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<blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 9222512" data-attributes="member: 3285"><p>For a long time, one of my hobbies was trolling toy stores and garage sales for compatible figures -- at least close enough in scale -- so that I could use them in my D&D games. When you get to bigger creatures this becomes a lot easier. To your point, if what you care about is using a figure that roughly looks like what it should on the table, there are a LOT of options. </p><p></p><p>Generally speaking though, you're paying for convenience. You know the monster looks like what it should and is sized the way it should. Reaper had this problem in that they would say, make a giant centipede but not scale it so it fit a one-inch base, and thus would make it less than ideal for D&D games where a giant centipede is a small creature. </p><p></p><p>Another example is the stirge. Stirges come in large groups, but the nature of the D&D miniature randomization packs was that they ended up being rare. These critters were hard to get, and thus became very expensive. So a pack of six stirges became far more expensive than some of the larger figures. My solution was to take some kind of bug monster from other miniature games, rebase them, and use those instead.</p><p></p><p>In short, it's really on us. The market bears what we're willing to pay. I'm happy to be creative with my choices -- once I got a 3D printer, it completely cured my interest in buying or converting any miniature, ever.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="talien, post: 9222512, member: 3285"] For a long time, one of my hobbies was trolling toy stores and garage sales for compatible figures -- at least close enough in scale -- so that I could use them in my D&D games. When you get to bigger creatures this becomes a lot easier. To your point, if what you care about is using a figure that roughly looks like what it should on the table, there are a LOT of options. Generally speaking though, you're paying for convenience. You know the monster looks like what it should and is sized the way it should. Reaper had this problem in that they would say, make a giant centipede but not scale it so it fit a one-inch base, and thus would make it less than ideal for D&D games where a giant centipede is a small creature. Another example is the stirge. Stirges come in large groups, but the nature of the D&D miniature randomization packs was that they ended up being rare. These critters were hard to get, and thus became very expensive. So a pack of six stirges became far more expensive than some of the larger figures. My solution was to take some kind of bug monster from other miniature games, rebase them, and use those instead. In short, it's really on us. The market bears what we're willing to pay. I'm happy to be creative with my choices -- once I got a 3D printer, it completely cured my interest in buying or converting any miniature, ever. [/QUOTE]
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