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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3356378" data-attributes="member: 4134">Okay, synergies is new, but the rest already exists: There's warband generators for both Excel and Access, both very good. They allow importing your collection from various sources, too.I didn't. There's a "I don't use a battlemat" option, and a "I use a battlemat with whatever I have on hand" option.Why waste money on rules supplements? More than one set of dice?I found that using a mat helps D&D (I played without before, and it often was a pain). I found that using minis makes it easier to remember what you're fighting, show exactly what you're fighting (including size difference - I know, you can get a 4"x4" piece of paper and let that be your Great Black, but the actual figure really shows you what you got yourself into), and they're pretty!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Plastic all the way. You don't have to treat them like raw eggs. You can drop them without bits breaking off, you can store them in normal toolboxes, a dozen minis per compartment, instead of bedding them in soft material each by itself. I had metal minis. I had bits broken off. I know what it's like to glue it back on and still see where it broke because I didn't have time to fix the paintjob.I don't have time to paint hundreds of minis, either.Plus, they cost me less than €1,15 each. Compared to what metal minis cost, that's very cheapI am real. I'm quite sure of it. "I think, therefore I am" sounds plausible to me. Of course, you could only imagine talking to other people on the internet, but then I won't get real only because you want me to. You'll just have to take my word for it and believe that I'm real. All that paranoia isn't good for you!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> The random aspect is what keeps the figures so cheap. Plus, it's not as if you can't get exactly what you want. The secondary market is huge, and except for the rares, quite cheap. You can get common figures for less than 50 cents (plus shipping, but the better eBay Shops have flat-rate shipping, so it's $3.5 whether you buy one mini or three dozen)You can always use paper markers for DDM skirmish (as long as you don't want to play in official tourneys, that is). What keeps you? The Wizards police doesn't have your address, does it?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> I don't think it makes games slower. The little extra time you have to use moving the figures around (and, yes, sometimes looking for a route that doesn't provoke AoOs) is nothing compared to the discussions with the DM whether you can reach enemy X, how many kobolds your fireball will hit (and whether it will hit your fellow party members), and all those things. Not to mention the discussion about where everyone is. I know I always hated those moments. But with minis, you can plainly see where you are, where everyone else is, and so on. That means you don't have to memorize the battlefield and can put all your brainpower to thinking about the battle.</blockquote>

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