Miniatures can be an expensive tool in the game master's arsenal. I'm of the mind that whatever tool is best for the game, at a price you can afford, is best for you. For example, I run a 4e campaign on Tuesdays. I am using prepainted miniatures for many of the encounters because I don't play at home and they are light. However, there are several monsters that have no miniature and for them, I've gladly used Firey Dragon's counters.

In terms of paper miniatures, I've generally seen two types. The first, like Fiery Dragon, are 'counters' or 'chits' in that they lay flat. The good ones will be double sided to allow you to indicate if the foe is down or suffering some some specific game effect. The other type I ran into long before Fiery Dragon, stand up paper miniatures. This product, Demons, follows in that line.

This set includes eight miniatures: homunculus, succubus, horned demon, fire demon, cerebus, hell hound, incubus, and demon lord. Each includes a full color version and a black and white version, that includes front and back. In addition to the miniature illustrations, there are illustrations of bases that the user can cut out and mount the figures on. In this case, the bases are lava like, fitting for the demons.

The only 'problem' I have, is that I'm fairly clumy with the old blade. I've cut myself many a time removing flash on a rounded object by cutting away only to have the knive follow the circle back towards, you guessed it, the hand holding the figure. That is not the problem though. The problem is that many of these illustrations are crowded together so that you can't necessarily make a clean cut if you just want to cut out say a square as opposed to cutting out the individual figure I suspect this is because many of the figures have wings.. I supposed you could copy, paste into an image editing program, remove the foreign object and then print, but seems a lot of work.

The lack of any general guidelines on cutting, outside of the bases, also seems a little odd. Providing the user with some ideas on how to cut the figures out either with a sharp hobby knive or using scissors and making them square stand ups wouldn't take up much room and would be useful.

Still, this is a minor complaint and for about the third of the price of a pack of random minis, you know what you're getting ahead of time and can dispose of these when your doing using them. Easy to carry and easy to print, this product should find a use in any Game Masters library.