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Baldur's Gate 3's terrible miniatures "missed the mark" so much, WizKids is offering refunds


Board game company WizKids has apologised for its recent line of Baldur's Gate 3 miniatures, acknowledging the melty fa…

WizKids announced the range - officially known as Dungeons & Dragons: Icons Of The Realms: Baldur's Gate 3 - at the end of last year, and US customers began receiving their £50/$49.99, seven-character sets earlier this month. However, rather than the crisply detailed renditions of Astarion, Karlach, Gale, Shadowheart, Wyll, Lae'zel and Withers featured in WizKids promotional material, customers instead received pre-painted miniatures that wouldn't have looked out of place on a Borja church fresco- and complaints were swift. It's hardly a fitting celebration of developer Larian's acclaimed 2023 RPG, but with the studio's work on the game now largely at an end following the release of April's massive Patch 8, Astarion, Karlach, and friends are now entirely at Dungeons & Dragons owner Hasbro's mercy.

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