Because breathing soul into an inanimate object requires golemancy and these days very few people who work in miniature design have been to the Massachusetts Institute of Thaumaturgy, Texas Artifice & Mana, or John Hopkins.
Don't care about soul but as said the quality is absolutely abysmal. A player brought one for his character in one of my games and I literally couldn't make out half of the mini because the sculpt was so bad and the soft plastic didn't have close to enough detail.
GW may have shitty designs a lot of the time but at least the actual build quality is something you can work with.
Models made by WotC also looked like shit.
I'd say it's because they're Americans, but Reaper has some nice sculpts. Especially their recent orcs with an old timey LotR art feel.
you're asking why an official WotC product looks generic, unimaginative and samey, as though it were made by someone whose inspiration is derived from netflix.
That is a very dumb question. I don't want to think i'm insulting you by telling you this, just that the question itself is arse when the answer is evident.
D&D is mainstream. Mainstream things are safe and made by acceptable people that have neither spelled nor played Risk in all of their lives.
>he pays for digital content
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Piracy is available for the vast majority of the good stuff, and even if you want to buygay most of the time it's fairly priced.
frick you, I'd pirate everything if I could find the stuff somewhere, but every motherfricker is so goddamn tight lipped about it, for good reason - I understand, but it makes it so hard to find stuff.
took me long enough to figure out the keywords I need to find gw proxies. but where the frick do I find the stuff that's sold on mmf or cults? at least for movies, games, books etc there is an abundance of known sites I can go to, but for 3d models I don't know shit.
and I know that nobody will give sauce so it won't be taken down but a breadcrumb so that I can start searching in the right places would be plenty of help
>he pays for digital content
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I always end up with Reaper when I buy Heroic Scale minis online but it might well be because I live in the US and they end up being cheaper/faster/more reliable to ship. WizKids (OP) is going to be the only "reasonably priced" painted miniatures and the paint quality varies wildly from sub-par to terrible.
Because it's yet another rehash of the original monsters that the first D&D creators invented? Just copies, copies copies all the way down now, no inovation, just repeated recycling and dumbing down in a feeble half assed attempt to milk the fame of the ist edition fame. The fact that it's for a 5th fricking edition of a game should given you a clue.
> CAD
there is your problem - they look like video game models.
They have been designed by a video game artist who has never held a mini in his entire life.
If a mini doesn't look like it can be sculpted irl with greenstuff - it's automatically shit
A CAD mini can look great, but this requires the designer to consciously replicate the hand-sculpted style - which is, unfortunately, a rarity these days
Because "offical" DnD is completely soulless.
There is certain exceptions when Wizards accidentally hire people with talent and proper motivation to breathe soul into a product, like Baldurs Gate 3, but most official stuff is just the minimum effort branding stuff.
>That will be 49.99$ plus tip.
Because the people who make these minis don't have souls
/thread
It really is this simple. Watch an episode of '90s X-Files and then a GrubHub ad. The difference is unbearable.
I won't let you talk shit about my man Brian Goldner. He Supercharges your play
Because breathing soul into an inanimate object requires golemancy and these days very few people who work in miniature design have been to the Massachusetts Institute of Thaumaturgy, Texas Artifice & Mana, or John Hopkins.
Made me laugh out loud.
>t. Getting my master's in necromancy at John Hopkins.
I like that frog dude but the rest are terrible.
Soulless sculpts
Not to mention those are CAD renders
The Nolzur's material is worse than any iteration of Reaper Bones
Don't care about soul but as said the quality is absolutely abysmal. A player brought one for his character in one of my games and I literally couldn't make out half of the mini because the sculpt was so bad and the soft plastic didn't have close to enough detail.
GW may have shitty designs a lot of the time but at least the actual build quality is something you can work with.
Models made by WotC also looked like shit.
I'd say it's because they're Americans, but Reaper has some nice sculpts. Especially their recent orcs with an old timey LotR art feel.
Probably because nobody sculpted them and when they advertise them with renders of the 3D models it doubles down.
you're asking why an official WotC product looks generic, unimaginative and samey, as though it were made by someone whose inspiration is derived from netflix.
That is a very dumb question. I don't want to think i'm insulting you by telling you this, just that the question itself is arse when the answer is evident.
D&D is mainstream. Mainstream things are safe and made by acceptable people that have neither spelled nor played Risk in all of their lives.
I dunno, it might be the angle but the beholder looks good.
Otherworld Miniatures for some real soul.
Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of Copyright Violations!
yeah, but still gotta pay for those really good models. sure, they're cheaper and I can print as many of them as I want, but still.
>paying for 1s and 0s
oh hahahahahaha
frick you, I'd pirate everything if I could find the stuff somewhere, but every motherfricker is so goddamn tight lipped about it, for good reason - I understand, but it makes it so hard to find stuff.
took me long enough to figure out the keywords I need to find gw proxies. but where the frick do I find the stuff that's sold on mmf or cults? at least for movies, games, books etc there is an abundance of known sites I can go to, but for 3d models I don't know shit.
and I know that nobody will give sauce so it won't be taken down but a breadcrumb so that I can start searching in the right places would be plenty of help
have you tried sending a telegram for help?
never used it, but thank you
>he pays for digital content
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Piracy is available for the vast majority of the good stuff, and even if you want to buygay most of the time it's fairly priced.
Reminder Norzul's blows AoS the frick out of the water in sales.
Damn, I wonder which game has more players
Best prepainted/metal minis sold at a reasonable price? I dont have time nor the desire to get into mini autism but I still like to use them.
I always end up with Reaper when I buy Heroic Scale minis online but it might well be because I live in the US and they end up being cheaper/faster/more reliable to ship. WizKids (OP) is going to be the only "reasonably priced" painted miniatures and the paint quality varies wildly from sub-par to terrible.
Reaper minis are extremely cheap.
Painting is extremely easy with metal figures because you can just use black spraypaint
Everything but the beholder looks like something you could make in Hero forge in 10 minutes
So? Hero forge is insanely expensive.
>tfw neither tool is actually capable of rendering like half the characters in your campaign
Suffering
Eldritch foundry is chinkshit but has a good pricing model and reasonable parts/posing options.
Because it's yet another rehash of the original monsters that the first D&D creators invented? Just copies, copies copies all the way down now, no inovation, just repeated recycling and dumbing down in a feeble half assed attempt to milk the fame of the ist edition fame. The fact that it's for a 5th fricking edition of a game should given you a clue.
> CAD
there is your problem - they look like video game models.
They have been designed by a video game artist who has never held a mini in his entire life.
If a mini doesn't look like it can be sculpted irl with greenstuff - it's automatically shit
A CAD mini can look great, but this requires the designer to consciously replicate the hand-sculpted style - which is, unfortunately, a rarity these days
Because "offical" DnD is completely soulless.
There is certain exceptions when Wizards accidentally hire people with talent and proper motivation to breathe soul into a product, like Baldurs Gate 3, but most official stuff is just the minimum effort branding stuff.
Man, that Harengon just makes me want a Redwall tactical game.
>why is the company infamous for overcharging and under-delivering making a subpar product, bros?