Another curiosity from the Reaper Bones Kickstarter is the Chthon. This worm-like creature more or less resembles a Dungeons and Dragons Grick. There were several of these miniatures in the Kickstarter. I have never used gricks in my games until now. I don’t know if I ever need one, but it’s nice to have even three of them to throw at my players.
Another interesting miniature out of the Reaper Bones Kickstarter bag is the Brass Bull. This construct version of a mighty bull features a scale-like skin and an angry pose. I didn’t need this miniature for my campaigns, but while I was painting golems, this one got some paint, too.
The second part of the Fire Giants features the Fire Giant King and the Fire Giant Queen from the first Reaper Bones Kickstarter. I painted them together with the Fire Giant Warrior and Bodyguard. Together, these four miniatures look fantastic, even though they are not large enough for the Dungeons and Dragons scale for Fire Giants.
The original Reaper Bones Kickstarter included four fantastic Fire Giant miniatures. I used them for an underground mining raid on the dwarven stronghold of Gauntlgrym while my players were visiting there during my Tyranny of Dragons D&D campaign. I’m going to post them in pairs, starting with the Fire Giant Bodyguard and Fire Giant Warrior!
In 2014, I painted the Orcs from Reaper Bones’ first Kickstarter. In 2016, I got more Orcs from the Reaper Bones II Kickstarter. I was not perfectly happy with the first batch of orcs, especially the black skin color and the 40 mm bases I used for them. The arrival of the new orcs gave me enough reason to take the older miniatures apart and paint all of them again.
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The Doomvault in Thay has lots of high level monsters for players to face. I needed a succubus for my campaign, and I found a fantastic miniature in Reaper’s Troll Slayer Sophie that was already part of my Reaper Bones Kickstarter. Sophie is Reaper’s mascot, and new Sophie miniatures were released each Christmas and on ReaperCon or in the Kickstarters. They may be cool collectibles, but this version actually could be used on a gaming table.
The Doomvault turned out to be a wonderful place to encounter golems for my players. I could even incorporate a more powerful construct, a Dungeons & Dragons Iron Golem! Naturally, I just had to look in the bag of the Reaper Bones II Kickstarter to find a fitting miniature. Even though Reaper does now have a real Iron Golem (which looks awesome!), at the time, the Battleguard Golem would serve as a stand-in.
I’ve already painted a Reaper Bones Stone Golem, which was part of the first Reaper Bones Kickstarter. As these plastic miniatures are relatively cheap and my players would encounter several stone golems in the Doomvault as part of my Tyranny of Dragons campaign, I decided to get some more.
Oh nice, we’re posting golems now! As my players ventured into the Doomvault as a side quest in the Tyranny of Dragons campaign, we needed a fierce Flesh Golem to oppose them! Of course there was a Flesh Golem in the Reaper Bones II Kickstarter I could use here. Meet Bob the Flesh Golem!
The translucent plastic miniatures are not too much work to paint. Most of the time, they are translucent, so you can see much of it in the respective color. I didn’t need the Crystal Golem from the Reaper Bones II Kickstarter for my ongoing campaign at the time. But I hadn’t painted in a while then, and I just wanted to get a miniature done quickly.