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Title: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: Wyrdrune on January 27, 2011, 09:14:04 AM
look what i found...

3rd from above...

http://www.michaellovejoy.com/28mm/28mm.html
Title: Re: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: sjksprocket on January 27, 2011, 03:40:35 PM
I emailed him asking if anyone actually sells said mini. I'll post back if I get a response.
Title: Re: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: bibliophile20 on January 30, 2011, 03:21:16 PM
I'd want one!
Title: Re: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: chrislackey on January 30, 2011, 05:15:57 PM
Very helpful! Thanks!

Self compelling was going on in the game, but the players had a hard time with this. They tried rewriting aspects, but still had a hard time with this. I do feel the aspects, while cool for flavor and story, become far too important in the mechanics. I think just giving folks a +1 or +2 here and there for modifiers will fix this dependance.

The wizard does seemed over powered, unless you get the drop on him. But few of my big bads who are non-wizards last 2 round with a wizard PC. they throw around 18 levels of stress and your player with a gun is like maybe tossing around 6? 7? Balance was an issue, but my players are good about that stuff so I never really worried about it.

I gotta say, that no one ever used maneuvers, unless they couldn't really do anything else. It really wasn't worth giving up a whole action to get a +2 or a reroll. But if the non fighting guy would do a distracting maneuver on the villain, the guy doing the actual fighting would tag it. But that didn't happen much. The maneuver is good support thing, but never used in combat by people actually doing the fighting.

I'm still fuzzy on the magic system and I've been running the game for 3 weeks. I'm not the smartest guy in the world, but I've been playing RPGs for almost 30 years. I read it. I think I understand it. Then when we're actually playing I have to look it up again.  It's just doesn't feel as intuitive as it should.

I'll definitely give my group a link to this post!

Thanks for your help!

Title: Re: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: Sanctaphrax on January 30, 2011, 06:54:51 PM
I think you may have replied to the wrong thread, chris.
Title: Re: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: sjksprocket on January 31, 2011, 05:58:05 PM
I got an email back from the gentleman who made the sculpt, but no one is making it. He tried contacting Jim Butcher's agent, but had no success.
Title: Re: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: Katarn on January 31, 2011, 07:33:57 PM
I got an email back from the gentleman who made the sculpt, but no one is making it. He tried contacting Jim Butcher's agent, but had no success.

Are there people on this site who could get them in touch?
Title: Re: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: Sanctaphrax on January 31, 2011, 07:45:25 PM
Well, contacting Evil Hat is easy. And I'm sure that Evil Hat can contact Jim or his agent.

But before we do that, we need to contact this sculptor guy and get his go-ahead. Even if he tried to contact them before, there's no certainty that he's still interested.
Title: Re: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: Richard_Chilton on January 31, 2011, 08:21:20 PM
Here are a few links to figures that might work in the game:

http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=116_92&osCsid=685b7999896773f039e7e098d26aeac4 (http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=116_92&osCsid=685b7999896773f039e7e098d26aeac4)
http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=116_137&osCsid=685b7999896773f039e7e098d26aeac4 (http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=116_137&osCsid=685b7999896773f039e7e098d26aeac4)

and
http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=116_93&osCsid=685b7999896773f039e7e098d26aeac4 (http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=116_93&osCsid=685b7999896773f039e7e098d26aeac4)

You might have to browse some of the categories - for example the Adventure category has some non-combat sidekicks that look like they would fit most modern games.

Oh, and how I can put this when dealing with 22mm - 28mm metal figures? Um, some of them aren't work safe.

Richard
Title: Re: DFRPG miniatures?
Post by: NobleHero on February 02, 2011, 09:53:40 PM
There are some passably good ones from Reaper in their Chronoscope range.  http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/chronoscope/ (http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/chronoscope/)

Including this one, which while not as good as the one in the original post could work as a certain wizardly investigator especially with a little light conversion work.  http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50162#detail/50162_g_1 (http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/Chronoscope/latest/50162#detail/50162_g_1)