Reaper Miniatures Bones: An Evolution Of Gaming Miniatures

Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 08:00 AM Pacific

I don't normally contact you about another company's products like this, but in this case, it was such a great project that I felt compelled to let you know so you wouldn't miss out!

Our friends at Reaper have been running a Kickstarter project to ramp up their Bones miniatures line. Bones is the line that takes their award-winning metal minis and makes them much more affordable by casting them in an amazing plastic material. (Like Reaper's metal minis, Bones are unpainted.) We have a number of Bones minis in the Paizo offices and everyone is amazed by them.

So why the Kickstarter? Well, the molds to make plastic miniatures cost a LOT more than molds to make metal. So even though Bones have been well received and are selling very well, Reaper has only been able to add to the line slowly—until now. Their Kickstarter project is going to allow them to jumpstart the process and make a lot more affordable Bones figures. They started with a very reasonable $20,000 goal that they quickly smashed through! They have passed the $565,000 goal as I type this—a truly remarkable feat!

So what does this have to do with you as a Paizo customer? I'm glad you asked! Reaper has just announced their first Pathfinder Bones stretch goal. The "We Be Goblins" stretch goal will bring nine Pathfinder goblin minis to the Bones line. Yep, you heard that right—nine!

The purpose of this blog is let you know about Pathfinder Bones, but it's also a heads-up from one gaming friend to another about this amazing Kickstarter. If you use miniatures at all in your game, you're going to want to get involved in this Kickstarter. You can support it at a number of different levels, but I really want to draw your attention to what Reaper calls the "Vampire" level, for backers who kick in $100. When this Kickstarter began, you got 30 Bones miniatures for that $100. Well, because Reaper keeps reaching more and more stretch goals, that $100 pledge currently gets you 132 Bones miniatures and a special metal Sophie (their iconic succubus) for that same $100 pledge! And it's only going to get better—the "Vampire" level is where the Pathfinder goblins will kick in!

When I personally got in on this Kickstarter, my $100 got me 44 miniatures. Now, because of the pledges of other gaming fans out there like me, I am getting the 132 figures plus the Sophie. And it is going to become even more because of the way the Kickstarter stretch goals work. As more and more people join into the Kickstarter at any level, but especially the Vampire level, we will pass more stretch goals and more minis will be added to my $100 Vampire reward level. At $605,000, we Vampire-level backers will all get 4 very cool demon miniatures, bringing our new total to 136. And then when the stretch goal after that gets hit—boom—NINE Pathfinder goblins added for the same $100 pledge. And each stretch goal gets you more cool minis.

You can see why I wanted to tell you about this. Right now, backers are getting Bones minis for well under a buck apiece—this is by far the best deal in miniatures that I have ever seen. And as more people join in, it gets better and better for all of us. And for Reaper, because they'll be able to get a whole bunch of new Bones figures out there.

There are nine days left in the Reaper Bones Kickstarter—it ends Saturday, August 25 at 6pm EST. If you are at all interested in miniatures, seriously think about pledging to this Kickstarter. What a great way to grow your miniatures collection AND help out a great game company like Reaper. (And I've been told that there is another Pathfinder stretch goal buried in that crypt somewhere. Can't wait to find out what it is!)

Yours in gaming...

Lisa Stevens
CEO, Paizo Publishing

And now a word from our friends at Reaper...

What Are Bones Gaming Miniatures?


Bones are the best plastic gaming models to hit the industry in the last decade. We've taken the best miniatures in the Reaper product line and converted them into plastic - high quality, low price. What more could you ask for? For more info, click here.

Why are we doing this Kickstarter?

Reaper Miniatures Bones Kickstarter is a project to ramp up the production of the Bones plastic miniatures line and to get you the miniatures you want now! And to make things even better, we're adding our officially licensed Pathfinder Miniatures line to our project!

Since the launch of Bones in March 2012, a full third of the figures we ship are Bones plastic gaming miniatures. We have eight pages of Bones suggestions going in our forum. It's clear that our fans want more of these Bones figures. And why not? They're awesome sculpts at a terrific price!

As it turns out, they're also really expensive to produce. The mold costs alone are astronomical. In order to grow this line, we can do it slow and steady over the next several years, or we can defer to you guys and launch a bunch of new ones as soon as possible. By the end of the year, we anticipate having 30 products in the Bones line. What this Kickstarter will do is at least double the Bones line to 60 total models: character models, new sculpts, big monsters... the sky's pretty much the limit.

