As I noted the other day, I was looking through some containers of models in December and found the Zombicide Crowz – in that same container, I found the Vegepygmies and Batiri Goblins – from the Tomb of Annihilation D&D board game, and decided to put in the (small) amount of required effort to get them painted up!
As someone who’s really not a D&D player, I’m only vaguely familiar with a lot of their monsters – and I also have to assume that some D&D monsters are tied to some specific settings/worlds, but I also understand that a lot of people’s actual campaigns feature a mix of whatever the DM feels like throwing in at the time. Anyway, that’s a long-winded way of simply stating that I’d never heard of either of these races. The colourful one of these Vegepygmies is the Chief!
The three Batiri Goblins all had the same sculpt, so I just painted their decoration featuring different colours. It won’t have any gameplay effect other than perhaps “move the goblin two spaces closer – yeah, the red one”.
You can see here that they’re all pretty small. I’ve got them here next to a Khorne Bloodbound from AoS and a D&D Nolzur’s Dragonborn – and even a 15mm Flames of War model. Allowing for the variation in base sizes, you can see just how small these models are. Still, they’re done and we’re one step (or seven small steps!) closer to playing Tomb of Annihilation!
…I really need to finish off the last models from the Drizzt game so we can play it this year!
Azazel's Bitz Box. 
Wow they are small mate, you got a lot of detail in there for such small models
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Thanks Dave – it feels more like implied detail to tell you the truth, but as long as they work on the table!
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Well they look like fun little things!
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As long as they don’t have any too-nasty tricks up their sleeve once we get to the games!
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I like them! Really nice! 🙂
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Thanks John – too kind for these things – but thanks! 😀
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It is clear that Vegepygmies are broccoli with arms and legs, and therefore you have chosen the best skin tone 😉 We have never heard of them either, but almost every day we discover a new D&D race! Goblins wear a kind of mask: did you interpret it as an animal skull? Great job on such a small scale!
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I wonder how they’d go in a stir-fry? 😮
These particular goblins are apparently jungle-dwelling goblins that eat pretty much everything (and everyone) that they kill, so going with skull-masks from some of those kills seemed the way to go!
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I wouldn’t have thought they were so small without the size comparison. Vegepygmies were introduced to AD&D in 1980 (Expedition to the Barrier Peaks) – they are a small plant humanoid. The module image shows them in brown and green – not far off what you chose. I’ve never heard of “Battari” goblins! Nice work on the lot.
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I’d never heard of either lot, but as long as they’re good enough on the table (when we get to the game, eventually) it’ll work for me. Still need to finish that Drizzt set next as far as the D&D stuff goes. While I’m not super-inclined to buy a ton more, I probably won’t burn all my existing D&D models and games in protest of WoTC being dumbasses!
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They look great for a table-top game! I don’t think much of WotC – that just means I won’t buy anything from them; I still want to play D&D!
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Yea, it wouldn’t make much sense to burn a game you already paid for. Now not buying anything new from them is a different matter. 😉
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Yeah, it’s rare I buy anything that’s D&D branded anyway and when I do it’s all licenced anyway (Nolzurs models, the off boardgame – got plenty of both not used right now anyway!)
I guess it also depends on how high up the food chain people want to take a D&D Boycott – Black Series 1:1 Star Wars helmets are Hesbro, after all!
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Just to add to what Tarmor said. The interesting thing about the module was that the players thought they were going into a regular dungeon, but it was actually a crashed spaceship. Filled with alien monsters and SciFi loot. There’s also a Mind Flayer in there, which was the first suggestion that maybe they originated off-planet.
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They’re clearly force-sensitive Quarren with an evil, Sith bent!
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Or vice versa give my the time they were released. 😉
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But in turn, Mind Flayers wouldn’t have been around if it wasn’t for HP Lovecraft’s work.
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You’re forgetting that Star Wars happened
A Long Time Ago
…and that was told to us back in 1977-1984.
😉
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True it was a Long Time Ago, so you win in that regards! The original AD&D Monster Manual was December 1977 though. There were earlier versions of D&D, but I’m not sure if the Mind Flayer appeared in them. The first Quarren appeared in Return of the Jedi (1983), if Google is right on that one.
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Yeah, no I believe the Mind Flayer is slightly older than the Quarren in our actual IRL universe. I was just making a joke about the Star Wars opening crawl! 🙂
As you said though, they probably both owe a bit of a nod to a certain Great Old One…
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No doubt. Minus Cthulhu’ and Tolkien, there would be a big hole in gaming!
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Those are some tiny minis but they came out great. I like the tribal look they have as that fits D&D and fantasy well too.
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Thanks mate – realistically, they’ll go into a figure case and be forgotten about until we get to that particular boardgame…
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Those are great- a new look on me.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Cheers Pete! 🙂
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Great models and have never seen them before. If Tarmor was correct and they are from the 1980’s then we are all getting old and still recovering from the 70’s.
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Haha well these particular models are much more recently produced, but the concept of vegepygmies feels pretty 80’s to me! 😀
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Great job on getting these done. I don’t think I’ll ever have the stamina. The sculpts are pretty bad and I hated fighting the Vegepygmies (Kobolds for high level characters). Luckily the rest of the module was cool. I haven’t heard of these goblins, so I imagine they are something newer. My hat’s off to you, for making them look good!
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Thanks! They were pretty quick and easy to do – just a couple of hours all in all including drying time, so I wouldn’t let stamina put you off if you have these models. The Gobboes took a little more just because I went with more colours, but I did the Vegepygmie Chief alongside to same some time when using the bright colours.
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Very neat mate, they are pretty small!!
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