Product Description

Iconic characters and creatures from the hostile wastelands of the Dungeons & Dragons(R) world.

Cruel deserts and hostile wastelands hold creatures as nefarious and horrifying as any found in the darkest dungeons of the world. Can the champions of civilization hold back the monstrous horde spilling forth from these untamed lands?

This latest D&D Miniatures Game release includes several remarkable D&D characters and popular D&D monsters. Several figures are drawn from key D&D titles, including the various Monster Manual(R) supplements. Select figures also come with a second stat card featuring epic-level statistics.

Each box contains:

8 random, pre-painted, plastic miniatures, stat cards, and a set checklist.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92845 in Books
• Model: 10774
• Published on: 2007-11-06
• Released on: 2007-11-06
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.26" h x 2.78" w x 9.18" l, .26 pounds
• Binding: Misc. Supplies
• 1 pages

Customer Reviews

Good fun for kids
My 10 year old son has taken an interest in D&D and these miniatures were a terrific way for him to get into it. While I've read a lot of complaints about the quality of these figures from a collector's point of view, from the unobsessed point of view of a mother who likes to see her child play imaginative games, these sets are just great for kids. The minis provide a bridge for kids to cross between toys and the more complex rulesets of pencil-and-paper D&D, and I suspect that was their intent.

They are inexpensive, so I can buy him a couple of boxes every month. He gets the biggest charge out of waiting for the mail and opening the boxes to see what he's gotten this time. For parents who remember D&D when they were young, these make excellent gifts for your kids. They are a great alternative to video games -- and believe me, I love anything that peels my kid away from the computer -- while there is structure for the game, there is also plenty of room for the kind of imagination that made D&D so interesting to so many of us.

It is true that the older packs are less interesting and lower quality, but it is trivial to go to the Wizards of the Coast website to examine the figures that are available in the different series before you decide which series you want to buy. My son has already gotten several of the better figures in the 10 packs that I've bought so far, and there have been many happy hours spent waging epic war between beholders, elementals, fiends and innocent bystanding salt-shakers.

Underwhelming at best
After opening over a case of these minis, I can say that I'm quite underwhelmed by the miniatures in this group. There are plenty of repeat creatures - a large fire elemental, 2 more drow, 2 more yuan-ti, a new umber hulk, manticore, and drider. Do we really need more drow or elementals?

There is simply not a lot of originality in this set. The gelatinous cube - a long icon from the earliest days of D&D - finally appears in this set as a rare, but it is little more than a clear plastic box. I could just as easily use a clear box that originally contained dice or something else.

There were a few other minis which I thought were underwhelming. The visejaw crocodile resembled something I could buy as a souvenir in Florida. The warhorse was just a horse with saddle (which appeared to be too large for the scale of other minis). My daughter has similar-sized horse miniature toys. Finally, the macetail behemoth is an ankylosaurus, and you can find one in any package of dinosaurs at a toy store.

There were a few interesting minis in the lot - a farmer (complete with pig) was amusing, finally giving us some commoner figures. But these were in the vast minority.

What WotC needs to do is perhaps release warband packs - maybe a dozen minis that are thematically linked (orc war bands, drow and driders, elementals, adventurers, etc). That would allow a GM to pick up a pack for an expected encounter. Grenadier and other metal mini manufacturers did this long ago, and it worked well. Then WotC could devote the major minis expansions to being nothing but monsters.

Good set
I bought two packets of desert of Desolation. I was very satisfied with them. This set has good miniatures overall, it was worth buying.