Rusty Dragon Grab Bag!

Friday, October 23, 2015

Let's start off this week's Friday Publisher Preview with the bad news. The Rusty Dragon Inn, the next set in the Pathfinder Battles line of prepainted fantasy miniatures, has been officially moved from a November release to a January, 2016 release. So we're all going to have to wait just a little bit longer to receive these amazing miniatures. Having seen the paint masters at this point, all I can say is that I can assure everyone the wait will be worth it. There's a little bit of knock-on fluidity with the upcoming Pathfinder Battles Iconic Heroes boxed sets as well, but I don't have final confirmation and I don't expect a significant delay on that front. I'll let you know more when I know more. Again, those sets are incredible, and the wait will be worth it.

With that unfortunate news out of the way, let's move on to this week's previews!

Up first this week is the Graceful Slayer, an elf barbarian from page 22 of the Pathfinder RPG NPC Codex. One of the last figure selections from my dear, departed licensing assistant Mike Kenway, this fearless warrior is ready to rock with an elven curve blade and a formidable bow. She should work great as a player character, or as a member of a wilderness tribe. The Graceful Slayer is a Medium, uncommon figure.

It's been a while since I've had a chance to reveal any of The Rusty Dragon Inn's "dungeon dressing," so I'm pleased to show off this handsome Bed. Sleep on it, tip it over and use it as cover, or... well, I'll leave other uses to your imagination, but you can't have a proper nighttime inn ambush without a proper bed, and The Rusty Dragon Inn is here to help you out! The Bed is a dungeon dressing piece that will be randomly inserted into booster packs, with the general idea of there being at least one per case (collation, as per usual, is an inexact science and is not guaranteed).

And here we have my favorite miniature in the entire set, a bird/bear combination we can only call "Beaky". This monstrous creature is one of the largest of its time produced in prepainted plastic to date, and while he's technically a Large creature, he really pushes the limits of his size in a way that's sure to send shivers up the spines of your players. Beaky is substantial, in terms of size, weight, and table impact. I cannot wait to get one of my very own. Beaky is a Large, uncommon figure.

And that's it for this week. Join us in seven days as we reveal more amazing figures from The Rusty Dragon Inn!

Until then, I remain,

Erik Mona
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Shadow Lodge

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Awe! An Owlbear doing the hula!


You do the Hokey Pokey and you shake it all about...

Dark Archive

Thank you for confirming my expectations for the release date, Eric.
Now i can order a case from my local dealer for january.

The Elf Barbarian looks great and is the last missing uncommon mini.

The bed is cool too, nice color scheme.

I have enough owlbears but it looks cool and seems to be a size between large and huge. It also is the last Large mini to be revealed from the set.

Now only 3 medium rares and 3 dungeon dressing pieces are to be revealed.
My money is on a table, a bench and a chair/beer keg.

After that you could probably reveal King Irovetti and Feiya and after that the Bar mini. ;-)

Thx for a great preview and have a nice weekend.

Dark Archive

Beaky!


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Any reason behind the delay? Nice to see the Owlbear!

Shadow Lodge

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I Echo your cry of joy! Plus it's an owl bear I really like the look of. I'm surprisingly ok with the delay to January, despite my impatience with all things plastic I think the delay will be good for me financially, or maybe not if I think about it. Perhaps now I can extend to two cases.


nice stuff.

Any chance the bed will go the way of the brazier as a repaint?
Or does a standard party of 4 now have to sleep in shifts as well?

Edit: double checking the inn maps, there are few rooms with 2 or more beds, so I'd understand if you think that one is enough for props.

Dark Archive

That massive owlbear, though. *swoon* Finally something to stand up to the Gug and Troll Champion! Hefty! I love it!


Some nice pieces there, although the elven curve blade looks a bit short for a two-handed weapon. (I guess that the original art - meant for a book page - was the limiting factor there.)

Is there a mini anywhere in the sets of a male elf warrior-type with an elven curve blade? Preferably with more armour than the ... um ... lightly armoured female here?

Silver Crusade

Like these, why does Beaky appear to have metal claws?

