Each wave of Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts unpainted plastic miniatures comes with both monsters and player character-appropriate figures, usually around a shared theme. Each blister pack of characters comes with two figures—one low- and one high-level—which can either represent the same character across his or her career or two completely different adventurers. The ancestry featured in July's release wave is none other than gnomes, specifically gnome spellcasters.
Gnomes are a miniature painter's dream, in no small part because they're small minis, so they don't use up a lot of paint, but also because they come in every color you can imagine. The sample painted renders depicted below are pretty conservative with their hair color choices, but you can paint them whatever hue catches your fancy, and repaint them when the gnome's mercurial fey blood leads them to change that hair color mid-campaign. First we have the male gnome bard. A world-renowned musician, this character has a version with and without his short sword (and different armor), but he never goes anywhere without his harp!
Joining the bard is the fellow arcane caster, female gnome sorcerer. She’s got two spell effects sculpted into her figures, which can be customized to be flames, lightning, acid, or whatever you need them to be with a simple ink wash. If you’re fine with her clothes changing, she could even represent the same character casting two different spells, getting swapped out for one another in the middle of combat.
Turning to a more natural set of spellcasters, we have the male and female gnome druids. Like the sorcerer, they all have clear plastic spell effects (including call lightning and produce flame, it looks like). One of my favorite aspects of the druids and sorcerer is that they could also serve as members of just about any spellcasting class, from arcanist to wizard. There's no reason you can't use the sorcerer above as a druid (just put her in a green robe; that's what makes someone a druid, right?) or the druids below as sorcerers.
Next week we'll look at the final two minis in the release wave, and show off the community's painted versions of previously released Pathfinder Battles Deep Cuts figures. Just post your painted minis to Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram with the hashtag #pathfinderbattles, and tag the official Paizo account on that platform, and we'll post the best ones here next week (or sometime thereafter). I can't wait to see what our fans have done!
Mark Moreland
Franchise Manager
