Miniature Showcase: Pathfinder Battles Minotaur

The minotaur from Pathfinder Battles—Heroes & Monsters (#30) is one of my favorite pre-painted figures (I have 3). When I first started taking pictures of miniatures, I practiced with the minotaur a lot. You can see a sampling of those photos below, including one that's silly. Also pictured are Pathfinder Battles—Heroes & Monsters: Half-Orc Barbarian (#25) and Pathfinder Battles—Shattered Star: Tower Girl (#7).

The one in row 2, far right, is actually a reflection in water, which is a technique I use sometimes to help achieve an eye-level-or-lower angle when doing macro photography (see the photos immediately before and after it).

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RPG Superstar: A Captivating Tournament

Captivating Tournament (Ex) Once per year, Paizo can conjure an entertaining and enthralling RPG-design contest that lasts for 90 days. During this time, creatures that visit paizo.com must succeed on a DC 17 Will save or become captivated by the contest's alluring appeal. Until the contest ends, affected creatures have a 50% chance to act normally each hour, otherwise they spend that hour voting on wondrous items or other entries, and posting comments on Paizo's messageboards. Affected creatures with the gamemaster subtype must also succeed on a DC 17 Will save each year or be compelled to design a wondrous item and enter the contest. The save DCs are Charisma-based.

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I'm here now, writing my first post as a guest-blogger on Mikko Kallio's A Sword for Hire, because of RPG Superstar 2014. Only a little longer than a year ago, I had never heard of RPG Superstar. I was, and still am, a player and gamemaster of the Pathfinder RPG, but hadn't considered designing for the game. Then, about a year ago, I became aware of the contest during a visit to paizo.com, and within moments of reading about the contest, I felt compelled to design an item and enter. I shared this enthusiasm with a good friend of mine, and he, too, entered.