Silver Crusade Contributor

Chocolate Thief wrote:
Like these, why does Beaky appear to have metal claws?

Those are the digital renders - they have shading and lighting effects. The actual miniature will probably have black claws.


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Let's start off this week's Friday Publisher Preview with the bad news. The Rusty Dragon Inn, the next set in the Pathfinder Battles line of prepainted fantasy miniatures, has been officially moved from a November release to a January, 2016 release.

Let's face it. This is par for the course. I don't recall the last time that any Battles set didn't arrive at least one month late. I believe Paizo/WizKids/NECA record remains unbroken. Not a single on time delivery.

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I'm pleased to show off this handsome Bed

I agree. It's simply awesome!

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The Bed is a dungeon dressing piece that will be randomly inserted into booster packs, with the general idea of there being at least one per case (collation, as per usual, is an inexact science and is not guaranteed).

That's simply extremely disappointing. Especially considering that this piece doesn't look hard or expensive to make. I was expecting at least two per case.

The Graceful Slayer, an elf barbarian looks great as well.


Wow, an elf barbarian. You don't see to many of those now a days in Pathfinder. ;)

Sovereign Court

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I'd be happy with a bed re-paint (or several - different color blankets!) available on Paizo. But I WILL need quite a few, so there needs to be a way to get them.

Paizo Employee Publisher, Chief Creative Officer

I'll look into a bed repaint. The problem is I'd need to order _thousands_ of them. While I can see people ordering 10 burning braziers at a time, and ordered accordingly, I'm not as convinced that beds in bulk are such a good idea.

Feel free to convince me otherwise. :)


Erik Mona wrote:

I'll look into a bed repaint. The problem is I'd need to order _thousands_ of them. While I can see people ordering 10 burning braziers at a time, and ordered accordingly, I'm not as convinced that beds in bulk are such a good idea.

Feel free to convince me otherwise. :)

Just remove the 1 per person limit for the singles, just for the bed, and see what happens ;-)

of the brazier I bought one original and four repaints, I'd probbably go for the same mix with beds.


WHY HELLO THERE

Sovereign Court

Will the other sets after Rusty Dragon be staggered out from the newest release date??

Paizo Employee Publisher, Chief Creative Officer

I honestly don't know at present. I think they have lots of sets of lots of different brands to coordinate, so it's not so simple as "every six months" or so. I'll try to find out soon.


Erik Mona wrote:

I'll look into a bed repaint. The problem is I'd need to order _thousands_ of them. While I can see people ordering 10 burning braziers at a time, and ordered accordingly, I'm not as convinced that beds in bulk are such a good idea.

Feel free to convince me otherwise. :)

I agree that there will be significant demand for the beds, however I have no idea if that demand would be in the hundreds or the thousands.

I do know that "terrain" items have always been popular items on eBay and Kickstarters. I would classify this as "indoor terrain". Bookcases, tables, chairs, beds and crates/barrels always seem to be the most popular types of "indoor terrain". (Even more popular when they are pre-painted which they so rarely are).

Myself, I can say that I have a high need of tables and chairs, and I am really hoping that one of the remaining dressing items may happen to fulfill this need. If so, then I would definitely recommend that you order them in the thousands as I am certain there will be demand for them.

Any encounter inside a building or dwelling will usually involve 1 or more tables being present. Combat encounters in bedrooms are usually far less frequent (unless you choose your bed partners poorly).

I know I would likely buy a half dozen beds if they were available as promos, but that only accounts for 6 of the 2000+ you would need to sell. (Given how much plastic is used in making these beds though, I suspect the price would also be higher and could deter people from buying a lot for of them?)

Dark Archive

I would buy 4-5 extra beds if given a chance. Am will 2nd the call for tabs and chairs also would like crates and barrels.


Erik Mona wrote:

I honestly don't know at present. I think they have lots of sets of lots of different brands to coordinate, so it's not so simple as "every six months" or so. I'll try to find out soon.

It's very hard for us to demonstrate demand for an item if there isn't supply, when there's no mechanism for pre-orders. Put another way, if these weren't in the ultra-rare availability, I'd be looking to acquire five to ten of them, depending on the price.