All we need to kickstart this thing is your support.

What Do I Get For Supporting You?

We have a number of opportunities available for our supporters.

These include, but are not limited to, various apparel items, a chance to receive each of the new 30 Bones plastic models, a metal Kickstarter-exclusive Sophie model, Design-Your-Own-Miniature packages, not to mention some of the most valuable one of a kind Crown Jewel items from the Reaper archives. (And we have some incredible stretch goals in mind – we remain ever optimistic!)

Something for everyone who loves miniature gaming.

Now we're offering some of the most popular miniatures from the officially licensed Pathfinder Miniatures range. What do you have to do to get these Pathfinder Bones miniatures? Simple! All you have to do is pledge either the Vampire or Undertaker Levels from the Pledge List, and if we hit the Pathfinder Bones stretch goal, they'll be added to your Pledge Level at no additional charge! And if you want extras, simply add them to your pledge amount.

The first Pathfinder Bones stretch goal has been revealed. Go join in and pledge to the Reaper Miniatures Kickstarter project and bring them to life for everyone to enjoy!

The Kickstarter has funded, and in fact, it is now over $500,000 and at this point It has been running for over 20 days. There's just over a week left until the project closes on August 25th 2012 at 5:00pm CST. Hurry and get involved and let's see how many Pathfinder Bones we can uncover!

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Liberty's Edge

This news did cause me to pledge what I can afford. I don't mind having to pay a slightly higher cost later. I pooled my money with my mother as otherwise we would have been able to only afford two vampire level pledges. We still spent 203 dollars between the vampire level and the extras we wanted. This allows me to pledge on my own and make additional purchases after I pay my rent at the end of the month.

So I am quite please by this option and the ability to do it as rent is bit more important than my hobby.

Grand Lodge

Thats one cool mom you got there.

Liberty's Edge

It helps that she is a gamer as well and enjoys painting minis as well. She is the one who got me into gaming and painting minis. She taught me how to paint the minis and make them look good.


Pathfinder Rulebook Subscriber

I think it's a testament to the quality of product and integrity in business that Reaper and Paizo are known for that people are willing to give them millions of dollars up front to complete a project.

Kudos!


Ok, so who's up for designing a dungeon that uses the basic set up of the Stretch Goal graveyard?

Starts off in a graveyard, moves into a Crypt/Mausoleum, heads underground into tunnels with a dragon, treasure, traps, mummies, then into an underground river that transports players to long forgotten ruins, probably containing some ancient and forgotten power, then the power gets stolen and taken through one of 4 doors, and the door the players go through opens up into Charon's Realm on the plane of Abbadon.


And... we have the golems!
Didn't put up the next stretch yet, though...

Edit: Now we have it. Ouch. 440k is quite a distance to go in mere 23 hours...

Sovereign Court

Necromancers and a frog god games PDF. Going to be some happy grognards :)


Pathfinder Maps, Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

It keeps growing and growing. Incredible. Scary actually. But in a good way.

Grand Lodge

Midnight_Angel wrote:

And... we have the golems!

Didn't put up the next stretch yet, though...

Edit: Now we have it. Ouch. 440k is quite a distance to go in mere 23 hours...

We may scrape it in but I doubt we'll hit any other stretches beyond that one.

They need to increase the moneys on stretch targets expeditionally, not only to cover the Many Many bidders on the latest one but also to cover the increased set sizes beyond where they thought it could be done at the target number of backers at that time.

That said, I wish the target was 2.74 and not 2.84 and then have a kickarse 3m target.

In any case I've been keen about getting 20 ppl on to this, posted on several gaming forums to get it out as well. I've got 2 friends in on it out of those 20-ish.


There will be one last 'optional' being put in at the end... that will bump the final $'s up for sure.

Grand Lodge

14,000 backers - wow

Grand Lodge

Shifty wrote:
There will be one last 'optional' being put in at the end... that will bump the final $'s up for sure.

That may just get me there to $200

Grand Lodge

well... I think we can comfortably count on getting some necromancers. Its a whisker off 2.7mil with 15+ hours in the can.


You know, from 10 PM Alaska Time last night to 10 PM Alaska Time tonight, they've made about $700,000. I'm hoping they can get another $300,000 by the end tomorrow. Would just make me all kinds of giddy inside. It really is amazing how much support the gaming industry is willing to provide.

Imagine, if all these gamers could be focused into just a couple of systems. I think the TTRPGs would be doing a lot better than they are right now.


