I have heard varying talk about this from alot of locals around my gaming scene & figured I would ask here.
Is Pathfinder Battles Monsters & Heros set a limited release(aka they only made a certain amount of them that are running out) or are they going to stay in print for the next few years?
We ran out of them & couldnt get them at the local game store, but now suddenly we have them back in. So I am wondering if I need to buy up a crap ton of the ones I really want before they are gone.
Thanks in advance & I apologize if this is a pretty well known question, I just cant seem to find out one way or another.
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wizkids has sold out of them. Now it's just a question of when the distributors will get through their remaining stock. But once it's done, it's done; you'll have to find them on the secondary market.
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Someone at Paizo really needs to answer this one. But I know that Wizards of the Coast did reprint some of the more popular Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures sets. I also know that Wizkids re-released some of the Mage Knight miniatures in another set. So I would guess it would not be unheard of if Wizkids elected to reprint the Heroes and Monsters set; unless there is some kind of agreement with Paizo no to do so.
Later,
Mazra
If they ever do go for a reprinting (reissue, recast?), I hope they repaint all those minis for which it makes sense to.
I think a reprint-repaint would actually be really awesome, it would a) give an instant way to tell difference between 1st printing and newer ones, b) a way for a GM to have multiple creatures of the same type with an easier way to separate them for statistics ease, c) repaints are cool.
Well I would say for the most part putting out a second run and keeping it the same would limit some folks interest in buying more.
I picked up a case and then ordered a bunch of singles to give me a lot of the extras that I needed. So unless a specific AP or campaign came out that I needed a lot of figures for I am good with what I have from that set. (I bought lots of lizard type folks for Serpents Skull and lots of gnolls, efreet, etc for Legacy of Fire... but if an AP came out I wanted to run that used Kobold or Goblins as a main theme I may need more of those as an example.)
However if Paizo put out the same set with new paint on the same old sculpts you can bet I would get some more of those. Maybe not a full case unless they were all new paint jobs, but certainly some more singles of the ones I felt were cool or for common foes.
I agree with Thazar. I probably wouldn't buy any more of the exact same minis, but if there were different colored snakes or wolves or whatever, I would. Helps to differentiate one monster from another on the mat if they're not identical, especially if one or more of them is the 'boss' and has a different stat block.
Repaints of the NPC types would be great, too. I'd love to have, say, a human ranger with a different colored cloak to differentiate between PC and NPC or head bad guy and minions.
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Considering that some have already been repainted with the Encounter pack, I see a plus with repaints for Thazar's reasons. Heroes & Monsters is more of a generic set, so repaints would be more useful. Rise of the Runelord would be a bad set for repaints as the miniatures were designed to represent specific heroes and monsters.
Of course the Encounter Pack route is a good way to go. I could see more of a time lag between the release of a set and Encounter Packs to avoid market saturation. But when minis from a set get harder to come by, I could see repaints in an encounter pack being very popular.
Later,
Mazra
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You are right douglasiv, there are some more generic monsters in Rise of the Runelord too that would be fine for a repaint. But as a whole set, there are many minis as a percentage that wouldn't make sense. Sure! Pull the Goblins out to create a cool Encounter Pack.
Later,
Mazra
I would personally love to see a goblins & orcs encounter pack, as those are two of the types of critters I need to get the most of.
Thanks for the replies to this question by the way guys, really helps me figure stuff out. I am planning on buying up a bunch of singles soon.