Okay McKay
Underboss
1068 Posts
    
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"It's an automatic robot, based on science." | |
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Okay McKay
Underboss
1068 Posts
| | 09/10/2005 10:48 PM |
| | You've got too much time on your hands, my man. | |
"It's an automatic robot, based on science." | |
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Grim
Sergeant
482 Posts
| | 09/11/2005 12:10 AM |
| | While he is clearly insane, he does have a point. In my game the lowly Wrackspawn have served as a proxy for all manner of nameless mooks who show up only to be swiftly defeated by the juggernaut that is my gaming group. I don't let the fact that they are hideous and don't really "look" like what i'm trying to emulate (other than some form of undead creature perhaps) slow me down. DnD is a game of imagination after all. There are lots of iconic beasties that lack minis. There is no way I'm stuck to using just what I have in my collection to set up battles. | |
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 09/11/2005 1:07 AM |
| I have a great use for them... put four or five of them together and they make a descent paper weight.
They make for a fair golf tee.
My cats love it when I dangle them on a string.
I am saving a bunch of them up to give away at Halloween this year, (but I am going to stay up really late to defend my house against the inevitable eggs.)
My 3 year old son likes to run over them with his toy monster trucks.
I am still looking for a use for them in RPG.
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Corim Danex
Warlord
6593 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 09/11/2005 1:48 AM |
| | Wow...I think the wrackspawn has led to more conversation than any single miniature I have ever heard of. | |
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Champion of Something, I imagine I will think of something
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 09/11/2005 12:32 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Corim Danex
Wow...I think the wrackspawn has led to more conversation than any single miniature I have ever heard of.
Indeed it has. I sure hope that is a clear message to the design team on how incredibly ridiculous we find it. I still hate that stupid little dwarf boot, that's by far what makes it most stupid-looking for me.
I am going to use the wrackspawn as decor in a crazy mage's lab...fail experiment, etc. or simply as a way to kill a pc dwarf, and mage in a failed teleportation spell. | |
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warty_nosed_goblin
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 09/11/2005 12:35 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Grim
While he is clearly insane, he does have a point. In my game the lowly Wrackspawn have served as a proxy for all manner of nameless mooks who show up only to be swiftly defeated by the juggernaut that is my gaming group. I don't let the fact that they are hideous and don't really "look" like what i'm trying to emulate (other than some form of undead creature perhaps) slow me down. DnD is a game of imagination after all. There are lots of iconic beasties that lack minis. There is no way I'm stuck to using just what I have in my collection to set up battles.
That's going into the sig! Not every day does one get called clearly insane, thanks man[:D] | |
Call me: W.N. Gobo!
originally posted by grim:
While he is clearly insane, he does have a point. | |
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PhibbyRizo
Warrior
207 Posts
Good Ol' Minnesota
| | 09/11/2005 3:07 PM |
| Ummm...
maybe a Psurlon? or Tsochar....Silitithar(sp)...or half the new monsters in Lords of Madness....
NPC who has been transformed in to somthin' helluva ugly and needs help? It has a potential plotline...or I am just to nice to the ugly lil' bugger? | |
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glauron
Underboss
1379 Posts
Sydney, Australia
| | 09/11/2005 9:42 PM |
| The Wrackspawn is an excellent piece, especially in its role as a WFT. Playing mind ganes with adventuring PCs who think they have seen it all is loads of fun.
Put a Wrackspawn on the battlemat and they don't have a clue how to combat the little beggars. They can be anything you want them to be because the PCs haven't got a stereotype of what they actually are.
They evin look evil, mean and scary. | |
I have always been here. | |
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Liquidburn
Sergeant
944 Posts
| | 09/11/2005 10:00 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Okay McKay
You've got too much time on your hands, my man.
I would have to agree with that assessment.
Though, I think the wrackspawn does look better than the small white dragon. | |
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warty_nosed_goblin
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 09/11/2005 10:06 PM |
| | It also makes a decent small umber hulk...for one thing it gets the confusion gaze right, when your PCs gaze upon it they will be confused as to wtf it is! | |
Call me: W.N. Gobo!
originally posted by grim:
While he is clearly insane, he does have a point. | |
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Testament
Underboss
1397 Posts
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Wayne
Underboss
1371 Posts
| | 09/12/2005 4:25 AM |
| | In all seriousness, my DM in today's RPG sessions used eight Wrackspawn as excellent standins for those long-limbed tar-covered demodands. For the first time since I saw them, I was glad I had them. | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11102 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 09/13/2005 7:11 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Wayne
In all seriousness, my DM in today's RPG sessions used eight Wrackspawn as excellent standins for those long-limbed tar-covered demodands. For the first time since I saw them, I was glad I had them.
