Creator: Arch Villain Games | From £12.99
What It Is
This isn't your standard forest ape. The sculpt shows a massive orangutan hunched forward in a combat-ready stance, its body protected by layered spiked armor plates with carved tribal patterns. The headpiece is particularly striking—bone-like tusks jutting forward like a war mask. One arm is raised, gripping what looks like a primitive club or bone weapon. The detail work on the armor plating gives it a cobbled-together, primal-tech vibe, like someone's been outfitting beasts for war. Rocky base with scattered terrain elements rounds it out on a 50mm footprint.
At The Table
Giant apes are CR 7 in D&D 5e, but armor this thing up and you've got yourself a proper mid-tier boss or elite guard. Picture a jungle fortress ruled by a warlord who's figured out how to train and equip megafauna. The party tracks slavers to a fortress carved into cliff-side ruins, only to find the gates defended by these armored apes—smart enough to follow orders, strong enough to tear through a frontline.
Works brilliantly in Pathfinder 2e as a custom creature for Mwangi Expanse campaigns. Maybe it's a sacred guardian of a druidic circle that's taken a darker turn, binding beasts with enchanted armor rather than treating them as equals. Or go full Planet of the Apes—in a Shadowdark or OSE game, the party stumbles on a lost valley where apes have built a primitive civilization, and this is their champion in full regalia.
For something different, this could be a beast companion gone very, very wrong in a Dolmenwood campaign. An NPC ranger's prize mount, corrupted and armored by the fae, now serving as muscle for one of the fairy lords. The ranger wants it back. The party's job is to not get pulped in the process.
Printed in high-quality resin on a 50mm base. Supplied unpainted.
