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Pathfinder Miniatures - Heroes and Monsters

LegendGamesMaster — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:58:00 +0000

At last, we've got our hands on the pre-painted plastic miniatures from Wizkids for the Pathfinder RPG from Piazo.

Roughly 25mm scale, prepainted to a good level. 40 miniatures in the set, plus a 'huge' black dragon - guge in name, not in size! very good though.

Buy them at RPGMINIATURES.com right now!

Here are some images:

Ink Washes

LegendGamesMaster — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:28:00 +0100

	The Solis Media Guide to painting miniature figures INK and PAINT WASHES

Bright and breezy
DnD Ogre from the Drazend Horde boxed set	Inks and paints can be applied thinly over base coats. They sit in the recesses and form the shadows, though they often add a shine to the figure. Since they are transluscent and thin, they generaly need to be applied over a light background. Hence a flat white undercoat is best. Building up many layers can give a distinct porcalin feel to the figure. Adding detail between washes traps it inside the figure, which is great for tatoos and insignia. Washes can help to reduce contrast between the highlights and shadows and are useful if you overdid some shading or contouring. You can incorporate washes into your shading too! The Ogre pictured right was given a white base coat, onto which paint was added in thin layers. The skin was complimented with dark blue swirled tattoos when most of the flesh tones has already been added. Further highlights were then applied with fleshtone mixed with white, red and yellow paint, in various proportions. A final chestnet ink wash was run over the shadown to deepen them. Satin Varnish has encapulated the whole work. EEK!!! this mini had to be Rescued: I used a 'medium glaze' to seal one of the layers as I had used some watercolour pigment which isnt water proof, and rant he risk of mixing with the later washes. Sadly the glaze was 'off' and left a white deposit in all the recesses. I had to run a dark brown ink and paint wash into these recesses before finishing. Its made the figure darker than anticipated, but its not too bad. You can purchase Vallejo inks from http://www.thegamesplace.co.uk/acatalog/Vallejo_Paints_and_Inks.html

Painting for High Impact!

LegendGamesMaster — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:01:00 +0100

The Solis Media

Guide to painting miniature figures

HIGH IMPACT!

The Idea

Make your figure stand out! I like to emphasise the reality of certain figures with a very high contract paint job. These figures dont look that good close up, as the detail is kept to a minimum, but from a distance, they give an overall impression that says I'M HERE!!!

As a couple of examples, I give you the mighty Fire Elementals seen to the left.

How To Proceed

You can use the contouring and shading styles here, plus ink washing to get a glossy sheen. The top figure is mainly contoured, though the bright yellow highlights are blended and feathered to give a flame effect. The lower one has more shading, but the idea was to paint in almost block colour.

Start with a dark undercoat, in a shade that will work well with your main colours, in this case a dark brown with a touch of red. Allow this to dry before continuing. Mix the reds and yellows with the base coat, (or another different dark colour if you experience the top colours becoming muddy) and apply to the majority of the figure. Be sure to leave any shadow areas dark. A key point is to leave areas around the detail dark too, as this makes detail stand out even when you are not going to paint it very finely (which we are not!). Look at the 2nd Djinn and notice how I left dark lines around the arms and flame areas of the legs. In the top one, there is a torq on his arm which I have left dark with just a simple highlight.

(lack of) detail	high contrast

Paint a slightly lighter shade on the same areas, leaving a contour of the darker colour below. You can shade this in if you wish, but as you increase subtlety, you decrease impact. Continue with this approach, working your way up to the areas of highest relief with the lightest colour.

When I reached the highlights, I went to a really bright, highly contrasting yellow to try and lift the flames and give a greater depth of field. I think it worked well. Notice the lack of detail, especially in the smoke and flame of the first figure, which helps to concentrate the eye and add dramatic effect.

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25% off D&D and Star Wars miniatures

LegendGamesMaster — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:04:00 +0100

RPGMiniatures are running a special 25% discount on all new D&D and Star Wars miniatures until the end of September 2011.

You need to spend over £15 for the discount to kick in, and the discount doesnt apply to other miniatures or 2nd hand / used miniatures.

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Mission Vao 47 - Rare - Knights of the Old Republic

This figure is usually £9.35 - your 25% discount brings that down to £7.01 assuming you end up spending over £15.

great deals in a Galaxy close, close to home......

