You're DnDing It Wrong: 15mm Scale DnD

In this video I'll be showing you why I think playing DnD in 15mm is a great idea, how it saves space, time, and money. I'll also be showing you how to actually do it.
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[@theDexMcHenry]

I started gaming exclusively in 15mm about 20 years ago and I've never looked back. The saving in time and space has been significant. Whether it's for big battles or for skirmish games, 15mm all the way. I've been using them for Five Parsecs from Home solo games recently but also for WW2 gaming. Rules like Chain of Command are specifically scaled for 15mm too. And painting 15mm is just so easy; basic block painting followed by a decent wash (usually GW Agrax) and then a final highlight drybrush before varnishing. In the past 48 hours I've done nearly a hundred Ottoman jannisaries in 15mm, from start to finish. All to a decent tabletop standard.

[@lonjennings2112]

I've been doing exactly this but for 5 Leagues from the Borderlands and Hail Caesar for the last 3 years. If you have a (resin) 3d printer I highly recommend.

[@gameram6382]

Starting with 15mm. Brilliant because i use a 40 inch tv with hdmi screen looks amazing. Even my bases are clear so you can see the flooring through them.

[@bartekkucharski3880]

Imagine... 15mm scale for humans but 28/32 scale for monsters XD. I have plenty of 15mm minis from Joan d'Arc and they look amazing with them huge monsters but painting them is a chore.

[@GrayScalpMiniatures]

Yeah it suddenly lets you have some pretty epic monster fights 😂

[@RainMakeR_Workshop]

Another benefit is that you can actually use the full movement of things with 100ft+ movement. Dragons for example have 120ft movement and at 28mm, their movement is more than the width of a standard battlematt, so the fights often don't use their movement and they just sit there. Where as at this scale, you can use the movement.

[@petrhovado5590]

I do this for a few years already, took it up exactly for the reason to load up myself on RPG minis. Now I keep over 200 pieces on the same space I needed for a 28mm WH army. My whole sessions (incl. terrain) fit in a small magnetized box I can bring over anywhere anytime, and also suddenly all character sheets, dice trays and beers fit on a regular table as well as a whole town scene! And my wargaming and boardgame minis in bigger scales look like some really intimidating bosses. Painting a 15mm mini with contrast is a 10 min job, (incl. spray priming, basing and varnish) so I just keep a box of prints to choose from and am able to paint them between sessions. Also the printing time and cost are incomparable to big ones. Took me some time to decide, as I already owned a lot of regular minis, but I'd never go back.

[@control745]

Love your small scale videos. Please make more

[@EForrest88]

The best benefit of 15 or 10mm rpgs is that suddenly the so-so 28mm monsters look huge and dangerous

[@someguy3861]

As for moving them, I usually just have a pair of 11" tweezers that get passed around depending on whose turn it is. Dipped the tips in Flex Seal Liquid so they don't mar surfaces.

[@RaYVen1337]

I'm glad i found this video! great tips, and i will apply this for my sessions as a dm :D also helps that i know a bit of sculpting

[@doejersey]

I’ve experimented with 15mm scale and loved it tbh basically all of the points you made were why. I needed to dm and fly with all my kit. This was a natural solution and was great

[@hyosworld109]

I think it's a great idea! I imagine the time saved on a whole terrain set for the minis would be insane!

[@GrayScalpMiniatures]

Yeah the time saving on the terrain is insane. Normally I want to put together a village, or download some awesome dungeons to print, but then I get put off by the time it's going to take to put it all together. Within a couple of hours at this scale you can throw together some great terrain and it just makes things a little easier.

[@shawnhuls1606]

I like the 15mm scale but haven’t tried it. I always feel like everything on the map is so cramped at a 32mm scale. I’m trying to imagine this epic fantasy battle playing out, and it is really taking place in a place about the size of my living room. Blowing up the map makes it impractical, but shrinking things down would allow you to make a really large combat encounter area.

[@GrayScalpMiniatures]

That's the same line of thought I always go down. I want some big maps and encounters, but then space becomes a limiting factor. This gives more flexibility with less space, which is very handy!

[@CharlesRubach]

Great video as always! This inspires me to maybe print some 15mm zombies for a board game I enjoy to breath new life into it.

[@GrayScalpMiniatures]

Go for it and let me know how it goes 😁

[@seanstephens4359]

I've only run one game with these, but I loved it!! I looked every where for more

[@donjuandon]

Another great 15mm video! I've been going down this rabbit hole for Five Leagues, Age of Fantasy, and other general fantasy wargaming stuff and I've appreciated all the content you've put out to date on this. I've learned a lot in my own efforts to get good results, and would love to share my lessons learned with you if you'd like to hear them. (Too much for a KZbin comment, sent you an IG message request) :-) Please keep up the good work!

