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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6940601" data-attributes="member: 6701872">When I first started DMing I didn't have any miniatures, but I quickly bought and painted some from local game store bargain bins. A year or two later I had a decent assortment, and a particular fighter mini with a two-handed sword that I was most proud of and had actually bought at full price... that I dropped on a concrete floor and watched fly into pieces.That incident broke my heart, and I gave up on miniatures for a long time afterward. But I still ran with a grid, even as my collection of minis dwindled due to damage or loss and I refused to repair or replace, using anything else on hand to represent things: dice, dice cases, coins, pieces from board games, dishes, and so forth.Then one day about a decade ago I was running a game in a local shop after having just moved here, and an encounter came along that was confusing the players with the varied creatures and terrain involved. When I looked around for supplies to use to solve the confusion, I found things to be lacking... but there were a few boxes of WotC pre-painted minis on the shelf, so I bought them, layed out the blank grid map from the DMG of the time, lined up a few spare pencils as walls and scattered a few tiny dice from a pirate game I can't remember the name of (you bought what were basically trading card packs, punched the ship pieces out of the cards, built them, and would combat other ships, and they came with these tiny d6) to represent terrain of note - and the confusion was gone.Plus, I was finally over my heartbreak about minis.Now I have too many, and hundreds of them I keep wishing I'd find time and motivation at the same moment so I can paint, because I've re-found my love for that too.But I still use whatever is on hand. Usually a mix of minis, dice, "pogs" from late 4e materials, standees from Paizo products, and bits from board games.</blockquote>

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