I have bought all the investigator miniatures for arkham horror. And now that mansions of madness has started to come with monster miniatures i'd like to complete my game with monster miniatures as well. But i need a base for each monster to put the monster marker in.

So, my question for FFG is if you would considder selling packages of monster bases.

And for the forum users, would you buy them?

Regards

/Peter

If anyone is interested in the monster miniatures from Mansions you can buy them here:

http://auggiesgamesonline.3dcartstores.com/Mansions-of-Madness_c_200.html

And additional monster miniatures here:

http://www.rafm.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=COCM

No I wouldn't - but I would buy monster marker sleeves.

(Like the existing square clear plastic coin wallets, but a few mm bigger that actualy fit the cardboard tokens).

I wouldn't buy the monster figures because you still need the token for the monster stats. Plus there would potentially be 100's of monster figs you would need to buy so I could only imagine how much that would cost.

The clear bases to hold the tokens in I would buy.

Nick

I've always been an opponent to investigator minis. All right, "opponent" makes it sound like I didn't want anybody to have them. More like... opposed to them. But take all the reasons I wouldn't want to get the investigators and intensify them by like twenty. I'd be far more likely to blow $200 on minis than the $800-or-so necessary for painted monsters. Because...

They'd be massively expensive, as noted above.

They'd be ugly if painted, and boring if unpainted.

If unpainted, I'd be inclined to paint them, which would consume the rest of my money and lifespan. Plus, I'm no expert painter.

I wouldn't be able to use my custom monsters.

They'd take up more space than the spare big boxes I could possibly dedicate to them, and even if they fit I am not interested in carrying around five big-boxes when playing outside my apartment.

Having monster figures and no investigator figures would be dissonant. So, should I decide to get the investigators too, apply all the above points again, for them.

Drawing monster tokens from the bag and then having to search for the figure and either set the token aside or plug it into the figure would be a monstrous pain in the ass. That term was intentional.

Tibs said:

But most of them are ugly..

"Tacky" or "embarrassing" might be more appropriate.

what Tibs said. No way Id buy the set, but I might buy 1 or 2 for fun and install them as decoration in the toilet, If they were cool. I wouldnt be surprised if FFG eventually came out with a limited super deluxe collectory thingy edition with minis for everything, as they did with War of the Ring. But again, at the price it would sell for and the use I would get out of it, Id probably only buy it if I was a) a lottery winner or b) knocked on the head.

I should hope that if I was knocked on the head, my wife would be around to stop me from clicking the "order" button. Of course, the point's moot anyway because I don't even think I have that much money in my account.

$50 for each big box = $250

$25 for each small = $100

48 investigator minis = $200

160 monsters at, say, $5 each = $800

Grand total = $1350

This, of course, is a conservative estimate. I'm assuming that I probably undershot the monsters since they'll tend to be bigger than the investigators. I'm also assuming that nothing "special" has been added in (like metal tokens or special minis or whatever) that'll raise the price.

I've been wrong about these things before, and I don't want to deny those who would actually want monster minis, but if FFG is seriously considering it, they'd better know what they're doing.

Tibs said:

OH! thats what they are for! Right!

I would definately buy token sleeves though, some of my original 1st edition tokens are looking quite faded now. Does anyone make those things?

Basically what i was asking for was some kind of sleeves. It is quite obvious that ffg have no interest in making monster miniatures.

But i would sure like to be able to buy the plasic bases that comes with Mansions. Then i could buy the figures from somewhere else and still use the monster markers from arkham.

dj2.0 said:

There are a couple of people on boardgamegeek who have sleeved the monster tokens with clear plastic coin wallets and posted pictures. I've tried but find they are a few mm too small and end up splitting the wallets and/or damaging the tokens trying to get them in. Pre stretching the wallets seems to be possible in theory - although I haven't personally found this to be a practical solution. Still hoping someone will make wallets the right size.

Don't get too exited by the picture below - you need unusual skills to produce this result!

thanks - this does not look like a practical or safe solution, just as I expected. I figured tokens would not like it, they need custom straight jackets made. And I reckon I wouldnt like it either, Id probably scratch my hands on the corners rummaging in the bag. But the idea is good. We need pieces made by FFG though.

Shub-Niggurath said:

I've actually tried this recently with extensive stretching of the sleeves as described in later postings of the above thread and am quite pleased with the results - especially for my first attempt!