#mindstealer

[lacymoonchild]

(via Pro Painted Mindstealer Sphiranx Warhammer DnD D&D Monster Miniature Sigmar | eBay)

[wervusindaart]

Sphiranx Mindstealer

My sona, now complete. She is a constant Thousand Sons bully

[skitsmixcommissions]

Mindstealer Sphiranx, inspired by acrylic pour painting and anodised metal. Personal work, completed August 2024.

[darktyrannomon]

WIP of my converted mindstealer sphyranx!

[vahilor]

Finished painting my Mindstealer Sphyranx form Warcry (Games Workshop).

I hope you like him.

[just-here-with-my-thoughts]

[gilgamesh-enjoyer]

I don't normally post models I've painted here, but behold! My Mindstealer Sphiranx, from Warcry. Had a ton of fun trying to create a fur texture across the body with very controlled brushstrokes.

[gaertan]

Mindstealer Sphiranx miniature

Its Thursday! so let's do a small throwback to this mini I fell in love with when it was first announced, that I painted some time ago

[zmasters]

Age of Sigmar OC Poll Part 3: Race

Part 1: Alliance

Part 1.5: Order or Chaos

Part 2: Chaos Faction

The slaves to darkness is the winner of the pervious poll. So the next one will be what race the character is going to be.

Everything on this list is on the list on the slaves to darkness lexicanium page.

[emcapi-gaming]

Important update from honour mode:

...Yeah so my plan for that fight went COMPLETELY sideways but somehow worked out in my favor.

Long as hell story under the cut.

The Enemy:

The Original Plan:

Inquisitor W'wargaz of the Githyanki creche, notorious honour mode run ender because of his legendary action. He summons 2 very powerful spiritual weapons every round, and unless you kill him really fast, you'll get swarmed by then. He also does the mindsteal link, boosting his defense by a ton.

The main goals were:

1. Kill him as fast as possible, and

2. Knock him prone as much as possible, because it apparently prevents him summoning the weapons and possibly interrupts the mindsteal link.

I also was going to send in someone with invisibility to sneak in ahead and crack open the hallway to the Lathander mace, and possibly grab it since we already had the crest, which would offer an easy escape route; enemies won't follow through doors into different areas, and you can fast travel out from that hallway.

The (Originally Planned) Team:

After that was set up, we'd go in, say hi to Vlaakith, take a little astral prism jaunt, and hop back out ready to kick githyanki ass.

1. KARLACH, best girl, as throw build barbarian.

2. LAE'ZEL, who got her personal development arc skipped ahead slightly and reclassed to Way of the Open Hand monk. (I had the thought before that this would be really cool character-wise for her, given the Orpheus situation and his monk honour guard.) Tons of damage, lots of stun and prone abilities. She's most of the reason Auntie Ethel didn't even make it to the fireplace.

3. ASTARION, double hand crossbow, thief rogue/gloomstalker ranger with sharpshooter feat, who can do a baseline 3 shots per turn + 4th shot on the first turn. (And who, I'm sure, is having the time of his undeath going "pew pew pew >:D")

4. WYLL, who wasn't set up to put out consistent damage on par with the other 3 yet, and therefore was not part of the frontline team. He had the critical job of being our insurance at camp to go running to Withers if things went south - which from the things I've heard, I fully expected. He would also be playing support/indirect heals via tossing potions at-

5 and 6, SHADOWHEART and RANDO CLERIC HIRELING, who were going to be rigged up to Lae'zel and Astarion via warding bonds to hopefully keep them alive a little longer, and tossing a couple of death wards and other non-concentration buffs on the frontline team.

What Actually Happened:

Per plan, Astarion went in with invisibility and cracked open the secret mace hallway.

And then, on my way out, I noticed that the npc standing closest to that hallway had only 36 health. Which Astarion could take out in one turn, easy.

I assumed it would flip the room to temporarily hostile and then Astarion could bail back down the hallway, then come back with the full team later, but now with one less enemy to beat us up and give W'wargaz that extra mind link.

