Creator: Mammoth Factory | From £5.99
What It Is
This is a charred old bone-pile of a warrior, still somehow determined to finish the fight. The sculpt has it stepping forward with a longsword raised and a round shield set in front, with scraps of ancient armour and cloth still hanging off the frame. The best bit is the fire treatment, with jagged flames licking up from the skull, shoulders, and back so it looks less like a tidy skeleton and more like a corpse that refused to stay dead out of pure bad temper.
At The Table
In D&D 5e or Pathfinder 2e, this makes an excellent elite undead foot soldier for a necromancer, death knight, or fire cult that has been mixing its sins. Do not waste it as just another skeleton in room three. Give it a job. It could be the last defender in a burned-out chapel, still guarding the reliquary centuries after the roof came down, or one of a matched set of thralls animated from fallen crusaders and sent shambling through a battlefield at dusk. Mechanically, it suits anything from a skeleton champion with fire damage added on to a proper hazard-wrapped miniboss.
For Shadowdark or Dolmenwood, I would drop this into an ash-choked barrow or a cursed manor where the hearth never went out. The party opens the iron door, sees the glow first, and then realises the glow has a shield and is walking toward them. In those games it works beautifully as a sign that this dungeon has old grudges buried in it, not just treasure and mould. If you like your fantasy a bit meaner, make it the remains of a bannerman who burned with the keep and now attacks anyone carrying the wrong heraldry.
It would also work in a one-shot with a weirder edge. In Blades in the Dark, it could be a hull-adjacent occult guardian built from bone instead of brass, posted in a forgotten crematorium vault. In Call of Cthulhu, strip out the overt fantasy and play it as a ritual apparition, a blackened warrior shape in the flames of a country-house fireplace, sword first and explanations never. Either way, it has that useful tabletop quality of looking immediately like bad news, which saves everyone five minutes of polite speculation.
Printed in high-quality resin. Supplied unpainted. 25mm base.
