Lion by The Toadstool Weaver

The grass hushes as a shadow shifts at the treeline — the pride's patriarch steps forward, amber eyes fixed, mane rippling in the warm air like a living crown.

• ✔ 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

This lion sculpt from The Toadstool Weaver captures the creature at its most commanding — four paws planted wide on the ground, head turned as though sizing up a threat, body coiled with barely restrained power. The mane is the star of the piece: rendered in dense, layered strands that sweep back from the brow and cascade around the shoulders, giving the model real visual weight and texture that rewards a careful dry-brush or layered paint job.

In D&D terms, lions are Large beasts with the Pack Tactics trait, which makes them far more dangerous in pairs or alongside a druid companion than their Challenge Rating alone suggests. This sculpt works equally well as a wandering encounter on the Savannah, a druid's wild shape mid-transformation, or the bonded companion of a Ranger who favours open country. The posture reads as alert and dominant rather than mid-pounce — a lion that has already decided the outcome and is simply giving the party one last chance to reconsider.

For display painters, the sweeping mane offers plenty of surface variety: fine individual strand detail sits alongside broader layered sections, making it a satisfying project for both beginners finding their feet with creature fur and experienced painters who want something worth putting on a shelf.

Particularly well-suited to adventurers who:

• Need reliable beast encounters for grassland, savannah, or wilderness sessions
• Play or DM with a Druid who favours Wild Shape into a large predator
• Want a companion or mount for a Ranger or Beast Master character
• Enjoy painting natural fur textures and layered mane detail
• Are building a pride of lions or a mixed predator encounter group

Encounter Hook

The merchant convoy has camped for the night on the edge of the Gilded Plains when the horses begin to panic. Three members of the pride emerge from the tall grass — but it is the one not yet visible that the party should be worried about. The largest male, mane matted with old blood, has already circled behind them.

Details

Scale: 32mm | Base: choice of plain base or no base | Supplied unpainted and unassembled | Single sculpt

Sculpted by The Toadstool Weaver — visit their collection to see more of their work.

Pairs well with our beasts collection and grassland and plains encounters — or explore more from The Toadstool Weaver.

Mitz & Simz — the cats rolled History to remember every time we got something wrong. Nat 20. Both of them.

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