Reply To: Dungeon and Dragons Miniature Scale…

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I too discovered 15mm a few years ago and loved it. Painting minis is relatively quick (the trade off being fewer tiny details but that does mean less time on the painting table!). A larger playing area with smaller terrain is great. I thought I was going to make the jump but a couple of things stopped me:

the first being 3d printing wasn’t anywhere near as prevelant – minis were still being scuplted by hand and many, despite the vendors best offers – looked a little blobby.

I actually missed the detail on the pieces – they’re great for gaming; but then again, chess pieces are the perfect tokens for playing a game. What attracted me to tabletop gaming was creating the world in miniature. And I felt 15mm was just that bit *too* small to get the level of detail I wanted in my tabletop world.

TL/DR: 15mm is great for gaming – especially at an abstract level.

 

(ps. I did try re-scaling some of my .stl files to print minis at 15mm instead of 28/32mm – it doesn’t really work: each model needs to be sculpted to the scale it’s going to be printed/painted. Is there’s anyone out there scuplting 15mm miniatures, I’d be quite happy to try printing a few to have my head turned again….)