I've had my eye on these minis for a hot minute. I really love your humorous side comments too. It's gives us a taste of your personality, which is nice
Wow, I see you are keeping up with the old sets! This was one of Pathfinder's best sets IMHO, filling the gap on much needed aquatic minis, and probably when I first started to pay attention to these minis. While still full of some very PFspecific creatures, it also has classic D&D ones (like our first Kamadan mini!) and the various NPCs also nicely work in any pirate-themed game, so this is one of the rare few sets I even got/kept Rares NPCs from. I really love their Sahuagins ("Sea Devils"), TBH, they look better than the 5E ones from Icons, the design is so much more classic D&D style. The Weresharks are also excellent, as is the Sea Lion and the two Sharks, and we even got two Water Nagas (one I guess could be used for a young Naga). The Giant Wasp looks almost like a real life Mammoth Wasp (those things are native here in Hungary, and are super scary)! And the Duppy while not a D&D creature I got because it is an amazing Ghost mini, some crazy noble with his hunting dogs. I even love the Daughter of Immerta (though... best not start to wonder how the giant Cyclopses and the human sized harpies ever cross-bred to produce such offspring) -but man, she is so prone of breaking off from the base. Say what you will about removable flying base poles but at least they make storing minis easier. I do wish we finally got a real Siren in classic 2E form, but the Seeweed Siren is one creepy thing too! The Bloodbug was, for a time (until MM3 at least) the cheapest available Stirge mini, but even so it fetched insane prices online as a single. It is kinda oversized though, and works better as a giant variant. Grindylows are one of the few PF specific creatures I do collect - love all 3 minis in the set. They are sadly not used much in PF but they are an interesting species of basically anthropomorph Sharktopus-es... sharktopussies? I dunno... if you have not seen those movies, recommended, they are hilariously corny and self aware. Thanks - I was totally unaware these creatures are from british folklore! Phaeta is pretty weird - I prefer my Phase Spiders to have less human heads, but I suppose it is accurate to the original 1E artwork in D&D. Or alternatively, makes a good repaint base for an old school Lolth! Cool that you too know about the Aurumvorax! I was glad PFB gave us such barely remembered creatures. Too bad it was a Rare, took me a while to get. Cannon Golems are exclusive to Pathfinder so far, I got two of these from random boosters, funnily enough. They did make good trading stock as people seem to want them a lot and as Rares they! are worth quite a lot! Isabella I ended up pulling from a booster and kept - luckily mine has a better face than the one you got! Probably the first time I saw a mini with such tampograph tattoos, she is one sexy pirate girl.
Even though I don't know much of Pathfinder lore this set was always one of my favourites. Thanks for another great review and 10 points for The Oracle reference 😁
Just wanted to say thanks for your videos. I think I’ve watched all your set reviews and I really appreciate the in-depth approach to not only showing what you can get, but info about the figures and what campaigns they can be good for. I also learn how to properly pronounce monster names! ❤️ Again, thank you. 😊
I purchased two bricks of this set when it first came out cause I wanted more sea faring PCs and aquatic creatures and I was quite satisfied. I got lucky and got a fair bit of the humanoid minis and plenty sharks/hammerhead sharks! I like that you’re going back to older sets. Keep up the great work!
Oh and btw, congrats on getting Troll&Toad to sponsor you! First Wizkids starts to send you minis for review and link your reviews on twitter, now one of the two big mini shops! You are coming up in the world! :)
Hey! Thank you very much! For now it's just a one-week sponsorship. We'll see if we end up sending enough traffic their way for them to want to continue along with us. :-) -Theo
Sharks along with sting rays are cartilaginous fish, meaning their skeletal system is not made of calcium but instead is made of cartilage and other connective tissues. It pays to be a Biology teacher sometimes
For people who are not that familiar with the Pathfinder universe, you guys sure come up with a ton of interesting infos. You must do a LOT of research to present a big set of minis like this one. Shark Trivia answer: No. I think sharks only have cartillage. (I would say false on the hammerhead shark, but if it is true, that's pretty fantastic! ).
