My wife and I, OK, mostly her, have
been more or less renovating our kitchen, that weeks long activity is
nearing completion. Out of that I got a new set of shelves in my
office area, which is pretty cool because I always need more shelf
space. My wife may have other plans for these shelves, but I am
claiming them in the name of the empire!
I also hashed out, with my chief
co-conspirator Darryl, a bunch of little things that have been
bugging me about my Garnia campaign world this morning; so there's a
sense of achievement for you right there! The whole thing ends up
changing from a more generically Celtic flavored medieval fantasy
world to a really Iron Age/ Dark Ages Celts with Magic added kind of
a thing; meaning that a lot of the work that I thought was finished
has to be rewritten, but I think it makes for a more flavorful world.
Oh, and it's not just Celts, there are
other Human cultures represented there too. Spread across one
mega-continent, one small continent/very large island, and several
island chains we have various ethnic groups that have been brought
here to the Realm of the Sidhe for whatever reasons whichever court
of Sidhe saw fit to bring their particular group over. I talk about
it more on my other blog, and there's another multi-planar war aspect
to the whole back story, but you get the gist of it from this.
I also got these miniatures in the mail
today. I was surprised because the seller said he was going to be out
of town and not shipping anything until the 7th. I must have made it
in just under the wire before he left.
I had bid on these before I got the
first Celtos miniature that I won. I might consider more monster
types like the Fomorian, but the Humans are a wee bit too fantasy for
my tastes. Which I guess begs the question, where do you go for
Wizard and Priest types when you are using mostly historical ranges
of miniatures? Monsters I can grab from anywhere, although I have my
preferred companies. But if I have a player that wants to be a Female
Cleric in the setting, pretty much any part of the setting? Finding
any females in armor is difficult, but not impossible. Finding one
with the limited Cleric weapon set, much tougher*. Female Wizards?
They're pretty tough to find too, assuming I want the females in the
party to match the males in how "fantasy" they look.
*Although I tend not to be a stickler
for enforcement, I'd rather do damage by class than by weapon type.
For the sake of argument, assume I am strictly enforcing D&D
weapon bans.
Have you looked at Dark Sword Miniatures? They do more females than males. Base a lot of their figs on Artwork of the 'Names'of D&D art. Elmore, Easley, Parkinson & Caldwell. Also a line of Game of Thrones figs.Pricy though.
ReplyDeleteWould counters work for your purposes or do you prefer minatures? Some of the 4E counter sets seem feasible for this purpose.
ReplyDeleteI honestly have never tried counters before, but I'll look into their product in good faith.
DeleteIs there anyplace online where you can find pictures of these counters? I tried the WotC website but the pictures were too small to get a good look at anything.
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