ancient topaz dragon mini which I use in my Dungeons & Dragons 5E games

Focus on a D&D 5E mini: ancient topaz dragon

Why bother with an ancient topaz dragon miniature?

There are several good reasons. First, it is incredibly cool. Second, it will terrify your party. There are probably other reasons as well, but those two seemed like enough to me, to be honest. Mostly just the first one, in fact. The second one is more just icing.

What about this mini?

This miniature is from Reaper Miniatures and is Kyphrixis (clear) #77625. Reaper has altogether too many really nice dragon sculpts- I can’t imagine how much more money I would have if they had more ugly minis. To be fair though, their dragon miniatures are remarkably inexpensive, especially considering how large and nice the sculpts are. This one was sculpted by Julie Guthrie, who is a legend among miniature lovers. Julie has made a ridiculous number of beautiful minis since she started in the 1970’s, but I think it is safe to say that dragons are her forte. Many of her best work is with dragons, and this sculpt is no exception.

How useful is this mini, really?

Ancient topaz dragons are included in exactly 1 published Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition book: Fizban’s Treasury Of Dragons. This is not a creature that you need to get a mini for because it is in all of the published books. This is more of a miniature that you get because it is cool and you perhaps have a plan for how you want to use one.

But why are you doing this?

As is the case  for all of these videos, my aim is to provide good views of the featured miniatures as well as sizing information about them. As I already pointed out, the ancient topaz dragon miniature is on a gargantuan size base and that’s the correct size. I would like to also thank the wildlife artist Sherrie York, the greatest reduction linocut artist that I know, for kindly allowing me to use one of her reduction linocuts, Shivano Sunset, as the backdrop for my minis in the video.