I am quite a bit anal retentive and ADHD and I can't stand that the RotRL minis come on round bases when my battle mat has a grid. I would like to cut the minis off the round bases and attach them to square ones.
Anyone done this? Would you recommend it?
Thanks for entertaining my craziness.
I am quite a bit anal retentive and ADHD and I can't stand that the RotRL minis come on round bases when my battle mat has a grid. I would like to cut the minis off the round bases and attach them to square ones.
Anyone done this? Would you recommend it?
Thanks for entertaining my craziness.
I actually prefer the round bases so I can turn them the way they're facing.
I know there's no actually facing rules, but I like my figures to be looking at what they're attacking.
If you really want to though, a reallly sharp hobby knife is advised, and then you can glue the mini to a new base. I've done so to rebase some minis from other systems that were on too big of a base for 1 inch grids.
In practice round bases offer higher functionality. You have more ability to rotate the mini to avoid collisions for instance. Too often a mini has a projecting part such as a sword which will stick into an adjacent square. With a round base, you can rotate the mini until it fits in combat without a problem.
Similarly, you can actually fit minis closer together if something cinematic calls for it. I quite like it when Medium creatures are up against Huge or larger and get grabbed.
Finally, round bases sort of give a visual reminder why things work with 5ft squares. The mini itself doesn't take up the whole square but with sweeping arms, the "footprint" allocates roughly a 5ft circle. Using a grid, 5ft squares approximate that well.
Anyway, I get the obsessive-compulsive symmetry of square bases in square squares but... utility trumps OCD in my world. Now if you excuse me, I need to get back to shopping for a fridge that is exactly 3ft wide so it matches my floor tiles properly. <Grin>
I am quite a bit anal retentive and ADHD and I can't stand that the RotRL minis come on round bases when my battle mat has a grid. I would like to cut the minis off the round bases and attach them to square ones.
Anyone done this? Would you recommend it?
You can snap off the minis from the bases, but you wil want to use care not to break the mini as you do it.
I have not done this with Pathfinder minis but I have done it with HeroClix and other minis.
It's not just the "round bases on square tiles" but also the fact that I use a bunch of minis from other lines. I mainly use Warhammer and Reaper minis with some Rackam minis as well. I only bought a few of the prepainted minis to fill in the gaps. All my minis have square bases but the prepainted.
Last night I took an xacto knife and trimmed Malfeshnekor off the base. I had already sculpted a rock base to a square warhammer base and I put Malfeshnekor on that. Then I painted him and the base because I can't stand the paint jobs on the prepainted minis.
It looks really awesome.
Where are the pictures? ;-)
I do understand the desire to have everything on simular bases.
Good Luck on your conversions.