Hi there! I posted earlier asking for advice regarding miniatures but I still have a different question.
A player of mine tends to play with earth/stone based characters. Oreads, Sulis and so on. For now he is using my medium earth elemental miniature but I prefer if he would have a different mini as I plan on using my elemental minis soon and that will be very confusing as I have multiple earth elementals planned. So does anyone have a suggestion for a strong looking oread/suli or similar kind of mini?
Thanks a bunch :)
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I've used the D&D mini Stonechild for oreads before. Looks like they're not too expensive, despite being long out of print.
You know.... I never thought of looking OUTSIDE of pathfinder mini's DERP!
Thanks :)
I was thinking of using this one Oread
I am using this for my oread. And his triceretops animal companion. He's got a lot of those decorative crystals. :) But really any humanoid, done in slate, granite, earthy tones will work.
I got the mini, didn't realize it but the mini I ordered was actually large :( The search for a good mini continues.
I agree with Curaigh, just get a humanoid that looks about right and paint it in rocky colors.
What does your oread look like? Oreads can look pretty diverse, from mostly human with a slightly cracked earth skin appearance to a vaguely humanoid-shaped chunk of crystal. (Just a Google image search for "oread" shows an incredible variety if images.) Most oreads are descended from genies so something with a genie flavor could also work. It'd be a lot easier to find an appropriate mini if you provided more details.
Often with minis it is easiest to find what you're looking for not by using a given race or class name but rather other features -- sex, clothing worn, items held, size, etc. Especially with something like an oread--that's a Pathfinder-specific class name for something in other places might be called an "earth kin" or "genasi" etc. etc.
There's also creative things you can do in addition to custom paint jobs like, for an oread, glue bits of crystal or costume jewelry gems to the body, etc. Especially for unusual races and the like it ends up being the way to go.
ETA: here's a good example of something that might work, but you've got to look around a bit:
This is just an elf figure. But the stiff spiky hairstyle could easily be interpreted as being crystalline rather than, I don't know, spiky anime elf hair, I guess. Now, of course, I don't know if the oread you need would be slender, or physically male looking or holding a crossbow... but that's why more details are very helpful.