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First gnolls, now lovecraft. You sir have being exceptionally kind to me. I have asked time and time again for a Mi-go and despaired it was always going to be in a later set. I cannot tell y ou how excited I am to see it in this set AND based on an awesome picture. It looks absolutely magnificent, well the render does, and the GAMA trade show pics certainly did from what I could see. Uncommon as well, so win-win!
Then I see an elder thing! Another magnificent lovecraftian beastie and another long awaited addition to my plastic men (as my wife calls them). Also uncommon, wow this is too good to be true.
Glad to see the Yithian as well, doesn't excite me as much, always thought the story did them far more justice than the art. Still it's another for my collection.
Gugs, hounds of tandalos, elder things, migo, yithians, moon beasts, denizens of leng. the list keeps growing and I'm glad.
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WOW! These are awesome! I love the strange and alien minis. I would buy a whole case of mins like this if I could.
I will take these mins over farm animals any day! This really is looking to be the best set yet. The bar really looking to have been raised. Totally liking the unlinking from the AP themes. =)
Excellent minis!
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I want more giant animals and less silly-looking tentacles, personally - but I'm pleased that those who disagree with me will get some of their fill.
The Yithian looks like it's so done. "You did WHAT? This planet is sick, I'm out of here."
Yithians are serious business.
I also love them! It's great to bring in miniatures such as these into the mix. For me anything different is good as I've been collecting minis forever. Although a great new bugbear sculpt is cool, I love these better as I have NONE of these! I always want original, new creatures made.
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I love me some Lovecraft, too. HOWEVER... I'm not playing Cthulhu or similar horror games. I'm playing Pathfinder and would appreciate minis that are more common that I could use around the table more often than these unique figures. Please put out a one-off Lovecraft set if you must feed your passions for that style of miniature instead of releasing these all but useless minis that I will likely never use. Wizkids and Paizo put out the best painted minis on the market - it would just be nice to get some utility out of the game product instead of just collecting dust on the shelf. Peace.
The Mi-Go did not appear in James Jacobs Emerald Spire level but in his Thornkeep level.
Elder things appeared in his level (thank you for providing a figure, I'll take 3)
I wouldn't mind a Xiomorn to go with that ;-)
I love me some Lovecraft, too. HOWEVER... I'm not playing Cthulhu or similar horror games. I'm playing Pathfinder and would appreciate minis that are more common that I could use around the table more often than these unique figures. Please put out a one-off Lovecraft set if you must feed your passions for that style of miniature instead of releasing these all but useless minis that I will likely never use. Wizkids and Paizo put out the best painted minis on the market - it would just be nice to get some utility out of the game product instead of just collecting dust on the shelf. Peace.
I couldn't care less about Lovecraft in general, and I don't have much of an urge to buy these particular minis, but having a few "freaks" in a collection is useful. Having a handful of "WTF is that?" minis fills a void where you need "a thing reaches out from beyond the portal" or "the evil wizard polymorphs the king into a block of writhing... stuff". I'm just saying that while I've already got my "freak" supply, Paizo hasn't done very many of these, so I'm personally supportive of them. Variety good.
I just can't get over this strange feeling that I wasn't meant to know about this stuff....
Excellent minis indeed!
Yep. some of those look familairish...
I love this update. These minis will be great additions to the prepainted minis line. Good stuff as always.
My Lovecraftian bent is howling like a hound of Tindalos at these.
James also used Mi-Go in the third level of Thornkeep, and who could forget Greg Vauhin's use of them in his Carrion Crown book?
This blog alone is going to require that I buy a brick of this set. Even if I have to sell a few organs to do it.
Anyone at Paizo interested in buying a kidney? ;-P
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Then I see an elder thing! Another magnificent lovecraftian beastie and another long awaited addition to my plastic men (as my wife calls them). Also uncommon, wow this is too good to be true.
All I'll say is that no image of the front of this mini will ever do it justice. You really need a top-down view to appreciate... it.
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These all look awesome, and I'd get them just for displaying! However, I've gotta ask a question, and I apologize if this seems ridiculous, but... Is Pathfinder Battles just the name for the line of miniatures used mainly to enhance games of the Pathfinder RPG, or does it contain its own rules set for battling with the miniatures alone? Like is it it's own separate game that you just happen to be able to use with the full RPG, if you'd like?
Unfortunately, no. Only for RPG use, no self-enclosed game.
I wish it had one, like the original D&D Minis did. But I stopped liking that one when it moved away from morale and stopped closely mimicking the RPG stat blocks. :(
The DDM 1.0 was fantastic and a similar slimmed down ruleset for a Pathfinder miniatures skirmish game would be great. Sadly no such game currently exists.
Nothing is stopping you or anyone else from making up your own skirmish game rules and stats....
Nothing is stopping you or anyone else from making up your own skirmish game rules and stats....
Except my lack of skills in the Game Design field. ;-)
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Mi-go???
Me get!!!
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Nothing is stopping you or anyone else from making up your own skirmish game rules and stats....Except my lack of skills in the Game Design field. ;-)
Everybody starts somewhere.