Leaf It to this Print

We have some hefty travel through The High Forest coming up, so DM Ben wants a few more freaky nature foes in our free ongoing Wilderness Trek Wandering Monster Table! Let’s add another, shall we?

Our free d20 table never ends, as we continue to use it in our ongoing DnD campaigns. DM Ben always wants plenty of replacement encounters at the ready. Besides, it’s a blast to keep 3D-printing stuff and have them at arm’s reach to easily insert into a game. 🙂

Not sure about you guys, but boy howdy, do we love to make different woodland monsters. They’re a bit easier to paint because Army Painter Speedpaint offers some great colors that alleviate some of that color-up paralysis that we all get at times. Also, many great YouTubers out there have excellent forest-painting tutorials, including the good ol’ Miniature Hobbyist.

The mighty Schlossbauer seems to share our affinity for woodland monsters, and he has the perfect free download with this amazing Needle Blight sculpt. We inadvertently lost a bit of his mouth due to poor slicing on our part, but that’s ok, as we always print a live test and consider our first paint job a bit of an initial experiment. Besides, does anyone ever really just print one amazing monster? Nah, you want a bunch to “make it rain” on your unsuspecting party!

So, again, no eyeballs here, so DM Ben was happy to give it a go on the first paint job attempt. His color scheme was inspired by the swampy  Shambling Mound he did earlier (which was thanks to Miniature Hobbyist’s excellent paint tutorial). Still, he has some ideas on how to make future additional 3D prints of this model a bit fancier.

Now, poor DM Ben is pretty hard on himself and believes he’s a very below-average model painter at best. However, he’s cool with his results because the Arm’s Length Rule is a painter’s best friend. Army Painter Sand Golem is excellent for leafy foliage, while Rigor Mortis is solid as a darker green tone for things like limbs. Also, you just cannot go wrong using Dark Wood.

We just overlooked adding our favorite woodland Speedpaint color: Forest Sprite. We actually nearly spilled an entire bottle the other weekend, and our therapist says it’s still too soon to talk about it. 😉

Flock can really help bring an iffy paint job to life, so we enjoy adding it to our miniature bases, even though we always make such a mess while doing so. DM Ben asked one of his daughters for some leaf scatter for Xmas, and he was pleasantly surprised by the insanely large bottle he got. Leafy flock for days, y’all.

We just love how its oversized knuckles just drag on the ground. So frickin’ good! In terms of DnD 5e stats for this troublemaker, the default Monster Manual stats are just too squishy: AC 12, HP 11, +3 att/2d6+1 piercing…unless you want to pair a bunch of minions with a bigger boss.

Thankfully, mastermind DM Dave has some slick Needle Blight variations which you should definitely check out! You could try his Fire Ivy Blight to make them last a round or two, or the tougher Moss Blight monster. DM Ben is going to try the Fire Ivy one first: AC 13, HP 27, +3 att/1d6+2 damage, Constrict. However, since we have six players at level 5, he thinks they should have tougher armor so AC will go to 16, the HP to 35, and the attack to +6 so it’s a tougher fight when they swarm our unsuspecting party.

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Until next time!