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D&D Monster Manual 73: Tomb of Annihilation – Vegepygmies and Batiri Goblins

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D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monsters - Tomb of Annihilation – Vegepygmies and Batiri Goblins

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!

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monsters - Tomb of Annihilation – Vegepygmies D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monsters - Tomb of Annihilation – Vegepygmies

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!

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monsters - Tomb of Annihilation – Batiri Goblins D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monsters - Tomb of Annihilation – Batiri Goblins

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”.

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Monsters - Tomb of Annihilation – Vegepygmies and Batiri Goblins

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!

D&D Monster Manual 62: Tomb of Annihilation – Su-Monsters and Velociraptors

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D&D Dungeons and Dragons Tomb of Annihilation – Su-Monsters and Velociraptors

My next pair of simple Tomb of Annihilation model sets here – a trio of Su-Monsters, which are actually pretty nice sculpts, considering their PVC model origins – and a trio of Veliciraptors.

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Tomb of Annihilation – Velociraptors

It’s almost like the D&D designers went back to the actual information with the Veliciraptors, as they’re represented by much smaller dino models than we usually see. Which is, actually, how they were. Thanks to Spielberg deciding that Jurassic Park’s Velociraptors and Compsognathus should essentially swap sizes for dramatic purposes, we had a couple of generations of people thinking that Veliciraptors were much larger than they actually were. Which has remained the perception through pop culture, not to mention been subject to the usual exaggeration in size since then….

Does it matter? Well, truth be told, not to most of us in our day to day lives in a manner that affects them in that everyday manner, but by the same token, does it matter to most of us in our day to day lives if the Sun revolves around the Earth? or if the Earth is flat? Or if both Dinosaurs and the Moon Landing are hoaxes? You see my point.

Anyway, it seems that these D&D Veliciraptors are roughly accurately sized. Which was a nice surprise to see. Paint-wise they’re pretty simple. Some contrast over a green base with a darkened spinal area. Not that you can really see much as they’re soo teeny-weeny!

D&D Dungeons and Dragons Tomb of Annihilation – Su-Monsters

Su-Monsters. That’s certainly an interesting name for something. Luckily I checked out WTF these things are supposed to be before painting them, and went with a “close enough” approximation of their description, though the blackened face was tricky to pull off, since it looks a bit unnatural and I think the models looked better with their skin in that fleshy grey. But whatever. I’m not really sure what else to write about these? They “feel” like they’re from some old D&D splatbook like Oriental Adventures, but despite being very reasonable sculpts for D&D boardgame minis, I don’t care enough to look them up again. Evil Jokaero! Done!

3 more models for Ann’s “Paint the Crap You Already Own!” challenge, which I am no doubt spamming like mad with those pingbacks right now!