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Everything you want to know about the Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures game produced by Wizards of the Coast!If you have any news about the game, please e-mail me at merricb@yahoo.co.uk. A good place to gain further information - especially from Rob Heinsoo and Mike Donais, two of the designers of the game - is the D&D Miniatures Forum on the WotC boards. Merric's Law of Miniatures: Non-Random Packaging, Cheap Prices, and a Large Range of Figures: Choose two. What are D&D Miniatures? | Recent News: |
News Star Wars Miniatures... A few people have been asking if I'm planning to run news stories on the Star Wars Miniatures. The answer, unfortunately, is no. My time is limited enough already, and I don't frequent the places where information about the SW Minis is made available.
That said, I'm not averse to posting material about SW Minis or putting up a separate SW Minis News page - but I need you to send me the news. I'm not going to be able to hunt it down.
The best solution would be if someone else really dedicated set up their own SW Minis News site. However, failing that, my site will be available. You just need to send me information to post!
Incidentally, "The other Rob" from WotC has been posting pictures of the new SW Miniatures in this thread on the Wizards boards. (I was unaware of this until today, which demonstrates why I'm not the person to find SW Minis news!) ()
Tournament format changes? Rob Heinsoo is back from vacation, and the Miniatures team is paying attention to the recent tournament reports and complaints.
I'm just back from vacation. I missed the hubbub of the release but I did see GoL minis for sale in the Orc's Nest store in London.
This is just a note to let people know that we're talking about tournament formats. We can't respond immediately, especially because many of us are out of the office at the moment, but we're paying attention to recent experiences with tournament time limits and warbands designed to exploit them.
We'll be in touch!
--Rob Heinsoo
D&D Miniatures Lead Designer ()
Giants of Legend Team Interview Wizards have posted this interview with the Giants of Legend Team: Jonathan Tweet, Michael Donais, Rob Heinsoo, Stacy Longstreet, and Mary Elizabeth Allen ()
Strategy news page update I've just updated the Strategy News page with a big list of links from Bill O'Brien. ()
Amurayi's Aberrations preview page Amurayi of Lemonbutter.com has updated his Aberrations preview page.
He's enhanced pictures from the GoL poster of the boxes and listed them on his site, along with the following figures that are extremely likely to be included:
Chuul
Medium or Large Green Dragon
Frenzied Berserker
Yuan-ti Abomination
Sahuagin
Medium Silver Dragon
2 resculpts from previous sets ()
Spoiler list version 0.3 I've just uploaded the latest version of the Giants of Legend spoilers.
Corrected:
* Young Master cost is 44, not 42.
* Red Wyrmling has Cleave
* Mordenkainen the Mage has three castings of Mordenkainen's buzzing bee, not two.
* Eberk is LG/CG not just LG. ()
Spoiler lists updated I've finally updated my webpage with the full Giants of Legend spoilers, and version 0.2 of the pdf file is also available, fixing a few errors in the list.
I still haven't seen the cards, so the list is not 100% correct. If you see an error, could you please e-mail me with the correct text? Thanks. ()
Warband Generator update (v.1.41) The Warband Generator has been updated on the Wizards site.
- Added "Difficult 20" to the Carrion Crawler
- Huge figures are not allowed in warbands 200 points or less. To get around this for home games, select 201 points and build from there.
- Warband Building minis require enough command to bring difficult troops into the list. King Snurre and the Hill Giant are an example.
A short zip with just the changed files is available as is the updated complete zip.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mi/20031113x
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3 Huge Rares per case of Giants of Legend - possibly Thanks to those who have wrote back with feedback about the case distribution. It seems definite now that 3 Huge Rares in a case is normal, though not guaranteed, but the actual identity of those Huge Rares is random. (Previous theories of there being Case A and Case B are not correct). ()
Updated the Strategy page I've updated the strategy news page with a couple of links to tournament reports. There's a bunch of other strategy articles to add to the page, but that'll have to wait a couple of days, I'm afraid. ()
Giants of Legend: Case A and Case B With reports coming in of the "perfect" distribution of Giants of Legend, it seems likely that the huges are packaged in the cases as follows (there is no obvious marking yet detected to determine which case is which):
Case "A" contains the rare Huges:
1 Huge Gold Dragon
1 Huge Red Dragon
1 Glabrezu
along with all of the uncommon Huges in the following distribution:
1 Cloud giant
1 Treant
1 Bulette
2 Fomorians
2 Nightwalkers
2 Fiendish T-rexs
Case "B" contains the rare Huges:
1 Warforged Titan
1 Behir
1 Storm Giant
along with all of the uncommon Huges in the following distribution:
1 Fomorian
1 Nightwalker
1 Fiendish T-rex
2 Cloud giants
2 Treants
2 Bulettes
It is likely that the normal Rares, Uncommons and Commons follow a more random distribution.