OH MY GOD! I think we now have a viable use for the WTF!!!
Demodands!!
Why didn't I think of that? | |
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griffrat
Commander
3506 Posts
| | 09/13/2005 8:55 AM |
| I also have a use for them. In an upcoming game there is going to be a commander whose position was overran and he along with many of his most beloved troopers were captured. The party has been dispatched to find and capture a field grade officer (or higher) from the invading forces. At the camp where said officer is the insidious rite is on going infront of the commander as his troopers are being tortured and turned into WTFs before his eyes in an attempt to make the commander divulge secrets of the defenses.
At least the things will get used....
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yack
Commander
3152 Posts
Ottawa, Canada
| | 09/13/2005 9:31 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar
quote:
Originally posted by Wayne
In all seriousness, my DM in today's RPG sessions used eight Wrackspawn as excellent standins for those long-limbed tar-covered demodands. For the first time since I saw them, I was glad I had them.
OH MY GOD! I think we now have a viable use for the WTF!!!
Demodands!!
Why didn't I think of that?
WOW good idea!!! Off too dig some of them out of the cardboard box.[:D] | |
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Faragdar the Wise
Commander
3467 Posts
Albuquerque, NM, USA
| | 09/15/2005 12:57 PM |
| | I'm going to use them as Quth-maren in the City of the Spider Queen. (Though I suppose the Spellstitched Hobgoblin Zombie works about as well.) | |
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JoLT
Sneak
87 Posts
| | 09/15/2005 1:44 PM |
| I say box them all up and send them back to R&D with a nasty note saying we don't want your trash please quit shipping them to us!
Thats the only use I have found for them. | |
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nyjastul69
Commander
2710 Posts
Rhode Island
| | 09/15/2005 2:24 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Jolt:
I say box them all up and send them back to R&D with a nasty note saying we don't want your trash please quit shipping them to us!
Thats the only use I have found for them.
That is arguably the best idea I've heard yet. It's almost as funny as Teddy Wrackspawn. | |
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forkedmoon
Underboss
1305 Posts
| | 09/16/2005 2:16 PM |
| People, people, people
Dip them Orange paint top them with Green and you get an oompah loompah invasion force. | |
Champion of Cyclops
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warty_nosed_goblin
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 09/16/2005 4:37 PM |
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Originally posted by forkedmoon
People, people, people
Dip them Orange paint top them with Green and you get an oompah loompah invasion force.
Now that I like!
Other ideas, just use it for anything with more then one template, or (I really like this one) an overgrown humonculis (sp) that has broken free of it's master and is terrorizing the populace... | |
Call me: W.N. Gobo!
originally posted by grim:
While he is clearly insane, he does have a point. | |
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Zeb
Underboss
2027 Posts
| | 09/17/2005 3:54 PM |
| I recently used five of them as newly risen undead burn victims. They had been fireballed by the party's sorcerer. My wife has started calling them lava zombies...for lack of a better term. Like the demodand idea...
Hmmm...fiendish oompa loompas...? My kids game will never be the same, and neither will they. [}:)] | |
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 09/17/2005 4:47 PM |
| I melted the bases of two of them together and use them for a golf tee. I took eight of them off of their bases and melted them together and put them on a large base and called it a Vzoud.
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Champion of the Common Bar Wench
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Testament
Underboss
1397 Posts
| | 09/19/2005 6:42 AM |
| | Vzoud...if I'm not mistaken, you're talking Vampire there, as in one of the many gross things Tzimisces cook up? | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11102 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 09/19/2005 7:31 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by JoLT
I say box them all up and send them back to R&D with a nasty note saying we don't want your trash please quit shipping them to us!
Thats the only use I have found for them.
If anyone is actually serious about doing this, I'm in! | |
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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The Great
Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
11102 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 09/19/2005 7:33 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Malin Lug
I melted the bases of two of them together and use them for a golf tee. I took eight of them off of their bases and melted them together and put them on a large base and called it a Vzoud.
