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​

 

[el-remmen]

Hero Forge has a current sale of the Premium Plastic minis with a promo code - 20% off (til the 21st I think)

I would love to get some, but they are just so expensive and the colored ones don't look that great to me. I'd get premium plastic and paint them myself, even if I am not a great painter. (I am disappointed to learn that the "premium" ones might be too fragile for normal use too). Has anyone tried touching up or re-painting a colored one?

I do like the idea of using the hero forge site for just creating images of NPCs to show the table.

 

[Oofta]

I thought I saw something about the premium plastic being improve and no longer as brittle.

Maybe I've just been lucky, they certainly don't have as much give as the plastic minis that you buy at the hobby shop.

 

[Ibrandul]

The structure of this narrative is pure Mike Mignola, right down to the captioned portrait that ends the tale. Brilliant stuff.

 

[Weiley31]

I am pondering the idea of getting color minis for people as end-of-campaign mementos. We backed the color kickstarter, so some of those we have already paid for (which makes budgeting easier).

That's a pretty neat idea. I've thought about getting stuff from Heroforge as well, but I feel like I'd only do that for my characters once they hit like level 10 or 15. Spending all that money for your character's minature and then your PC dies at the start of the campaign is such a minature mood killer.

 

[darjr]

Demon Dog!

 

[Stormonu]

Damn Russ! I was about to suggest contacting Heroforge for a replacement when I got to "my dog ate it!" That sucks! But, have you tried contacting them? They might have mercy on you and send you a replacement (or at least offer a discount).

I've gotten minis from them for our group before they started making them in color and have been pretty pleased with the results. To me, they're best for one-offs (our group had a Kenku & Owlman in it) where off-the-shelf minis just don't cut it.

 

[univoxs]

At least the pupper had a jolly time.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Have any high rollers gotten one of the bronze minis?

 

[Mike Myler]

In his defense, the death knight is mostly bones

 

[Tormyr]

Have any high rollers gotten one of the bronze minis?

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.