Durrati | 26 Sep 2015 8:39 a.m. PST |
Am thinking of starting to play classic fantasy role play games with my boy. What company / figures would people recommend for depicting an adventuring group? Am more into the cheap and decent end of the market rather than expensive and exquisite. TIA |
dick garrison | 26 Sep 2015 9:22 a.m. PST |
Irregular miniatures have a real cheap and cheerful look, an Minifigs are the classics. Cheers Roger |
Redroom | 26 Sep 2015 10:12 a.m. PST |
I am a fan of the heroclix line (lord of the rings), also the D&D collectable mini game has some nice figures that are around $1 USD/figure |
rmaker | 26 Sep 2015 10:57 a.m. PST |
Check out Historifigs: link |
Feet up now | 26 Sep 2015 12:18 p.m. PST |
Reaper bones are very good cheap figures and surprisingly well detailed. A good source for the dungeon denizens if you get your heroes elsewhere. Maybe look out for the mantic dungeon saga miniatures to arrive on the market? |
John Treadaway | 26 Sep 2015 12:22 p.m. PST |
Look up the great ranges from Otherworld Just had some for review and they are old school style but great sculpts. John T |
Lee Brilleaux | 26 Sep 2015 2:06 p.m. PST |
How old is your son? I note (from experience) that under tens still often have poor manual dexterity when handling figures, and that they tend to drop them with unnerving frequency. |
YogiBearMinis | 26 Sep 2015 2:48 p.m. PST |
Unless you want to paint the figures, go with the D&D prepaints or the newer Pathfinder ones. You can get adventurers and monsters in game stores or on Ebay. While I have a huge fantasy miniatures collection, I use D&D prepaints for roleplaying and they are perfectly fine (and indestructible). Another option is the series of Pathfinder pawns, which are the paper (double sided) figures with round miniature bases appropriately sized for the human/monster. There are several boxed sets now available. D&D 4th edition also had some of these, which are almost the exact same, and the basic set is very useful. |
Sgt Slag | 26 Sep 2015 8:03 p.m. PST |
I really like Caesar Fantasy miniatures. They are true 25mm scale, but they're affordable, and they paint up decently, if you prime them with Artist's Gesso, first. Here is a link showing their different lines. The "Adventurers" set even includes a Troll figure. Cheers! |
Mithmee | 28 Sep 2015 10:50 p.m. PST |
North Star Miniatures They make the Frostgrave miniatures. |
SCAdian | 29 Sep 2015 8:39 p.m. PST |
John,the OP said he was into the cheap and decent… Otherworld is definitely not cheap. That said: Reaper Bones if you're into paining your own. |
Logain | 01 Oct 2015 5:06 p.m. PST |
Splintered light are worth looking at. |
Keifer113 | 01 Oct 2015 10:11 p.m. PST |
Keep it cheap and simple. 2 boxes of Wargames Factory Orcs gives you 50 mooks. They can be orcs, bugbears, gnolls whatever. They look like bad guys, that's all you need. For good guys, You can get WGF Vikings, Saxons, and Gripping Beast Dark Age Warriors. These give you plenty of options for both humans, more bad guys, and player character figures. 100 bucks or so for enough figures to last you for years. Then go and find the DnD board games, like Castle Ravenloft or Wrath of Ashardlon. 40 bucks for almost 40 figures…gives you a good range of monsters, a dragon and undead. I'd also look around online for paper miniatures. One Monk had some great ones, they are sold to another company now I think. |
ced1106 | 06 Oct 2015 4:19 p.m. PST |
If unpainted is fine with you, pick up one of the D&D Adventure Games. Wrath of Ashardalon has a red dragon! |
Durrati | 07 Oct 2015 12:49 p.m. PST |
Ah thanks this makes sense. I have plenty of 28mm dark age figures for fighter types / bad guys and also a small but decent enough collection of fantasy bad guys. My main need is to the 'adventure party' figures. A wizardy looking character or two, a maybe a hobbit, a chap in a cloak looking mysterious, that type of thing. Any game in particular would you recommend for this? |