PUBLISHER: WIZKID GAMES | RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21st
Anyone who plays the world’s biggest roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons knows that the main reason to play a Druid (or pick up the polymorph spell) is so you can shape-shift into the form of some powerful animal. Get enough D&D players together and they will inevitably start swapping stories about how then polymorphed the scary villain into a miniature giant space hamster or transformed into an octopus to sink a pirate ship or some such.
Of course, if you’re the sort of gamer Wizkid’s produce the official pre-painted models for Dungeons and Dragons and their D&D Icons of The Realms sets have rapidly become the go to for gamers who like using models. The Wild Shape and Polymorph sets are new range of pieces that can be used to represent your heroes (or the Dungeon Master’s NPCs) when they decide to change shape.
The Wild Shape & Polymorph Set 1 includes a regular sized house cat, a Tiger, a rat and giant versions of a boar, a toad, a scorpion and a shark. The shark comes on a translucent base, which is meant to represent it swimming in the sea but honestly it looks like it’s flying. But hey, if you can convince your DM to let you run a flying shark druid, go for it.
The toad is also a lot of fun, with its very green skin and gross tongue. The octopus is simply charming due to its relaxed pose and the scorpion will easily find itself on the gaming table as a monster because it’s so scary looking.
The Wild Shape & Polymorph Set 2 features a both a brown bear and a polar bear, as well as a dire wolf, an owl and three giant beasts; an eagle, wolf spider and ape. The ape is an especially well done; it’s really easy to get the paint job and detail wrong on apes and this one looks superb. The eagle looks perfect for transporting halflings away from epic adventures and the owl is cute, but clearly going to get killed by an evil wizard at some point.
Over all, this is a very nifty set of nicely painted toys / miniature pieces, suitable for dioramas and your regular D&D games.
