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I like this guy. Good action pose; it shows the sort of attack a CR 1/4 monster ought to make. Nothing mind-blowing, but you really don't want your low-level monster sculpts to steal the scene from the big guys.

So the stirge isn't exactly a great monster, but it does have some history, and it's a good way to teach your players about ability damage at low levels. For that alone, it's worth throwing into your game. This is a decent sculpt of a decidedly funny-looking monster, so it gets points for making the look work.

It's better than the very worst of the D&D miniatures, but not by much. It's not particularly expressive and the paint job is sloppy.

My biggest complaint about the D&D miniatures line (after the uselessness of some of their Huge minis) is that their sculpts for regular animals are just plain uninspiring. The wolf is a great "monster", and just because it exists in nature is no reason why it shouldn't have a great sculpt. This sculpt isn't terrible; people can easily tell what it represents, and no one shudders at the paint job. Still, no one is going to be all that impressed by it, either.

It's a pretty screen, and solidly built. Having said that, there were a number of tables that I would have preferred to see over the ones that are included. I mean, how often do you need to calculate XP DURING play? Not often enough to justify including the XP chart on the screen, says I.

I've been using these for years, and they're great. Everyone has one of these, right? Right?

It took a while for my FLGS to get these in stock, but it was definitely worth the wait. I bought five sets of campaign coins: Copper (1,2,5); Silver (1,2,5); Gold (1,2,5); Platinum (1,2,5) and (10,50,100). Between these five sets, I have enough coins for all four of my players at the lower levels of game play. When they reach 10 copper, I upgrade them to a silver, when they reach 10 silver, I upgrade them to a gold, etc.

As the game progresses and the characters acquire more wealth, I plan on picking up some additional high-platinum coins, but I'm otherwise set. The art on these coins is attractive, and making them in different shapes was a great idea, as it makes it extremely easy to tell the different denominations apart at a quick glance. This is easily one of the most satisfying gaming accessory purchases that I've made in recent years.

It took a while for my FLGS to get these in stock, but it was definitely worth the wait. I bought five sets of campaign coins: Copper (1,2,5); Silver (1,2,5); Gold (1,2,5); Platinum (1,2,5) and (10,50,100). Between these five sets, I have enough coins for all four of my players at the lower levels of game play. When they reach 10 copper, I upgrade them to a silver, when they reach 10 silver, I upgrade them to a gold, etc.

As the game progresses and the characters acquire more wealth, I plan on picking up some additional high-platinum coins, but I'm otherwise set. The art on these coins is attractive, and making them in different shapes was a great idea, as it makes it extremely easy to tell the different denominations apart at a quick glance. This is easily one of the most satisfying gaming accessory purchases that I've made in recent years.

It took a while for my FLGS to get these in stock, but it was definitely worth the wait. I bought five sets of campaign coins: Copper (1,2,5); Silver (1,2,5); Gold (1,2,5); Platinum (1,2,5) and (10,50,100). Between these five sets, I have enough coins for all four of my players at the lower levels of game play. When they reach 10 copper, I upgrade them to a silver, when they reach 10 silver, I upgrade them to a gold, etc.

As the game progresses and the characters acquire more wealth, I plan on picking up some additional high-platinum coins, but I'm otherwise set. The art on these coins is attractive, and making them in different shapes was a great idea, as it makes it extremely easy to tell the different denominations apart at a quick glance. This is easily one of the most satisfying gaming accessory purchases that I've made in recent years.

It took a while for my FLGS to get these in stock, but it was definitely worth the wait. I bought five sets of campaign coins: Copper (1,2,5); Silver (1,2,5); Gold (1,2,5); Platinum (1,2,5) and (10,50,100). Between these five sets, I have enough coins for all four of my players at the lower levels of game play. When they reach 10 copper, I upgrade them to a silver, when they reach 10 silver, I upgrade them to a gold, etc.

As the game progresses and the characters acquire more wealth, I plan on picking up some additional high-platinum coins, but I'm otherwise set. The art on these coins is attractive, and making them in different shapes was a great idea, as it makes it extremely easy to tell the different denominations apart at a quick glance. This is easily one of the most satisfying gaming accessory purchases that I've made in recent years.

I had been waiting for a while for these cards. When I read the poor reviews, I was tempted not to pick them up, but I decided to do so in the hopes that Paizo would see enough support for the product to continue the line (it tortures me that I'm going to have to wait until at least 2011 before Paizo releases another set). Once I got my hands on them, I was glad that I made the purchase, but not as thrilled as I was with the first set.

