Back or Brick: Skinny Minis
Bring you Dungeons and Dragons from theater of the mind to the table without having to paint a mini by using Skinny Minis.
Pros
- Price Point
- Aesthetic
- Storage
Cons
- Bottom Tier
The Page
This is a nice looking page. It’s kind of nice to not be talking about game play and how they yet again didn’t explain it as well as they should have. Instead here we just to get see tons of amazing looking minis.
And I think that they do a very nice job of laying out what the different pledge levels are, all that you get. I also like how custom the pledge levels are. You can get 10 different sets or 20, you get to pick. You can even go all the way up to 60 sets which would keep you in monsters and heroes for your RPG’s for a long time.
The Product
I can’t really talk too much about the page without getting into the product. Normally, obviously, I cover board games in my Back or Bricks. But sometimes a board game or a gaming related thing catches my attention. And I do think that Skinny Minis should be a board game thing. By that, I wish that board game companies would contract with them to give a Skinny Minis standee option as well as their miniature pledge level, so save me some money.
But right now I’d use them for Dungeons and Dragons. I don’t know why but I kind of want to start making terrain and building out more set pieces for what I do in Dungeons and Dragons. But doing that sounds like a lot of work and then to put on top of that you need to paint minis to go with what you’ve done and that is where Skinny Minis come in.
This product, to me, is a replacement for having to buy and paint minis. Not only that but you need to store miniatures. Skinny Minis can pack flat. That means I don’t need to think about special storage as much. Now, they do have nice storage of their own, which if I get Skinny Minis I might get.
Back or Brick
So let’s get into that. Are Skinny Minis a Back or a Brick? Right now this is a Back for me. I keep on almost talking myself out of the pledge. If the 10 pack one came with stretch goals, I’d probably be locked into it. But the value seems to be at that 20 set point which is reasonable in price but expensive. And even then, it isn’t that bad a price, it’s just a bit spendy because of the amount you are getting.
How about for you, is this a back or a brick?
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