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LegendGamesMaster — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:30:00 +0100

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Painting Flesh Tones

LegendGamesMaster — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:07:00 +0100

The Solis Media
Guide to painting miniature figures

FLESH AND BLOOD

Updated 28 June 2000

FIRST OFF....

Nearly finished Ogre
The Tatoo Ogre

The Ogres back showing tatoos
The Ogres Face detail showing tatoos

Anuver ogre, from 1988.... EezArd.

OK, since we are talking about skin colour, please note we are talking about FANTASY figures here. Green, Blue, Black, Red or White, its all just paint to us. We do not condone racism in any way. PERIOD.

Skin Problems?

Painting flesh tones can be a problem sometimes. Most pre-mixed flesh colours are not that great from the pot. Paint it on your hand - is it the same colour??? So what do we do? Well, for pale to medium brown skin colours, I use a mix of dark brown and tan, with pink, yellow and white to reach the highlights. For darker skin tones I add maroons to the dark brown base coats. Dark skin is a real problem for me, since the contrast between darkest and lightest tones is limited. You can use glossy varnishes to make highlights shine, but I cant say I have achieved really good results yet. Luckily, most figures have a limited amout of bare flesh showing. See the faces page for good tips which you can apply to the body muscles or hands too. You can add great tatoos with sepia, blue and black ink. wait for them to dry, then seal over with thin ink washes for an ingrained, permanent look!

Examples Big figures such ar ogres and minataurs (its traditional for these chaps to run round in states of undress) are great for on-figure mixing. I use a dark undercoat and build up areas of mid tone with tans and browns. These are blended into the shadows with ink and water. I try to achieve a realistic (?) look so I add ink washes over the highlights too, and then scrub them out with a dry or damp brush where needed.

This Citadel Ogre (started in 1988 and still not completed!) is a good example. First a mix of dark brown undercoat made from Tamiya flat black (XF-1) and Armoury Chocolate brown acrylic. I let this dry completely. Mix some tan with the chocolate brown, and paint it on all over the flesh. Whilst wet, add some flesh colour straight from the pot (this was citadel colour) to the muscles and blend into the previous darker tones. Keep the brush moist but not dripping. Work quickly before the paint skins over. Carry out the same principle again, with the same flesh colour and gradually work the highlights up lighter. I added some deep red to the mix and worked that into the face and sun-burnt areas too. I then let this figure dry fully. Next add the tatoos. These are blue/black ink applied with a fine rotring pen or brush. Wait 'till they dry FULLY. To seal them into the skin, I applied a thin wash of sepia (I think - a red brown will do) ink, and worked it into the crevices and deep areas with a touch of dark brown paint added. I then mixed some thin pale flesh colour with the ink and put a glaze over the figure. The nose and ears were reddened up again as they had lost some colour. Finally the figure is varnished with a satin finish.

Make sure you let dark colours dry before going over them as they can mask other colours or go muddy. This is very important when using inks washes and also before varnishing. Dont use old varnish, and dont apply any varnish too thick as it can go cloudy.

(notice the poor painting on the green cloth - its the first few coats of green before any blending. I need to shade it with some ink, and make it more olive drab in tone. Oh well, one day......)

These orcs have been contoured and shaded. A mix of styles that allows me to maximise contrast on these dark figures. I chose a dark skin colour with ashen highlights as we used these in a Middle Earth campaign.

Using Shading

LegendGamesMaster — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:12:00 +0100