Good news: he did indeed take out that one npc.

Bad news: the rest of the room became hostile of the non-temporary variety.

Good news: Astarion had first initiative, and everyone else in there - except W'wargaz - was surprised. This was the first major way the plan failed in my favor, because we couldn't have gotten a surprise round on the way out of the prism.

Bad news: my original plan kind of hinged on Lae'zel's monk skills. Except I had no idea how pissed off she would be about the current state of affairs w/r/t "inquisitor trying to kill us," and because no savescumming, I wasn't willing to risk bringing her in. I did search and see that she would be more or less chill with whatever went down as long as we still went into the prism and told her about it after, though. The in-between part, I was less sure about. So. No monk.

Karlach, still in camp, grabbed Gale (since Lae'zel was a risk) and got as many of the planned buffs set up as possible, while Astarion stalled the hell out of the initiative order. In my imagination, he bought time by busting out his ridiculous villain monologue you just KNOW he's been planning out for decades, and basically became an unskippable cutscene nightmare to the githyanki on par with the Gaius Praetorium Elevator Speech.

The second way that my disaster of a plan ended up working for the better: I forgot that I had specced Gale as Divination. Which means he had portent die.

If you are unfamiliar with what those do: every morning he gets three or four (not sure the exact number) D20 rolls that he hangs on to all day. And then, when an ally misses an attack/saving throw, or an enemy passes one, if he has a portent roll on hand that's higher/lower than the target number, he can just go "nope!" and expend it to straight up replace the result to reverse a pass/fail.

This is, as you can imagine, VERY powerful.

So Gale and Karlach finally arrive, toss in some sneak attacks, and get things moving for real. Everyone took haste potions because if they couldn't get him down before 3 rounds they were probably dead anyways.

Karlach and Astarion start spamming their usual attacks. Gale, meanwhile, proceeds to both dump fireballs on W'wargaz's head (along with any other githyanki close enough to fit in the aoe), and flip him the Portent Die Middle Finger Of Fuck You on pretty much all his attacks, dodges, and saves.

He went down in just under 2 rounds and it took all of my restraint and remembering that we have neighbors to resist jumping up and screaming.

The rest of the room gets mopped up, Karlach gets to do a little wave at Vlaakith, and we go to meet the Dream Visitor. (I decided to be Awful and modeled them almost precisely after Tezalin, my beloved paladin Tav who romanced Karlach on my first playthrough. Which, uh... I still haven't finished because I was procrastinating the ending before the epilogues were announced... and then I got distracted with tactician and honour mode...)

And this is where I discovered the THIRD major way that my backfiring plan actually saved my ass:

Wyll, who was ungrouped from the party and chilling in camp as our contingency plan, ALSO GOT YOINKED INTO THE PRISM.

Meaning he would have gotten spat right back out into a horde of angry githyanki with the rest of the team in the original plan, rendering his contingency status pretty much useless.

In conclusion:

[wittysquiddy]

I ended up getting a mindstealer sphiranx thinking it would be as big as a forge fiend it's so small at this point it'll be another thing

[wervusindaart]

Sphiranx Mindstealer (OC)

My Sphiranx with a little preference to hang around the Thousand Sons

[skitsmixcommissions]

I attended the Brisbane Anvil mini painting competition over the weekend, and my Mindstealer Sphiranx managed to score one of the gold medals! Super stoked! Many thanks to both the people running the Brisbane Anvil and also the wonderful people in the Brisbane Display Painter's Guild for their support and encouragement! 💙

[snotoflathander]

FUCK the creche in Honour Mode fr fr

Fuck the inquisitior and his stupid floaty swords

Fuck that one crossbow guy whose path to ME is never blocked but MINE always is to HIM

Fuck mindstealing psychic linking damage

STOP SHOOTING WHOEVER I JUST HEALED

[vahilor]

Finished painting my Mindstealer Sphyranx form Warcry (Games Workshop). The first video I made of any of my miniatures rotating. I hope you like him.