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WizKids Fill D&D Dungeons Of The Mad Mage With Minis
February 3, 2019 by dracs
WizKids have a new set of D&D Icons of the Realms miniatures, letting you fill up the game board to explore Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage.
In the city of Waterdeep rests a tavern called the Yawning Portal, named after the gaping pit in its common room. At the bottom of this crumbling shaft is a labyrinthine dungeon known as Undermountain, domain of the mad wizard Halaster Blackcloak who has seeded his lair with monsters, traps, and mysteries. This set of collectible figures perfectly represents many of the monsters and villains found throughout the 23 levels of Undermountain detailed in Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage.
This new set of forty-four figures are randomly sorted and can be picked up standard booster packs, letting you scratch that blind-buy itch if you happen to be one of those people for whom the search is half the fun of collecting.
A lot of people seem to have mixed opinions of pre-painted miniatures. The effect will rarely be as good as a piece you have painted yourself, but they do allow you to build a quick collection of effective miniatures with which to fill your adventures and WizKids models have been going from strength to strength in terms of quality.
As well as the booster sets of figurines, WizKids have also announced a terrain pack in the form of Halaster's Lab Premium Set.
This set gives you a varied selection of features with which to decorate a dungeon and make it more interactive for the players.
Now, once again, I feel there are better options out there when it comes to dungeon terrain. However, these are pre-painted, making them a useful resource for busy gamers.
Having recently played a game using Room 17's Tenfold Dungeon sets, I could see this fitting in well with that to make a cool gaming environment.
D&D Icons of the Realms: Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage: Revenge of the colons is set to release in March this year.
What is your opinion on Wizkids' pre-painted miniatures?
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Some of those don’t look too bad.
Fantastic models and as for prep painted count me in the way my hands are fine work is out the window.
You know I had never considered that before when thinking about the merits of pre-paints! Yes, that’s a great plus for them.
“…revenge of the colons!” Now that would interest me!! 😀
I had a post-pub takeway last night. I can do updates if you like.
Shame they’re booster boxed. I like the Lab, though. Does the golem/robot come off the table?
Looks like the only mini in there I didn’t already have prepainted from Wizards and Paizo is the Frogemoth. You can usually find sellers who will split these up.
I simply don’t have time to paint everything I need so these are not bad considering.
Not a fan of blind buy. Too much like loot boxes.
Same here. The hobby devours enough money already. No real need to spend more than must. :S
Agreed, it’s much nicer knowing what minis you’re getting, especially if you need a specific one (which you probably will if following a published module or designing your own dungeon).
The only time I can imagine this being an asset is if you were doing random dungeon generation on the fly and opened a box for each room as the players entered it to randomly generate monsters for it (although this’d only work once and after that you’d need to roll on tables to randomly generate monsters at which point you might as well have done that from the start).
It would also work as a present to the GM who has everything 😉
They blind box these things because the quality is awful. The terrain looks like it could be cool though.
I like some of their figs, but this whole blind-box thing just turns me right off. I’m just not doing it, period.
If I can find some seller locally who’ll sell these out of the box, I’ll buy what I want but nothing else.
I like the big orange beastman guy BTW