D&D General The Sad Tale of a HeroForge Death Knight

As an experiment I designed and made myself a death knight using HeroForge. It cost me $100. Here’s how it looked on the site after I’d finished designing it.

It arrived broken, unfortunately, and took ages to get here due to Brexity shipping delays but otherwise I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. These things are not cheap though!

The broken sword is easily fixed with a spot of glue so I’m not too worried about that.

I liked my death knight. I’d designed it from scratch using HeroForge. I was going to give it a name. Make it a named figure in games I wrote.

But my dog ate it.

Yep, I owned my $100 HeroForge death knight for less than 6 hours. It is now a mangled mass of plastic.

Life goes on. For me. Not for the death knight.

The culprit​

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

No, but one year at Christmas one of my players gifted everyone in our campaign a "steel" Heroforge mini of their character. I know they are not as nice as the bronze ones, but they were still really great.

My thought is that I've been playing the same character for more than a decade. It wouldn't be unreasonable to get a higher-end version of the character.

 

[JohnnyZemo]

Man, that is a sad story.

 

[Charlaquin]

We've been pretty happy with the minis we've gotten from them, both blank and colored. I think the occasional fragility of thin bits is a known issue--my wife's monk mini had its quarterstaff break the first time we handled it (not in transit the way your sword seems to have broken, if I understand you).

Yeah, I had this happen with my monk too.

 

[not-so-newguy]

This too shall pass. I just hope it isn't painful when it happens.

 

[Dioltach]

This story makes Lord Soth seem a little less intimidating. "Begone, foul thing, or I'll set my dog on you!"

 

[Flamestrike]

He was just LARPING as an enlarged Wildshaped druid.

 

[dalisprime]

Have any high rollers gotten one of the bronze minis?

I've got one for my tiefling bard. In terms of details it looks great (premium plastic level of details) and is obviously durable. The only downside is paint chipping if you end up painting it.

 

[MarkB]

In retrospect, since the figure did end up in your dog's mouth, it seems rather fortunate that the pointy-and-easily-swallowed sword blade had already snapped off.

 

[Rob Kuntz]

It's a gorgeous mini. Your dog gets a perm. +2 attack bonus vs. Death Knights!

 

[jasper]

As an experiment I designed and made myself a death knight using HeroForge. It cost me $100. Here’s how it looked on the site after I’d finished designing it.

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It arrived broken, unfortunately, and took ages to get here due to Brexity shipping delays but otherwise I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out. These things are not cheap though!

The broken sword is easily fixed with a spot of glue so I’m not too worried about that.

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I liked my death knight. I’d designed it from scratch using HeroForge. I was going to give it a name. Make it a named figure in games I wrote.

But my dog ate it.

Yep, I owned my $100 HeroForge death knight for less than 6 hours. It is now a mangled mass of plastic.

Life goes on. For me. Not for the death knight.

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The culprit​

Due I love you named your dog death knight. Evil Grin.