This is a thing that is happening.

WizKids press release.

Thoughts?

I don't know very much about wizkids, but I did get that star trek attack wing and the miniatures for that are really bad.

As long as they aren't click-base, more handfuls of easily stored and transported generic bad guy miniatures, or character miniatures for the non-discerning player, are fine by me.

They'll probably be pretty much just like the ones they produce for Pathfinder.

Quote from: The Butcher;730051Thoughts?

WizKids' plasticrack is pretty decent in my experience, so this is probably a good thing.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;730090WizKids' plasticrack is pretty decent in my experience, so this is probably a good thing.

Concur.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;730090WizKids' plasticrack is pretty decent in my experience, so this is probably a good thing.

Their Star Trek: Fleet Captains game was an appalling mess. Minis so flimsy that the cards sliding around unfettered in the box was breaking the minis.

That and lots of misglued ships. Nacells on backwards, wrong ship, glue blobs, you name it.

Oh and the ships would break if you held them wrong and turned the dial or dropped them just so.

WizKids though was really good about fixing the problem and even went in and retooled the problematic box insert that was funnelling the loose cards into the ship area. Notably fewer Broke-in-box instances after that.

I have about 2000 of their MK figures (which I think is now defunct).

Ironically, some of the sculpts from their Dungeon line (the heroes) were apparently from the old official D&D figure line

Quote from: thedungeondelver;730056As long as they aren't click-base, more handfuls of easily stored and transported generic bad guy miniatures, or character miniatures for the non-discerning player, are fine by me.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;730090WizKids' plasticrack is pretty decent in my experience, so this is probably a good thing.

Basically, yeah.

Quote from: thedungeondelver;730056As long as they aren't click-base

I have that sinking feeling D&D Next will be identical to a Heroclix game.

Quote from: hagbard;730171I have that sinking feeling D&D Next will be identical to a Heroclix game.

Then they'd have to chuck the entire playtest rules and go a totally different direction if that were the case.  It's nothing like Heroclix.  It's mostly like a version 2.5 D&D core-books game.

Quote from: The Butcher;730051Thoughts?

My first thought is that I doubt I'll like the sculpts if they adopt the "modern D&D fantasy" look that Wizards has been using.  I prefer a look closer to historical armor and arms, or to traditional swords-n-sorcery.

That said, maybe they'll change direction on that, or maybe there will be some sculpts that I'll like.  It's hard to go wrong with skeletons and zombies and generic spearmen and things like that.  Reasonably priced, that kind of mini would be welcome.

Quote from: Omega;730164Their Star Trek: Fleet Captains game was an appalling mess.

I had Mage Knight and Marvel figures, and never encountered a problem.

I'm amused that people are getting worried about someone making cheap minis for D&D.

My thoughts are - Good for them.

I think Wizkids can do as good a job on this as WoTC did but I wonder if they are going to do anything about the problems that plagued D&D minis before:

Almost nobody except GMs bought the miniatures because the boxes were blind. Players would not buy because they only needed the one mini to represent their character, and what were the odds of getting that one mini in a pack?

To boost sales WoTC created a separate game to go along with the miniatures, which I don't know anyone that played the stand alone games. Seems like a waste of resources.

It seemed like half of the minis WoTC produced were a speciality tied to their theme du jour, when I needed a band of orcs I ended up with a warforged dragonborn.

I guess I will hold out to see how they are packaged or marketed. I do have a need for cheap plastic minis for the tabletop but I also wish there was an officially licensed un painted mini line fot PCs (Reaper ?)

My biggest nostalgia moments still include Ral Partha and Grenadier licensed D&D minis