There's been plenty of talk about the desire to see miniatures tailored to the current Adventure Paths, etc. While I agree that would be too cool, there are also monsters right from the monster manual that thus far have been overlooked. First & foremost, did I overlook it or have the manufactorers actually dared to pass over the rust monster? What about a cockatrice for your small mini. The leucrotta, the sphinx. Dire monsters could include giant wasps or giant crocodiles (which are often opponents in my games anyway). Where's the annis hag? A bit more of a challenge to render but how about a shadow? For huge pieces I'd like to see the aboleth, the remorhaz or the ever popular hydra. Finally, how 'bout a little love for the plant kingdom? Namely, the violet fungi.
What creatures have been overlooked thus far that you would like to see in future D&D plastic miniature sets?
The way I see it, there is to many NPC's and not enaugh monsters.
I love the D&D mini's. I use them for every game and even in helping my players create their characters. The only big problem I have with them is that they have a rarity factor with them. That makes it more difficult to get the mini you really want or need for your games. What i'd like to see in the mini packs are minis that dont have any rare factor on them so we could get exactly what we needed and not have it cost us an arm and a leg. What we need are critter packs like paizo sells! but only with more critters per pack. Ya, that'd be nice. -hopes with all his lil heart- and yah, more monsters would be nice, you cant have too much fodder for your game right?
Horses. We need Horses with no riders. So we can hack the bases off our PCs and glue em on :)
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Horses. We need Horses with no riders. So we can hack the bases off our PCs and glue em on :)
About a year ago, I printed out some pictures of horses and glued them to cardboard disks of the appropriate size. I just set the miniature on the disk when the character is mounted and take it off when not.
While they're not as pretty as minis, they are arguably more practical. Having to have three different miniatures (unmounted character, mounted character, and unladen horse) for each character is a pain.
Doug, I did the same thing except my horses (cardboard) are rectangular. I agree - not as neat as a mini but much more practical (mini on - mini off. no problemo).
I took a halfing slinger, cut off the base, and hot glued it to the back of a timber wolf mini. And I have one of each "non mounted". I agree hauling around 3 minis may seem excessive, but its less than 1 oz :)
The Pics on card board is a cool idea though. I may have to steal it :)
On topic: Merchants, Tavern keepers, smiths, etc would be a cool addition, sort of like the drunk guy in the last set. A mule and cart would be cool, if totally irellevant to the mini game :) I think thats the hard part: the DMM line is SUPPOSSED to ge along with the mini skirmish rules, but they seem to be mostly used as a suplement to the RP game. Any critter that cannot be effective in the DMM game is going to get less attention than those that are. Which begs the question of the drunk dude and the latern bearer, but hey...
We have been desperate for horses as well. The best thing I have found are the conflict chips (conflictchips.com). I am looking to order some in the next week or so but have heard good reviews.
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I agree hauling around 3 minis may seem excessive, but its less than 1 oz :)
It's not the mass, it's the volume (and the cost, of course).
On topic: Merchants, Tavern keepers, smiths, etc would be a cool addition, sort of like the drunk guy in the last set. A mule and cart would be cool, if totally irellevant to the mini game.
If you look through the various white metal miniatures lines, you can find most of those. (For instance, Reaper Miniatures has a line of townsfolk that can work fairly well, see here for an example.)
We have been desperate for horses as well. The best thing I have found are the conflict chips (conflictchips.com). I am looking to order some in the next week or so but have heard good reviews.
I have one of their sets, which is fairly nice: the chips are ferro-magnetic and include D&D stats on their backs. They are more expensive than I'd like, though.
BTW, as I understand it, effectively all 11.5g poker chips have a steel billet in the center (and are thus ferro-magnetic). It wouldn't be difficult to buy a set of a hundred or more and print up labels with whatever you need in the way of large mounts.
WotC will have mounted rules in the Deserts of Desolation set (should release early November), so it's likely we'll start seeing some riderless mounts at that time. More info can be seen in post #48 HERE.
Interesting thread there. 2 piece mounts would be cool, have a sort of pole that goes through the minis legs and plugs into the other half of the critter. Can;t say I see the need for new mounted combat rules, but I'll check it out.