Helaman wrote:
Shifty wrote:
There will be one last 'optional' being put in at the end... that will bump the final $'s up for sure.
That may just get me there to $200

I'm now in for $550.

I'm taking one for the team (gaming group) and just going to buy bloody everything. Wont have to shop for a mini ever again. That said, I don't own any NOW so never had to do it in the past either :P

Grand Lodge

Tels wrote:


Imagine, if all these gamers could be focused into just a couple of systems. I think the TTRPGs would be doing a lot better than they are right now.

Board/Card games are seeing a MASSIVE rennaisance thanks to kickstarter

Grand Lodge

Looks like they'll hit the necromancer stretch goal around the same time as 15,000 backers.


Huge!

Now to get up at 0600 to tag the add-ons ;P

Liberty's Edge

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Only 7 hours left. And just 130k from the 3M mark.

Grand Lodge

Its not the 3m mark that worries me... they apparently have 6 familar pieces to unveil... and they come after the 3m is reached. 7 hours left. We can do 130k - not sure what the next stretch will be but it will be a stretch.

Grand Lodge

Ok - I've done as MUCH as I can go at $200. Amazon apparently uses its own exchange rate... even adding 4% to the total charge my $200 AUD should get me $200 USD. I can live with that.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
Helaman wrote:
Its not the 3m mark that worries me... they apparently have 6 familar pieces to unveil... and they come after the 3m is reached. 7 hours left. We can do 130k - not sure what the next stretch will be but it will be a stretch.

The rate they're going, we should beat Double Fine at 3.3 million. Given the comments in the latest updates about additional goals without warning for the rest of the day, I suspect what Reaper have been doing is pushing up their goal amounts higher than they need, with several goals held back for the final rush in the next few hours.

Grand Lodge

6 nearly at under 6 hrs... and while 3m is about 15 mins off, I am curious just how much they can squeeze out. The UPPER range estimate is 3.3m but its 6 to 5 and pick em if they can hit it.

Grand Lodge

Helaman wrote:
6 nearly at under 6 hrs... and while 3m is about 15 mins off, I am curious just how much they can squeeze out. The UPPER range estimate is 3.3m but its 6 to 5 and pick em if they can hit it.

Slowed down some... but 3mil is a comin

Grand Lodge

SOME VERY SWEET FAMILIAR MINIS!

I doubt we'll make 3.34m... 340k in 4 hrs is a big ask when we already have 16k backers, but fingers crossed. At the least we have the option to add it as extra figures now.

Grand Lodge

final option - a very cool skeletal dragon

Dark Archive

final final option - 8 inch tall Cthulhu... MUST HAVE!!!

RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32

I think it's too early to call that the final final option. We'll see.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber

Aaarghh! Kickstarter seems to be playing up - it's been bouncing back and forth for amounts just over 3,400k for about ten minutes now!

Hope no one misses out due to a server


Ordered the Vampie level as a present to myself. When they start coming in I'll buy my son some new paints and feed him and voila! Uber. :D

Sovereign Court

Show's over folks. Nuthin' to see here...

RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32

Joe Wells wrote:
I think it's too early to call that the final final option. We'll see.

I thought they might throw something small out there in the final minute just for fun. Ah well.

Liberty's Edge

I so hoped for the Tarrasque as the final reveal - well, anyway - AWESOME KS!

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Pathfinder Accessories Subscriber; Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Superscriber; Starfinder Charter Superscriber
Joe Wells wrote:
Joe Wells wrote:
I think it's too early to call that the final final option. We'll see.
I thought they might throw something small out there in the final minute just for fun. Ah well.

I suspect that the big Kickstarter/Amazon problems in the last half hour might have messed everything up. The amount still seems to be edging up as things flow through the system, so who knows? If it gets high enough they may throw something in at the end.

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber

What it's showing for me is $3,429,236 pledged. That should get us Cthulhu.


Kvantum wrote:
What it's showing for me is $3,429,236 pledged. That should get us Cthulhu.

And indeed it did!


It's going to be a long wait to March!


Robert Hawkshaw wrote:

Blog about someone assembling the demoness:

http://parhoon-naval-yards.blogspot.ca/2011/08/my-latest-project.html

And a reaper guide on a green craft mat with inches:

http://www.reapermini.com/Thecraft/50

I hope you like how it turned out. Feel free to drop me comments.

http://parhoon-naval-yards.blogspot.de/2011/09/finishing-demon-queen-of-spi ders.html

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