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Flat Minis Gives You Alternative Tabletop RPG Characters
September 19, 2016 by brennon
Flat Minis are a new company doing plastic/paper miniatures in 2D for you to use in your role-playing games. Take a look at some of their heroes below...
The premise behind them is that the hero art comes on sticker sheets. You will then place the plastic silhouette in the middle of the sticker and simply pop the two halves together. You can read the full guide HERE.
2D miniatures for use in role-playing games isn't a new thing but I think this project here has some real merit. The artwork for these is also of great quality and they even accept commission work to create miniatures for a range or smaller collection you have in mind.
Here are some close ups of their heroes for you to check out...
Here we have some of the more typical heroes you might expect like a Human Barbarian and a Dwarf Druid but they also make some of the harder to find characters too from the likes of D&D.
This, for example, is a Merfolk although they have also got designs for Dragonborn and Tieflings too.
I could see this being a little bit of a sleeper hit. With nice artwork and a simple assembly method, I would pick these up for my group to avoiding having to paint miniatures!
What do you think?
"The artwork for these is also of great quality and they even accept commission work to create miniatures for a range or smaller collection you have in mind..."
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At Salute this year I played a demo of Mythos which used card standees. In all honestly it didn’t impact on my enjoyment of the game over using painted minis. Whilst painted minis do look better, when I saw these recently it reminded of that and got me wondering whether there was a market for ‘minis games’ that don’t actually use minis, but use something like this instead.
A recent Wargames Illustrated had an article on gaming Hastings with paper craft armies.
Standees seem a perfectly acceptable abstract object; where common alternatives include 3d miniatures or flat tokens on the ground/map. I’ve play-tested a couple of games using standees and after a while your brain adjusts to the scene in front of you and to whatever abstraction you’re using. What can break this model is when you use a mix of tokens/standees/miniatures; maybe that’s why 2.5d dungeons etc. are so popular rather than furniture and door tokens.
There are still lots of people who use metal flats. Still the hardest thing I have ever attempted to paint
This isn’t a bad idea, given the conceivable different combinations of oppenents and NPCs that a Role playing group may see over the course of a campaign, ^^This^^ allows for accurate and characterful representation of all involved.
It has the added advantage of being better than those god-awful, random packed, pre-“painted” cheap plastic WOC/Hasbro minis. (apologies if you like them , my opinion only)
I like them. Looks like they will fit in with all the other 2D stuff that’s available
They do look really nice. Not sure if they are enough to take me from similar products from Paizo though (volume, simplicity, price). More variety is good though 😀