Miniature of the Week – Metal Horror Stalks the Sewers
Game over, man. Game over!
This week’s Miniature of the Week is a freaky beast with a sparkplug head, courtesy of Mordicai Knode.
One nice thing about using minis for an RPG is that you can cross genres and rules systems at will. If you want to use your red dragon in your sci-fi game, just call it a space dragon! And if you want to use an alien Hive Queen as a hideous creature living beneath your fantasy world’s biggest city, who’s going to stop you?
“The metal horror is a scrap metal Hive Queen bough in Bryant Park (in NYC),” said Mordicai of his D20 campaign’s ultimate battle. “Threads came together– the big lunk of a soldier was revealed to have been taking rogue levels and be in a secret conspiracy, the crime lord was part of the same conspiracy but sold his soul in the penultimate session, the alchemist had an open-secret that she was a demon worshiper, and the other player was a sex and drug wizard. Somehow they managed to save the City from the horrors beneath it with but one of them dying.”
A sex and drug wizard? Where’s the miniature for that one?
Oh, here’s another shot of the Hive Queen. Look closely for the sparkplug and the bike chain. That’s some clever sculpting.
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March 11th, 2009 11:30 AM
That is awesome. Truly awesome. and seeing as my local shop no longer carries Warhammer, my plan for this week is altered slightly. My time in the miniature of the week spotlight has been post-poned
March 11th, 2009 12:16 PM
The red hairs sorceress (I don’t have my minis in front of me to tell you her name) was the Alchemist/Demon-worshipper, the choker, spiny devil & the Ebberon mutant-thing are demons she summoned to the fight; the flaming skeleton is the dead PC (the Crimelord/Poet/Necromancer/Conspirator), the knight is the Bruiser/Bladesmith/Conspirator, & the gentleman with the halberd is the sex & drugs wizard– not pictured is his Cheshire Monkey familiar (with a “vorpal bite” with a high crit range)
March 11th, 2009 12:16 PM
The dragon’s stats (modified for my plethora of house rules) are here:
http://mordicai.livejournal.com/1348802.html
March 11th, 2009 2:45 PM
Looking at those stats made me think two things, in this order: 1). Sweet! 2). Man, I really do NOT miss D20.
March 12th, 2009 9:31 AM
I just mentioned in another post– I use the WoD rules to run the same setting– it is much more fun, I have to say. No more stressing out about math! I can’t vouche one way or the other on 4e– I like playing it but haven’t ran it.