Archvillain Games - Fantasy.

Archvillain Games has been around since 2019, and release high quality, supported models on a monthly basis. Each month includes around 20 sculpts around a particular theme, including player miniatures and monster and NPCs.

Andrew’s thoughts

Archvillain is easily one of my favorite creators. Each month is imaginative but the spectrum of miniatures provided all form a cohesive whole. The adventure then uses them all in a game setting so you can easily print, paint, and play with their month’s releases.

One thing of note: they often include multiple sculpts of the one “character”. I think this is a great resource as you can have variety in your monsters and NPCs easily, and often can even use them as the same character but in different modes (for example, a skeleton might be offered in four different sculpts, but have enough similarity across them that you can use one for your enemy while in guard mode, and a second sculpt for when it is attacking).

I mention this for the potential downside for some - while Archvillain is accurate when they say 20+ models, you may initially be surprised to only see half a dozen actual “creatures” listed.

For example, in their November 2023 bundle - Solstice: Brightsoul Order, they collect the sculpts into 8 groups of “things” - but 5 of those have a collection of 4 sculpts each. The full breakdown for November:

• 4 Dawnbringers

• 4 Dawnforged Guardians

• 4 Emissaries of the Dawn

• 4 Solarwing Phoenixes

• 4 Solstice Lumiaries

• Solcurus: Aspect of Sol’myr - a large, leader figure that comes in both full sculpt and a bust form.

• A modular kit of extra swords, shields, and heads to customize the Dawnforged Guardians if you don’t like any of the preposed sculpts.

But this is where the flipside of my previous comment comes in - and it’s also a positive. While some of the minis COULD be used the way I described earlier - the same enemy but in different forms - most have such huge variety in them that they should all be considered unique. The four different Emissaries for example have different poses, weapons, heads, etc, and one of them has two versions - one with special effects sculpted on.