Why bother with an otyugh miniature?
Otyughs have been around since the earliest days of Dungeons & Dragons and they are perennially popular. These Aberrations are not just popular with the team at Wizards of the Coast who writes adventures either (although they are certainly very popular with them), but also with dungeon masters and players alike. These are another one of the meat and potatoes of the mini world, just like the skeleton earlier is. Since they are so popular, it makes sense to have a mini on hand, since you will almost certainly get a chance to use it.
What about this mini?
This unpainted miniature came from WizKid‘s board game The Wrath of Ashardalon. There are many other wonderful minis in that board game, many of which I have also painted for my D&D campaigns, like the cultist.
How useful is this mini, really?
Otyughs are included in 15 published Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition books:
- Acquisitions Incorporated
- Glory Of The Giants
- Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel
- Monster Manual
- Out Of The Abyss
- Phandelver And Below: The Shattered Obelisk
- Planescape: Adventures In The Multiverse
- Storm King’s Thunder
- Strixhaven: A Curriculum Of Chaos
- Tales From The Yawning Portal
- Tomb Of Annihilation
- Tyranny Of Dragons
- Volo’s Guide To Monsters
- Waterdeep: Dungeon Of The Mad Mage
- Xanathar’s Guide To Everything
As you can see from this, otyughs are in most adventures, so if you’re running published adventures it’s a safe bet you’ll be running one shortly. You will not regret buying an otyugh mini.
But why are you doing this?
As usual for these videos, my aim is to provide good views and sizing information. Its size is large, as it is meant to be, so that checks out. Also, as usual I want to thank wildlife artist Sherrie York, reduction linocut master, for kindly allowing me to use one of her pieces, Shivano Sunset, as the backdrop for the minis.