Monday, January 15, 2007

Another post from Stephen Schubert - Large base sizes

Catching up on these things...

"The scale has not changed as a result of the larger base size for Large creatures (48mm base vs. the older 40mm base). The larger base size was implemented due to the 40mm base not filling enough of the squares on a battlemat/map.

"We actually started talking about it when we were looking at bases for the Icon dragons, and whether we wanted those to be round or square. We determined that having the square base for the icons was important, to make sure that the space the creature occupies would be accurately represented. When at Gen Con and Winter Fantasy (back in 2005), I watched a number of RPG and skirmish tables where Large miniatures weren't being used correctly - a Medium mini would be pushed into the Large creatures square; or more commonly two Large minis would occupy the same space (which is easy to do if they are offest by one diagonal square). So we went to 48mm so that the creatures would better fill the space they occupy.

"We're not intentionally trying to increase our scale, and I'm pretty happy with the scale we've settled into over the past few and next few sets, with a couple of exceptions." - Stephen Schubert on maxminis.com