D&D 4th Edition Player's Handbook Miniatures

We've been complaining a bit over the last year since the release of the D&D 4th Edition. See, the game puts a huge emphasis on tactical combat, with square maps in the all the modules, and all those rules that have you map out spacing and ranges to determine area of effects.

The problem is, there hasn't been a great official way to represent your characters on your table top. Sure, you could have blindly bought D&D Miniature boosters in hopes you would get someone cool and that slightly resembled your character's class, race, and gender, plus looked cool to boot, but that was a total crap shoot.

Finally, ten months later, Wizards of the Coast has a nice little gift for you. Behold: prepackaged miniatures of all the classes and races of the Players Handbook, presented in clear plastic so you know which miniature your dropping your cash for:

Player's Handbook Heroes - Arcane Heroes #1 [Amazon, Funagain]
Includes: Female Eladrin Wizard
Male Tiefling Warlock
Male Half-Elf Bard
Player's Handbook Heroes - Arcane Heroes #2 [Amazon, Funagain]
Male Human Wizard
Female Eladrin Sorcerer
Male Half-Elf Fighter / Warlock
Player's Handbook Heroes - Divine Heroes #1 [Amazon, Funagain]
Male Human Cleric
Female Halfling Cleric
Male Dwarf Paladin
Player's Handbook Heroes - Martial Heroes #1 [Amazon, Funagain]
Female Dragonborn Rogue
Male Human Fighter
Male Elf Ranger
Player's Handbook Heroes - Martial Heroes #2 [Amazon, Funagain]
Female Eladrin Fighter
Male Tiefling Warlord
Male Dwarf Rogue
Player's Handbook Heroes - Primal Heroes #1 [Amazon, Funagain]
Female Elf Druid
Male Human Barbarian
Male Goliath Barbarian

Not every class combo is there, but you should be able to make do with what's available. Unless you're picky, which would really stink since you've waited almost a year for this moment. We feel for ya. Wait, no we don't, stop dilly dallying. Just pull the trigger, have a cold one, relax and work on your anxiety problems.

Here are the official details:

The Player's Handbook Heroes: Series 1 expansion for the Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game features high-quality miniatures representing iconic player character races and classes described in the Player's Handbook and Player's Handbook 2 core rulebooks.
There are six booster packs in all: 2 packs of martial heroes, 2 packs of arcane heroes, 1 pack of divine heroes, and 1 pack of primal heroes. Each booster pack contains 3 visible, high-quality, non-random plastic miniatures representing D&D player characters, plus an exclusive power card not available elsewhere! Each miniature comes beautifully painted and fully assembled.

Fully assembled miniatures. Sweet. Put away your exact-o knife and sniffing glue.... err.. gluing glue.

April 29, 2009

D&D 4th Edition Player's Handbook Miniatures