WotC changes how D&D mini's are going to be sold.

[Commonblade]

All I want for Christmas is a box of Orcs. I don't even want new molds. Just a box of common orcs. 5 with Bows, 5 with Spears, 10 with swords, and 10 with Axes. After that, Human guards, thugs, scoundrels. Maybe a box of knights. A box of Goblins. A pack of Gnolls. Skeletons.

Call it the DM Series. We should be able to get the cannon fodder cheaper. If they did this and then sold the "bosses" a little higher, I would be good. It wouldn't make any money probably. But, it would sure make me happier. As it stands, my group has about 30-40 minis from the first two sets. We make do with that.

 

[Fifth Element]

However, the monster packs, containing monster and stat cards, despite showing you 1 mini, will still be blind and randomized. Thus "collectible". Those monster stat cards will no doubt contain unique powers and unique monsters that may not show up in books.

We were discussing the character power cards. And if the monsters are from the MM which is apparently the case, it seems unlikely they will have unique powers.

 

[Fifth Element]

All I want for Christmas is a box of Orcs. I don't even want new molds. Just a box of common orcs. 5 with Bows, 5 with Spears, 10 with swords, and 10 with Axes. After that, Human guards, thugs, scoundrels. Maybe a box of knights. A box of Goblins. A pack of Gnolls. Skeletons.

You can currently get this, for cheap, on the secondary market. The new distribution model increases secondary market prices, at least for the new sets.

 

[Drkfathr1]

We were discussing the character power cards. And if the monsters are from the MM which is apparently the case, it seems unlikely they will have unique powers.

Sorry, I was discussing all of it, not just the character power cards.

I hope you are correct in saying that its unlikely they'll have anything unique in the monster packs, but I fear that will not be the case.

 

[darjr]

You can currently get this, for cheap, on the secondary market. The new distribution model increases secondary market prices, at least for the new sets.

Sombody sells those in a box, each set, or sets like it all in one go? I don't have to browse a whole catalog to pick out what I want? Sure, it isn't a huge deal to do the picking and choosing and browsing, but I would like to skip that.

Who does this? Link please? Please?

 

[Knight Otu]

To supplement my earlier rant, I am a firm believer that a collectible card RPG cannot work. D&D going that route would be its unambiguous* death of it as a roleplaying game. I'm sure that one could make a fun game out of something like that, no doubt, really, but it wouldn't be a roleplaying game (who really roleplays as a planeswalker in a game of Magic?). That's not even taking into account just how risky collectible games are. The vast majority of C*Gs fail for one reason or another, and Wizards should know that very well. If those hero packs prove a success, I would hope that Wizards has their market research primed on the why. Because even if the unique powers are a factor, doesn't mean that randomized unique powers gather the same enthusiasm.

*As opposed to the more ambiguous deaths with the release of 4th, 3.5, 3E, AD&D, etc.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

*As opposed to the more ambiguous deaths with the release of 4th, 3.5, 3E, AD&D, etc.

I don't disagree - at least not until I've seen something that shows me how it can work. I am not interested in a collectible game.

 

[greatamericanfolkher]

Semi-random is still random. After my seventh fiendish t-rex our of twelve boxes of GoL, I swore off random minis. The day WotC releases all of the minis in a set in a single box is the day I’ll buy D&D minis from them again.

 

[stephengroy]

As someone who found the 3rd Ed Chainmail sometime around Underdark, it saddens me to consider losing organized skirmish

play.

The Phoenix area is fairly strong, and our regular events even draw folks from SoCal and Tx.

I will continue t0 hold out for 2.0 cards for the as-yet unreleased sets, and know that no one really cares if I sub

Chainmail minis in our regular games. Heck, I could sub old Grenadier or even a bottle cap, and no one would whine.

New stat cards for the new packaging? Doubtful.
Chainmail legal for DDM 2.0? Not holding my breath.

Restats as promised? Fingers crossed.

Many of the Demonweb figs look like leftovers from Dreamblade.

With the new Price Point, I cannot afford these.

Bye bye Feywild

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Waiting for Chainmail Equivalencies since 2005

 

[Nebulous]

Semi-random is still random. After my seventh fiendish t-rex our of twelve boxes of GoL, I swore off random minis. The day WotC releases all of the minis in a set in a single box is the day I’ll buy D&D minis from them again.

Even then, to get the other nine goblin minions you want, you'd have to buy 9 more full sets!!!

I exaggerate of course, but you see what i mean.

I quit buying the random boosters because i was getting a lot of multiples of crap i just flat didn't want. I've gone secondary market ever since and not regretted it.