Saturday, October 15, 2011

15 MM D&D? I'm serious !!



Ok one of my favorite blogs anymore is Tiny Solitary Soldiers and recently there have been some posts over there regarding copplestones new 15 MM fantasy range. Ya you sold me ... I'm in.

I honestly wish there were more complete ranges for 15 MM fantasy in general. I have really been thinking about 15 MM D&D ... 15 MM is really a better scale for the way that many DMs run their games. Some really cool secondary benefits for going smaller, such as you could use dragons that were actually in scale to the adventurers (and it wouldn't cost you $500.00 to do so!). Terrain would be easier to do up and you could do larger rooms and scenes with less effort than you do in 28 MM. Doing large dungeons would really be a snap even by comparison to small to medium sized 28 MM dungeons. You could represent hordes on a 1 to 1 basis ... 100 goblins ... hmm ... ok no problem guys! Terrain would be easy and actually on this front I do believe that there are some decent options out there for 15 MM terrain with all the ancients terrain for Roman and Dark Ages stuff not to mention the north African stuff for WW II gaming (that would still work perfect for D&D), etc. etc.

We just need more in the way of D&D monsters, adventurers and a little bit more in the way of high fantasy style terrain options. I'm on a quest now to find more of this stuff and acquire it and use it.

Ok and speaking of using 28 MM dragons ... perhaps best of all is that some of the 28 MM monsters would work as "ancient" or "giant" variants of the said monsters. So you could probably use some figures selectively from 28 MM ranges as well (I'm thinking things like demons, wyverns, trolls, etc.).

I'm very excited about the future of 15 MM based D&D!!

3 comments:

Spacejacker said...

This sounds really good. You might like these free rules, I think they are great:

http://www.oldschoolhack.net/

Thanks for the mention, I'll be watching your 15mm exploits closely!

The Lord of Excess said...

I've followed the OSR scene somewhat and I hadn't actually heard of those. So awesome link! Thank you sir ... very cool looking ruleset I'm going to have to try those out.

scottsz said...

Congrats on going 15mm. You'll save a lot of cash with the smaller scale.

Copplestone's great. I'd also recommend 15mm.co.uk. They have fantasy skirmish packs and other 15mm tabletop minis that are very well done.