D&D Monster Manual 77: The Legend of Drizzt – Drow Wand Mage & Final Duellist

D&D Monster Manual. The Legend of Drizzt - Drow Wand Mage, Drow Duellists

A few days ago we were discussing which board game to play next. One of the suggestions was The Legend of Drizzt Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Boardgames, since we haven’t played any of these for a couple of years. Given that I’m trying to get the last models for Drizzt painted with the main difficulty being motivation, I knew getting back into the game would be the best way to get that happening. Ergo, some models from the set!

D&D Monster Manual. The Legend of Drizzt - Drow Wand Mage, Drow Duellists

The first two I’ve painted are the “Drow Wand Mage” and the third of the three Drow Duellists (the one that I’d lost and later found).

D&D Monster Manual. The Legend of Drizzt - Drow Wand Mage, Drow Duellists, Hunting Drakes

I forgot to paint in the gemstones on both of these models before I took the photographs, so rest assured that I’ve now painted those in. The Mage has a scaly cloak that I painted in the same manner as the Hunting Drakes from the same set, so emjoy this photograph of the Mage with the Hunting Drakes alongside the now reunited and complete three Drow Duellists. Despite being sculpted with chewing gum, the Mage still managed to have a face slightly reminiscent of Hugo Weaving as Elrond.

D&D Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt – Dinin Do’Urden, Drow Drider #Monstermarch7

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider

Another of the few remaining outstanding models from The Legend of Drizzt Dungeons and Dragons Adventure Boardgame to show today. This model is a “Drider”, which is to say a hybrid of “Drow” (aka Dark Elf) and “Spider” (you should already know these things).

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider

Apparently this particular Drider is also a relevant character from the Drizzt “universe”. I googled it and it turns out that Dinin is Drizzt’s Brother. I may or may not have read the relevant book back in the day (I read a few of the first ones) but don’t recall a whole lot about them now, 20+ years later except that they were enjoyable enough pulp fantasy affairs to read while travelling on a trip overseas.

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider

Again, I wanted to give a “naturalistic” look to the unnatural colour, and so have mottled the spider-abdomen on old Dinero here. It’s a little washed out in the photo, but you ger the idea.

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider, Massive Darkness Giant Spider

In something that should come as no real surprise, I painted Din Djarin here alongside the Giant Spider from Massive Darkness a couple of weeks ago. I’d wanted to hold off posting him until I had some more of those D&D models from the same set completed to post alongside, but as I’ve lost a lot of time over the past three weekends with other matters and the month is drawing towards the end, I decided to just get him posted up today.

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual 76: The Legend of Drizzt - Dinin Do'Urden, Drow Drider

The main reason I’ve needed to get him posted today was of course for the Monster March painting challenge, over at Path of an Outcast I’ve got one more week to see how much more I can get painted and posted…