Why bother with a displacer beast miniature?
Displacer beasts go back to the early days of Dungeons and Dragons and are so commonly used for some really good reasons. These Monstrosities can be found alone, but are often in packs, making it easy to scale up encounters with them for groups of different sizes and levels. In addition, they are hard to hit because of their ability to bend light to make it appear like they are somewhere else. They have an ability which is the same as the rogue’s evasion, which also makes it hard to do damage to them. They are a challenge and a cool creature- cool enough for a cameo in the latest Dungeons and Dragons film.
What about this mini?
It’s nice- it is on a large base, like displacer beasts are meant to be, which makes me happy. It was an easy paint job and it looks good. It is from WizKids‘ Nolzur’s Magnificent Miniatures range: Displacer beast #72576. Most of the miniatures from this range look good and are easy to paint up so you usually can’t go wrong with them, and this one is no exception to that.
How useful is this mini, really?
Displacer beasts are included in 15 published Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition books:
- Deck Of Many Things
- Eberron: Rising From The Last War
- Glory Of The Giants
- Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel
- Keys From The Golden Vault
- Monster Manual
- Planescape: Adventures In The Multiverse
- Quests From The Infinite Staircase
- Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide
- Tales From The Yawning Portal
- Van Richten’s Guide To Ravenloft
- Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
- Waterdeep: Dungeon Of The Mad Mage
- The Wild Beyond The Witchlight
- Xanathar’s Guide To Everything
Being in 15 published books is a lot- if you’re running the published campaigns, you will eventually want a miniature of a displacer beast. Even if you homebrew like I do, they are a great foe, which is easy to scale. I’m a big fan of displacer beasts, like many others also clearly are, given how many books they are featured in.
But why are you doing this?
As usual for these videos, my aim is to provide good views of the miniatures featured with accurate sizing information about them. As I already pointed out, the displacer beast miniature is on a large size base and that’s the size that it should be. I would like to additionally thank the wildlife artist Sherrie York, the mistress of the reduction linocut, for kindly allowing me to use one of her reduction linocuts, Shivano Sunset, as the backdrop for my miniatures in the video.