From £5.99
What It Is
This is a lightly ridiculous, properly menacing armoured jester: slim build, one foot set forward, rapier out and ready, as if they have just bowed and are about to skewer the loudest person in the room. The armour leans hard into court-fool flourishes rather than clean knightly lines, with oversized shoulders, spiked epaulettes, little bell details, and a full-face helm shaped like a grinning stage mask. Between the theatrical silhouette and the fencer's stance, it reads less like a clown and more like someone employed by a dangerous noble with a very specific sense of humour.
At The Table
For D&D 5e or Pathfinder 2e, this feels perfect for a boss fight in a decadent court where entertainment and assassination are separated by a technicality. Make them the lord's fool, duellist, and intelligence officer all at once: a bard/rogue, swashbuckler, or dex-based fighter who keeps the room laughing until the blade comes out. If your party has been too pleased with itself after a banquet, this is exactly the miniature you put on the map when the musicians stop playing and someone quietly locks the doors.
In Shadowdark or Dolmenwood, I'd use this as the nightmare version of a travelling performer: a court exile, fae-attached trickster, or masked champion serving an old house with very rotten customs. The jester's armour makes them work brilliantly as a one-shot centrepiece encounter in a ruined theatre, pleasure palace, or hedge-maze pavilion where every scene has gone just a bit wrong. They could just as easily be a player character too: a disgraced noble's bodyguard hiding behind motley, or a duellist who learned that bells on the armour are only a drawback if you're trying to be polite.
If you fancy something stranger, this would also slot neatly into Blades in the Dark as an Imperial court blade with a performance persona, or even Call of Cthulhu if you want a masquerade antagonist who is much too composed to be wearing that helmet for innocent reasons. A masked fencer with bells and a fixed grin does a lot of work before you have even said a word as GM. Very efficient, deeply unnerving, and just a touch silly in the way the best miniatures often are.
Printed in high-quality resin. Supplied unpainted. 25mm base.
