{"id":5663,"date":"2022-05-28T22:27:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T02:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2022-05-29T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T14:00:39","slug":"cleric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=5663","title":{"rendered":"Adventuring Cleric"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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For my Character of the Month, I decided to do a cleric. This is an old TSR miniature from the “Heroes” set, released in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have made my derision plain regarding this era of D&D miniatures. There’s very little to like. Most of the TSR miniatures look stupid; scale is an afterthought; and they are made of a strange metal that does its damndest to repel paint. In short, they suck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Heroes set is the best of the TSR D&D boxed sets, though. Most of the miniatures in the set manage to not look completely like ass. I actually like this cleric, which is why I chose to paint him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m not at all sure what that thing he’s holding is supposed to be, so I painted it like a candle or a lamp. Could be a weird holy symbol…who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back, foul thing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, that’s for Tom’s #paintanadventuringparty challenge over on Instagram. My next post will be the rest of my Monster May(hem) efforts, as well as a round up of everyone else who contributed! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my Character of the Month, I decided to do a cleric. This is an old TSR miniature from the “Heroes” set, released in 1983. I have made my derision plain regarding this era of D&D miniatures. There’s very little to like. Most of the TSR miniatures look stupid; scale is an afterthought; and they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,30,3,52,84],"tags":[17,109,32,56],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-insanity-pile","category-miniatures","category-painting-challenges","category-role-playing-games","tag-add","tag-character-of-the-month","tag-old-school-miniatures","tag-tsr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}