Friday Publisher Preview: Three for the Road!

Friday, August 29, 2014

I’m currently at Dragon Con in Atlanta with Jason Bulmahn, attacking the Southern Front while several Paizonians are defending the homeland at PAX Prime in Seattle. The last long weekend of the summer means conventions, conventions, conventions, so in the interest of making it to my next panel on time and letting the Paizo web team get to PAX, I’m going to keep things short and sweet this week.

We've got three more minis to reveal, all from November's The Lost Coast set.

City Watch Sniper

This figure fulfills a couple of items on my wishlist. Here we have another City Watch officer to go with the two in our debut set, Heroes & Monsters. The Sniper also gives us a good crossbow figure, and a female crossbow figure to boot. The colors don’t match the rank-and-file officers exactly—the Sniper lacks the tan base color of the previous guards, but she’s a cooler-looking figure in general and is more likely to match additional City Watch figures in the future (there’s at least one more coming next year). The City Watch Sniper is a Medium, uncommon figure.

Firepelt Cougar

The Firepelt Cougar is one of the first original Pathfinder animals ever invented, appearing way back in Pathfinder #1. It’s also the animal companion of the goblin druid Gogmurt, from the same issue. Accordingly, I’ve wanted it in the Pathfinder Battles line from the beginning. In a way, it’s a slot-filler for a Runelords figure we missed the first time around, but given that it’s a pretty basic great cat, the figure should see high utility all around. That said, I think Pathfinder Battles probably has enough great cats for a few sets, so don’t expect to see too many of them in the future. The Firepelt Cougar is a Medium, common figure.

Pazuzu

Here we have Pazuzu, one of the jaw-dropper minis in the set. When WizKids first brought in this demon lord to the office, our very own James Jacobs—long a thrall of the Lord of the Lower Aerial Kingdoms—prostrated himself on the conference room floor and immediately began chanting Pazuzu’s name. He only said it three times before he disappeared in a blast of black fire. We haven’t seen him since and really need his help to finish the Iron Gods Adventure Path, so if any of you are in the Abyss this weekend and see James, please tell him we miss him. The Pazuzu figure is the perfect match for his consort, Lamashtu, who also appears in The Lost Coast set. Pazuzu is a Large, rare figure.

And that’s it for this week. I’m off to Dragon Con, where the gaming is fierce and the cosplay is absolutely incredible. I have not seen so many Zardoz’s since the movie Zardoz. Wow.

Erik Mona
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