C3G Doctor Who Workshop

[Tornado]

"I count 30 tentacles just on one side."
So yeah, 60-ish is probably right, so no need for a restriction there.
Just trying to decide on the maximum number that can be activated.
I am thinking 5 tentacles at 4 Attack or 8-10 at 3 Attack.
Kroll would be highly map dependent. Ocean Master would be his friend.
No comic appearances, so that is not awesome for approval.

[A3n]

Originally Posted by Tornado

"I count 30 tentacles just on one side."
So yeah, 60-ish is probably right, so no need for a restriction there.
Just trying to decide on the maximum number that can be activated.
I am thinking 5 tentacles at 4 Attack or 8-10 at 3 Attack.
Kroll would be highly map dependent. Ocean Master would be his friend.
No comic appearances, so that is not awesome for approval.

What if you roll 8-12 combat dice & the number of skulls is the number you can activate?

THE POWER OF KROLL
After revealing an Order Marker on this card, you may roll 8 combat dice. You may attack with X Tentacles of Kroll figures you control. X equals the number of skulls rolled.

[Tornado]

Love that. Thanks A3n!

[japes]

Just out of curiosity, for all you guys that are excited for this Who stuff, how many of you are actually going to buy and paint minis?

Are we just creating these for online players and 1 or 2 people I tending on getting figures?

Who is excited enough to buy figures ahead of time and willing to do a beginner suited style paint job.

[IAmBatman]

I have the minis. I'll probably use them unpainted.

[Tornado]

I will probably pick them up at some point. Not sure my painting skills are good enough to do a card worthy paint job.

[Arch-vile]

I'll eventually buy the board game to get a bunch of the minis. I'm a cheapskate but don't mind painting.

[MrNobody]

Originally Posted by japes

Just out of curiosity, for all you guys that are excited for this Who stuff, how many of you are actually going to buy and paint minis?

Are we just creating these for online players and 1 or 2 people I tending on getting figures?

Who is excited enough to buy figures ahead of time and willing to do a beginner suited style paint job.

I mean no offense, but this seems like a really odd place to draw the line. I know we're trying to decrease mod/repaint usage a bit, but I have to admit I'm kind of frustrated that my personal project seems to be where a stand is being taken.

How many people out there are really going to do the mod/repaint for half the stuff we do? How many people are going to spend a few hours doing a Lady Death repaint or a repaint/mod for the character that Tornado most recently passed through the Approval thread? How many people are going to do the mods for the Slashers or Gargoyles? Heck, how many people are going to buy the figures for the Mechanical Constructs and do the mods there? I've done none of these and outside of the Slashers I probably won't do any of them. Despite that, I'm glad they're all in the game.

I know your post is more coming from honest curiosity than a sense of trying to shut Doctor Who down or anything like that. But the idea that your decision could be influenced by how many people reply to this specific thread within the next day or so and commit to buying and painting these figures doesn't seem right to me. I don't like the idea that it's somehow not worth it if only a handful of people want to buy and paint these guys.

C3G is a niche product, and repaints/mods are an even more niche extension of that niche product. I think we have to accept there may only be <5 people who go out and do any one paint job or mod, and honestly I don't see a problem with that. It's available and accessible to anybody wants to do it, but if not, proxying or just not using that card are also perfectly fair.

[LordVenoc]

A friend pointed me to a place to buy individual minis from this as well. I figure I'll get at least one doctor to paint and play, as a few friends I play with love Doctor Who and are excited by this prospect.

[MrNobody]

Originally Posted by LordVenoc

A friend pointed me to a place to buy individual minis from this as well. I figure I'll get at least one doctor to paint and play, as a few friends I play with love Doctor Who and are excited by this prospect.

Could you please post the link?

[LordVenoc]

Originally Posted by MrNobody

C3G is a niche product, and repaints/mods are an even more niche extension of that niche product. I think we have to accept there may only be <5 people who go out and do any one paint job or mod, and honestly I don't see a problem with that. It's available and accessible to anybody wants to do it, but if not, proxying or just not using that card are also perfectly fair.

Yet, I feel like we've had 2-3 new users or people pop out of nowhere showing off mods they've done in the past year. Sure there's people who have no interest in mods, but it also seems there are some people actively excited by doing mods. I have most of the modded figures and always love making them, and I don't think because some dislike the idea of painting figures they weren't that interested in using anyway should really stymie a new expansion that has had some real interest brewing.

[Yodaking]

Painting unpainted minis that look exactly like the figure they are meant to represent is miles easier to do then cutting up several figures and cobbling them together to create something that looks kind of like a character and then painting that figure. If a line needs to be drawn (which I don't think it does), it should be with custom built figures, not repaints/unpainted minis.