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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anti-Sean" data-source="post: 2953856" data-attributes="member: 11797">Sammael and Kae'Yoss pretty much summarized Aberrations already; I'd take it a little further and say that not only were the rares by and large lackluster, but in addition to the lack of one or two real standout rares (a la the Beholder from Deathknell) there were quite a few rares that were pretty crappy (Ogre Zombie and Skullsplitter, I'm looking at you!). I think the set is great, though; some of the uncommon sculpts are top notch, such as the Sahuagin Ranger, and the Bladebearer Hobgoblin (my favorite sculpt so far, bar none).IMNSHO, the fulmination over the quality of War Drums was by far a tempest in a teapot (and unfortunately, really turned me off of the spectacular DDM community at maxminis.com for quite a bit). Yes, some of the figures were missing a paint step or two (Chimera, Large Bronze Dragon) and the Frost Dwarf looks horrible, but by and large, the sculpts are stunning and the paint jobs are adequate to very good. There were some complaints about a heavy dark wash on a few uncommons (Hill Giant Barbarian, Combat Medic), but at least in my 2.5 cases, this problem seems to be heavily exaggerated. It's one of my favorite sets so far.</blockquote>