Focus on a D&D 5E mini: giant boar

Why bother with a giant boar miniature?

Giant boars are great Beasts to toss at your party, especially in groups, if you want to sow chaos and instill a sense of panic in them. Their charge attacks and their relentless trait make them formidable enemies, and the fact that they often travel in herds makes them great creatures to terrify even higher level parties.

What about this mini?

This metal miniature, like the ochre jelly baby, the cat, the raven, the toad, the weasel, the pixie, the sprite, the giant weasel, the giant riding lizard, the violet fungus, and the hezrou miniatures, is a bit problematic. This unpainted metal miniature is from Otherworld Miniatures, a company which I have bought many minis from over the years. It has very recently closed as a result of the owner’s retirement, so their minis are no longer available for purchase directly from them. However, it’s closed so recently that Otherworld Miniature products are still available in retail shops and on the internet. As a result, I’m putting a number of videos of their miniatures up now, so if you like their mini(s), you can look around for them before they are all gone. Supposedly, they were going to sell their molds to another company, but nothing has been heard on that for months, so it’s anyone’s guess who has the molds or if anyone will be making more of their minis at this point. If you want one of their minis, this is probably the time to look for them, in case they are not available in future. I have quite a few of their miniatures, because I really like them. This particular one is Giant Boar II #WE19b. The sculpt is by Jo Brumby, who has made some amazing miniatures, much like this one. The base size for this giant boar is large, as it ought to be, so I am happy.

UPDATE: It turns out that Fenris Games has picked up this miniature, along with about 100 others from Otherworld Miniatures, and Crooked Dice has also picked up some of them, so if you’re looking for any of Otherworld Miniatures’ minis, now you have a couple of places to look, which is good news!

How useful is this mini, really?

Giant boars are included in 8 published Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition books:

That’s a decent number of the published books. In addition, they make a great encounter for higher level groups who aren’t expecting a herd of them to charge at once, with their unexpected skills making them a terrifying foe to contemplate in herds. And then, of course, if you have a druid in the party, wild shaping into a giant boar is always an option. Pick up a giant boar miniature: you know that you want to.

But why are you doing this?

As is usual for these videos, my aim here is to provide both good views of the featured miniatures from all angles, as well as giving you accurate sizing information about them. As I already pointed out, the giant boar miniature is on a large size base, which is the correct size. I would also like to thank the wildlife artist Sherrie York, an amazingly skilled reduction linocut artist, for kindly allowing me to use one of her reduction linocuts, Shivano Sunset, as the backdrop for my minis in the video.