Apr. 18, 2015 | By Alec
Cool miniatures for elementals.
Tabletop wargaming and paper-and-pencil rolegaming both suffer from the same problem: miniatures and scenery can be dull and repetitive. Nothing is worse than fighting over the same old pieces of cardboard every single session, or facing the same badly painted goblins every time, representing humans, orcs, elves or whatever else you happen to be fighting. While games such as Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer rely on your imagination, things like this just push the envelope a bit too much.
An Ettin and an Ettercap.
Fortunately, 3D printers are here to save us! We’ve already seen ingenious ways of 3D printing gaming scenery a while ago, but now designer and Dungeons & Dragons enthusiast Miguel Zavala has shared all of his excellent designs for just about an entire bestiary. He has essentially picked up the latest edition of the Monster Manual, and designed 3D printable models of some of the most commonly faced creatures found within. Want to spice things up with a Red Dragon, a Beholder, Ettins, Ettercaps, annoying Gelatinous Cubes or even just plenty of Goblins? Now’s your chance!
Four cool Beholders.
A Hook Horror!
Most of these designs are fairly easy to 3D print. Head over to Miguel’s Thingiverse page here and download the designs whatever monster you would like to throw at the party this week. Featuring dozens of designs, Miguel is really catering to the needs of DMs everywhere. Most miniatures are also fairly straightforward to 3D print, being single piece or several component miniatures. Just be sure to check Miguel’s instructions per design before you waste a lot of filament.
Probably the easiest of all 3D printed designs: the Gelatinous Cube.
Of course you will still have to paint these 3D printed monsters yourself, but all in all this is a much cheaper and more fun alternative to buying ready-made miniatures. Your party won’t know what hits them!
Golems.
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Those are great. What paint and process do you use?
Hellpop wrote at 4/19/2015 1:32:21 AM:
Those are Mind Flayers, not Beholders.
NSG wrote at 4/19/2015 12:35:40 AM:
Those are Ithilids (also known as Mind Flayers) not Beholders
Cesare Renzi wrote at 4/18/2015 4:16:40 PM:
Those are mind flayers dude.
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