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More Minis!

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Not only will 2014 bring us the new addition of Dungeons and Dragons, but it also seems more miniatures are also on the horizon. Seems WotC has made a license deal with WizKids to create new pre-painted plastic minis for D&D. WizKids first came on the game scene with their game Mage Knight. Mage Knight was a tactical minis game that featured pre-painted minis on a dynamic base that showed the mini's abilities. More recently WizKids have been creating pre-painted minis for the Pathfinder game system, in addition to their own game, which includes a super hero version of Mage Knight (called Hero Clicks) and a Star Trek ship-to-ship combat game that debuted at last year's GenCon. While I like the idea of WotC partnering with WizKids, I think the quality of what they are producing is so much better than many of the WotC-produced minis back in the day, it's also sad to see them taking a page from the Paizo page-book. Back in the day, TSR often partnered up with c...