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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GQuail" data-source="post: 2743849" data-attributes="member: 30709">I mainly play D&D without any miniatures or battlemaps: it's just the way I've always done it, and the way groups I've played in have always done it too.  Sometimes we'd pull out map tiles for a few specific quests (because, say, it was randomly generated as we went along using the tiles, ala Warhammer Quest or Advanced Heroquest) but that was it.Anyway, over the past few months my current game has had combat slow down somewhat, and I thought adding maps might help: that the players might get more excited about props, tacticals, etc.  (I know at least two players were quite into Warhammer before, as was I, so I thought that might pull them in as well.)  When I used a map and miniatures for one combat (intentionally designed to be map intensive: an arena fight with beams that required jump and balance checks, making measurements essential) it actually went down quite well, so I figured I'd keep experimenting.At first, I just pulled out some old Citadel miniatures and used them as rough stand-ins, painting up a few with my girlfriend, but it became obvious the time and skill (I'm a really mince painter ;-) wasn't viable.So, I started looking into ordering single D&D miniatures online, and after picking up a few bit the bullet and bought my first random box: a Deathknell pack.  OK, so one common I got was one I'd ordered online singly, but it's no big deal, two badgers is better than one.  ;-)  Got a Goliath rare figure, which was of minimal use to me, but that's just the way it goes.Today, I got a second random pack.... and got the same badger figure again, as well as two other duplicated commons.  Oh, yeah, and my rare?  THE SAME GOLIATH FIGURE!  And, just to make it somehow worse, it had somehow broken it's own packaging bag in transit, ensuring if I resell it that I can't say it's "mint in bag" or whatever. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> I really like the D&D miniature, actually: the paint jobs do the trick, the more game-specific miniatures are useful and I like the stat cards.  I also used to collect Magic cards and know the D&D figures come in quite small sets, so duplicates are likely with common figures.... but is this a statistical anomaly, or am I really better off picking up singles if I want to avoid having to design more adventures where Badgers and Giant Frogs play a big part?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Right now, hunting EBay for more individual figures only has the drawback of the kind of price rares go for.  Like I said, I play Magic, so I know "the good ones" will always go for slightly unhealthy amounts: but do I really want to down all that cash on a pre-painted plastic figure, when twice the amount gets me an unpainted but gigantic  Citadel figure or similar?  So, yeah, experiences with buying figures for games is sought, especially buying on a budget: Christmas is a coming, as is my girlfriend's birthday too, so there's little money left for me this month!</blockquote>

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