Hehe, thank you, thank you! We spend a good bit of time on our research, and we're starting to get more familiar with Pathfinder. 2e is going to be a bit easier since there aren't dozens of source books out for it just yet. And go look up that Nebraska virgin-birth shark story. It's pretty wild. -Theo
I love your show I have found it very helpful. Could you guys perhaps when you have the time review other miniature lines like for example last sword miniatures and. Davale miniatures both out of Spain but they have awesome miniatures. I saw in one video I think it was Grady was using Conan miniatures from monolith games. I know it might not be your thing. But I figured it can’t hurt to ask. Also would it be possible when you review of the managers to give us a baseline using whiz kids and reaper bones miniatures? What I mean is if you show us dwarves from a different company it would be helpful to see how they compared in size and stature to the main stays of most peoples miniature collection. Even if you don’t take my suggestions I will be eagerly awaiting your next videos. But I hope you will take it under consideration. Yes these requests are mostly to service my needs. I feel confident it would help many others as well. Love your show enjoy you guys and the cat too. Thank you
No they have cartilage , married to a science teacher , l love these minis . I DM for my son and my daughters DnD games but thier friends are really into steampunk , so l think these would be good add ons for the games we play, thank you for this review , do you have any dungeon crawls l could gleen for info ?
Nice review! I really like a lot of the rares and the larger creatures in this set, but the common and uncommon PC/NPC minis seems to have terrible paint jobs in this set. Which is a shame, because the characters look interesting.
Can't help but find the Drowning Devil a bit funny, as those anemone-arms look a bit like pom-poms, so they seem like infernal cheerleaders for the Chtulhu Team. :)
Wait Theo, did you say one rare a case? Was that a mistake? Had to be right, I'm sure you meant brick ( which still sounds atrocious )? I just got my first booster pack because of this review and though I didn't pull exactly what I wanted ( really like that sea troll and the pirate lass with the red hair) I did pretty well I feel. I got a greater host devil, Jakaw razorbeak, a golden guardian, and a giant wasp.
That’d definitely be a mistake. There’s 17 rares in a case. Each brick has between 3 and 5 rares, making you actually more likely to get a rare per booster than recent sets. -Grady
@@TheGallantGoblin thanks for the clarification Grady! I knew it didn't sound right, heck if it was that way the rares would go for a couple hundred a piece LOL
Yeah! Note these numbers vary by the set and my comment was specifically about Skull & Shackles. For a long time now it’s actually been 12 rares a set and 3 rares a brick and I’d be surprised if they deviate from that in new releases. -Grady
@@TheGallantGoblin sounds like I got fairly lucky pulling a rare from a booster then, not to mention 2 uncommons with the giant wasp actually being one of the more expensive minis in the set ( going by miniature market and T&T prices). Once again thanks for the clarification Grady, as always I look forward to your next videos and hope you and Theo are staying safe!
I don’t have the adventure in front of me right now, but I believe it’s close to a Flood Troll. Not sure if there’s a stat block in the adventure or not. I assume there must be.
We'll be comparing that particular mini (Lirianne) to the one in Pathfinder Iconic Heroes Set 4 in an upcoming video. I think it'll be an interesting comparison. -Theo
Do sharks have bones? Yes, I don't know much about sharks' anatomy but I do know that teeth are considered bones (so at least they have bones in their mouth: their teeth)
Yes a shark could give birth without mating. They are capable of parthenogenesis. It is essentially where a female's egg cells divide within her and join with other egg cells. She is essentially cloning herself. The best known example of this is the New Mexico Whiptail lizard species. They are all females who undergo parthenogenesis in order to continue the species.
A brick is a shrinkwrapped set of 8 booster boxes. A case is a sealed box containing 4 bricks. The brick will get you about 75% of all the unique figures in a set while a case is supposed to get you all the unique figures except in a few rare situations. We go pretty in depth on how the entire booster system works at: www.gallantgoblin.com/post/wizkids-minis-booster-sets-demystified Just FYI: The info is getting slightly out of date as the last couple releases have started deviating from the old patterns. Once we get a good sense of where WizKids is taking the products, we'll update the article with the new developments.
I did haha, but Theo hasn't played it yet. Looks like DA2 is even older than Skull & Shackles though, 2011 vs 2013. It does not feel like 8 years ago that I played DA2... -Grady
@@TheGallantGoblin yea I had to look up the dates to compare them too, was surprised to see that DA2 was older. When you realize just how quickly time passes, by looking up video games you use to play sure does suck lol.
