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D&D ̶M̶o̶n̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ Hero Manual 93: Tomb of Annihilation – Dragonbait, Saurial Paladin & Birdsong, Tabaxi Bard

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Dungeons and Dragons, D&D Tomb of Annihilation Heroes - Dragonbait, Saurial Paladin & Birdsong, Tabaxi Bard

My final pair of D&D models for the month are a pair of heroes from the Tomb of Annihilation Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Boardgame.

Dungeons and Dragons, D&D Tomb of Annihilation Heroes - Dragonbait, Saurial Paladin & Birdsong, Tabaxi Bard

Well, technically we have the final D&D model I completed in May (Dragonbait). That’s the lizard man in case you hadn’t already guessed! Alongside the first model I completed in June (Birdsong). Birdsong is the Tabaxi (cat-man) Bard, because of course a cat would have a name like Birdsong… :/

Dungeons and Dragons, D&D Tomb of Annihilation Heroes - Dragonbait, Saurial Paladin & Birdsong, Tabaxi Bard

The painting state of my D&D Adventure Boardgame boxed set painting is in an odd spot right now –

The next of these games chronologically – Temple of Elemental Evil has:

All heroes completed

5/7 Villains completed (just the Ettin and Black Dragon to go)

and 3/30 (28?) of the Monsters painted (those Hobgoblins)

So either 30 or 31 models still to be painted…

 

Following that is Tomb of Annihilation with:

2/6 heroes painted – (these two)

6/9 Villains completed (3 human-ish models to go)

and all 28 of the Monsters painted since I finished those Sheletons and Zombies the other week.

Leaving 7 more models to be painted.

 

Finally (not counting that Campaign expansion thing), there’s Dungeon of the Mad Mage with:

None of the 5 heroes painted.

8/10 Villains completed (2 human-ish ones left)

15/30 (26?) Monsters painted – the easy ones, though.

 

So.. kind of a mess. I feel like I should focus on the 7 ToA models since it’s the closest to completion and it scores me another completely painted boardgame, but maybe I should grind through the lower-effort monsters from ToEE first instead? Maybe mix in some of the monsters and heroes/villains from Mad Mage with whatever else I do here and there to just slowly get those numbers down?

And it’s probably time to try to find and paint the couple of ignored hero models from the first two games – Ravenloft and Ashardalon. For completeness sake if nothing else…

D&D ̶M̶o̶n̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ Hero Manual 92: Temple of Elemental Evil – Alaeros Margaster, Human Fighter & Ratshadow, Lightfoot Halfling Rogue

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Dungeons and Dragons, D&D Temple of Elemental Evil Heroes - Alaeros Margaster, Human Fighter & Ratshadow, Lightfoot Halfling Rogue

Today pair of models once again hail from The Temple of Elemental Evil Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Boardgame. This pair is a half-step up from the better WotC sculpts, being from the first of the games in this line where Wizkids licenced the game line from WotC. Due to that, these models are more or less on a par with earlier Nolzur’s models, which is where many of the figures going forward will have also made appearances.

Dungeons and Dragons, D&D Temple of Elemental Evil Heroes - Alaeros Margaster, Human Fighter & Ratshadow, Lightfoot Halfling Rogue

As you can see by the fur texture of Alaeros’ cloak, and the rest of the fur on him, the sculpts here are still pretty simple. Ratshadow’s cloak at least offered the opportunity to quickly practise blending out a nice dark cloak. I couldn’t really find a definitive palatte for Ratshadow’s outfit, so I went with “Rogue” while Alaeros did have several pieces of art around, so I went with those as my overall colour guide.

Dungeons and Dragons, D&D Temple of Elemental Evil Heroes - Alaeros Margaster, Human Fighter & Ratshadow, Lightfoot Halfling Rogue

As with the majority of the models in these lines – both the boxed games and even the majority of the overall Nolzurs’ miniature lines, the models aren’t anything super special, but are good enough for a boardgame and certainly “level up” the experience over playing with unpainted grey or even unpainted coloured plastic figures. Oh yeah, these two also complete all of the set of five adventurer heroes from the Temple of Elemental Evil Boxed set. Unfortunately, I still have quite a lot more models to paint to complete this box, so unless there’s a demand to see them arranged together, it’ll have to wait until the box is done!