Hello All! I am looking to see if there are complete miniature collections available for official 5e modules. Example... all the creatures for yawning portal.
Leaning heavily on your example here - WizKids did publish a few miniature sets themed around the Waterdeep adventures - Tales from the Yawning Portal, Dungeon of the Mad Mage and Dragon Heist, but getting everything from the adventures is... putting it mildly, difficult, and even the complete sets don't encompass every creature or named NPC that appear in their respective themed adventure-tie-ins.
Now - There's a seven mini pre-packaged set called 'The Yawning Portal Inn - Friendly Faces' which gives you some key NPCs for the adventure, which was themed around the absolutely gorgeous but problematically heavy-for-international-shipping Yawning Portal Tavern WarLock tiles premium set. It also includes Durnan, who is another key NPC. These were released back in 2021, so they're a bit hard to find at your local game store and tend to be online inventories (Or the aforementioned WizKids and their sister-site DNDmini).
Many other adventures - Saltmarsh, Storm King's Thunder, Dragon Heist, and Curse of Strahd in particular also have prepackaged visible sets of between five and eight miniatures of key NPCs and monsters - Storm King's Thunder has three of these premium sets and they are amazing, each of which coming with three gorgeously detailed, pre-painted Huge sized Giant NPCs and some accompanying medium and large humanoids.
Most adventures had Blind-Box 4-packs with roughly 40 miniatures per set - There's a strong singles market for key minis like Halaster, or typically any major named character.
The long and short of it, really, is that short of finding a factory or promotional set being resold, there's no easy way to get complete mini-sets aside from the Collector's Edition Boxes - Sadly, those are limited to Fizbans, Wilds Beyond the Witchlight, Ravenloft, Spelljammer and Tomb of Annihilation, but those give complete sets of 40+ miniatures, the associated promotional minis and usually some chonky premium minis - Particularly the Spelljammer and Fizban's boxes.
Your most complete set would likely be Wilds Beyond the Witchlight Collector's Edition, which comes with a hefty 81 miniatures, but is, putting it mildly, expensive and potentially hard to source.
It should be stated, though, that you don't need any miniatures to play - They're a tool that make things easier, but they're a very expensive one. Depending on how you play, most of the adventure modules have importable online versions that are compatible with many digital tabletops, which conveniently have tokens for all of your important monsters, characters and NPCs.
If you're just starting a collection, I'd strongly recommend looking on YouTube at some full set reviews to get an idea for the typical quality of the miniatures in question - GallantGoblin, Nerd Immersion and other channels will usually do on-camera close-ups of entire sets so you can get a good sense of the usual paint-job and model quality of each individual mini in the set. Quality has largely improved over the last few years, but there's always a few models and sculpts that are a bit... less lovable?
I've only really come across partial collections and most of them are potluck. It gets very expensive quite quickly because you end up with multiples and often not the ones you want multiples of, etc.
Personally, I'd go down the route of a 3D printer (and have). You can print whatever you need, and it gets cheap if you're doing loads. MZ4250 provides free files for them (he has an agreement with WotC), so you can print them for less than a dollar each, and exactly what you want. Bigger minis provide bigger savings - I printed the Chardalyn Dragon for less than $10, so $20 overall (I bought a premium one from MyMiniFactory), when it was a couple of hundred to get it off Amazon. Even with just a few dragons, I've got my money back and more.
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Hello All! I am looking to see if there are complete miniature collections available for official 5e modules. Example... all the creatures for yawning portal.
Thank you in advance.
Hi and welcome to the forums!
That's... a bit of an ask.
Leaning heavily on your example here - WizKids did publish a few miniature sets themed around the Waterdeep adventures - Tales from the Yawning Portal, Dungeon of the Mad Mage and Dragon Heist, but getting everything from the adventures is... putting it mildly, difficult, and even the complete sets don't encompass every creature or named NPC that appear in their respective themed adventure-tie-ins.
Now - There's a seven mini pre-packaged set called 'The Yawning Portal Inn - Friendly Faces' which gives you some key NPCs for the adventure, which was themed around the absolutely gorgeous but problematically heavy-for-international-shipping Yawning Portal Tavern WarLock tiles premium set. It also includes Durnan, who is another key NPC.
These were released back in 2021, so they're a bit hard to find at your local game store and tend to be online inventories (Or the aforementioned WizKids and their sister-site DNDmini).
Many other adventures - Saltmarsh, Storm King's Thunder, Dragon Heist, and Curse of Strahd in particular also have prepackaged visible sets of between five and eight miniatures of key NPCs and monsters - Storm King's Thunder has three of these premium sets and they are amazing, each of which coming with three gorgeously detailed, pre-painted Huge sized Giant NPCs and some accompanying medium and large humanoids.
Most adventures had Blind-Box 4-packs with roughly 40 miniatures per set - There's a strong singles market for key minis like Halaster, or typically any major named character.
The long and short of it, really, is that short of finding a factory or promotional set being resold, there's no easy way to get complete mini-sets aside from the Collector's Edition Boxes - Sadly, those are limited to Fizbans, Wilds Beyond the Witchlight, Ravenloft, Spelljammer and Tomb of Annihilation, but those give complete sets of 40+ miniatures, the associated promotional minis and usually some chonky premium minis - Particularly the Spelljammer and Fizban's boxes.
Your most complete set would likely be Wilds Beyond the Witchlight Collector's Edition, which comes with a hefty 81 miniatures, but is, putting it mildly, expensive and potentially hard to source.
It should be stated, though, that you don't need any miniatures to play - They're a tool that make things easier, but they're a very expensive one. Depending on how you play, most of the adventure modules have importable online versions that are compatible with many digital tabletops, which conveniently have tokens for all of your important monsters, characters and NPCs.
If you're just starting a collection, I'd strongly recommend looking on YouTube at some full set reviews to get an idea for the typical quality of the miniatures in question - GallantGoblin, Nerd Immersion and other channels will usually do on-camera close-ups of entire sets so you can get a good sense of the usual paint-job and model quality of each individual mini in the set. Quality has largely improved over the last few years, but there's always a few models and sculpts that are a bit... less lovable?
I've only really come across partial collections and most of them are potluck. It gets very expensive quite quickly because you end up with multiples and often not the ones you want multiples of, etc.
Personally, I'd go down the route of a 3D printer (and have). You can print whatever you need, and it gets cheap if you're doing loads. MZ4250 provides free files for them (he has an agreement with WotC), so you can print them for less than a dollar each, and exactly what you want. Bigger minis provide bigger savings - I printed the Chardalyn Dragon for less than $10, so $20 overall (I bought a premium one from MyMiniFactory), when it was a couple of hundred to get it off Amazon. Even with just a few dragons, I've got my money back and more.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.