"Dungeon Bash Paper Miniatures Now Available" Topic

Am I elitist when I see this and wonder if there is a market for this? I mean this is a miniatures page board, and can't most anyone today go out and get miniatures for D&D fairly easily and cheaply?

Paper miniatures are minis too. They certainly have their place here on TMP.

And they have their advantages. Let's say you need 30 skeletons. At $1 USD a pop (for instance) you get some DnD pre-paints and you are ready to go.

For far less than $30 USD you could buy a set of paper minis that would include skeletons, goblins, kobolds, etc. You print out a sheet of skellies and you are ready to go.

And if later you want a mob of 30 more, another sheet and you are good. And what about those goblins down the next hallway, or those kobolds to your right. You are a printed sheet away from having what you need.

Are they as nice as 3D metal or plastic? Not in my opinion. But they are ultimately cheap, and easily renewable if you need more. They are lightweight too. No need to store them in protective foam figure slots either. You could probably pour 100 of them into a ziploc quart baggie and not worry about the odd bent figure here or there.

Cardstock creations can be simple drawings that get the job done, and they can be wonderfully colorful and richly textured. Just check out …

Ebbles Miniatures:
link

Fat Dragon Games:
fatdragongames.com

Paper Tiger Armaments:
papertigerarmaments.com

Stones Edges:
stones-edges.com

Worldworks Games:
worldworksgames.com/store

These are just a few of the companies that offer up some nice cardstock items. There are plenty more, and a number of folks who offer up free goodies.

Paper minis and terrain certainly have a place on the gaming table and here on TMP.

I have many fond memories of playing the Fantasy Trip with Steve Jackson standups…I was the African guy with the spear (a halberd in actual game play, but hey, Go Kabisa doesn't take nonsense from anybody! Charge!…ah. er…anyway, you see my point). Cheers, and happy gaming!

I was certainly a big fan of Denis Loubet's character designs in the old Cardboard Heroes range. I'd love to see a manufacturer do a set of reptile men sculpted to match the CH ones…very nice style there.

As much as I'm a minis person (I'm actually at ReaperCon right now) this looks like a really good thing.

I don't have the patience or need to have the monster minis needed to do full minis with DungeonBash. I've used the numbered Stratego pieces we use with our normal game but it just isn't the same.

I see this being a purchase of mine in the very near future.

PS – I converted my DungeonBash info so it would print on 4 x 6 cards for ease of use. Makes it much easier to run combats and handle the dungeon stuff.

Paper miniatures are also superb solutions for RPG Gamemasters. For example, I'm running a D&D campaign for some of my geekier coworkers, and the adventure we are doing (Sinister Secret of Saltmarsh and its sequels) calls for Pirates, Lizardmen, Fish People and lots of other assorted critters for which none of us owned minis. A few sheets of paper figures got the job done and prevented me from having to invest in figures that I might not use for anything else besides this one module. I'm keeping my eye on One Monk's stuff for the same reason – I'm reading up on the rules for Dark Heresy, with a few people already expressing interest, and with paper models I can get a pretty cheap, unlimited supply of aliens and soldiers without having to invest in another 40K army.