As has been mentioned before, the card stock is rubbish. The cards stuck together and felt like they'd been printed on discarded cereal box. However, once I separated the cards, I had to admit that I really enjoyed the artwork. Since all my cards are stuck in card protectors in a binder anyway, my players won't be any the wiser that the quality has dropped.

So I'm not thrilled that these are of a lower quality, but as long as Paizo fixes the problem in the future, I'm willing to give them another shot.

SO MUCH BETTER than the crappy girallon from Demonweb! This is a great sculpt, with a pretty good paint job. They took a totally ridiculous monster and made an awesome mini out of it. If you passed this mini up and got the Demonweb one instead, your taste is bad and you should feel bad.

I'd have given this guy three stars, because he's not THAT great (who would be scared of a dude with a whip that short?), but I have to admit that I'm charmed by the detail on his back fat rolls. Not enough minis with visible back fat, says me.

I've always liked giant, intelligent raptors, but I've been put off the giant eagle because of its association with Tolkien. The giant owl to the rescue!

Although I would have preferred a color scheme that was closer to the one in the 3.5 MM (ghostly and pale), this is a beautiful sculpt with a great paint job. I love this mini.

I love giants. I love zombies. These two things go together like peanut butter and chocolate. This is a good looking mini. Nicely rotted, with some good texture. I recommend it.

This isn't the best sculpt or paint job, but I'm going to give it 4 stars anyway, just because it's nice to remember a time when WotC pretended that it cared about representing PCs who weren't white.

No, drow don't count. Duergar either.

Bad. Ass.

What'd he say?

Bad. Ass.

I love this mini.

I don't hate you, basilisk mini, but I sure don't love you, either. You're not bad, you're just... meh.

I hope that you won't think less of me when I say that there's something that I find sublime about the notion of an ape being fitted with spiked gauntlets before being sent careening across the battlefield. Every once in a while, the DM needs to stop making sense or caring about maintaining a serious mood. At times when you're willing to just say "f--k it, we're going balls to the wall", the war ape is the mini for you.

Evil Villain Checklist: Dark clothing? Check. Shaved head? Check. Goatee of evil? Check. Overly dramatic swirl of the cloak? Check.

We are good to go!

I've always thought that the dire badger (and celestial, no less) was kind of a ridiculous monster, but I like this mini. Nice color scheme, sharp detail; a class act, all the way.

Although I prefer my cyclops figures a little less civilized looking (that armor is a bit much for a creature that can be tricked by a bunch of sailors disguised as sheep), this isn't a bad mini. Nothing fancy, but it's a nice size and weight, with a decent paint job.

I hated this mini when I first saw it (mostly for the paint job), but it's grown on me to the point where I now consider it to be just average.

I really like this little guy. The sculptor and painter managed to fit a lot of mischievous personality into a very small package. Good work!

I'll be a little bit more generous to this mini than the Lady Aurora was; it is, after all, the correct size for a flamebrother salamander. Having said that, the paint job doesn't do the mini any favors. I'm not ashamed to put this mini on the table, but I doubt that I'll get any compliments on it, either.

A big, impressive sculpt that probably would have warranted 4 stars if not for the paint job. The horns on this guy, arguable his defining feature, are a little too brilliantly white to give the impression that they've grown out of a giant man-bull.

Not a bad mini, but nothing special. The color scheme was good and it's definitely recognizable as a bear, so I don't have any grounds to complain. On the other hand, it's just uninspiring. Acceptable, I guess, for a less than memorable low-CR encounter.

Great sculpt, great pose, acceptable paint job. Put him in front of a PC, and that player knows his PC is about to get a face full of rock fist.

They're nothing special, but sometimes you just need a big lizard, and these fill that niche for cheap. I certainly wouldn't brag about getting my hands on one of these, but I don't regret the pocket change I spent on it, either.

I'm probably being harder on this mini than it deserves, because the dark naga is one of my all-time favorite monsters, but nothing about this sculpt portrays the insidious malevolence that defines the dark naga. Boo-urns!

It's not a great mini by a long shot. It all kind of blurs together at a distance greater than three inches away, and if you have bad lighting (like the sort that gamers often have in their moms' basements for instance), it can be hard to tell what exactly it is that you're seeing. On the other hand, I can't think of a better way to represent a swarm of tiny dark creatures, so I'm willing to go easy on the mini.