I have found reports that not all cases are packaged like this - more on this as it comes to hand. ()
Collected Designer Posts update I've updated the Designer Post page with a couple of posts from Mike Donais. I'm finally beginning to catch up with the updating of this webpage!
Hopefully I'll have a chance to update the spoiler list tonight - I'm somewhat pressed for time at the moment. ()
Giants of Legend Cases It seems that most of the Giants of Legend cases that have been opened so far contain exactly 3 Huge Rares - Wizards seem to have seeded the cases. (A case contains 12 huge packs).
This is good news for collectors who buy their miniatures by the case - collecting a set will be much easier. ()
Wizards site updates Warband Generator Update (v1.4)
The Wizards have added Giants of Legend but that's not all... the warband generator now includes a built in dice roller, accessible by clicking the little d20 icon on the bottome of any mage of the generator. and something new. There is a "link" button on the first page that lets you create a link that can be copied into email or posted on your own website that launches the wizards warband generator and puts the warband into it
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mi/20031113x
Giants of Legend Gallery
The minis aren't in perfect numerical order, but the Wizards think you will be able to forgive that when you see how cool the huge's are and they are all in proper size perspective to one another.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mg/20040617a
Giants of Legend Checklist!
Everybody loves a checklist!...
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ms/20040617a
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Giants of Legend Common and Uncommon distribution There are currently discussions on the Wizards boards and the maxminis boards about the how commons and uncommons are packed. This relates to the slot packing, as discussed in this article. ()
Chainmail equivalencies for Giants of Legend Wizards have posted the list and statcards of Chainmail figures with Giants of Legend equivalents that you can use in the skirmish game.
Dwarf Fighter = Dwarf Sergeant
Ettercap = Ettercap
Gnoll Warrior = Gnoll Sergeant
Human Shadow Priest = Lareth the Beautiful
Otyugh = Otyugh
The full list and cards can be found here. ()
Skirmish tiles from Гone Games Just received this:
SKIRMISH TILES, Castle System: upper level, the new extraordinary product from Гone Games is now available. The product is highly interactive and features an exclusive system to compose the castle layout and print the tiles you need. The product is the first of a series of four, each one featuring a complete castle level with many "alternative" tiles. This way you can begin to play immediately. Гone Games are giving for free two of these "alternative" tiles: the catapult on fire and the drawbridge destroyed, download them from Гone Website (http://www.0onegames.com). The product is available at Гone's website and RPGnow
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Giants of Legend complete spoilers! I've posted the complete spoiler list in PDF format - Download it!
It's almost midnight - the complete webpage list will have to wait until tomorrow. You can still view it here though. ()
Promotional Silver Dragon Mike Donais has confirmed that the Silver Dragon promotional miniature redeemable with the purchase of the first of the Knights of the Silver Dragon books is Medium in size, but will not come with a stat card. (This from a couple of weeks ago on maxminis.com, but I've missed it until now). ()
Lich Necromancer The lich necromancer's stats have been posted on the Wizards boards ()
Wizards' Tiny poll The Wizards Tournaments page has a new poll - the Tiny poll.
We’re going to do more Tiny miniatures in the future. Here’s your chance to vote for which of the following four Tiny creatures you’d like to see first as an uncommon mini. Voting ends June 18th, 2004. Vote early and vote once.
The choices are Cat Familiar, Fiendish Hawk, Pseudodragon, and Snake Familiar.
