Which figures do you use?

[Jack Daniel]

If I'm at home I break out my old TSR 1st edition minis, mixed with a pile of WotC 3rd editions, and supplemented with the occasional Reaper or Mage Knight. But I don't like lugging minis to my friends' houses. The stands break, the paint chips, it's nightmarish. So, I got myself a nice set of wooden, varnished, and generally shiny-pretty pawns in six colors for the PCs, and an equally wooden and shiny set of chess pieces for the NPCs. Makes for a great travel mini set.

 

[bmcdaniel]

Greek and Egyptian figs

Can anyone reccomend some Greek and Egyptian styled minis? I am trying to avoid having to buy packs of 20 identical figures from real wargame vendors, but I can't find historical-looking figures elsewhere.
BM

 

[kengar]

Reaper's Dark Heaven has a couple Egyptian-looking ones. Here's a sample:

http://www.doordice.com/Games/ProductDetails.cfm?Product_UID=B8XY635V

These are goofy, but I like 'em :

https://secure.bpsinet.com/fortress...cgi?product=farmageddon&cart_id=5038928.45919

Hope this helps.

 

[malichai]

Are those plastic figures sold by Fortress pre-painted?


Purely from a player standpoint, I far and away prefer battling against mini's. So much so that I've invested a lot of my own money in getting a large stash for our GM to choose from as we game at my house and it's a pain for him to drag his over to my house. Perhaps I have a stunted imagination, but it's easier for me to picture a beastly Tree-man when I see a figurine of an ogre than if I see a little red chit on the map.

 

[Davelozzi]

A mix, but mostly Reaper. I used to have a lot of Ral Partha but it sucks the way they use a smaller scale than Reaper does.

 

[Siridar]

I use Mage Knight when I run a game. They're pre-painted, cheap and I don't have to worry about them getting accidentally destroyed during a game. I don't need to be gentle with those figs.

As for painting, I like a few of the Chainmail figs and GW, although they're on the expensive side. That's most of what I can find at the gaming store near me that I like, and I'm not too fond of mail-ordering figs. One too many bad experiences.

 

[kengar]

Are those plastic figures sold by Fortress pre-painted?

No, I don't think so.

 

[coyote6]

We use SJG's Cardboard Heroes.

Hopefully, the modern set will be out soon. Hey, just in time for d20 Modern!

 

[Telor]

originally posted by: Joshua Dyal
I actually don't like figures. They tend to put a face to the characters that I'd rather have more abstract. The last thing I want is someone who's concept for their character is based off a mini. Well, not that that's so bad, but I don't want their concept to change because of a mini.

I agree with you Joshua which is why I put lots of thought into my miniatures.

I have my players describe their characters and will hand them a generic miniature that covers their class until I get them a miniature that looks like their PC as best as possible. This process usually takes a month. When a PC plans on prestiguing or multiclassing I prepare a mini ahead of time for the switch. I have a cleric who will soon be multiclassing into a Divine Champion and I have a mini set up for the switch.

I found that people get a big kick out of their miniature changing when they change. They also get a kick out of having a miniature that matches their character, not the other way around. If you have the time, you can over come that problem.

-Telor

 

[Richards]

Actually, all of the PCs in our game are represented by Lego people, using approximations of the correct weapons and highly modified armor/clothing for each PC. (We had a female bard with a Scottish kilt made of paper, and one player currently caught up in a "manga style" phase made a long, black trenchcoat for his cleric. Our fire-based sorcerer has a flame-motif cloak cut from paper and colored with magic markers.) Monsters are usually just dice (with different numbers facing up to differentiate between "orc 1" and "orc 2"). I have a "directional" d8 - N, S, E, W, NE, NW, SE, SW - that stands in as the druid's dire wolf animal companion (we use the "W" to stand for "wolf").

Oddly enough, I have dozens of lead figurines, but I never use them when we game. They're unpainted (I don't have the skill or the desire to spend the time needed to acquire the skill to paint them, plus I like the way they look as-is) - I consider them to be "miniature statuary" on permanent display in the room where I do all of my freelance writing and D&D prep work.

Johnathan