	The Solis Media Guide to painting miniature figures SHADING

The Idea
A Cloak from a Ral Partha Wraith showing both shading (main cloak) and contouring (hood).	This is a tricky one to master! Shading is almost on-figure-mixing of paint. You attempt to blend shades together while they are still wet, to give a smooth transition from dark to light. It is similar to contouring, but smoother. I use the two techniques in conjunction to get the effects I want. The difficulty increases in warm weather, or under a hot light, as the paint dries quickly leaving a skin that can tear or wrinkle. It works well on flat area you need to give some dimension to, such as belts, bags, trousers and boots. Its very good on large areas of bare skin, but can be troublsome. Start adding washes of thinned down mid tone colour (paint or ink) if you need to reduce contrast between light and dark.
How To Proceed
A Julie Guthrie Ranger with shaded boots, cloak and face, from the Fantasy Personalities range Face detail from the 'Beast Maiden' acieved using shading and ink washes to blend tones.	Start with a dark undercoat, in a shade that will work well with your main colours. Allow this to dry before continuing. For the really dark shadowy areas, mix some of your undercoat with your top colour. Use this to paint over the whole area except for the darkest places. Whilst this is still wet, add a lighter shade and run this over the raised areas, taking care to blend the edged so no contours are visible. Keep the brush moist whilst you are doing this. If you end up licking the brush a lot (as I tend to) do make sure your paints are non toxic. Keep going with progressively lighter tones until you are finished. Notice I said tones, not colours. By this I mean you should choose two colours, one the darkest, and one the lightest and blend them together to make the lighter or darker tone. You can add the light colur directly at the end for your top highlights but still blend it in with the previous coat..... This technique can result in a thick paint coat, so apply the medium with care. If a layer starts to dry too quickly, rescue it with a wash of the mid or base colour. It's also a problem if the medium is too liquid - you just cant win!

Painting Miniature Figures

LegendGamesMaster — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:15:00 +0100

How to paint Miniature Figures

We are going to run a series of articles on painting RPG and Wargames Figures. We will be using material published at www.seekingsolis.co.uk if you want a sneak preview.

We'll start with the basics.... [http://blog.rpgfigures.com/blog/PaintingTips]

Wild West 25mm painted miniatures

LegendGamesMaster — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:33:00 +0100

Wild West Miniatures - yeeeee haw!

We've managed to source some pre-painted 25mm scale metal Wild West miniatures. OK, not a great range, but its a start if you are a Boot Hill player..... check them out now at www.rpgminiatures.com where you can also get other pre-painted metal minis too.

More Pathfinder News

LegendGamesMaster — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:26:00 +0100

Heroes & Monsters Set to Debut in December, More Sets Planned

August 1, 2011 (REDMOND, Wash.) – Paizo Publishing and WizKids Games announce Pathfinder Battles, a new ongoing prepainted miniatures brand to debut in December with Heroes & Monsters, a blind-packed, randomized set of 40 miniatures based on the smash-hit Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

Additional sets will follow throughout 2012 and beyond, including a 60-figure Rise of the Runelords set scheduled for June 2012.

These sets join the already announced Pathfinder Beginner Box Heroes pack of four high-quality non-random prepainted plastic miniatures, due in October 2011.

Want to see these figures at http://www.rpgminiatures.com/? then add a comment and let us know.

“Response to our initial Pathfinder Beginner Box Heroes set has been overwhelming,” said Lax Chandra, President of WizKids Games, “A full line of Pathfinder Battles miniatures will enable us to provide gamers with a huge variety of figures based on the award-winning imagery of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.”

“WizKids continues to blow us away with their sculpts for the Beginner Box Heroes and Heroes & Monsters sets,” said Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens. “Every day we’ve been getting amazing images from the WizKids sculptors, and we cannot wait until these figures hit gaming tables all around the world.”

Pathfinder Battles prepainted fantasy miniatures will be available at Paizo.com and through WizKids distribution partners worldwide starting in December 2011.

Pathfinder Plastic Miniatures

LegendGamesMaster — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:15:00 +0100

New Pathfinder painted plastic miniatures anounced.

June 21, 2011 (REDMOND, Wash.) – Paizo Publishing and WizKids Games today revealed product images and additional pricing and release details about the highly anticipated Pathfinder Beginner Box Heroes prepainted fantasy miniature set scheduled for an October 2011 release.

Would you like to see www.rpgminiatures.com stock these figures? post a comment and let us know.

The Pathfinder Beginner Box Heroes set includes four highly detailed prepainted plastic miniatures for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. The four heroes included in the set also appear as the four pregenerated characters in Paizo’s Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Beginner Box, also an October 2011 release, making this an ideal supplement for new gamers.

The Pathfinder Beginner Box Heroes fantasy miniatures set has an MSRP of $12.99. All figures are on 1-inch round bases and are fully compatible with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and other major fantasy RPG game systems.

