Will-o Got My Nerves Yo

Miniature Monday takes on a spinetingling monster theme as we explore a nifty 3D print with three nasty attacks each round. Grab a shield, and let’s see what these Wispy Wisps are up to today on 3DRPG!

This 3D print lept off the web page when we first encountered these ghostly creatures on the Loot Studios website. These haunting fellas are from their Curse of the Witchmere set. Lots of value here as we’ve featured numerous STLs from this series – always a good sign.

Loot Studios is a class act with its monthly offerings. They include many different types of STLs (heroes, monsters, scatter, buildings, etc.), provide a fantastic PDF supplement with all the 5e stats/descriptions, and even share some inspirational paint jobs. DM Ben especially latched onto the sample color scheme because deciding which specific paints to use on a DnD 3D print can be a bit paralyzing.

So, you can see that Loot Studio’s sample paint scheme was incredibly helpful for DM Ben. He quickly scanned his Army Painter paint library and promptly knew how he would tackle this three-headed baddie.

• Head Base P1: Speedpaint Prismatic Bolt
• Head Base P2: Fantastic Eleven Armour (blended)
• Teeth: P3 Menoth Highlight
• Tree: Speedpaint Dark Wood
• Foilage: Speedpaint Forest Sprite
• Ground: Deco Art Burnt Umber
• Base: Speedpaint Grim Black

A piece of cake, right?! Being a novice painter, DM Ben shies away from anything with eyes and leaves those tiny details to resident painter Kimmy Utah. This print gave him confidence right out of the gate.

Once the initial 3D print passes all our initial tests, we typically print pack monsters in groups of four to six. Single monster fights are a bit rare, so we like to have enough completed miniatures on hand for a solid encounter Challenge Rating.

As mentioned, Loot Studios includes DnD 5e stat blocks and helpful descriptions with every print in a monthly set. 3DRPG loves it when a creator goes that extra mile to ensure it’s easy for us to incorporate their fantastic creations into our DnD campaign. STL Miniatures is another PDF supplement creator, and we’re hopeful more companies will follow their lead.

DM Ben takes any existing DnD 5e stat block and almost always tweaks its stats to match the current party level. The suggested stats are close: AC 19, 20 HP, attack +4 shocking grasp att, damage: 4d8 lightning damage. That takes a party of six level-five characters to an XP total of 18/CR 5.

Not too shabby, but we’re going to nudge the to hit to +5  and knock the damage to 1d8+1 per head. We’re giving each Will-o-Wisp miniature three attacks to account for the three spirits on each fig. So, then one Wisp group has 3d8+3 max damage. They also had a Consume Life ability that’s a bit too intense for us (if unconscious, make Con DC 10 or die = yikes).

Lastly, where might these traveling fairy-like beings roam? To torment the living, they streak through the countryside and dungeons, constantly looking for fresh victims. Rumor has it that these spirits never received proper burials and will never rest in peace.

DM Ben will use them in The High Forest as servants of the Witch. Our group is close to capturing her existing base camp, so she’s had to bug out now that her cover has been blown. She assumes she did a TPK, but has some of these spirits (from her victims) patrolling the forest in case they were somehow rescued from their existing stone shape.

We think these Wisps would also be perfect additions to either of our Wandering Monster Tables (Dungeon Delve, Wilderness Trek), so consider adding them to those tables.

Until next time!