D&D Miniatures - Thumbs up or down?

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

What if you don't have thumbs....?

 

[diaglo]

i like the durability

i like the fact they are D&D related and exactly like the MM in stats and appearance.

i dislike the collectable nature of random packs.

i dislike the price for such cheezy plastic.

can you tell i've filled out the consumer cards with each pack i bought?

overall i gave them a 2 out of 5.

 

[Pseudonym]

Though I still prefer to use our groups vast collection of painted figs, the new D&D minis are good for the few monsters I haven't been able to find miniatures for. The quality is better that I thought it would be.

The new minis have caused me to alter a house rule I have. The policy was that the PCs get a one time 500xp award for bringing a painted miniature of their character. I've decided to disallow prepainted minis for that now.

 

[TiQuinn]

There just not made for me.

I'm not playing the squirmish games. I'm not trying to collect them. I can do a quick paint job on a mini and come up with a better result. If I take my time painting a mini, I come up with something WAY better. Given all the mini lines that I like, I've yet to have a problem finding a particular monster/character mini. And last, I don't like plastic minis.

So thumbs down from me. I'm obviously not their target audience.

 

[Altalazar]

Big thumbs up from me.

There just not made for me.

I'm not playing the squirmish games. I'm not trying to collect them. I can do a quick paint job on a mini and come up with a better result. If I take my time painting a mini, I come up with something WAY better. Given all the mini lines that I like, I've yet to have a problem finding a particular monster/character mini. And last, I don't like plastic minis.

So thumbs down from me. I'm obviously not their target audience.

I can understand that - you certainly aren't. They are great for me. I love the metal minis and think they are better, but then they are also 8-20 times more expensive, so of COURSE they are better. That can't be a criticism.

I can paint better than some of the paint jobs and it is always better when you do it yourself, but NOBODY has time to paint 100 minis and do a good job. I still have my metal minis, which I am still painting, but over 25 years I've only had time to paint about 40-50 out of 125. Now I can buy 100 in a pinch and they are all painted and ready to go out of the box. So I get the best of both - I have lots of painted plastic monster minis to go with my carefully painted metal minis.

I think they are a great supplement to my metal minis - I could NEVER paint that many minis anyway and I don't use the metal ones until they are painted. They are also way cheap, allowing me to get 10 times as many as I could if I bought only metal figures.

 

[KB9JMQ]

Well they get a thumbs up from me.
They are much better than I can do.
Even with the randomness they come in a much wider variety than I am willing to look thru at walls and walls of metal mini's to purchase the same.

 

[Altalazar]

Well they get a thumbs up from me.
They are much better than I can do.
Even with the randomness they come in a much wider variety than I am willing to look thru at walls and walls of metal mini's to purchase the same.

That's another good point about the "randomness" - I am too busy these days to search through endless lists of minis and select them one by one. With random, I can just select the box, put in how many boxes I want, and order. No muss, no fuss.

 

[MadScientist]

Well you could just buy metal mini's randomly too!

 

[DaveMage]

I didn't want to like them.
I don't like random packaging.

And yet, I give them a thumbs up because I really *do* like them.

 

[Altalazar]

I didn't want to like them.
I don't like random packaging.

And yet, I give them a thumbs up because I really *do* like them.

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