The Pathfinder Beginner Box Heroes set includes (from left to right): Merisiel (Female Elf Rogue), Ezren (Male Human Wizard), Valeros (Male Human Fighter), Kyra (Female Human Cleric)

new Middle Earth miniatures to be launched

LegendGamesMaster — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:08:00 +0100

WIZKIDS Announce new MIDDLE EARTH miniatures game

(January 18, 2011-Hillside NJ) - Wizkids announced today the addition of "The Lord of the Rings" property to their 2011 HeroClix release schedule through a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. The first products of the new "The Lord of the Rings" line will be a HeroClix miniatures game followed by a HeroClix strategic board game, both of which will release in the back half of 2011.

If you would like us at www.rpgminiatures.com to stock these Lord of the Rings miniatures, leave a comment here!

"The Lord of the Rings" HeroClix miniatures game will be sold in two different packages: a campaign style box set and the traditional booster format. The all-in-one campaign style box set will include everything a player needs, including NEW epic level rules and maps. The booster format includes the figures, similar to other previous HeroClix releases. With whichever format chosen, all of the twenty or more figures will be compatible with other HeroClix miniatures games.

The second release is a unique semi cooperative HeroClix board game, following in the similar format of our other HeroClix board game products. HeroClix figures, a gameboard and several decks of cards provide all the components needed to play this unique take on "The Lord of the Rings" story. The fun twist in the game is that players get to play as the Nazgul working with and against other Nazgul trying to capture the One Ring before it reaches Mount Doom.

www.LegendBoardGames.com

LegendGamesMaster — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:15:00 +0100

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RPG Miniatures

LegendGamesMaster — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:13:00 +0100

www.RPGMiniatures.com

If you need Star Wars or D&D miniatures, then this is the place to come.

We are still developing this web site to offer you a simple but comprehensive way of sourcing miniatures for your tabletop games. We stock single figures and boosters for Dungeons and Dragons, Star Wars and other Miniatures for Roleplaying and Wargaming.

It is our intention to present these in various easy to browse ways - for example by the set they come from and the type of monster, character or race they represent.

We hope to extend our range to include metal miniatures from some of the leading companies.
Let us know what you would like to see.

We are UK based, but we ship world wide.

Using World of Warcraft miniatures in other games

LegendGamesMaster — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:38:00 +0100

You do realise you CAN use World of Warcraft miniatures in 'other' games.... In fact, the larger size (30mm scale I think) and oversized armor and weapons makes them ideal to use as your bad guys in RPGs such as Dungeons and Dragons. We've got a load of WoW figures in the stock room just waiting to be sorted and put on the www.rpgminiatures.com website.

There are some great Elemental type minis such as this Void Walker - doubles up as an air or water Elemental, or perhaps some giant Astral Stalker....

And if you need his opposite? try the Fire Spirit!

Two great figures your DnD players will be amazed by. And your Cthulhu players will be driven insane by, of course. Not sure what your MERP players will make of these though, as elementals just don't really come into the Middle Earth setting really. Ah well, spice it up anyway!

25% off all products at Legendgames

LegendGamesMaster — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:25:00 +0100

Just wanted to let people know that our friends at Legendgames have a massive 25% off all items including miniatures, until the end of August 2010. Follow this link and you can get a massive discount on any order over £10 (excluding Post and Packing) - limited stock, so hurry hurry hurry - and tell all your gamer friends too - you can never get enough discount!

Heres the link to the Legendgames 25% discount: http://www.legendgames.co.uk

Demon Dice

LegendGamesMaster — Mon, 02 May 2011 09:49:00 +0100

Just to let you know, if you need Chessex Dice, or Dwaven Metal dice, or stone dice, we've launched a new website www.demondice.com to cater for all your top-notch super cool dice needs. Check it out.

I hate Spiders.....

LegendGamesMaster — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 09:22:00 +0100

Spiders.... the Stuff of Nightmare... especially in your Cthulhu games.....

I've been looking at the figures from other ranges such as the Dreamblade miniatures game from Wizards of the Coast and the HorrorClix ranges from WizKids, along with Star Wars and D&D Miniatures too. Specifically I've looked at finding some spidery type oddities that would fit really well into the Cthulhu genre.