(I'm a little late in noticing this... shows how often I visit the tournaments page, I guess!) ()
Giants of Legend Battlemat and Sealed Format rules Wizards have posted the Giants of Legend sealed format rules in this article: Giants of Legend Special Format.
The article also includes a 22 inches wide by 34 inches battlemat for downloading and printing! (Both colour and B&W formats). ()
New Strategy page I'm updating my Strategy page to work more as a news page, reporting on various threads, tournament reports and likewise that would be of use to you. ()
Young Master, Inspiring Marshal, part of the rules insert Hiroyuki Nakamoto has added the Young Master, Inspiring Marshal and part of the rules insert to his spoiler page, as well as fixing a couple of errors on the page.
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Mordenkainen the Mage, Fire Giant and Glabrezu Mops&Buckets has posted the spoilers for Mordenkainen the Mage, the Fire Giant and the Glabrezu in this thread on the Wizards boards.
I'm most of the way through setting up my almost complete spoiler list - it should be posted later tonight in both webpage and PDF formats. ()
New spoilers on Hiroyuki Nakamoto's page Hiroyuki Nakamoto has added the Storm Giant, Rakshasa, Githyanki Renegade and Lidda, Adventurer to his spoiler page.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to update my page tonight. ()
Latest "In the Works" posted Mat Smith's latest In the Works has been posted on the Wizards site.
Of note are the really nice pictures of some of the miniatures - particularly of King Snurre and of the Storm Giant. ()
Fomorian, Frost Giant and Warmage Three rather interesting figures: the Fomorian, Frost Giant and Warmage have been added to the spoiler page.
I've also fixed the error with the Cloud Giant's alignment - it is indeed LG/CG and not LG/LE. Apologies for that. ()
More Giants of Legend spoilers Hiroyuki Nakamoto has posted the list of spoilers he's collected so far on this page: http://f38.aaacafe.ne.jp/~drizzit/GOL
It's almost complete - more so than my list. If you'd prefer to learn the miniatures more slowly, I'll continue with posting two or three spoilers per day - although as yet I don't have any unposted spoilers not on his list. ()
New GoL spoilers I've added the Xeph Soulknife and the Cloud Giant to the spoiler page.
Soulknife is one of my favourite classes from the Expanded Psionics Handbook, though I can't say the same about the Xeph (who I don't think about much at all, really).
The Cloud Giant should make both LG and CG players rather happy. ()
Gnoll Sergeant, Displacer Serpent and Minotaur Skeleton The latest three spoilers are up!
I must acknowledge my debt to Mike2 and Hiroyuki Nakamoto, both in Japan, for sending me the spoilers I've been posting. I couldn't have done this without their help.
Thank you both very much.
An additional tidbit about the Rakshasa's "backward" commander effect, from Hiroyuki Nakamoto:
"Followers get the Commander effects of enemy commnders within Rakshasa's line of sight." ()
Guy Fullerton's Unofficial Clarifications Guy Fullerton has posted this page of unofficial clarifications. They haven't gone through the rules team and don't represent official errata or clarifications, but Guy's generally pretty good on the rules and they're worth looking over for a better understanding of how the game works. ()
Chainmail equivalencies for Archfiends The stat cards for Chainmail figures in Archfiends are up - Find them here!
There are only five:
Abyssal Eviscerator = Abyssal Eviscerator
Gnoll Archer = Gnoll Archer
Hill Giant = Hill Giant
Human Templar = Human Dragonslayer
Orc Champion = Orc Champion ()
Dire Rat and Hobgoblin Sergeant spoilers I've just posted the latest two spoilers: Dire Rat and Hobgoblin Sergeant
Enjoy! ()
Wizards site update - Seize the Swag A D&D miniatures skirmish scenario with a difference, Seize the Swag is now available on the Wizards website. It looks rather fun, actually! ()
New Designer Posts I've just added some posts by Mike Donais to the Collected Designer Posts page. ()
More Musings Want to know how broke I'll be? Have a look. Also a few notes on Complete Divine and other matters. ()
Further update from Mike Donais on Battlemaps Here are some of the ways we can distribute them:
The Giants of Legend Release event kits include 50 copies of the map. Try to attend one of these to get your map. Every player should get one.
