What did you buy this week?

[Mattnuke]

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Everything but my Pathfinder order came in from Auggies today.

What do you need so many Draegloths for?

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I also have three of the Nolzur’s and a few of the old ones. All I can say is old school D&D isn’t balanced.

[Brophy]

All I can say is old school D&D isn’t balanced.

And that is why I cannot stand the current edition. It's not supposed to be balanced in the player's favor.

[C4bal]

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Everything but my Pathfinder order came in from Auggies today.

Nice, you got the ToA demon mouth statue and portal/archway, I really want those 2!

[Mattnuke]

All I can say is old school D&D isn’t balanced.

And that is why I cannot stand the current edition. It's not supposed to be balanced in the player's favor.

The three tenets of my game are as follows:

1) The game is not balanced. I’ll try my darnedest to make it fair through consistency, but I’m not fudging rolls or taking it easy on the players. If you’re going to do dumb things, you better have a backup plan! The only thing I cut back on is save or die rolls.

2) Combat is a last resort. Talk, sneak, hide, run, trick, use anything at your disposal. But realize that combat is lethal, and you very well may die.

3) I always give the players the benefit of doubt. If you want to try something and can give me a good enough reason (even if it’s silly) you’ll get a chance. If it’s really reasonable I’m not even going to make you roll for it.

A close fourth is that no individual character is more important than the whole of the game. It’s everyone’s game, a mutual story, no showboating or grandstanding.

[berk the black]

The game is not balanced, nor do I strive to balance every encounter. My players are slowly learning that there are some things you destroy, some things you find ways around, and some things you simply avoid. And I intentionally orchestrate encounters like this, it is not left up to chance or bad game balance.

[Gelcur]

I'll get some better grick shots tomorrow.

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Maybe a 20% increase in length if you stretched them out, but about a 20% decrease in bulk. On the table it does read a bit bigger than the others. Honestly, I have a large appreciation for the old DDM minis, these Gricks and that Pit Fiend are just awesome. At least 2/3 of the minis I use at my table are from back then. I'm just starting to fill in some gaps.

[BBShockwave]

They looks still close enough that you can believe this is the same species - unlike the DoD bright blue Grick.

7 of 8 bricks opened. I stopped on the last when I realized it literally has most of the worst rares in it: Kiren, Skull pole, Human Arcanist, Venom Demon. It's worth way more sealed.

Yeah, I mentioned this, the Uncommons have some bad ones too - the super colorful Couatl, way too small Girallon, and the thoroughly disappointingly flat Assassin Vine. I don't much like the PFB Shambling Mound either, as it has a barely humanoid shape, more like a blob of vegetation with coiled up vine tentacles for legs, and no arms at all.
There are also the Qulippoths which will only interest people who play Pathfinder, as I do not think they exist in D&D - unless they were in 3E maybe?
I do like the Venom Daemon, because it fills that glaring hole 5E D&D left. I mean, they made the Oinoloth into a species of Yugoloth instead of their de facto leader, but they left out the Piscoloth as a whole? I like those guys, they are Octopus-headed Crab people who are like bus ticket collectors - everyone in the universe hates them and will kill them if they can get away with it. Basically they have the thankless job of trying to order around a race of Neutral Evil fiends as low level officers... Not enviable. Their best chance of survival is to somehow please a superior enough that they get promoted above this level to a Hydroloth...

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[Mattnuke]

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Expert level adventure design here. Charles Ferguson-Avery doesn’t dissapoint.

I’ll add this to my growing collection of his releases, like “Into the Cess and Citadel”, “Into the Wyrd and Wild”, “Season of the Moth”, and “The Vast in the Dark”.

[bshugg]

Yeah, I mentioned this, the Uncommons have some bad ones too - the super colorful Couatl, way too small Girallon, and the thoroughly disappointingly flat Assassin Vine. I don't much like the PFB Shambling Mound either, as it has a barely humanoid shape, more like a blob of vegetation with coiled up vine tentacles for legs, and no arms at all.
There are also the Qulippoths which will only interest people who play Pathfinder, as I do not think they exist in D&D - unless they were in 3E maybe?
I do like the Venom Daemon, because it fills that glaring hole 5E D&D left.

The Couatl and assassin vines sell very well. The Shambler fetches around 10-12 on some auction buyouts. The little girallon is cute but I struggle to sell them as singles. If I put 4-5 in a lot they sell for about $5 each.

QLippoths are too weird for D&D players but the rares there is enough PF players to buy them all. As for the uncommons the Infectious looks so bad ass they have no problem selling and the ravenous looks like the FSM so people buy them as a gimmick seems like.

As for the Venom If it looked like the art you shared it would be popular. Instead it looks like some sort of weird mongrelfolk thing.

[liketearsintherain]

Hi all,

Sometime lurker and first-time poster here. Started playing D&D for first time in decades a few months back, and came across the D&D minis pre-painted and other and had to get in on the action. 1) Love the idea of prepainted minis - as someone who painted minis (WH40k - tho I don't play) in the past few years love the idea of pre-painted ones for those times 2) Also quite like the idea of painting my current D&D character (which I plan on doing).