The Dreamblade figures are fully painted plastic miniatures in a scale slightly larger than 25-28mm - I'd guess they were about 32mm-35mm scale - though how you check the scale of a Hulking Brute against the real thing.... I just don't know! There are some really good figures here, and my favourite is the Caged Grawlth from the Crysotic Plague range, but not really any spidery - the nearest being the Hiveling Overlord or the Chrysota Queen.

If you want proper spidery monsters, then the daddy is the Knobby White Spider from the Star Wars Range from Wizards of the Coast. Its a 5 or 6 inch tall miniature laying its eggs a bit like the Alien Queen - but its really spidery. Couple that with any number of Kruthik figures from the D&D Ranges, pehaps a few Demonweb Swarms and you have a nice arachnid horde at your disposal.

I'm guessing you don't want to go out any buy a real tarantula, they are not that easy to position on the battle mat...

D&D miniatures no longer produced

LegendGamesMaster — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:17:00 +0100

First we loose the pre-painted Star Wars plastic minitures from Wizards of the Coast, and now they have decided to stop making pre painted plastic miniatures fro Dungeons and Dragons.

Its a poor show!

Luckily you can still buy individual figures from www.rpgminiatures.com at great prices. You better hurry while stocks are still good - once they are sold I guess that will be the end of it!

Drow Spiderbound Warrior.

Painted Metal Miniatures

LegendGamesMaster — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:17:00 +0100

Painted Metal Minis

We've just got a stock of painted Metal Miniatures for Fantasy and Sci-Fi roleplaying. You get 5 miniatures in each set (except the Big Monsters set - you get three there), painted to a really good standard (better than the D&D plastic minis, for sure) - and some free dice on a couple of sets. Tikonamut Mercs shown here.

Check our stock here:

The Elfsera Fantasy range gives you High Elves, Adventurers, Undead, Characters and Monsters.

The Tikon-Amut Sci-Fi range gives you Mercenaries, SWAT troops, A street gang and a Recon Unit.

We've also got Old West and Oriental figure sets too.

Check them out, they are really good value at less than £3 a figure or there abouts.

End of an Era - Star Wars miniatures no longer produced by WotC

LegendGamesMaster — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:02:00 +0100

Well, in these hard times, WotC have officially announced they will not renew the license for Star Wars miniature figures (and the RPG stuff as well, it seems) so the last set, Masters of the Force, will be the LAST set.

Its a shame, because the figures were on the whole quite good. Every set would add a new storm trooper or droid or rebel fighter to make your collection take shape, and we were looking forward to more of the less common figures in different poses. More Tuscans, Jawas and wookies, for example, would have been nice.

Of course this also counts for the Star Wars Star Ship Battles game as well - now no longer to be licensed either. Thats a real shame as we were hoping for another release of star ships from the Star Wars universe.

You can still get hold of the more recent sets, but as stock runs down, they will become sought after by the serious collectors.

We have Star Wars singles for sale at www.rpgminiatures.com at present, so grab a handful while you still can - we will try to source some of the older sets where we can, and stockpile them for future buyers, but we can't make any promises.

Music to game with

Andy Warner — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:20:00 +0000

Over the years, I've experimented with the use of mood music in my games. In some cases it was a roaring success, in others just a waste of time. But I do recommend you give it a go. I've got a small list available on the Seeking Solis website - check it out!

For fantasy campaigns (mine was a Middle Earth game) I used music from the TV series Merlin (UK BBC) to great effect. Also used was the soundtrack from Gladiator and Conan.

A fellow GM once played a wierd CD of 'Tibetan Bowl Music' which was down right freaky. It worked very well in the game as our characters were in a wierd and haunting ruined city deap in the heart of a trackless desert... Had us all nervous as hell just listening - Chris Dalgety, if you are reading - it was brilliant!

Nightmares from the Far Realm

Andy Warner — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:59:00 +0000

Carrying on our discussion about using crossover miniatures for different games, I've been looking at some of the DreamBlade miniatures and how they could be included in a D&D campaign. You can find some on the www.rpgminiatures.com site.

