I'm starting my Dragonlance campaign up this fall, and my group uses miniatures and a battlemat for running combats. This means we're in the market for some new minis, and so my question to you is whether you can recommend any particular company or series of miniatures for this?
So far, I've learned that Ral Partha had a series of Dragonlance miniatures back in the late 80's, which are no longer available. I've scoured Reaper Miniature's website looking for some likely candidates, but nothing more than a few knights and so on.
The biggest problems are draconians, minotaurs, and kender. I could use lizardmen for draconians, and halflings for kender, but as we all know that's not quite accurate. Some companies make minotaurs, but they're usually monsters and not characters.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Cam
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I saw a flyer of theirs in the hotel room at one point while we were there.The knights are good. I'm tempted to add a whole new knightly order of women just to use those Queen's Guards.
Hmm. Maybe that's what the Widows of Ansalon will end up being. That was my wife's idea, something Margaret ended up mentioning at the reception. After the War of Souls, there were undoubtedly a lot of widows left over from all the men who fought and died. So, they take up arms and armor and have to defend their homes from brigands and raiders and goblins, etc. That'd work with those minis pretty well.
Cheers,
Cam
Matthew L. Martin
D&D Miniatures Dragoneye Expansion Pack
The Dragoneye Expansion Pack contains a randomized selection of figures designed to expand any collection of D&D miniatures. The Dragoneye set is the first set of new miniatures since the initial product line launch. The randomized figures are drawn not only from the core rulebooks but from other D&D products released around the same time such as Draconomicon, Complete Warrior and the Dragonlance campaign setting. This set also features multiple dragon figures of varying size.
http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?sid=7666
It may work well for collectible gaminglike Mage Knight and HeroClix, but for plain old D&D campaigns it's going to be something of a headache.I may get a kender, or I may not...
Cheers,
Cam
I tried to get my hands on the complete set of villians (I'm missing about half of them)...but I lost the eBay bid.
And I've never seen the Draconian set on eBay. I've had to use different Gargoyles from Hero's Quest and painted them different colors to get draconians.
It certainly would be nice to be able to get some Dracs and kender. (since most everything else can be substituted for D&D minis)
Originally posted by Brimstone
Oi vey! Not more painting. LOL!
I tried to get my hands on the complete set of villians (I'm missing about half of them)...but I lost the eBay bid.
And I've never seen the Draconian set on eBay. I've had to use different Gargoyles from Hero's Quest and painted them different colors to get draconians.
Heh. That's too bad. IF i see another draconian set at any game store, I'll remember to contact you.
Personally, I'm miffed about that random mini idea. I've had enough problems with the SAGA fate deck cards and the Random mini-adventures that were in there. Not many people knew that there were four minis. Not many people knew that distribution of the cards were regional, i.e Western US got a certain mini and all of Southeast US got a different mini. And I just don't like the idea that i'm going to be buying a product and i don't know if i'm going to get what i get.
I hope that the they list what DL mini's are produced while we hunt for them.
Granak Red-Silver
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Originally posted by talinthas
dude, call me before you call him about those =)
Or call the guy asking about the miniatures in the first place.
Cheers,
Cam
Originally posted by Granakrs
Heh. That's too bad. IF i see another draconian set at any game store, I'll remember to contact you.
Sounds good, I'd appreciate that, Weldon. Thanks!
Originally posted by Granakrs
And I just don't like the idea that i'm going to be buying a product and i don't know if i'm going to get what i get.
Maybe they'll be in clear plastic containers. Or, maybe the game store owner will let you open the box first to see what's in there. It's not completely unheard of.
Originally posted by Talinthas
dude, call me before you call him about those
:P
Originally posted by talinthas
hey, i have the advantage of living in driving distance =)
It's not like it's that hard to mail something from the west coast to Houston. heh heh
Well...if you get them...you'd better paint them.:fight!:
Originally posted by Brimstone
maybe the game store owner will let you open the box first to see what's in there. It's not completely unheard of.
That's what is going to exactly happen. :-) Fortunately, I'm one of those guys who hangs out often enough to know store owners and staff, so I can actually ask and they will say sure. It also helps that I upsell stuff, like the DLCS (and other stuff) to people. Still, as others have explained to me, their own gaming stores won't let them do that. TsK Tsk.
Granak
That said, however, I'm sure that as with any collectible randomly assorted mini line, your FLGS will allow you to purchase them independently, as they'll likely have cases full of them. Unfortunately, this is also where the "collectible" aspect comes into play and the minimum asking price for that "perfect draconian" is $10.
~Khrystyne
I myself use paper tokens these days. A nice little square of cardboard of the appropriate size, with the appropriate picture on it. No stress, no fuss, no muss. Also, much, much cheaper.
I may buy the cheap plastic minatures that WotC is selling this fall though.
Originally posted by ferratus
I myself use paper tokens these days. A nice little square of cardboard of the appropriate size, with the appropriate picture on it. No stress, no fuss, no muss. Also, much, much cheaper.
I actually use a combination of minis and tokens. PC heroes and major NPC bad guys always get a model, but legions of goblins, kobolds, minions or guards don't unless we happen to have enough minis around. Usually, we get colored glass stones (the kind folks use for CCGs like Magic as counters) of different colors. During one story arc, the Red Code elves who made up the bulk of the opposition to the player characters were represented by red stones. Easy enough to spot on the mat and easy enough to remove and "add up" for those players keeping score.
Cheers,
Cam