The giant badger in a nutshell
This is the second in my series of videos showcasing miniatures which I use for Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition creatures. This time I have chosen another beast, the giant badger. Giant badgers are found in the Monster Manual on page 323. Giant badgers are a good mini to get even if you don’t plan to use them as a dungeon master. If any of your players are druids, it’s a fair bet that they will want to wild shape into a giant badger every now and then. The reason for that is their incredible utility for burrowing. Since they are medium sized creatures, their party mates should be able to follow behind them into their burrow as well, allowing the group to escape or infiltrate certain otherwise inaccessible areas without detection. In addition, the giant badger is pretty solid in a fight. It has a decent multiattack, much like badgers do in real life. Nobody wants to be on the receiving end of a badger attack. They can be scrappy animals with a lot of attitude and a very short temper and even less tolerance. You have to respect that. You literally have to, or they will attack you.
My giant badger miniature
The miniature which I use for a giant badger is an unpainted metal mini from Reaper Miniatures, from their Familiar Pack III #02593. That pack also has five other smallish creatures in it. I have found all of the miniatures from that pack to be very useful in my games, so I recommend the entire pack without question. When I bought my various badger miniatures (badger, cave badger, and giant badger), I decided that I would paint them as different badger species in order to make them more easily identifiable to me. For the giant badger I chose to paint it like the hog badger (Arctonyx collaris) from central and southeast Asia. Hog badgers are massive badgers, so it seemed to fit well with the ‘giant badger’ theme.
If you’re wondering why I am doing this, feel free to read through my post about the first video in the series where I explain it all in depth. In addition, I want to thank the amazing wildlife artist Sherrie York for allowing me to use her splendid reduction linocut, Shavano Sunset, as the background image for my videos. Otherwise, I hope this helped some of you when trying to decide on a miniature. I’ll catch you next time when I show you another miniature from my collection.