The Giants of Legend League kits will include 12 copies of the same map for each 12 player kit. This is your second chance to get that map.
A different map is going into Dragon Magazine 323 hopefully. (could end up in 324 though, I don't have much info on this)
The Giants of Legend map might end up also going into Dragon Magazine so that more people can get it.
I am trying to get nice maps on the back of release posters. I was unable to for Giants of Legend because the huge minis took up to much space and ended up on both sides. Hopefully for future release posters we can put a nice map on the back of each one.
Let me know if you have more ideas on how to get maps out there to the players.
You can find the original post by Mike Donais in this thread. ()
Lord Soth, Blue and Aramil, Adventurer Lord Soth is a commander, the Blue is a psionic goblin, and Aramil is a sorcerer. (That last makes a lot of sense for the Basic D&D game!)
You can find their Skirmish stats on the Spoilers page.
I've also uploaded version 1.3 of the checklist - a minor change, the Blue is small, not medium. ()
Base sizes Apparently, the poster for GoL has a scale of the base sizes on it:
Huge = 72mm
Large = 40mm
Medium = 25mm
Small = 20mm
Tiny = 12mm ()
Battlemats! From Mike Donais:
We are putting out one or two battlemats over the next few months. Try them out and see if you like them.
They will at the least speed up the setup and look a lot better.
They may take away some of the terrain use but having multiple battlemats might solve that.
Give me any feedback you have. ()
Dwarf Sergeant, Stone Golem and Lemure Next three spoilers are up! ()
Standardbearer Hmm, this miniature is odd: Relay Orders?
LG has just gained a cool new ability, I think.
Giants of Legend Spoilers ()
New GoL spoilers Just posted the Huge Red Dragon, Sword of Glory and City Guard spoilers. ()
Florida Qualifier reports A Chaotic Good band has won the Florida Qualifier - there are various reports on the qualifier in this thread on the Wizards boards. ()
New Giants of Legend checklist uploaded I've uploaded a new version of the Giants of Legend checklist, increasing the font size and fixing a couple of spelling errors. ()
Bulette and Red Wyrmling Added the stats for the Bulette and the Red Wyrmling to the spoiler page. ()
Rules Insert for Giants of Legend I've posted a few rules from the insert on the GoL page. ()
Giants of Legend Spoiler page I've added a new page that will collect the spoilers in a nicely formatted environment:
Giants of Legend spoilers
Enjoy! ()
Various spoilers Redgar, Adventurer
#12/72; Uncommon; LG/CG; Commander 2; 20 pts
LVL: 3; SPD: 4; AC: 19; HP: 25
Melee Attack: +7 (10)
Ranged Attack: +6 (5)
Type: Humanoid (Human)
Commander Effect: Unique followers gain attack +2 and Save +2. WARBAND BUILDING: Unique CG creatures and Unique LG creatures are legal in your warband
Special Abilities: Unique. Cleave
Basilisk
#13/72; Uncommon; CG; 27 pts
LVL: 6; SPD: 4; AC: 16; HP: 45
Melee Attack: +8 (10)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Magical Beast
Special Abilities: Difficult 20. Blind-Fight; Gaze Attack (Replaces attacks: range 6;destroys nearest living target creature and turns it into a statue; DC13)
Deepshadow Elf
#14/72; Uncommon; CG; 22 pts
LVL: 7; SPD: 9; AC: 18; HP: 25
Melee Attack: +8/+5 (10 magic/5)
Ranged Attack: +9 (5)
Type: Humanoid (Elf)
Special Abilities: Evade Damage (If this creature successfully saves against a damaging spell or special ability, it takes no damage); Sneak Attack +15
Half-Giant Psychic Warrior
#17/72; Rare; CG; 42 pts
LVL: 7; SPD: 6; AC: 15; HP: 55
Melee Attack: +11 (25 magic)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Giant
Special Abilities: Cleave;Ghost Touch (this creature's melee attacks ignore incorporeal)
Spells: Psionics 19pp--biofeedback 7pp (self; gain DR 5), dissolving weapon 3pp (self; damage +15 acid, next attack), hustle 3pp (self; +6 speed this turn, swift action)
Medium Astral Construct
#20/72; Common; CG; 10 pts
LVL: 2; SPD: 10; AC: 18; HP: 30
Melee Attack: +4 (5)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Construct
Special Abilities: Requires Commander
Crucian
#24/72; Uncommon; LG/LE; 8 pts
LVL: 3; SPD: 4; AC: 21; HP: 20
Melee Attack: +5(5) Humanoid(Reptilian)
Ranged Attack: -
Bladeling Fighter
#28/72; Common; LE; 21pts
LVL: 2; SPD: 6; AC: 22; HP: 20
Type: Outsider
Melee Attack: ???
