It has been a while since I have done any posts with painting miniatures, but I am really trying to get back on the horse again, so to speak. An obvious inspiration for this is my new D&D campaign I am running, which is dominated by new players. The first miniature is for one of my younger players who wanted to play a dragon that was a knight. Aurinax (a name borrowed from a gold dragon of D&D lore) has proven to be one of the many tanks in the group, which is also completely devoid of arcane characters.

He is from Wizkids “Dragonborn Fighter” blister set.

One wonderful moment that occurred in our first session was at the end when one of the other players, speaking of having two elementary age players, that they wished that their parents had something like D&D to connect with them when they were a kid. I wish that more players felt it is cool to be in inter-generational games.

The other miniature is one of the boss monsters of my introductory adventure of the campaign, a modified version of The Shunned Valley of the Three Tombs by Raging Swan Press. Raging Swan is a great indie RPG company who makes very detailed, low frills content for D&D 5E, Pathfinder, and OSR games. The Shunned Valley is a great introductory adventure for new players in that it has very basic introits to fundamental aspects of D&D: skill rolls, roleplaying, rules for the undead, traps, and big solo monsters. There is even a little micro-sandbox action going there.

This particular owlbear came from Fat Dragon Games, of whom I am a frequent customer.

So I am up to 39 miniatures, which is still ahead of the game in regards to my goal of 48 for the year. Hopefully I can keep this flow going and maybe even hit some higher benchmarks.