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Wan-Ti Snakemen (Cardstock Characters™)
Publisher: Skirmisher Publishing
by Alastair M. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/23/2013 09:26:37

Unusual paper miniatures are always welcome to me, perhaps sparking fresh scenario ideas, or simply filling an empty niche in my imagined fantasy worlds. I found the Wan-Ti Snakemen set did both, as I discovered it while preparing a 3D paper "lost temple" in a jungle setting, for which the more humanoid figures seemed ideal, while the larger snake-bodied demi-humanoids opened up options for serpent deities and inner sanctum guards.

The artwork has quite bold, simple, comic-book lines and colours, in a somewhat cartoon style, which fits well with many other paper minis currently available, and prints out crisply from my experience. Although from the instructions provided, it's intended the fronts and backs of individual figures should be folded over and glued together as stand-up inverted "T" shapes, the base panels can be easily recut to form them into "A"-frame standee shapes instead, without necessarily gluing them at all. This latter also means you don't end up with plain white bases. Note that some of the figures have fine edge detail and there are no thick black outlines, so if you like to cut away the blank background around your flat and "T"-style paper figures, you'll have problems with these. With care, a thicker black border could be added by hand, though I haven't tried, so can't be sure the figure backs and fronts match up perfectly enough for such close cutting to be practical.

There are some minor technical issues too. The three largest miniatures have a small discrepancy in the heights of their front and back panels - around two to three millimetres. This may not sound much, but it's enough to prevent the base score and fold lines from matching up, so measure and check before you score them to prevent the finished figures falling over.

More annoyingly, while billed as compatible with 25/30mm scale minis, an "actual size" print of the PDF pages came out with the smaller human-sized figure panels a whopping 40mm tall! While all these panels are larger than the figures they contain, so could be partly cut away to reduce this unwanted gigantism, even the smallest artwork figure, a female humanoid rogue, not fully upright, was about 33mm tall foot to crown. So if, like me, you need these pieces closer to other 28/30mm figures and scale 3D models, you'll need to resize the smaller figures at least before printing them.

As it is, this is a nicely inventive set of minis. With the technical issues addressed to prevent quite so much unnecessary work, it would be better, and better still if there were some base textures added, perhaps by introducing some optional layers in the PDF file.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Wan-Ti Snakemen (Cardstock Characters™)
Publisher: Skirmisher Publishing
by Paul S. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/15/2010 22:33:07

When it comes to cardstock minis, my only two criteria are: 1) Will I need/want to use these in my game? (HECK YEAH!) 2) Do they look cool? (DEFINITELY!)

This artist, Alejandro, did really great job rendering a nice variety of savage looking snake men. A welcome addition to my tabletop adventures.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Wan-Ti Snakemen (Cardstock Characters™)
Publisher: Skirmisher Publishing
by Stefan R. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 02/02/2010 00:24:04

I like these because they are not like any of the other minis on the market. I found the art work very unique and fills a role in a campaign I am running.



Rating:
[5 of 5 Stars!]
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Wan-Ti Snakemen (Cardstock Characters™)
Publisher: Skirmisher Publishing
by Christopher H. [Featured Reviewer]
Date Added: 12/25/2009 21:44:40

As printable miniatures go, this product lies in the middle to low end of the pack. You can easily tell from the product name and description that this package offers miniatures designed to represent serpentfolk covering the same range of shapes, sizes, and varieties as the Dungeons & Dragons yuan-ti. (As a side note, despite the snarky comment in the product description, neither TSR nor WotC has ever tried to hide the debt that D&D serpentfolk owe to H.P. Lovecraft, R.E. Howard, and so on; see, for example, the article "The Shadow over D&D: H.P. Lovecraft's Influence on Dungeons & Dragons" in the October 2004 issue of Dragon Magazine.) The drawings on these miniatures are cartoonish, executed with good but not overly impressive skill. Take a look the full-size preview to make sure that you like the drawing style before you purchase this product.

The technical aspects of the set do leave a little bit to be desired. The product description says that the miniatures are "designed to be compatible with other 25/30mm figures." The bases, however, are larger than a typical 1" or 25mm battlemap will accommodate, and they're not quite square, measuring more like 29.25mm x 33.87mm (according to the measuring tool in Adobe Acrobat Professional).

I don't often use printable miniatures, because I prefer actual 3D plastic and metal miniatures, but you won't find plastic or metal yuan-ti miniatures for $0.30 apiece (and that's if you only print one copy, of course). I could see myself using these minis in a pinch, but I'd have to adjust the size to accommodate them to a standard 1" grid and I'd really prefer a less cartoonish style. It's not a bad product, but I can't get terrifically excited about it, either.



Rating:
[3 of 5 Stars!]
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