Ranged Attack: -
Special Abilities: DR 5; Immune Acid; Razor Storm[] (Replaces attacks: cone; 10 damage; DC 15, then Bladeling Fighter gains –3 AC); Resist 5 Cold, Fire
King Snurre
#33/72; Rare; LE; Commander 4; 165 pts
LVL: 6; SPD: 16; AC: 24; HP: 150
Melee Attack: +22/+17 (25 magic+ 10 fire)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Large Giant
Commander Effect: Followers gain Pushback(When this creature's melee attack deals damage to a smaller creature, it may push the smaller creature one square). WARBAND BUILDING: CE Giants are legal in your warband.
Special Abilities: Unique. Cleave; Immune Fire; Melee Reach 2; Pushback (When this creature's melee attack deals damage to a smaller creature, it may push the smaller creature one square); Save=10
(King Snurre is higher level on the D&D Quick Reference side.)
Scarlet Brotherhood Monk
#39/72; Uncommon; LE 20 pts
LVL: 5; SPD: 8; AC: 15; HP: 35
Melee Attack: +6/+6(10 magic + Poison)
Type: Humanoid(Human)
Special Abilities: Deflect Arrows (+4 AC against ranged attacks); Poison (5 damage whenever poisoned creature activates; DC 16); Powerful Charge +5; Save +4
Bugbear Footpad
#42/72; Common; CE 16 pts
LVL: 5; SPD: 6; AC: 20; HP: 35
Melee Attack: +10 (10 magic)
Ranged Attack: +7, range 6 (10)
Type: Humanoid (Goblinoid)
Special Abilities: Hide; Sneak Attack +5
Ghast
#49/72; Common; CE; 25 pts
LVL: 4; SPD: 6; AC: 17; HP: 30
Melee Attack: +7 (10+Paralysis)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Undead
Special Abilities: Difficult 5. Paralysis (DC 15); Stench (Adjacent living creatures gain attack -2, save -2, and -2 AC).
Grick
#51/72; Common; CE; 5 pts
LVL: 2; SPD: 6; AC: 16; HP: 10
Melee Attack: +6/+6 (5 magic)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Aberration
Special Abilities: Difficult 20. DR 5;Ravenous Hunger (When this creature destroys a living enemy, its speed is reduced to 0); Wandering Monster (Instead of placing this creature on your assembly tile at the start of the battle, place it on a random feature tile)
Orc Brute
#56/72; Common; CE; 8 pts
LVL:1; SPD: 9; AC: 12; HP: 15
Melee Attack: +7 (15)
Type: Humanoid (Orc)
Special Abilities: Difficult 1
Tanarukk
#59/72; Common; CE; 11 pts
LVL: 5; SPD: 4; AC: 15; HP: 20
Melee Attack: +8(10)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Outsider
Special Abilities: Difficult 4. Resist10 Fire; Spell Resistance
Behir
#66/72; Rare Huge; CG/CE; 75 pts
LVL 9; SPD 8; AC 20; HP 95
Melee Attack: +15 (15 + Constrict)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Huge Magical Beast
Special Abilities: Difficult 5. Breath Weapon [] (Replaces attacks: line; 25 electricity damage; DC 19); Constrict (smaller creature skips next turn and takes 15 damage; DC 16 negates); Immune Electricity; Melee Reach 2.