[@LARPBeard]

there are a few (close to)15mm scale games you can looks for, might have matching terrain and such- Heavy Gear: Blitz! (12mm) and Flames of war (15mm).

[@thomasjcass]

I'm all in to 15mm DND its great!

[@NadavBrand]

LOVE THIS NEW CHARACTER haha that HAT! amazing

[@GrayScalpMiniatures]

Haha glad you liked him!

[@toddbates3441]

I thought the same thing and tried to scale down, but good luck finding fantasy monster minis in less than 28mm without buying a 3d printer.

[@DeanError]

yeah most large grid and hex maps are actually scaled to 15mm not 28mm plus

[@BuckFu]

I always thought it was silly for the miniatures to be soooo small, I’d hate to go even smaller. You could make them slightly bigger and they’d be easier to paint, especially if you’re printing them yourself.

[@babbagebrassworks4278]

Plan ahead go 6mm scale.

[@GrayScalpMiniatures]

😂 I've been doing that with some armies etc, but then they can be multibase. I hate to think what it would be like handling single units.

[@babbagebrassworks4278]

@@GrayScalpMiniatures Tweezers? Was painting hundreds of Airfix 1/76 soldiers 50 years ago but needed Ping Pong table for decent wargame area, those Civil War rifles had some range. Did N scale figures later on. 6mm is crazy scale but compress distances. Big fan of Warzone2100 on my Raspberry Pi, just looked at using WMIT today to export obj files for 3D resin printing. One print on 3D resin printer and you get hundreds of 6mm figures.

[@Nosh5]

I could see this doing this for ttrpg, not so much for skirmish wargames

[@johnm.withersiv4352]

15mm?? Too big! 10mm brings D&D down to Games Workshop WarMaster so they can be raided for orcs, vampire counts, and skeletons. Bring it down to 8mm and let Warhammer Epic interject some space marines.

[@yoroshiku137]

Constructive criticism: maybe title the video with a positive spin like, "better miniature scale," or "why 15mm scale should be the new standard." My gut reaction to reading the title as is was simply to downvote the video and not listen to a word you said, thinking, "Who is this random guy telling me I'm wrong?"

[@dpr74]

yikes. talked to a therapist?

[@OlympusLaunch]

It's called clickthrough optimization and hey, we all clicked on the video so I guess it worked lol.

[@arthurmarshall6825]

Hard No from me. I lost a gaming group cause of a similar reason. I play a few games in 15mm scale. I'm okay with them because the main focus is tanks which is a decent size at that scale. Infantry though are too small for my tastes. I can make due for that game cause they put multiple figures on a single base but I can't get interested in a single guy by himself. Years back the local group for one of those 15 mm games decided to only play a 6mm. Looking at models at that scaled instantly killed my interest in the game. And I lost a hobby as I had no one to play the game with at its proper scale. Not really sure why I hate infantry at 15 mm so much. Perhaps I just have an irrational take.

[@Ulrican414]

Yeah, sure. Go 15mm so you can immediately make your game incompatible with every miniature line ever (not to mention making your collection of minis useless). And make it impossible for players to discern anything on the battlefield. Go ahead and tell me which of these miniscule identical looking orcs is supposed to be the boss again?

[@GrayScalpMiniatures]

Everyones got a preference and this isn't yours which is fine.

[@Ed-hh5dp]

Dude what the hell. It's an interesting idea at the least. Want to discern a boss? Paint the base red? Use a different model? Use a 28mm scale model ? Give him a cape? You're telling me you use fully painted miniatures all the time with no proxies? Personally I think this is really interesting. More space to play in, more freedom of movement for characters. Makes range feel much more important. Fewer minis to store. I'd be more motivated to make terrain if it doesn't have to be so big, or what terrain you make will be bigger and have more impact within the 15mm scale. For OP, there are 15mm historical wargaming lines. Upside is they require no assembly. Maybe just switch to 15mm for a big battle? Doesn't have to be every session. Use it for a big story event with 50+ characters

[@ghosto3624]

You can play most 28mm-32mm games with 15mm if that's what you mean..they are incredibly reusable for many games that require minis. Further more, just mark the orc boss differently? Use a different model? Like you would do with 28mm. If I had 5 identical orcs in 28mm, I wouldn't be able to know who the boss is anyways. 15mm is great for the price and the things you can do with these minis from wargames to ttrpgs. Spent $100 and now I have about 100 minis.