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MINIATURES HANDBOOK

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Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Chapter 5: Skirmish Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Building a Warband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Skirmish Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Attacks and Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Melee Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Ranged Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Morale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Special Abilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Terrain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Scenarios and Variants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Random Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Warband-Building Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . 107

Team Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Challenge Skirmishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

The Skirmish Campaign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Magic Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Skirmish Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Chapter 7: Random Dungeons. . . . . . . . . . . 163

A Basic Random Dungeon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163

Creating a Dungeon Delve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

The Dungeon Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Constructing Your Deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164

Special Encounter Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Special Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Evolving the Dungeon Deck . . . . . . . . . . 169

The Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Limited-Use Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

How to Win. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Playing the Delve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Encounters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Special Delve Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Playing without a DM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Random Dungeon Campaigns . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Chapter 1: Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Favored Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Healer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Marshal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Warmage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Prestige Classes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Bonded Summoner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Dragon Samurai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Havoc Mage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Skullclan Hunter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Tactical Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

War Hulk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Warchief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Feats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Sudden Metamagic Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Feat Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174

NUMBERED TABLES

Table 1–1: Random Starting Gold . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Table 1–2: The Favored Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Table 1–3: Favored Soul Spells Known . . . . . . . . . 7

Table 1–4: The Healer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Table 1–5: The Marshal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Table 1–6: The Warmage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Table 1–7: The Bonded Summoner . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Table 1–8: The Dragon Samurai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Table 1–9: The Havoc Mage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Table 1–10: The Skullclan Hunter . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Table 1–11: The Tactical Soldier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Table 1–12: The War Hulk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Table 1–13: The Warchief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Table 1–14: Feats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Table 4–1: Challenge Ratings

and Encounter Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Table 4–2: Combined EL Calculations . . . . . . . . 76

Table 5–1: Sample Warband . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Table 5–2: Melee Attack Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Table 5–3: Ranged Attack Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . 97

Table 5–4: Random Basic Scenarios . . . . . . . . . 103

Table 5–5: Random Warband-Building

Scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Table 5–6: Random Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Table 5–7: Magic Armor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Table 5–8: Magic Shields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Table 5–9: Magic Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Table 5–10: Potions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Table 5–11: Rings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Table 5–12: Wondrous Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Table 6–1: Minimum Numbers

in a Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Table 6–2: Creatures in Formed Units . . . . . . . 132

Table 6–3: Creatures in Unformed Units. . . . . 132

Table 6–4: Combat Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Table 6–5: Morale Save Modifiers . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Table 6–6: What Commanders Can Do . . . . . . 147

Table 6–7: Special Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Table 6–8: Random Mass Battles

Victory Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Table 7–1: Random Dungeon Treasure. . . . . . . 171

Chapter 2: Magic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

The Swift Action. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Spell Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Spell Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Spell Descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Magic Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 6: Mass Battles Rules . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Mass Battles Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Trays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Formed Units. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Unformed Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Unit Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Initiative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Phases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Activating Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Formed Unit Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Unformed Unit Movement . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Moving and Friendly Units . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Moving and Enemy Units . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Charge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

Disengage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Attacks and Damage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Melee Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

General Melee Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Ranged Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Modifiers to Ranged Combat. . . . . . . . . . 140

Formed Units

Making Ranged Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Damage and Casualties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141

Special Attack Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Morale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Morale Saves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Morale Save Modifiers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Morale States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Rallying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Lone Creatures

and Commanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Commanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Attached Commanders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Commander Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Unattached Commanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Orders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Difficult Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Commander Morale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Victory Conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Terrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151

Mass Battles Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Chapter 3: Monsters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Abyssal Eviscerator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Bright Naga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Catfolk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Cave Dinosaurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Crucian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Cursed Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Displacer Serpent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Equiceph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Gravehound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Kruthik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Hatchling Kruthik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Adult Kruthik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Greater Kruthik. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Mad Slasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Magma Hurler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Nothic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Phargion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Protectar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Ramadeen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Scaled Stalker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Shadow Beast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Ghirrash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Khumat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Thaskor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Spark Lasher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Stonechild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Walking Wall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Chapter 4: Stat Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Roleplaying Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Miniatures Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Converting to the Miniatures Rules . . . . . . . 79

Deriving Miniatures Ratings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Deriving Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Player Characters

in the Miniatures Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Introduction

The D UNGEONS & D RAGONS game follows the heroic lives of indi-

vidual characters, a “close-up” as it were. The Miniatures Handbook

“zooms out” to follow the fortunes of elite warbands fighting one

another in lethal skirmishes. Then

it zooms out again to cover the fates

of entire armies as they clash on the

fields of battle.

An adventurer faces many

physical and mental challenges,

mostly in mundane, arcane, and

supernatural combat. A com-

mander of a warband or army, how-

ever, faces these challenges and

more—directing troops to where

they can do the most good, know-

ing which ones are dependable

and which ones will flee when the

going gets tough..

Whether you’re playing miniatures

battles for a change of pace from your

D&D campaign or incorporating bat-

tles into that campaign, you’ll find what

every good warlord needs right here.

character from the dead without level loss—but only if you cast

the spell within 1 round of the character’s death.

This chapter also introduces the swift action, which

is a type of action similar to casting a quickened spell.

Several of the new spells have a casting time of “1

swift action.” Characters can cast spells of this type

in combat without provoking attacks of oppor-

tunity or giving up their own attacks.

New magic items range from the cheap and

simple to the mighty. Low-level characters will

appreciate the bracers of quick strike, granting one

extra attack once per day. More pricey, power-

ful items include the cloak of thorns , which not

only grants a bonus to Armor Class but dam-

ages creatures that strike the wearer in melee.

