Warning: this may be really old news!

Just happened upon the page of an artist who does some designs for different ccgs and was looking at his resume of artwork he has done, and he had these listed under D&D miniatures:

D&D; Miniature designs

These are pencil drawings depicting front and back views of the character. They are intended as a template for use by the sculptor.

Gargantuan Blue Dragon
Black Raider
Green Slaad
Hill Giant Barbarian
Ogre warhulk
Goblin Blackblade
Unique Mind Flayer
Goliath cleric of Kavalki
Tavern brawler
Tordek dwarf champion
Small black dragon
Giant Forgepriest
Soldier of bytopia
Hierophant of the seven winds
Shadowbane inquisitor
Large gold dragon
Raistlin
Wild mage
Hobgoblin marshal
Skeletal courser
Carnage demon
Orc thunderback rider

He notes that some of them may be under their working title, rather than their final title. I have been staying away from hordelings/maxminis for the last month or two so that most of Blood War will be a surprise on Friday (yay made my save!), so I am not sure how many of these are in the Blood War or Unhallowed spoilers, or if this is very old news, but I thought I would pass it along.

He notes that some of them may be under their working title, rather than their final title. I have been staying away from hordelings/maxminis for the last month or two so that most of Blood War will be a surprise on Friday (yay made my save!), so I am not sure how many of these are in the Blood War or Unhallowed spoilers, or if this is very old news, but I thought I would pass it along.

Cool!

Although I will refain from saying which ones on that list are in BW.

Sweet! Orc Thunderback rider! (What the hell is a thunderback?) Sound slike a Rhino or something. At any rate, an Orc to face off againt the Thundertusk Cavalry.

Hierophant? Epic druid?! Hrm... that could be fun...

Sounds like a good number of interesting figures. Sounds like he just broke his NDA a well....

Pat E

And some more Fantastic Locations!:

Caves of Chaos (which we probably knew were coming)
City of Shadows

Spoiler alert!

Gargantuan Blue Dragon - already known about and on the way
Black Raider - blackspawn from WotDQ?
Green Slaad - BW
Hill Giant Barbarian - WD
Ogre warhulk - WD
Goblin Blackblade - WD
Unique Mind Flayer - Shuluth (WD)
Goliath cleric of Kavalki - WotDQ
Tavern brawler - WotDQ
Tordek dwarf champion - WotDQ
Small black dragon - WotDQ
Giant Forgepriest - BW
Soldier of bytopia - BW
Hierophant of the seven winds - Unknown!
Shadowbane inquisitor - unknown!
Large gold dragon - Jump for joy if that's coming!!
Raistlin - Nifty... if it shows up.
Wild mage - elf warmage, maybe? (BW)
Hobgoblin marshal - ? Hobgoblin Talon of Tiamat, perhaps? (WotDQ)
Skeletal courser - ? Skeletal Reaper, maybe? (BW)
Carnage demon - ? to generic to guess, but lots to choose from in BW
Orc thunderback rider - could this have turned into dwarf on boar? (BW) Otherwise unknown

Some of those do indeed look nifty, and, as far as I know, som of them are completely new! Nice find!

Great find! :)

--sam

Hierophant? Epic druid?! Hrm... that could be fun...

Sounds like a good number of interesting figures. Sounds like he just broke his NDA a well....

Pat E

After finding the site (took about 5 seconds), I don't think he necessarily broke his NDA (possible, though)... and I'm less excited about these "figures". It was quoted above, but looking through the site it's painfully apparent that he is making no claim that any of these works will or won't become minis at some point... basically, he's selling his artwork, which would suggest to me that it WASN'T used to make a figure (though there are several that obviously were, so I don't know). I wouldn't think he could sell a piece that wizards was actively using to make a fig from, but who knows how the legal-ese is crafted...

Hierophant? Epic druid?! Hrm... that could be fun... Pat E

Every single WotC-employed artist I know who owns a website has previews of his work months (and sometimes even years) before the work is published.

Either artists have different NDAs, or WotC simply doesn't care about it. I don't think it's our business to concern ourselves with other people's NDAs.

Wild mage - elf warmage, maybe? (BW)

Hmm wild mage and war mage are pretty different, D&D wise and also appearance wise (as a general rule). I doubt the warmage started out as a "wild mage" sculpt, and therefore, am looking forward to seeing a wild mage! Maybe he'll have some kinda crazy random spell effect like the green slaad! :) Neat to see this info, thanks for posting it!

TK.

Hmm. It's a darn shame that there aren't any previews of the material. I'm pretty interested in several of those names!

Skeletal courser - ? Skeletal Reaper, maybe? (BW)

A courser generally refers to a horse, so unless the skeletal reaper used to be mounted, it looks like we can expect a boney equine in a future set (probably Unhallowed, right?).

Skeletal courser - ? Skeletal Reaper, maybe? (BW)

A courser generally refers to a horse, so unless the skeletal reaper used to be mounted, it looks like we can expect a boney equine in a future set (probably Unhallowed, right?).

it also can mean somebody who hunts, which I'm guessing is probably more along the lines of what we'll see

while a skeletal horse would be ok, we already have the Skeletal Equiceph

now a skeleton mounted on a skeletal horse could be interesting

Skeletal courser - ? Skeletal Reaper, maybe? (BW)

A courser generally refers to a horse, so unless the skeletal reaper used to be mounted, it looks like we can expect a boney equine in a future set (probably Unhallowed, right?).

it also can mean somebody who hunts, which I'm guessing is probably more along the lines of what we'll see

while a skeletal horse would be ok, we already have the Skeletal Equiceph

now a skeleton mounted on a skeletal horse could be interesting

Yup, google defines courser as "charger: formerly a strong swift horse ridden into battle"

Wasn't there an adventure/sourcebook coming out soon or that is new that had a skeleton on a skeletal horse?

Wasn't there an adventure/sourcebook coming out soon or that is new that had a skeleton on a skeletal horse?

Yep -Barrow of the Forgotten King- I think was the name.

Skeletal courser - ? Skeletal Reaper, maybe? (BW)

A courser generally refers to a horse, so unless the skeletal reaper used to be mounted, it looks like we can expect a boney equine in a future set (probably Unhallowed, right?).

Or could it be the Skeletal Equiceph?

Frickin AWESOME! RAISTLIN! woot!

Come on big money big money big money big money...

Hierophant of the seven winds - Sounds link an EPIC Monk
Shadowbane inquisitor - Some undead type of fig?
Wild mage - Could have an ability similar to the Green Sladd
Hobgoblin marshal - Another commander hobgoblin?
Skeletal courser - Mounted Skeletal Horse? Want lots!!
Carnage demon - Sounds like the "Cadaver Collector"
Orc thunderback rider - Sounds cool... and unfortunatly, rare.

Nice find, I hope we see some of those for Unhallowed.