As I said in another thread, fire can only improve the Wrackspawn. | |
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Cthulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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Pale Rider
Underboss
1005 Posts
London, Ontario, Canada
| | 09/19/2005 12:42 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by JoLT
I say box them all up and send them back to R&D with a nasty note saying we don't want your trash please quit shipping them to us!
Thats the only use I have found for them.
Bah! You knew they were in the boxes before you opened them - you are the problem! Yes you! No one else! [)]
I used one to stand in for a Babau Demon last night. My Rogue/Fighter player was very concerned since he was trapped in a ForceCube with it!
If anyone doesn't want their Wrackspawn feel free to send them to me. (funny I made that same offer for giant frogs, celestial badgers, nightwalkers and no one has taken me up on it [:(] | |
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nyjastul69
Commander
2710 Posts
Rhode Island
| | 09/19/2005 1:37 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Ghendar:
If anyone is actually serious about doing this, I'm in!
I've got 16 of the buggers, I would actually do this. The problem is only 2 people doing it wouldn't create much of an impression. I was going to list in my most recent trade thread that I'd send a free Yackspawn with every trade agreement, but I was afraid I that it might actually push some people away from trades. | |
You know, I keep thinking that after the new design team gets done with D&D 4e, D&D won't stand for Dungeons and Dragons anymore, because well, that's just not fun. It's old and stuffy. - Originally Posted by BabWryter on Kenzerco.com | |
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 09/20/2005 12:58 AM |
| I was taking a look at Zenako's Price Guide and compiled a quick list of the minis that cost less than the WTF:
Dwarf barbarian
Medium Astral Construct
Bladeling fighter
Lemure
Displacer Serpent
Tanarukk
Celestial Black Bear
Dekanter Goblin
Fiendish Dire Weasel
Mongrelfolk
Myconid Guard
Carrion Tribe Barbarian
Taer
Celestial Dire Badger
Giant Frog
Goblin Adept
Kruthik Hatchling
Bullywug Thug
Deathlock
Wild Elf Raider
Xeph Warrior
Direguard
Abyssal Skulker
All of these are less valued than the WTF. Food for thought.
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Champion of the Common Bar Wench
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frogrodeo
Sergeant
706 Posts
| | 09/20/2005 4:50 PM |
| | I just tried to buy a dozen of them @ $5.00 each, but nobody would sell to me because they said they had "better offers" from some unknown source. Rumor has it that Ahnold Schwarzenegger has a wrackspawn fetish (probably because of all the rippling muscles), and he has been inflating the market price singlehandedly by buying up all that he can at inflated prices. [:(] | |
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 09/21/2005 1:34 AM |
| | I am going to try and use one as a fishing lure, I'll tell you all how it works. | |
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Champion of the Common Bar Wench
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Iconomancer
bassman2972
Underboss
1675 Posts
The ville IN. AKA Hell on earth
| | 09/21/2005 10:51 PM |
| Well, If no one wants them, they can always send them to me[:o)].
I use them as Undead creatures in my campaigns. | |
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Knight of Argenis
Corim Danex
Warlord
6593 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 09/23/2005 1:03 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by frogrodeo
I just tried to buy a dozen of them @ $5.00 each, but nobody would sell to me ...
You were going to pay $60 for a dozen wrackspawn?? | |
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Champion of Something, I imagine I will think of something
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Knight of Argenis
Corim Danex
Warlord
6593 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 09/23/2005 1:09 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Malin Lug
I was taking a look at Zenako's Price Guide and compiled a quick list of the minis that cost less than the WTF:
The first time a list comes out for a given set, the commons haven't really had enough time to drop to a reasonable price for what people are actually going to pay. Watch the next list--the wrackspawn will go down. Those other miniatures (with the exception of the other four Angelfire ones at the bottom) have had some chance to languish around in their respective stores.
I am surprised the direguard goes for so little though. I think it makes a nice stand in for various skeletons/wraiths, etc. | |
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Champion of Something, I imagine I will think of something
Vindicated Champ of Hippogriff (Arcadian Hippogriff) and Uncommon Horse | |
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warty_nosed_goblin
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 09/23/2005 4:49 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Corim Danex
quote:
Originally posted by frogrodeo
I just tried to buy a dozen of them @ $5.00 each, but nobody would sell to me ...
You were going to pay $60 for a dozen wrackspawn??
Perrhaps he wouldn't sell for ethical reasons- there's very few commons that go for that much. | |
Call me: W.N. Gobo!
originally posted by grim:
While he is clearly insane, he does have a point. | |
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