I do get the difficulty you've got though Erik. You do a great job navigating through the iceberg-infested waters and I recognize that the whole line isn't so ridiculously profitable that a couple missteps wouldn't sink it.

I'll support the call for tables, chairs, and crates. I've got a bunch of barrels from my Reaper Bones set, as it happens.

Dark Archive

I build a lot of 3D encounters and the most common item is definetly a table.
2 squares long and 1 square broad. There is not a single adventure that comes to mind where this is not the case.
Just for example: I counted the tables in Pathfinder Adventure Path 53: Jade Regent part 5 - Tide of Honor which i am GMing actually: The map on page 12 has 16 tables and 10 beds.

Sadly the maps in AP 99 (which is the only other one i actually have at hand) are not as detailed so i can not provide numbers for it.

I easily need a dozen beds and tables.
Actually i use match box inlays as beds and long crates as tables and short crates as stools.


I made a gazillion tables and chairs out of printed cardstock when I made the Lucky Monkey Inn in 3D (for the old Shackled City campaign), plus I have loads of Dwarven Forge, Mage Knight, and Bones furniture (painted up some more just this afternoon!), so while I'll be happy to get some furniture with this set, I probably won't be one of those people who's eager to buy a dozen more pieces down the road.


The easiest way to determine demand nowadays is just to make a Kickstarter project. I would encourage Paizo and WizKids to explore this option for some of its Pre-Painted Miniatures which fall into the unknown demand category. This would really help to determine demand for things like the bed and/or tables (or possibly even some huge minis). Hopefully WizKids would be receptive to this idea -- although I don't think they have been involved in any Kickstarter/crowdfunding projects to date.

Shadow Lodge

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I happily bought 6 reprint braziers, I'd happily buy 6+ repaint beds. In fact I d probably order multiples of any of the terrain to date, with the exception of the angzharan statue. The 1, possibly 2, in a case just isn't enough. Of course I might be a strange exception to the rule.

Silver Crusade Contributor

I'm looking forward to seeing the dungeon dressing... of course, I still need to find the money for Dungeons Deep, so I'll get back to you.

I loved the Burning Braziers, though. ^_^

Dark Archive

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Speaking of minis and repaints will the convention repaints be appearing soon? I know I want to grab some of those as Christmas gifts if possible.

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Mine all mine...don't touch wrote:
Speaking of minis and repaints will the convention repaints be appearing soon? I know I want to grab some of those as Christmas gifts if possible.

Relevant information. ^_^

Dark Archive

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Sweet thank you.

Paizo Employee Publisher, Chief Creative Officer

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Mine all mine...don't touch wrote:
Speaking of minis and repaints will the convention repaints be appearing soon? I know I want to grab some of those as Christmas gifts if possible.

Thanks for the reminder!


isn't external memory great!


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Live now, get em while the getting is good! Got 4 Duergar, 2 beetles and 1 dracolisk myself :)

Silver Crusade Contributor

Are the Albino Wererats already out of stock?

How am I going to get one now?


Kalindlara wrote:

Are the Albino Wererats already out of stock?

How am I going to get one now?

They are still selectable. For some reason they are further up in the store list though, and not grouped with the other 2015 Promo minis. I wasn't even aware that this was released this year.

http://paizo.com/products/btpy96s8?Pathfinder-Battles-2015-Promotional-Figu re-Albino-Wererat

Silver Crusade Contributor

Kor - Orc Scrollkeeper wrote:
Kalindlara wrote:

Are the Albino Wererats already out of stock?

How am I going to get one now?

They are still selectable. For some reason they are further up in the store list though, and not grouped with the other 2015 Promo minis. I wasn't even aware that this was released this year.

http://paizo.com/products/btpy96s8?Pathfinder-Battles-2015-Promotional-Figu re-Albino-Wererat

It turns out there was an error - they were listed as unavailable earlier. Check the Product Discussion there for more panic.

Dark Archive

I am very curious about the missing dressing pieces.
Hopefully we will get all 3 in tonights preview.

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