From publisher blurb:
Inspiration often strikes us when we are not expecting it… Like when you are cleaning off a game board shelf, and a Mage Knight figure falls off, hits you in the face, then breaks on the floor. Ok, it was the figure that struck me…but inspiration followed soon there after!
Back during the first iteration of Mage Knight, some pretty hefty, large figures came out for the game. Several dragons, a giant that had dwarves riding in armored baskets on its shoulders, some vehicles, and more. The one in question was the Doom Blade Cyclops, and is still one of my favorite pieces from that game.
So while the super glue was doing its work, I was debating what such a creature would be like in 5E D&D. What if the scythes on its arms weren’t strapped there, as they are on the figure, but were actually welded to the bone during a ritual of terrible surgeries and magicks? And strong? These things look like they’d use lesser cyclops for toothpicks. Yah, some 5E monster making had to be done. Check out the conversion from Mage Knight figure to RPG monster below!