Anyway, here's what I picked up this week:

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Have ordered some D&D Miniatures Volo & Mordenkainen's Foes bricks as like the spread of monsters in those and look forward to collecting a few of these.

I also grabbed a mini of my character I am currently playing:

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And hope to paint soon...

[C4bal]

Hi all,

Sometime lurker and first-time poster here. Started playing D&D for first time in decades a few months back, and came across the D&D minis pre-painted and other and had to get in on the action. 1) Love the idea of prepainted minis - as someone who painted minis (WH40k - tho I don't play) in the past few years love the idea of pre-painted ones for those times 2) Also quite like the idea of painting my current D&D character (which I plan on doing).

Anyway, here's what I picked up this week:

phil.jpg
wdeep.jpg

Have ordered some D&D Miniatures Volo & Mordenkainen's Foes bricks as like the spread of monsters in those and look forward to collecting a few of these.

I also grabbed a mini of my character I am currently playing:
tiefr1.jpg
tiefr2.jpg

And hope to paint soon...

Welcome, bro!

My story is exactly like yours “Started playing D&D for first time in decades a few months back, and came across the D&D minis”

Great acquisitions, looking forward to see your character painted too.

[berk the black]

Welcome to the forums liketearsintherain.

[bshugg]

Hi all,

Sometime lurker and first-time poster here.

Have ordered some D&D Miniatures Volo & Mordenkainen's Foes bricks as like the spread of monsters in those and look forward to collecting a few of these.

And hope to paint soon...

Welcome to the addiction! I love the waterdeep NPC set with the beholder. Has a great mix of minis. Volo & Mords is a solid set. If you want the most "standard" minis I would recommend D&D Fang & Talons from the recent sets and Pathfinder Legendary Adventures. Both are the closest to what I call a core set these days.

[liketearsintherain]

Welcome to the addiction! I love the waterdeep NPC set with the beholder. Has a great mix of minis. Volo & Mords is a solid set. If you want the most "standard" minis I would recommend D&D Fang & Talons from the recent sets and Pathfinder Legendary Adventures. Both are the closest to what I call a core set these days.

Thanks. I am a fan of Xanathar (have his Funko Pop) hence the Waterdeep one. I got the Phandalin one as I am playing that campaign at the moment, and was going to get more but realised I didn't want it spoiled so will avoid the boosters of that set until I've finished the campaign.

Thanks for the recommends - shall check out Fang & Talons and the Pathfinder ones!

I've noticed too that some games come with miniatures - the D&D Onslaught ones looked awesome. Might have to keep an eye out for that box on sale...

[BBShockwave]

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Got a package from my friend in the USA, all of this stuff packed inside the Jokermobile's box.
The Decathons are from Auggie's, and the Birthday Cake Mimic I got here on the forums from Gelcur!
There were more MK and D&D minis too in the box, will take a group shot later after cleaning them.
Also got the Bigby book discounted from Amazon, a bunch of cool transforming Leader Shine insect keychains, Altered Beast Werewolf figure, complete G1 Punch/Counterpunch, parts from G1 Iguanus and Sky High, Super Abega Jetrobo, Blaze the Cat and Dread Pirate Knuckles from Sonic, a cool Boss Fight Studios 4-armed Mantis lady, and Seventh Kingdom Octobria - with whom I now finally have all 6 of the Four Horsemen royal guard cat ladies!

Yeah, I mentioned this, the Uncommons have some bad ones too - the super colorful Couatl, way too small Girallon, and the thoroughly disappointingly flat Assassin Vine. I don't much like the PFB Shambling Mound either, as it has a barely humanoid shape, more like a blob of vegetation with coiled up vine tentacles for legs, and no arms at all.
There are also the Qulippoths which will only interest people who play Pathfinder, as I do not think they exist in D&D - unless they were in 3E maybe?
I do like the Venom Daemon, because it fills that glaring hole 5E D&D left.

The Couatl and assassin vines sell very well. The Shambler fetches around 10-12 on some auction buyouts. The little girallon is cute but I struggle to sell them as singles. If I put 4-5 in a lot they sell for about $5 each.

QLippoths are too weird for D&D players but the rares there is enough PF players to buy them all. As for the uncommons the Infectious looks so bad ass they have no problem selling and the ravenous looks like the FSM so people buy them as a gimmick seems like.

As for the Venom If it looked like the art you shared it would be popular. Instead it looks like some sort of weird mongrelfolk thing.

Yeah, I am guessing some sort of copyright law requires them to make it different enough. I think the Paizo Arcanaloths look very different too, and have a totally different name and are connected to the Famine Archdaemon.
Surprised those Shamblers sell so well. I feel the IotR ones are just a lot better looking, pity they are so expensive due to being Rares. And the Assassin Vine, to me it looks more like just a flat vegetation base you'd mount a mini on. I am hopeful Wizkids does one based on the ToA art someday.