By Ed Fortune

The first critically acclaimed Dungeons &Dragons movie,  Honour Among Thieves, has inspired an absolute plethora of cool related merchandise, exacerbated by the fact that regular Dungeons & Dragons has its fair share of cool related things to go around.

Wizkid’s Icons Of The Realms Honor Among Thieves is a selection of pre-painted miniatures of selected monsters from the movie. Dungeons & Dragons doesn’t require miniatures to be played, but it’s a lot more fun if you can put some minis out on the table with cool scenery. This selection of models is specifically inspired by the movie, so there’s a  little bit of a spoiler here, but if you’ve seen the trailer, you already know what to expect.

First up is the snowy owlbear, a creature that first appeared in the now classic D&D adventure Icewind Dale Rime of the Frostmaiden. Wizkids has produced owlbear miniatures before, including adorable snowy owlbear cubs. However, this one is specifically modelled on the one from the movie, the pose and design resembling moments from the trailer. Doric The Druid (who is connected to this beast) isn’t present in this set, but good druid models aren’t hard to find.

The other large-ish model in the set is a Gelatinous Cube. This is a small cube of blue, translucent plastic that’s moulded to look very slimy. It’s not a perfect cube (it’s meant to represent a living creature, after all), but the corners are very well done in a very disgustingly goopy-looking way. Two hapless adventurers ‘float’ inside the cube thanks to the careful placement of another model inserted into this one.  It looks great, and it’s a fun thing to spring on players in a regular game of D&D.

Another classic dungeon monster is the mimic, essentially a treasure chest that, instead of having a normal lid, has a row of sharp teeth and a very long tongue. It’s just the perfect size; plonk down a treasure chest model in your dungeon or tavern set-up, wait for the party to open it and spring this abomination on them. If you wanted, you could convert it into Luggage from the Discworld books, but it’s quite fun as it is. Also, a fine addition to a Mimic Colony if you’re planning on springing that sort of horror on your players.

Next up is a displacer beast, another ‘classic’ D&D monster that’s so popular you can get it in plush form. This is essentially a large black cat (like a panther) with two prominent tentacles on its back. In the game’s fiction, those tentacles allow it looks like it’s somewhere it isn’t,  meaning the displacer beast can use pack tactics to hunt its prey without actually needing a pack.  This movie version looks especially deadly and the tentacles are quite prominent.

Finally, we get the Intellect Devourer, a stubby-looking brain on tiny legs. These are low-challenge (but potentially party-destroying) horrors that are sort of cute in a Fiend Without A Face sort of way.

All in all, a great bit of movie merchandise that also doubles as a collection of horrors for your gaming table (or collector’s shelf).