Why bother with a riding horse miniature?
Riding horses aren’t particularly dangerous Beasts, but they are going to get a lot of use. Any long distance overland travel will likely involve some, and even if your PC’s don’t buy, rent, or steal them, there’s always the chance that your druid will turn into one, or that the NPC’s will have some. It’s one of those utility creatures that is going to pop up a lot. A really, really lot. Just get one, because you’ll definitely be using it in your D&D game at some point, and probably sooner than later.
What about this mini?
This unpainted mini pack consists of the riding horse miniature and a hitching post. The fact that the riding horse mini is large like it ought to be made me happy. This mini is made by WizKids as part of their Deep Cuts line: Horse & Hitch #73862. It’s a nice sculpt and was easy to paint.
How useful is this mini, really?
Riding horses are included in 13 published Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition books:
- Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus
- Call Of The Netherdeep
- Curse Of Strahd
- Explorer’s Guide To Wildemount
- Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel
- Keys From The Golden Vault
- Monster Manual
- Mythic Odysseys Of Theros
- Quests From The Infinite Staircase
- Storm King’s Thunder
- Tomb Of Annihilation
- Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
- Xanathar’s Guide To Everything
That’s 30% of the published materials- not bad for a utility creature. As I’ve already stated as well, your PC’s will be using them all the time if there is any travel at all in your Dungeons & Dragons campaign. The short answer is that you will be using riding horses, so pick one up, and you won’t regret it.
But why are you doing this?
As usual for these videos, my aim is to provide you with good views of all angles of the miniatures featured, along with accurate sizing information for them. As I already pointed out, the riding horse miniature is on a large sized base as it is meant to be. In addition I would like to thank premiere wildlife artist Sherrie York, an astonishingly skilled reduction linocut artist, for graciously allowing me to use one of her reduction linocuts, Shivano Sunset, as the backdrop for my miniatures in the video. Check out her other reduction linocuts; she is, in my opinion, the best linocut artist of our generation.