Wrath and Dungeons Deep are two of the five Pathfinder Battles sets we don't currently have but I am constantly looking for them. We've heard WizKids may be reprinting some of the older sets so if those ever come back we'll definitely jump on them. We're looking at Creature Forge-we had originally planned to do them when they first came out but we heard they were not the right size for D&D so held off. Dungeon Command is a great suggestion, one that hadn't been on our radar. Thank you for bringing it to our attention! -Grady
Oh and as for the shark questions - no, sharks have no bones, just cartilage (same as rays). I did not hear about the asexual reproduction in hammerheads, though, interesting! That's not something that many fish do.
I've had my eye on these minis for a hot minute. I really love your humorous side comments too. It's gives us a taste of your personality, which is nice
Thank you! I'm trying to let loose a bit more. :-) -Theo
Wow, I see you are keeping up with the old sets!
This was one of Pathfinder's best sets IMHO, filling the gap on much needed aquatic minis, and probably when I first started to pay attention to these minis. While still full of some very PFspecific creatures, it also has classic D&D ones (like our first Kamadan mini!) and the various NPCs also nicely work in any pirate-themed game, so this is one of the rare few sets I even got/kept Rares NPCs from. I really love their Sahuagins ("Sea Devils"), TBH, they look better than the 5E ones from Icons, the design is so much more classic D&D style. The Weresharks are also excellent, as is the Sea Lion and the two Sharks, and we even got two Water Nagas (one I guess could be used for a young Naga). The Giant Wasp looks almost like a real life Mammoth Wasp (those things are native here in Hungary, and are super scary)! And the Duppy while not a D&D creature I got because it is an amazing Ghost mini, some crazy noble with his hunting dogs. I even love the Daughter of Immerta (though... best not start to wonder how the giant Cyclopses and the human sized harpies ever cross-bred to produce such offspring) -but man, she is so prone of breaking off from the base. Say what you will about removable flying base poles but at least they make storing minis easier.
I do wish we finally got a real Siren in classic 2E form, but the Seeweed Siren is one creepy thing too!
The Bloodbug was, for a time (until MM3 at least) the cheapest available Stirge mini, but even so it fetched insane prices online as a single. It is kinda oversized though, and works better as a giant variant.
Grindylows are one of the few PF specific creatures I do collect - love all 3 minis in the set. They are sadly not used much in PF but they are an interesting species of basically anthropomorph Sharktopus-es... sharktopussies? I dunno... if you have not seen those movies, recommended, they are hilariously corny and self aware. Thanks - I was totally unaware these creatures are from british folklore!
Phaeta is pretty weird - I prefer my Phase Spiders to have less human heads, but I suppose it is accurate to the original 1E artwork in D&D. Or alternatively, makes a good repaint base for an old school Lolth!
Cool that you too know about the Aurumvorax! I was glad PFB gave us such barely remembered creatures. Too bad it was a Rare, took me a while to get.
Cannon Golems are exclusive to Pathfinder so far, I got two of these from random boosters, funnily enough. They did make good trading stock as people seem to want them a lot and as Rares they! are worth quite a lot!
Isabella I ended up pulling from a booster and kept - luckily mine has a better face than the one you got! Probably the first time I saw a mini with such tampograph tattoos, she is one sexy pirate girl.
Even though I don't know much of Pathfinder lore this set was always one of my favourites. Thanks for another great review and 10 points for The Oracle reference 😁
Just wanted to say thanks for your videos. I think I’ve watched all your set reviews and I really appreciate the in-depth approach to not only showing what you can get, but info about the figures and what campaigns they can be good for. I also learn how to properly pronounce monster names! ❤️ Again, thank you. 😊
I purchased two bricks of this set when it first came out cause I wanted more sea faring PCs and aquatic creatures and I was quite satisfied. I got lucky and got a fair bit of the humanoid minis and plenty sharks/hammerhead sharks!
I like that you’re going back to older sets. Keep up the great work!
Thanks! Yeah, this is a really fun set. -Theo
Oh and btw, congrats on getting Troll&Toad to sponsor you! First Wizkids starts to send you minis for review and link your reviews on twitter, now one of the two big mini shops! You are coming up in the world! :)
Hey! Thank you very much! For now it's just a one-week sponsorship. We'll see if we end up sending enough traffic their way for them to want to continue along with us. :-) -Theo
"Hello, I'm Ambrose Kroop, I mean, Theo, and you are watching The Gallant Goblin"hahahaah
The sea troll and the Drawing devil are very nice minis!