Fiendish Tyrannosaurus
#68/72; Uncommon Huge; CE; 122 pts
LVL: 8; SPD: 8; AC: 14; HP: 180
Melee attack: +20 (25 magic + Chomp)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Huge Magical Beast
Special Abilities: Difficult 6. Chomp (Smaller
creatures take +10 damage; DC 15 negates); DR 5; Melee Reach 2; Resist 10 Cold, Fire; Save=10; Smite Good +20 []; Spell Resistance
Nightwalker
#72/72; Uncommon Huge; CE; 393 pts
LVL: 21; SPD: 8; AC: 32; HP: 180
Melee Attack: +19/+19 (30 magic)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Huge Undead
Special Abilities: Blindsight; Cleave; Conceal 6; DR 5; Immune Cold; Melee Reach 3; Save=10; Spell Resistance
Spells: 4th-quickened unholy blight [] (sight; radius 4; good creatures take 15 damage and gain attack -2, swift action; DC 18); 5th-cone of cold [] (cone; 30 cold damage; DC 19); 7th-finger of death [] (range 6; destroy living creature; 25 damage instead on successful save, DC 21)
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Looking for Spoilers! G'day!
Here is the list of figures I currently have spoilers for:
#12: Regdar, Adventurer
#13: Basilisk
#14: Deepshadow Elf
#17: Half-Giant Psychic Warrior
#20: Medium Astral Construct
#24: Crucian
#28: Bladeling Fighter
#33: King Snurre
#39: Scarlet Brotherhood Monk
#42: Bugbear Footpad
#51: Grick
#56: Orc Brute
#59: Tanaruuk
#66: Behir
#68: Fiendish Tyrannosaurus
#72: Nightwalker
My apologies for not posting all the stats immediately - they'll be going up over the next few days.
If you have any stats for GoL figures that I don't have, could you please send them to me? It will make the creation of the full spoiler list that much easier. Email me at merricb@3rdedition.org. ()
Giants of Legend Stats It seems like a few boosters have been on sale in Japan. As a result, people have begun to send me the skirmish stats of the miniatures.
I'm assembling the spoiler list that I post for each set, but until that is complete, here's a couple of interesting figures:
Redgar, Adventurer
#12/72; LG/CG; Commander 2; 20 pts
LVL: 3; SPD: 4; AC: 19; HP: 25
Melee Attack: +7 (10)
Ranged Attack: +6 (5)
Type: Humanoid (Human)
Commander Effect: Unique followers gain attack +2 and Save +2. WARBAND BUILDING: Unique CG creatures and Unique LG creatures are legal in your warband
Special Abilities: Unique. Cleave
Scarlet Brotherhood Monk
#39/72; LE 20 pts
LVL: 5; SPD: 8; AC: 15; HP: 35
Melee Attack: +6/+6(10 magic + Poison)
Type: Humanoid(Human)
Special Abilities: Deflect Arrows (+4 AC against ranged attacks); Poison (5 damage whenever poisoned creature activates; DC 16); Powerful Charge +5; Save +4
Nightwalker
#72/72; CE; 393 pts
(Where's the rest of the Nightwalker? It's coming...) ()
New Rule for Giants of Legend From the Rules Insert:
Save=10: Many high level creatures have this ability. When making saves, including morale saves, such creatures always add 10 to the roll instead of adding their level. When making morale saves, they still get to add the Commander rating of a commander within range.
(Thanks to Mike in Japan for sending this to me along with several stats of the figures). ()
All Giants of Legends pictures up! Thanks to Amurayi, you can now find all of the Giants of Legend pictures on his site.
