$9.99+
From the rot beneath the forest floor, they rise — tendril-crowned, hide thick with fungal growths, silent as spores drifting through dead air.
The Thorny Vegepygmy is a creature born where life and decay cannot agree. Its hunched, quadrupedal frame is armoured with pocked, cratered skin — eruptions of organic matter pushing through from within like bark splitting open after a long frost. A ridge of writhing, finger-like tendrils crowns its back and spine, each one reaching upward with a slow, deliberate wrongness that suggests something between antenna and hunger. Multiple beady eyes cluster low on its scarred face, above a jaw that hangs open to reveal rows of hooked teeth and a cluster of barbed appendages beneath its chin — not quite mandibles, not quite roots. A long, curved tail arcs behind it like a scorpion's threat. This is not a monster that roars. It creeps. It waits. And by the time your players hear the soft crunch of its claws on stone, it is already close.
This listing includes a set of three Thorny Vegepygmy miniatures, each presenting a slightly different angle and pose variation, designed by Monster Atlas. As a set, they are built for encounters — populate a corrupted grove, seed an underground colony, or use them as a hunting pack that tracks the party across multiple sessions. In scale they sit comfortably alongside standard 32mm tabletop miniatures, making them ideal companions to any humanoid adventurer mini. Printed in high quality resin, every tendril, every pore, every curved claw comes through with exceptional clarity — detail that rewards a careful painter and impresses even unpainted on the table.
For the Dungeon Master, this trio opens up some deeply unsettling encounter design:
- The party follows a trail of desiccated animal carcasses deeper into the forest — each one covered in the same pale fungal bloom. The Vegepygmies find them before they find the source.
- One of the creatures has been bound by a druid cultist who believes it is a sacred emissary of the mycelial network. The party must decide whether to free it — or help cage it.
- The ruins the adventurers were sent to clear are not empty. A colony of Vegepygmies has claimed it, and the walls themselves seem to breathe — threaded through with root and spore.
- A captured specimen escapes during a long rest. In the morning, the camp is ringed with tendril-marks in the earth. Something came back and watched them sleep.
Features:
- Designed and licensed by Monster Atlas
- Set of three miniatures — multiple poses and angles
- Scaled for 32mm tabletop play; compatible with standard bases
- Dynamic crouching poses with full body and tail detail
- Loaded with surface texture: cratered skin, organic spines, clawed feet
- Ideal for Dungeon Masters, creature collectors, and horror-themed campaign painters
- Printed in high quality resin
⚠️ Important Notes
- Printed in durable resin — fragile; handle with care
- Ships unpainted and ready for priming
- Minor support marks may be visible
- Requires glue for assembly; sanding tools recommended
- Images may contain digital renders. All models are test printed for detail and printability
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