Sharks along with sting rays are cartilaginous fish, meaning their skeletal system is not made of calcium but instead is made of cartilage and other connective tissues. It pays to be a Biology teacher sometimes
Indeed! So what about the shark virgin birth? -Theo
Thanks for the review!
I hope to see a case of these some days... I didn't see a single mini I didn't like!
I got 6 packs of this set when I was younger and pulled 2 riptooth, and the matron
Hehe, that's awesome! -Theo
Wow what a strange set. Seeing this in 2022 the painting has come a long way. Great video!
It sure has, but I still love those S&S minis! -Theo
For people who are not that familiar with the Pathfinder universe, you guys sure come up with a ton of interesting infos. You must do a LOT of research to present a big set of minis like this one. Shark Trivia answer: No. I think sharks only have cartillage. (I would say false on the hammerhead shark, but if it is true, that's pretty fantastic! ).
Hehe, thank you, thank you! We spend a good bit of time on our research, and we're starting to get more familiar with Pathfinder. 2e is going to be a bit easier since there aren't dozens of source books out for it just yet. And go look up that Nebraska virgin-birth shark story. It's pretty wild. -Theo
This reminds me of the old counter monkey video spoony did years ago that grave great advice for D&D , and that's " You never get on the boat"
Good review
I have some of those and would like more
Thanks for the look
Thanks for the support! -Theo
Skulls and Shackles is the perfect pirate adventure path for anyone wanting to be a pirate and having a ship.
Sharks skeletal structure is made of cartilage, like our nose and ears. They also regrow lost teeth.
Sharks are weird. -Theo
I love your show I have found it very helpful. Could you guys perhaps when you have the time review other miniature lines like for example last sword miniatures and. Davale miniatures both out of Spain but they have awesome miniatures. I saw in one video I think it was Grady was using Conan miniatures from monolith games. I know it might not be your thing. But I figured it can’t hurt to ask. Also would it be possible when you review of the managers to give us a baseline using whiz kids and reaper bones miniatures? What I mean is if you show us dwarves from a different company it would be helpful to see how they compared in size and stature to the main stays of most peoples miniature collection. Even if you don’t take my suggestions I will be eagerly awaiting your next videos. But I hope you will take it under consideration. Yes these requests are mostly to service my needs. I feel confident it would help many others as well. Love your show enjoy you guys and the cat too. Thank you
No they have cartilage , married to a science teacher , l love these minis . I DM for my son and my daughters DnD games but thier friends are really into steampunk , so l think these would be good add ons for the games we play, thank you for this review , do you have any dungeon crawls l could gleen for info ?
I love your unboxing videos
Thank you kindly!!
Nice review! I really like a lot of the rares and the larger creatures in this set, but the common and uncommon PC/NPC minis seems to have terrible paint jobs in this set. Which is a shame, because the characters look interesting.
Can't help but find the Drowning Devil a bit funny, as those anemone-arms look a bit like pom-poms, so they seem like infernal cheerleaders for the Chtulhu Team. :)
Well, now that's all I'm ever going to see when one hits the table! Ra ra ra! -Theo
We need a new collection of sea monsters, I hope a new campaing si coming
Fantastic! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Wait Theo, did you say one rare a case? Was that a mistake? Had to be right, I'm sure you meant brick ( which still sounds atrocious )?
I just got my first booster pack because of this review and though I didn't pull exactly what I wanted ( really like that sea troll and the pirate lass with the red hair) I did pretty well I feel. I got a greater host devil, Jakaw razorbeak, a golden guardian, and a giant wasp.
That’d definitely be a mistake. There’s 17 rares in a case. Each brick has between 3 and 5 rares, making you actually more likely to get a rare per booster than recent sets. -Grady
@@TheGallantGoblin thanks for the clarification Grady! I knew it didn't sound right, heck if it was that way the rares would go for a couple hundred a piece LOL
Yeah! Note these numbers vary by the set and my comment was specifically about Skull & Shackles. For a long time now it’s actually been 12 rares a set and 3 rares a brick and I’d be surprised if they deviate from that in new releases. -Grady
@@TheGallantGoblin sounds like I got fairly lucky pulling a rare from a booster then, not to mention 2 uncommons with the giant wasp actually being one of the more expensive minis in the set ( going by miniature market and T&T prices).