I've got an idea for an encounter in a campaign that requires a sort of bound up demon. I couldnt find a decent figure and then I came across the Caged Grawlth from the Chrysotic Plague set. It's not exactly what I had in mind, but it gave me a better idea as it happens. Now I've got this unnamed horror from the Far Realm all bound up in an iron cage, squished and squeezed up into a mass of pulsing flesh, clawing through the bars with countless adamantine talons.... What the players don't realise is that this creature is much bigger than its confinement suggests, and will almost engulf the room (and them) if it gets out... whcih it most likely will!

Several things of importance in this encounter come about because of the use of a 'crossover' figure. Firstly it gave me a new seed of an idea and provided me with a better encounter for the players. Secondly, they have no idea what it is, even the seasoned Rules Lawyers have never seen it before.

I've got to get it painted up now, as its a bit drab straight out of the box!

crossover miniatures

Andy Warner — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:14:00 +0000

Shock News! you don't have to use official D&D miniatures in your D&D game! Its true you know. And even more amazing is you can use your offical D&D miniatures in other games too.

This realisation opens up a whole range of miniatures for you to use, and best of all, if you are using a miniature that your players are not familiar with, then they really don't know whats about to hit them. Often Literally!

Great games like Call of Cthulhu are limited by the lack of 'official' miniatures for them. Oh how wonderful it would be to easily source a Deep One, a Fire Vampire, or a Llygor to add that feeling of fear and menace. Sadly unless you know a good store that sells them and you can paint relatively well, you are at a bit of a loss. Thats where other miniature ranges come to the fore.

Deep Ones, for example, can be replaced with Sahuagin or Kua Toans from the Dungeons and Dragons range. Fire Vampires with Fire Bats. OK, the Llygor is a problem here - perhaps a plastic dinosaur from any number of ranges - just a quick paint job and a pair of wings from some other model and there you are. (oh, do Llygor have wings - I cant remember!)

If you want to bring some strangeness to your D&D adventure, take a look at the Dreamblade figures for something special. Therre are some really interesting ones out there. There is a Raven Queen figure that would be ideal in a D&D adventure that strays into the Shadowfell.

For those of you in Eberron, the range of machinations and warforged, though growing, is still limited. The Star Wars range has a few brilliant figures that could easily stand in for Eberron monsters.

The list is pretty much endless - experiment with crossover miniatures and bring something new to your games in the new year.

Legacy of the Drow

Andy Warner — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:29:00 +0000

I think I'm right in saying that for many GM's, the Drow are favourite bad guys. They are certainly my favourites. Dark, sinister, calculating and inteligent. The structure of their civilisations, the rivalries and machinations of their great houses, and that ever present Shadow looming over them ready to weave new threads into the web of lies, deceit and trickery the players inevitably fall into.... great stuff.

The range of drow figures increases with pretty much every miniatures set Wizards release, which is great news for people like me.

One of the great miniatures from the Giants of Legend range was the Drider Sorcerer. Now long out of print and very hard to get hold of, its a really desirable figure. The drider has been re-visited since in Desert of Desolation and lately in the Savage Encounters sets. Not as good as the original, but a worthy addition.

I love the Drow Blademaster from Desert of Desolation, and also the assassin from Demonweb, but my favourite is the Xen'drik Drow Stingblade, a Rare miniature from the Dangerous Delves set. It just oozes malice!

check him out!

Cool Miniatures

Andy Warner — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:10:00 +0000

We've been packing and shipping quite a few minitures lately, and that got me thinking... Whats the COOLEST miniature we've seen in the D&D or Star Wars ranges from Wizards of the Coast?

I've always been a Lord of the Rings fan, so when the first Balor miniature came out in the Underdark set, I was a happy MERPer.... And since thats now such a hard to get miniature, they have seen fit to produce another one, in the Legendary Evils range. I still prefer the original, but thats just nostalga....

and - your choice?

In the Star Wars set, I am a great fan of the Uggernaut from the Force Unleashed set. Just a good old miniature with character! What do you think?

Savage Encounters

Andy Warner — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:47:00 +0000

Savage Encounters is the November 2009 figure set for Dungeons and Dragons. Its a 40 miniature set of pre-painted 25mm scale plastic miniatures. This set completes several monster lines from the Monster Manuals.

Noteable miniatures are the Angel of Valor Legionnaire and the Tiefling Necromancer.

Full set lists and images available from Legendgames and RPGMiniatures.com