Kickstarting Pastiche Heroquest Miniatures

[chaoticprime]

Sounds like a good plan for getting some of my money

One question: plastic or metal?

I can have them made in white metal or resin.

[Blackthorn]

Plastic!

A bit off topic, but I personally feel that The Frozen Horror is by far the most beautifully crafted expansion. The storyline, the theme, the artwork, the tiles and the miniatures are all awesome. That just needed to be said.

That's my favorite too, although it takes some pretty beefed up heroes to get through it. If a Yeti doesn't hug you, you might slip on the ice and tumble into a bottomless chasm

As far as the miniatures go, I personally have no interest in metal ones.

[Sjeng]

Round Up

We will make better-quality miniatures for use with HeroQuest. They will also have ranged-variants among them, for some monsters. We will not worry about a whole new game, rather just the miniatures. We will produce miniatures for all releases for HeroQuest, but with more emphasis on design continuity.

Does this sum up everyone's feelings?

I think it does

Now to get some calculus going on the numbers of making sculpts, molds, casts, shipping etc. and at which amount you can unlock additional minis as bonusses.
And if you feel like it, create some HQ-style art for each monster, so we can make cards!

[chaoticprime]

To get costs, we will need a definite list of miniatures. We can assume we'll need $400-$500 per miniature to get them from concept to creation, with product in each of our hands. You all write, and I'll do another round-up.

[Sjeng]

To get costs, we will need a definite list of miniatures. We can assume we'll need $400-$500 per miniature to get them from concept to creation, with product in each of our hands. You all write, and I'll do another round-up.

allrighty, monsters, amount and alternative names:

Basic set (40 minis, 13 molds):
- 1 barbarian (male, melee)
- 1 wizard (male, staff)
- 1 dwarf (male, melee)
- 1 elf (male, melee)
- 6 goblins (melee)
- 8 orcs (melee)
- 4 chaos warriors (dark knights, melee)
- 4 fimir (bog raiders or bog lizards, melee)
- 1 chaos sorcerer (dark mage)
- 1 gargoyle (melee)
- 4 mummies (melee / hands)
- 4 zombies (melee)
- 4 skeletons (melee)

I upped some of the amounts from the basic HQ set, because you just need more of some in my opinion. This is the pledge that has to pull in backers. It will be costly, but worth it.

Bonus addon 1 (big amount milestone):
- 4 female heroes, 4 molds / 4 minis

Bonus addon 2:
- 1 ice gremlin, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 3:
- 1 elven archer, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 4:
- 1 elven warrior, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 5:
- 1 dire wolf, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 6:
- 1 yeti, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 7:
- 1 polar warbear (arctic armoured bear), 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 8:
- 1 mercenary scout, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 9:
- 1 mercenary halberdier, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 10:
- 1 mercenary crossbowman, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 11:
- 1 mercenary swordsman, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 12:
- 1 Sinestra (evil sorceress), 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 13:
- 1 Frozen Horror (Icy Monstrosity), 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 14:
- 1 Ogre warrior, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 15:
- 1 Ogre champion, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 16:
- 1 Ogre chieftain, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 17:
- 1 Ogre lord, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 18:
- 1 goblin archer, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 19:
- 1 orc archer, 1 mold, 1 mini

Bonus addon 20:
- 1 skeleton archer, 1 mold, 1 mini

Optional buy-ins for backers (extra payment):
- set of 2 extra goblins
- set of 2 extra orcs
- set of 2 extra bog raiders
- set of 2 extra mummies
- set of 2 extra zombies
- set of 2 extra skeletons
- set of 2 extra dark knights
- set of 2 extra dark mages

- each bonus unlocked mini can be added seperately when unlocked, per 1, for additional payment.
- if you buy 4 extra unlocked minis, you get a 5th for free (if feasible cost-wise).

PS: you MUST mold each of the minis on European style HQ bases! Makes them recognizable and compatible.

Also add lower level pledge levels:

- Peasant: $1, thanks for your support (you get nothing, but you can chat along on KS.com)
- Villager: $5, thanks for your support. You don't get the base set, but you may purchase seperate minis from the optional buy-ins.
- Soldier: $10, thanks for your support. You don't get the base set, but you may purchase seperate minis from the optional buy-ins plus additional minis from the unlocked tiers.

And then doing some spitballing here for the higher rewards:
- Hero: $??, you get the base set, and you may purchase seperate minis from the optional buy-ins plus additional minis from the unlocked tiers.
- Champion: $???, base set + 1 mini of each unlocked tier included. This pledge will get better if bonuses get unlocked, so you could make it break-even cost-wise at the 5th bonus or so, to make it very appealing to backers.
- Lord: $???, base set + 2 minis of each unlocked tier included.
- King: $???, base set + 2 minis of each unlocked tier included + 2 extra minis from the base set.
- Emperor: $???, base set + 4 minis of each unlocked tier included + 4 extra minis from the base set.

More ideas for further unlocks if you reach that:
- skaven melee
- skaven warlock
- gnoll
- minotaur
- centaur
- bugbear
- giant spider
- giant rat
- troll
- giant
- fire/earth/water/air elemental
- Zargon/Morcar figure!

or furniture:
- bookcase
- closet
- table
- chair
- throne
- tomb
- gravestone
- secret door
- regular door closed
- regular door open
- fallen blocks/rubble
- treasure chest
- mirror
- loot-pile
- fireplace
- sorcerers table
- alchemists bench

I could go on for ages, but I doubt you'd get this far, unless you can make everything really really cheap like Reaper did with their Bones KS. That was a wild ride...

[TMU]

allrighty, monsters, amount and alternative names...

...I could go on for ages, but I doubt you'd get this far, unless you can make everything really really cheap like Reaper did with their Bones KS. That was a wild ride...

Sjeng, do you have too much free time?

[wolfie907]

sjeng has good ideas but i dont agree with making the basic minis first priority i think the expansion figures will be more well recieved they are what people want also i would personally prefer to see the minis on the north american bases

[Sjeng]

sjeng has good ideas but i dont agree with making the basic minis first priority i think the expansion figures will be more well recieved they are what people want also i would personally prefer to see the minis on the north american bases

Well, the idea for this KS is first of all the base set. You need incentive for people to pledge high, so adding the expansion minis as unlocks should get more people interested, and spreading word about this KS more.
Furthermore, the EU bases are so much nicer than the US ones. They are also more recognizable as being exclusive HQ bases, as opposed to the generic rectangular US bases in my humble opinion.

[wolfie907]

honestly i agree that the eu bases are more distinctive for me when i first saw them i liked them better but to me they seem out of place most of my collection is on the american bases and they are what heroquest looks like to me i started playing when i was twelve im 33 until last year i didnt even know about the different bases so the european ones feel a little off to me and i kind of like the fact that dragonstrike bases match up but it wouldnt stop me from bidding no matter what the bases look like

[drathe]

The EU bases were used for the Mage of the Mirror and Frozen Horror miniatures. Therefore they are already a US style too.