One Monk miniatures are some of the most innovative and exciting paper products I have seen for RPG- or wargaming in many years. Flat dungeon tiles and 3D terrain notwithstanding, One Monk figures beat all other 2D figure hands down.

They are in the more popular 28-30mm scale and easily fit with most other plastic/metal figures. The wargaming regiments even include movement trays that are compatible with magnetic basing from Litko Aerosystems (www.litko.com).

I have been making some for Warhammer Fantasy and Hordes of the Things (HOTT) in addition to those for use in my D&D 4E campaign. Once you get used to the process, you can easily print, glue, cutout and edge up to two dozen figures in an hour!

When you add in the fact that you can print as many as you want, One Monk offers free bases on their site, and each PDF includes black and white versions so you can color you rown figures, how could you go wrong!

Excellent products and well worth your time.

An extremely useful set of paper miniatures in any fantasy setting.

You get three files with essentially the same images. The main file is one page of twelve full-color, nicely shaded goblins with an enormous variety of different weapons and defenses. There's even a shaman or witch doctor included for use as a leader figure or to add some magical oomph in an RPG. There is enough variety for players to be able to say "I'm shooting at the (whatever) one" and be easily understood.

The secondary file contains the same images without color. If goblins in your campaign world are a different color, or you have two groups of goblins going up against each other, I guess you can use these for kitbashing.

The third file is a .GIF of the same uncolored images (the other files are .PDFs). I had some BIG trouble here -- when I edited this file to customize the images, the resolution wasn't just a little bit lower; it looked a LOT lower, to the point of starting to pixelize. In the end I just called up the .PDF and screencapped it to make my own editable file. Results were perfect.

The last file contains matching slot-bases for these figures. One Monk has either the best or the second-best paper miniature bases I've seen, depending on your point of view. It's a toss-up. WorldWorks bases can slide miniatures in and out easier, but come in a LOT less variety and cost money. One Monk bases work best when you glue the figure in, I've found, but you can get any kind of floor (not just dirt, cobblestone and wood, but multiple choices of indoor and high-tech flooring) and, best of all, One Monk bases are FREE on their website.

Essentially, for the price of one "unit" of goblins, you're getting goblin swordsmen, goblin axemen, goblin spearmen, goblin club-fighters, goblin archers AND a goblin mage. Arrange the appropriate miniatures on the page in the configuration that matches your unit, and there you go. This means all your goblin needs are met in a single package (or at least a sizable percentage of them), and you can draw freely from these troops to design your dream unit.

It might have been nicer if the big section of instructions in the middle was on a separate page, allowing them to provide three rows of four miniatures instead of two rows of six. That would make the page less cramped, and thus make it MUCH easier to cut and paste the figures around to produce the unit you want.