A lot of people don't bother reading Dark Ages and in lore a lot of people forget that the Ventrue could fight so I always used that against people. My Ventrue are more than happy to uncuff their sleeves unbutton their shirts and throw down with anyone.
This is probably best left to the WoD thread, but I'll leave it at this: there's a reason the Ventrue symbol is a scepter crossed with a sword.
Well Artemis was a Ventrue.
Been using minis since they had little to no detail and had to still write in the numbers on dice and they couldn't last too many sessions before disintegrating in your hand/ pocket.
Both groups I'm in usually go for minis. Players either provide their own or borrow from someone else on the table (one of our regulars hoards minis), and one GM uses his own minis while the other GM uses a lot of paper minis. A bit like these:
Are these his or what because they look fantastic. I've got a bunch of bases lying around from other things so this could be the smart way forward even if I don't think I have the dexterity or proper tools to make cuts this detailed, but you never know.
I wish I didn't find out that Reaper decided to dip their toes into the culture wars because I've been eyeing up their offerings as of late. They look like the most affordable as far as cost-per-mini goes and I like the designs but if they act like assholes and don't want my money I'll look elsewhere.
No, I just found those off google. Can't really post photos of our set up without risking a dox. His paper minis look about as good as those, though. I think he actually uses the same image for his hill giants, now that I think about it. We haven't fought one of them in ages.
I'm part of the "never painted his minis" club. The few minis I have that are painted either came into my possession that way, or the wife painted them in a fit of extreme boredom.
Company may have but that doesn't mean their sculptors have. Just don't buy their books for their skirmish game. Supporting the sculptors means more sculpts and helps them out. Meanwhile if you buy their books than the only people you're helping is the company.
I find paper mini's tend to be the only way to go with Battletech. A lot of minis look terrible but that's due to the age of sculpt and the metal washing out all detail.
We've used lego people for PCs and bricks for enemy NPCs.
My group used to use minifigs for hordes of monsters because no one was going to get a huge amount of AD&D or Heroquest minis for an army.
heroforge is even affordable when you print it yourself. there's also a few alternatives by now.
they'll get work anyway, most people that stop giving company X money usually spend it on company Y instead (which will then need more sculptors).
Surprisingly those were hard to find up here. One guy in my group would use Battlebeasts for the bosses. (That should give you an indication of how long ago this was).
The BBEG of the last campaign I played to the end was portrayed by a Baby Groot toy. It did the job, but there was absolutely some humor in the way it was used.
Mini sculptors don't get a lot of work in North America and many are too old to learn to use 3d modeling like ZBrush so it's places like Reaper or nothing. Plus the Sculptors are paid a few cents per mini sold and get paid when they need new master molds created of a miniature after one wears down which at Reaper Minis happens like every five years or so.
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They're just like chess pieces for our janky homebrew.
