What's this about a skirmish game?

[Dedekind]

Will these be brand new sculpts or re-used from the old sets?

Hmmm... sending that to Rule of Three.

 

[Ktulu]

I'm all for either variant -- though random made it harder to get what I wanted, it also inspired me to find uses for cadaver collectors, caller in darkness, warforged that I wouldn't have purchased...ultimately making my games more fun.

But for non-random, that would be cool so long as we get some dragonborn, tiefling, deva, etc.. miniatures. Not enough of them in the game.

 

[OnlineDM]

Will these be brand new sculpts or re-used from the old sets?

Hmmm... sending that to Rule of Three.

Some of each. From the write-up on my blog:

11:58: New sculpts? Packs for PC races that haven’t been released yet? Some new sculpts, yes. Going to be hard to do this for fringe stuff.

I interpret that as meaning mostly old sculpts, but a few new ones here and there.

The "hard to do this for fringe stuff" refers to unusual PC races, by the way. They plan to do lots of common monsters (I believe they specifically tossed out examples like zombies and goblins) but not as many fringe races; I'm not expecting to see much in the way of PC minis out of this game.

 

[Lalato]

I was very much into the skirmish game that was created for the randomized miniatures. Great game, and I really enjoyed going to the tournaments.

I'm excited about the new skirmish game... and I'm glad to see them try something different with cards. Could be very cool.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

and I'm glad to see them try something different with cards. Could be very cool.

I just wonder, is it a deck of cards you draw randomly, or do you start with all of them..

 

[RodneyThompson]

For those of you interested, the open play test for the game has been live for two days now, and is already at over 1,000 members!

To join in, hit up the play test's community page:

D&D Minis Board Game Playtesting

 

[WalterKovacs]

I just wonder, is it a deck of cards you draw randomly, or do you start with all of them..

Based on the way he answered the question in Rule of Three, the cards are drawn randomly. This way the random element takes place early, and then player skill comes into effect, while dice rolling puts the random element later, where it determines whether or not you succeed at an action.