Hippo Pirate by Epic Miniatures

He controls the dockside black market from a battered harbour-master's chair, and the last captain foolish enough to cross him never made it back to port.

• ✔ 32mm scale resin miniature, printed fresh to order in the UK
• ✔ Supplied unpainted and ready to prime
• ✔ Compatible with D&D, Pathfinder, and all tabletop RPGs
• ✔ Equally at home on the gaming table or the display shelf

Barrel-chested, flat-capped, and wearing a long coat that barely conceals an arsenal of pistols and blunderbusses, this hippo pirate is exactly the kind of figure who runs things from the shadows of a lawless port. One meaty fist cradles a ruffled bird — a trained messenger, a bribe, or simply a pet he is inexplicably fond of — while the other rests casually near the grip of one of his many firearms. He is not in a hurry. He does not need to be. Everyone already knows who is in charge.

The sculpt leans into character design that sits somewhere between a seasoned crime lord and a merchant of questionable goods — broad, imposing, but with enough quirk in that bird and that cap to make him someone adventurers might actually want to talk to before the shooting starts. He reads equally well as a powerful NPC gatekeeper, a pirate faction boss, or even a wildly flavourful Gunslinger Fighter or Arcane Trickster Rogue player character running a nautical campaign.

The detail work across his layered coat, belt hardware, and tucked firearms gives painters plenty of texture to work with — washes will do wonderful things to those deep fabric folds, and the coat is screaming for a salt-bleached, sun-faded finish.

Suited to adventurers who:

• Need a memorable dockside crime boss or pirate faction leader for their campaign
• Are running a nautical, pirate, or seafaring adventure and want a truly distinctive NPC
• Play Gunslinger, Rogue, or flavourful Fighter characters and want something genuinely different
• Love painting character-rich sculpts with deep cloth texture and interesting accessories
• Want a display piece that tells a story straight out of the box — or rather, off the shelf

Encounter Hook: The party arrives in Saltmaw to find the harbour completely locked down — no ship leaves without permission from a hippo called Brock, who holds court on the upper deck of a permanently moored galleon. He'll grant passage, certainly. All he needs is one small favour: retrieve a particular crate from the harbormaster's sealed vault before the city watch open it themselves.

Details

• Scale: 32mm
• Base: Available with or without decorative base — choose your variant at checkout
• Supplied: Unpainted and unassembled
• Supported and unsupported print files available

Sculpted by Epic Miniatures — visit their collection to see more of their work.

Pairs well with pirate seafaring adventures and aquatic nautical encounters — or explore more from Epic Miniatures.

The cats have multiclassed into Studio Manager and Ambient Presence. Both classes are maxed out.

Ready to add this adventurer to your collection? Order today and we'll print it fresh for you here in the UK.