The three files inside area three meg cover sheet, eleven meg pdf of the black and white images and an eight meg file of the color images.

There are a variety of pictures presented. There are many alien like creatures like the Spacesquatch, Fox Man, Tusked Alien, Super Intelligent Ape. There are many human type ones like the Star Pirate Captain, Scavenger Techie, Grav Boots Girl, and Grav Stick Fighter. There are a good mix of aliens, humans and genders. One thing I really liked is the including of the Justicars which are basically Jedi. There are over a dozen different Justicars here ready to be used in any Star Wars Campaign.

Most of the figures are medium sized. There area few robots that are smaller then medium sized but they are drawn on the same size stand in as the others. There are five robots that are of large sized presented here. They are the Man O’War, the Assaultbot, the Death Machine, Workbot Heavy Duty, and the Patrolbot. These are nice large bots to help in any sci fi game.

I can not in good conscious end this review without mentioning my personal favorite, the petbot. It is a robot cat and the inclusion of such a creature just made me happy. Overall, it is another good collection of stand ins to be used instead of or with other miniatures.

 

[GameWyrd]

I really quite like Interactive Design Adventures's Stand-Ins PDF set. These PDFs come in two main bits; a black and white section and a smaller colour section. Each section contains pages of small, framed, illustrations. Print a page off, cut a long the lines (even I can do this!), fold them up, stick the bottom flaps together and you end up with a stand up paper figure. It's much cheaper than miniatures, there's no heavy box to lug around to which ever house you're gaming in and you can print yourself out a hoard of monsters or entire company of Shock Troopers.

This is a review of the Sci-Fi set. There's been a fantasy set and modern & superhero set already. The sci-fi repeats some of the tricks in the modern & supeheroes set; some of these figures can be used elsewhere. The spacesquaches can easily be used as, say, yetis in fantasy games. Another important success in the modern & superhero set was the way the stand-ins suggested certain famous superheroes or villains without actually breaching trademarks. I've already mentioned the spacesquach but once I describe that as a very tall, very hairy but otherwise humanoid alien and point out that, unlike droids, it might pull your arm off if you beat it at chess - you might just imagine which famous, tall and hairy alien these stand-ins could stand in for!

The Sci-Fi set does not just include humanoid aliens but it doesn't include terribly exotic aliens either. There are no blobs or strange pluses of lights which represent non carbon based aliens. The non-humanoids in the PDF come from the robots - especially the petbots and the floating disc. A decent number of the robots are much larger than the standard cutout - twice or three times the usual size. This is exactly what I want from a stand-in called the Death Machine.

There are 250 stand-ins. This makes the sci-fi set the least cost effective of the PDFs. You're paying less than 5c per stand-in if you only print the PDF out once but this is the first time we've breached the 4c barrier. Nevertheless I think this is another Stand-Ins PDF which should be on the Should Buy list of every gamer who appreciates the ease of paper miniatures.

* This Stand-Ins Printable Figures - Sci-Fi Set #1 review was first published at GameWyrd.