Today we have the second model in my “piggy” trilogy of models. A Dire Boar from Reaper’s Bones line. I’ve had this thing sitting around for a few years now, with a vague plan to probably paint it for one of these Monster MayHem ’23 painting challenges, but also with no real urgency to spend even the small amount of time needed on it.

With us currently playing through the D&D Adventure System Drizzt Boardgame presently, and the character Athrogate having a summonable boar called Snort, I picked up a pair of Wizkids Wild Boar recently to replace the card token in the game. Now, I’ll admit I really wasn’t fully paying attention, as it turns out that Athrogate’s boar Snort is a summonable Hellboar, and the card token’s footprint is equivalent to a 50mm base. I didn’t find either of these things out though, until I was writing up the text for the board the other day.

Sooo.. that meant finding the Reaper boar. Mold-lining/basing/prepping/priming and then quickly getting it painted. And now, having gotten it finished last night and also having polayed the second-last of the Drizzt missions last night, we’ll have Snort painted and ready for the final mission! While it’s unlikely that we’ll play through this boardgame campaign ever again, there is future use for these figures and components via the cross-compatability between each boxed game so you can make your own adventures with any combination of heroes and monsters as well as the recently-released Ghosts of Saltmarsh campaign expansion. So either way, even after the last game of the Drizzt campaign that will have been played less than 24 hours before this post goes up, Snort should see a table top again one day in the future…