He's also put up this comparison picture for scale issues:
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New GoL pictures: Amurayi has posted on Lemonbutter.com the following pictures: Nightwalker and Frost Giant. ()
Designer posts updated I've updated the designer posts page with several new entries. ()
Behir stats Behir; CG/CE; 75 pts
LVL 9; SPD 8; AC 20; HP 95
Melee Attack: +15 (15 + Constrict)
Ranged Attack: -
Type: Huge Magical Beast
Special Abilities: Difficult 5. Breath Weapon [] (Replaces attacks: line; 25 electricity damage; DC 19); Constrict (smaller creature skipts next turn and takes 15 damage; DC 16 negates); Immune Electricity; Melee Reach 2. ()
Giants of Legend Release tournaments Wizards have posted details on the GoL Release tournaments to be held on the 26th June 2004. ()
Complete Giants of Legend set list revealed! Thanks to Amurayi on lemonbutter.com, the complete Set List for Giants of Legend has been revealed. I've also set up a PDF checklist for you to use. ()
Giants of Greyhawk? There seem to be a few World of Greyhawk-themed miniatures in Giants of Legend
King Snurre (of G3: The Hall of the Fire Giant King)
Mordenkainen the Mage (the leader of the Circle of Eight)
Lareth the Beautiful (of T1: The Village of Hommlet, and Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil)
Scarlet Brotherhood Monk (You don't know what the Scarlet Brotherhood are? That's what they want!)
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Designer Posts updated I've just updated the Designer Posts page with some more posts by Rob Heinsoo. ()
Resculpt Policy From Rob Heinsoo:
I wanted to say a couple words about resculpts, creatures that have the same names and stats but have new sculpts. Don't take the number of resculpts in Giants of Legend as a sign of how we intend to do things in the future.
In future sets, we've opted to make new minis with different stats and powers that can fill the same niche as an earlier creature in rpg play. FYI, I believe there are only two resculpts in the Aberrations set and no resculpts in the set that comes after Aberrations. The Giants of Legends resculpts are a temporary move rather than the policy we'll be following in the future. ()
No Wizards Preview this week From Rob Heinsoo:
Given the way information is spreading, and the fact that the posters just shipped, writing a preview for this week slipped below working on future sets on my to-do list. So no preview that this week, but I bet one or more of you will see a poster soonish. ()
New Giants of Legend updates at lemonbutter.com #2: Dwarven Sergeant
#39: *** Brotherhood Monk (most likely Scarlet Brotherhood Monk)
#53: L*** ***R
Also, a picture of the Blue Slaad:
(Incidentally, the Werewolf has a point cost of 14 - the value of 11 on my page is a typo that will be fixed tonight). ()
Latest Giants of Legend updates at Lemonbutter.com Added to the list:
#16: Githyanki Renegade
#20: Medium A*** ***
#58: R*** *** ()
Playing Favourites poll results announced The Tournaments page on the Wizards site ran a poll on which commander was the favourite of people online - the winner was Drizzt, unsurprisingly.
See the poll results here. ()
June Retailer Kits The latest retailer kit information has been posted at Wizards:
12 Medusa's Chamber Terrain Tiles
7 Duergar Warrior Promo Minis
3 30-ft. Fire Cone and 15-ft. Burning Hands Spell/Effects Templates
3 Copies of "Rat's Bastard" for Legacy of the Green Regent
2 Season Posters
1 D&D Campaigns "Play Here" Window Decal
Tournament, League, and Roleplaying Paperwork
A D&D Campaigns Newsletter
Event Reporting Forms ()
Kublacon Qualifier tournament report Derry has posted this report of the Kublacon D&D Miniatures Qualifier tournament on the Wizards boards.
More discussion of the tournament can be found in this thread, with several contributors including Guy Fullerton. ()
Rare Githyanki in GoL Freakin Canadian has mentioned there's a new (poorly-painted) Githyanki rare in Giants of Legend; there is speculation that it is a Chaotic Good "Renegade Githyanki" ()
More GoL Four more miniatures:
#41: Blue Slaad
#44: Drider Sorcerer
#54: Minotaur
#55: Minotaur Skeleton ()
Giants of Legend Here's a summary of the latest updates on lemonbutter.com:
#13: B***
#18: I*** ***
#20: Medium *** ***
#21: W*** ***
#22: X*** ***
#23: C*** G***
#33: King Snurre (King of the Fire Giants from G3)
#45: Drow Fighter (Harbinger resculpt)
#49: G***
#52: Lareth the Beautiful (Temple of Elemental Evil villain)
#53: L*** ***
New pictures of the Warmage and the Sword of Glory.
(I'll update my GoL page in the near future) ()
Giants of Legend page update I've just updated the Giants of Legend page with the set numbers of the miniatures we know about and new formatting - both mainly due to Amurayi's site. ()
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