Chapter 3: Monsters describes more than

thirty new monsters. As with the spells in this book,

most of the monsters are designed for low- to

mid-level play. The bright naga, for example, has

limited special abilities, making it a suitable

opponent for lower-level parties (and easy

for the DM to run). At the top end are the

aspects, creatures spawned from tiny portions of

divine energy. They resemble the deities and arch-

fiends from which they have sprung.

Chapter 4: Stat Cards shows you how to read a

miniature’s information card (known as a stat card)

whether you’re using the creature in skirmishes, mass

battles, or in a roleplaying scenario.

This chapter also includes a conversion guide to help you

convert characters or creatures to the miniatures rules.

Player characters can lead troops in combat, whether fast-

paced skirmishes or grand battles.

Chapter 5: Skirmish Rules gives complete rules for

playing small-scale tactical battles with D&D creatures and

characters. This chapter also includes a large array of sce-

narios to challenge your strategic creativity. Play head-

to-head, multiplayer, or in teams. You can even play

campaigns, in which your warlord rises in level and your

warband gains magic items.

Chapter 6: Mass Battles Rules presents rules for large-

scale actions in which creatures fight together in large, regi-

mented groups.

Chapter 7: Random Dungeons shows you how to turn

your miniatures’ stat cards into a “dungeon deck” to generate

random encounters. You can use that deck to run a random

dungeon as an evening’s diversion or a campaign in its own

right. You don’t even need a DM!

The Appendix is filled with visual aids, including ter-

rain elements, illustrations of mass battle unit formations,

and spell templates.

HANDBOOK

This book provides new rules and material

for D&D roleplaying and miniatures (both

skirmishes and mass battles).

Chapter 1: Characters introduces several

new base classes, new prestige classes, and many

new feats. While these classes and feats offer inter-

esting new abilities for miniatures, they also provide

players and the Dungeon Master (DM) with new options

for both player and nonplayer characters.

Most of the new classes are combat-oriented, such as the tac-

tical soldier and the war hulk. You can expect to see members

of these classes on the miniatures battlefield, but they make

great additions to any D&D roleplaying campaign as well.

The new feats provide an array of combat options, such

as Powerful Charge, Distracting Attack, and Shieldmate.

For spellcasters, this book introduces “sudden” feats that

let you apply a metamagic feat to a spell without using

up a higher-level slot to do so.

Chapter 2: Magic details new spells, ranging from 0-

level to 5th level, as well as several new magic items.

(Spells of higher than 5th level are too powerful for the

typical miniatures battle.) Some spells are simple and

straightforward, such as conviction , which grants a

+2 morale bonus on saving throws. Other spells

are more dramatic, such as revivify , which raises a

Charge into battle with the Miniatures Handbook, and

expand the possibilities for characters in your campaign.

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The concept sketches were created to give the sculptors of the

miniatures a visual reference for their work. By comparing a concept

sketch to the photograph of the finished miniature, you can see how

closely the sketch resembles the final result—and if you don’t already

have all these miniatures in your collection, now you can literally see

what you’re missing.

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MINIATURES

MINIATURES ON DISPLAY

As you’ll soon discover (if you haven’t already), the Miniatures

Handbook is lavishly illustrated. In addition to illustrations that are

directly tied to the text, such as all the classes in Chapter 1 and all the

monsters in Chapter 3, this book contains concept sketches and photos

of dozens of miniatures from the Harbinger ™ and Dragoneye ™ sets.

hile resourceful captains lead troops into combat, fear-

some warmages blast foes with fire and ice. Brave and

selfless healers race into battle not to smite their foes

but to keep their allies on their feet. It takes every-

thing these combatants can do to face the raw power

of war hulks, ogres, and giants trained to batter down smaller foes

in great number.

This chapter details new character classes and prestige

classes related to battle and warfare, and offers new feats for

characters of all classes.

Warmage: Same as bard.

STARTING GEAR

Each class has a starting package that you can use when

creating a 1st-level character of that class. Alternatively,

you can roll randomly for the character’s gold (see Table

1–1) and buy equipment item by item.

Table 1–1: Random Starting Gold

Class

Amount (Average)

Favored soul

5d4 ×

10 (125 gp)

Healer

4d4 ×

10 (100 gp)

CLASSES

The favored soul, healer, marshal, and warmage are standard

classes, like the fighter and wizard classes.

Favored Soul: A divine caster with an innate casting ability.

Healer: A spellcaster specializing in healing magic, with

other healing abilities.

Marshal: A military leader who inspires the best from com-

panions and battlemates.

Warmage: A powerful battlefield spellcaster.

Marshal

5d4 ×

10 (125 gp)

Warmage

3d4 ×

10 (75 gp)

FAVORED SOUL

The favored soul follows the path of the cleric but is

able to channel divine power with surprising ease. She

is able to perform the same tasks as her fellow divine

spellcasters but with virtually no study; to her, it

comes naturally. Scholars wonder if favored souls

have traces of outsider blood from unions, holy or

unholy, centuries ago and generations removed.

Others suggest that the ability is awakened by

divine training of the proper type, or that favored souls

are simply imbued with their gifts by their gods when

they begin training as clerics. In any case, favored

souls cast their spells naturally, as much through

force of personality as through study.

STARTING AGE

As with any other class, you can choose a likely age or roll

randomly for it. If you roll randomly, refer to the information

below and use the appropriate column on Table 6–4: Random

Starting Ages, page 109 of the Player ’s Handbook .

Favored Soul: Same as barbarian.

Healer: Same as bard.

Marshal: Same as cleric.

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