William Marks
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 21 de marzo de 2025
This is a great selection of monster minis to bring to your game.Highlights:- Four of each type is great and lets you have a strong fight (1 werewolf is great to start with... But he's going to need buddies when your players level up.) Especially great for wolves and boars.- The details seem fairly crisp, I didn't see any printing artifacts or dangling plastic. The green elemental (acid?) has a base that's a little warped... And that's very easy to work around.- The monsters represent a wide and diverse spectrum of creatures.- Is the rock monster an elemental of earth? crystals? Ice? Until you paint him, the answer is Yes!- The human-faced serpent naga is a cool addition.- The giant is HUGE and that could be awesome to throw down on a table with regular minis.- Several creatures could be used to represent more than one kind of creature, i.e. the imps could be gargoyles, the ghouls could be a barbarian (or any dude running around with no shirt), the mummies make decent zombies.- The dire wolves really look good, and that's not always the case.Lowlights:- There are some unconventional creatures - acid elemental, slime snakes - but 1) this is a great creative exercise to define these creatures for yourself and 2) you can download support material using the QR code included! That's SUCH A GREAT MOVE! (I haven't dug into it yet, but whether it's good or bad, that's excellent creativity and added value.)- As is always the case with minis, you may tend to limit yourself to the creatures you have instead of being creative. That's a you problem... Work through it, get okay with saying "These mummies are actual vampire thrawls" or "Yes we had minis last week, but I don't have giant wasps, so we're using these monopoly pieces instead" or whatever you need to do to have fun creative play with your table. (It's okay to have something nice for your werewolf fight even if you don't have those minis for every week.)Overall, this is a great mini set for people playing in person. You (or your favorite DM) can get a lot of value using these for a planned campaign, and even more planning a campaign around these minis.
Unreallystic
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 19 de marzo de 2025
So these are better than a 4, but NOT quite a five.The set is good, with good theming that makes for a very good - quick DnD or miniatures purchase. This would have been great when planning my son's birthday party last year where I was hunting down miniatures as the bulk sets where priced a bit too much. The set is well priced with a good value, less than a dollar a piece, and a large enough base of pieces for any kind of campaign. The wind and acid designs come off very cool too. I have two issues with the set that hold back a perfect. First the bottom of the larger figures came warped, so the giant doesn't stand firmly, he doesn't fall over or anything that crazy, but they move around a lot and easily, and it frankly doesn't look good. The other issue is the finish and that is really a preference thing. My experience in the past with the shiny plastic finish is that it isn't great for painting - you can, but it isn't great for it, you NEED to prime it and prime it well, first (they do note this). If you have no interest in painting, then completely disregard, but as someone who was actually planning on using these with painting, it was a "baaahhhhh" moment when I opened the box and saw how smooth and shiny the pieces were as I originally missed this when requesting.
Jason Dunn
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 17 de marzo de 2025
There is a lot to unpack here. The value is good, the quality is what I have come to expect to from Wildspire (well detailed durable plastic minis at a great value).These are from the recently acquired Blacklist Games fantasy series 1, and from what I understand they are using the original molds. So I can't be sure if they're using the same plastic mix, but they're using the same molds.The scale is a little small, but some previous Wildspire (monsters of so'lan) the scale was all over the place. So i think these would go fine with previous wildspire, wizkids nolzurs, archon studios woodhaven npcs. a bit small for reaper/hazbro/cmon.This is about 1/3-1/2 of blacklist's fantasy series 1 and you get 4 of each mob monster. I hope they release a set for the player characters and demon lord. Between the 2 smaller encounters sets or 1 full encounters set, there are still 45 or so sculpts that should come as 1 each (instead of 4 each). mostly player characters, a vampire, necromancer, shambling mound, and demon.
Art Acklin
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 16 de marzo de 2025
No se pudo cargar el contenido.
Michael J. Tresca
Comentado en los Estados Unidos el 3 de abril de 2025
I'm always on the lookout for miniatures in bulk. They are becoming increasingly affordable, and here's the latest example.You get 60 miniatures for a reasonable price, which is always a plus. The set includes a variety of classic and recognizable monsters and characters that are common in D&D games. The miniatures are made from a mix of hard PVC plastic and ABS plastic, which results in greater detail and a more durable feel compared to softer plastics. The scale is 28mm heroic, which is a standard size for many tabletop RPGs. The miniatures are unpainted and unprimed, which allows you to customize them to your liking.The set includes one huge miniature (a female hill giant). It comes with four large creatures (acid elemental, earth elemental, air elemental, and naga -- for some reason no fire elemental). It's not clear why there's no fire elemental, and the water elemental style figure is "acid" because it's made of transparent green plastic. The air elemental is made of transparent plastic, as it should be.The rest of the set is the medium critters. There's four green-transparent oozes, and three transparent "gas serpents" (who needs these things?). There are four of everything else: harpies, boars, unholy knights, ghouls, bugbears, werewolves, bandits, cultists, and mummies. Then there are four of things that don't match their Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons equivalents: giant worms that are Medium-sized (there are no giant worms that are this size, carrion crawlers are Large, giant centipedes are Small); dire wolves (should be Large), and imps (should be Small).I'm never sure why these decisions are made as to which miniatures make it into the set, but presumably it's a cost calculation. Some monsters are rare enough you don't need that many (who needs four mummies?), others just simply the wrong size. On the positive side, the large figures are great with the hill giant and its elemental and naga brethren a highlight. The harpies, boards, knights, ghouls, bugbears, werewolves, and bandits are excellent. The rest... either aren't the right size or don't represent a common monster. Add all that up, and this set is still pretty useful, and if you are using them in other games you might find more use for the outliers.