Once again thanks for the clarification Grady, as always I look forward to your next videos and hope you and Theo are staying safe!
Sharks have a skeleton of cartilage, not bone. Also, true for the second question
Hey Theo, is there a stat block for the Sea Troll #35 ?
I don’t have the adventure in front of me right now, but I believe it’s close to a Flood Troll. Not sure if there’s a stat block in the adventure or not. I assume there must be.
@@TheGallantGoblin thanks!! I will dig into it. 🧌
Sharks technically have bones. However, their bones are made of cartilage rather than calcium. So basically a giant fish made of nose bones.
The Gunslinger miniature's face sculpt makes it look like a face painted on a thumb.
We'll be comparing that particular mini (Lirianne) to the one in Pathfinder Iconic Heroes Set 4 in an upcoming video. I think it'll be an interesting comparison. -Theo
Do sharks have bones?
Yes, I don't know much about sharks' anatomy but I do know that teeth are considered bones (so at least they have bones in their mouth: their teeth)
Heh that’s what I said! -Grady
Yes a shark could give birth without mating. They are capable of parthenogenesis. It is essentially where a female's egg cells divide within her and join with other egg cells. She is essentially cloning herself. The best known example of this is the New Mexico Whiptail lizard species. They are all females who undergo parthenogenesis in order to continue the species.
can theses be used in dnd?
What's the difference between a case and a brick?
A brick is a shrinkwrapped set of 8 booster boxes. A case is a sealed box containing 4 bricks. The brick will get you about 75% of all the unique figures in a set while a case is supposed to get you all the unique figures except in a few rare situations. We go pretty in depth on how the entire booster system works at: www.gallantgoblin.com/post/wizkids-minis-booster-sets-demystified
Just FYI: The info is getting slightly out of date as the last couple releases have started deviating from the old patterns. Once we get a good sense of where WizKids is taking the products, we'll update the article with the new developments.
@@TheGallantGoblin thank you I was a bit confused about the difference so thank you I'll definitely check out the video you linked
I’m pretty sure sharks do have bones
Ok I’m wrong
I would have made the same guess! -Theo
No it is cartilaginous
Sharks don’t have bones they have Cartlidge. Didn’t have to look it up I watch shark week
Anyone else notice that Isabella Locke looks very similar to isabella from the Dragon Age 2 game???? Lol
I did haha, but Theo hasn't played it yet. Looks like DA2 is even older than Skull & Shackles though, 2011 vs 2013. It does not feel like 8 years ago that I played DA2... -Grady
@@TheGallantGoblin yea I had to look up the dates to compare them too, was surprised to see that DA2 was older. When you realize just how quickly time passes, by looking up video games you use to play sure does suck lol.
Sharks have a cartilaginous skeleton
No, but the real question is "do toes have bones in them?"
o.O -Theo
Eu queria ver Creature Forge Overwhelming Swarm, Wrath of Righteous e Dungeons Deep.
E de D&D, e sei que é difícil, Todas de Dungeon Command.
Wrath and Dungeons Deep are two of the five Pathfinder Battles sets we don't currently have but I am constantly looking for them. We've heard WizKids may be reprinting some of the older sets so if those ever come back we'll definitely jump on them. We're looking at Creature Forge-we had originally planned to do them when they first came out but we heard they were not the right size for D&D so held off. Dungeon Command is a great suggestion, one that hadn't been on our radar. Thank you for bringing it to our attention! -Grady
No, sharks to no have bones. They are what is known as cartilaginous fish.
Oh and as for the shark questions - no, sharks have no bones, just cartilage (same as rays). I did not hear about the asexual reproduction in hammerheads, though, interesting! That's not something that many fish do.
This is what happens when I write scripts late at night and can't figure out what to say about shark lore in Pathfinder. :-) -Theo
@@TheGallantGoblin It was quite informative actually! Made me look up hammerheads on wikipedia... have not known this interesting bit about them. :)
Shark doesn't have bones they have a cartilaginous squeleton
yes sharks have bones but only teeth
sharks have cartalege not bones.
most sharks do not have bones
Sharks don’t have bones
Sharks are cartligenians. They only bones they have are their teeth.
No They don’t
Nope, they’re cartilaginous.
Sharks are weird, man. -Theo
The Gallant Goblin indeed. Fun fact: there have been sharks living on earth for longer than there have been trees.