Some good detail, particularly the symbols painted on his death-kilt, prevents me from two-starring this otherwise lackluster mini. The pose fails to inspire, and the construction seems a bit flimsy. There's definitely room for improvement.

I love these guys. Although their expression is slightly exaggerated/cartoonish, it really captures the sadistic image that the phrase "duergar slaver" brings to mind. So far, this is easily my favorite duergar sculpt.

A really good sculpt with an evocative pose, but consider yourself warned that it has a TERRIBLE paint job. I'd like to give it more stars, but I can't.

A perfectly acceptable sculpt ruined by a cartoonish paint job. The eyes and teeth stand out distractingly. If the mini looked more like the pic above, I'd be happier.

Ok, so it's maybe not the most detailed mini ever sculpted, but it definitely gets the job done. It's easy to determine what it is, and it'll look equally good charging through the forest or guarding the mummy's tomb. Not an essential mini, by any means, but a long way from being useless.

I really like this guy. He looks better than the picture above credits, and he's banging a drum, which hits my love for minis that are representing actions other than hitting people with swords. I wouldn't want enough of these things to form a drum circle, but having one on hand to round out an orc war party makes me feel good.

The Digester is a monster that I feel never really lived down its picture in the Monster Manual. Mechanically and thematically, it works, but that terrible picture drove DMs away in droves. The Digester mini is faithful to its concept art, but is somehow less offensive to my sensibilities. No longer will I be ashamed to work this monster into my campaigns! Any mini that could overcome a pic that bad deserves four stars at least.

Meh sculpt with a seriously lacking paint job. For the same price, you could pick up the much cooler Fiendish Monstrous Scorpion from the Deathknell series, so why are you even looking at this second stringer?

Let's assume for a moment that you don't find the idea of an undead treant to be intrinsically silly. That's an awfully big assumption, but let's assume that it's the case. Let's then assume that you're so accepting of the idea of an undead treant that you think that WotC should use on of it's Huge mini slots to provide a mini of said undead treant. Wouldn't you hope that the mini that they made RESEMBLED A TREE IN THE LEAST?

This. Mini. Sucks.

It is a testament to the enduring legacy of Robert E. Howard that, if you run games long enough, you're eventually going to need some snakemen. The Ophidian, while technically not the best-looking serpent-man hybrid mini, is not too bad (if a bit small), and at its current price you can grab a handful for a song, making it the perfect choice for populating your forgotten jungle ruins and blasphemous temples to evil snake-gods. Should you buy some ophidians today? Yessssss!

My roommate commented that this was the "most metal" miniature he had ever seen. I have to admit, this guy does look like something off of the cover of one of the albums that I would owned in the late 1980's. He can also be used to fill the slot of "big generic fiend" in your collection. All in all, a pretty good purchase.

Sort of goofy-looking, lacking much in the way of detail, and less useful than a Large model of the same creature would be. You're lucky to get off with a Two-Star rating, Enormous Carrion Crawler.

If you're like most people, you're probably wondering what the Hell a phoera is. Don't feel bad; nobody else knows either. Fortunately for this mini, you don't NEED to know, because this can easily be used for a fire elemental creature or a juvenile phoenix, and for a lot cheaper than the other fire elemental minis out there.

This bad boy is terrifying. It's a shame to use such an intimidating sculpt on something with such a low CR; it'll make all of the high-CR monsters look bad by comparison. If only all of the dire animal minis were this good, I'd be a happy camper.

This is a handsome sculpt. It's interesting that it's listed as a "Medium" Copper Dragon, because while it's on a medium base, it's as big as some of my "large" minis. I suppose that dragons are just in a category all their own in that regard. The pose is just so-so, but the details and the paint job make up for it.

I like this mini. It has a decent paint job, and it's easy to identify, but most of all it has a great expression. It looks like he's getting up to trouble (with a pose and facial expression that have an unfortunate habit of reminding me of the "peeing Calvin" sticker). This sums up a copper dragon nicely.

Middle of the road. Not a bad sculpt, but not great, and the paint job definitely leaves a lot to be desired. It could use better shading to give it some depth, for sure.

There's nothing particularly complicated about this mini, but the pose does a good job of capturing the essence of the mummy. You can just picture him lurching around his tomb, looking for some lotion to treat his mummy rot.

Of all the dragons that I've purchased (and I've purchased a few), this one has been the most disappointing. The sculpt lacks detail, the paint is haphazardly applied, and the model that I received has wings separating from the body. Bad mini.