A batch of bugbears

Our lockdown D&D game must now be hovering at over or around 30 session (we've been playing every day). On Friday, the party made their way north from the city of Kalbarad,* where they had been involved in much factional skullduggery, to return to the Keep on the Borderlands, now partially demolished by an ancient giant they unwittingly awakened.

I thought that they might raid the bugbear caves this time around, so got these fellows painted up on Saturday morning. As it happened, they confined themselves to massacring orcs. But the bugbears may well feature today. 

These miniatures are vinyl pieces from some D&D boardgame or other. The big one is actually an ogre, but he'll be a bugbear chief or shaman for me. I cut them off their thick integral bases and stuck them to the same square plastic bases as the rest of my dugeon-crawling stuff. I also converted two to carry different weapons, and added a few greenstuffed details here and there; I want each to be distinct for hit-point-tracking purposes. 

I like these figures for a few reasons. They were very cheap, which always helps, and they're very quick to paint up. And their relative crudeness should help them 'read' well over Zoom (only two of the seven-strong party are in the room with me). Also, the blocky way in which they occupy space means that they look suitably imposing on the table but still fit on a 25mm base (their original bases are about 22mm). So they fit in dungeon corridors, rank up for wargames and work well for the likes of MicroHotT and Book of War.

*A name I invented on the fly before it featured in the game, but which turns out to be a village in India.