Why bother with a homunculus miniature?
While homunculi aren’t particularly dangerous foes, these Constructs are great for story elements, as other wizards may use them as spies. In addition, if you have any wizards in your party, they will probably want to get a homunculus once they gain access to the 6th level spell Create Homunculus from Xanathar’s Guide To Everything. A homunculus is a pretty cool thing to have, so I am assuming that most wizards will be wanting one as soon as they are able to make one. They can act as spies, or surveillance, can help the wizard from any distance as long as they’re on the same plane, and are in general just a really useful tool for the creative wizard.
What about this mini?
This homunculus miniature is from Dark Sword Miniatures, out of a pack of two minis: Arthur & Rankin Human wizard/familiar #DSM-4603. It fits well onto a tiny base, which makes it the correct size, and the wizard miniature that comes with it is very unique and is my favourite wizard miniature that I own (and I own many very cool wizard minis). This is a great pack.
How useful is this mini, really?
Homunculi are included in 10 published Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition books:
- Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus
- Candlekeep Mysteries
- Deck Of Many Things
- Guildmaster’s Guide To Ravnica
- Monster Manual
- Mythic Odysseys Of Theros
- Phandelver And Below: The Shattered Obelisk
- Planescape: Adventures In The Multiverse
- Van Richten’s Guide To Ravenloft
- Waterdeep: Dungeon Of The Mad Mage
10 books with homunculi in them is not bad. It’s probably a mini that you will want to get just on that basis, since they appear in roughly a quarter of the published books. Add to that their usefulness for wizards, and the likelihood that you will need this mini increases substantially.
But why are you doing this?
As usual for these videos, my aim is to provide good views of the miniature and sizing information about it. As I already said, the homunculus has a tiny base size and that’s the correct size. Also, as usual I want to thank wildlife artist Sherrie York, reduction linocut authority, for kindly allowing me to use one of her pieces, Shivano Sunset, as the backdrop for the minis.