Miniatures and board games

I don't hate miniatures. I bought several 3D printers to be able to create miniatures myself for my D&D games, before COVID made real worlds games difficult and we moved to Roll20. So I have printed many an orc, and found that a 3D-printed miniature in a single color was in many ways superior to a flat 2D color token on my gaming table. Having said that, I am starting to hate miniatures in board games. To explain why, let's have a look at an unboxing photo of Kingdom Death: Monsters.What do you see? A lot of plastic parts that aren't assembled. That has 3 consequences: 1) Kingdom Death: Monsters costs about $400 for just the core box; 2) If you can't assemble small fiddly plastic pieces into actual miniatures, you can't play; and 3) unless you can also paint miniatures, the final result doesn't actually look much better than 3D-printed miniatures in a single color. Now different games have these 3 problems in different degrees. Some come with the miniatures already assembled. Some even come with them already painted, but of course that is then more expensive.

Labels: Board Games

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