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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 5436468" data-attributes="member: 30678">I am! I was strongly against using battlemaps or minis until a couple of years ago when my players prompted me to try them, and I was instantly hooked. Since then I've bought boosters on an irregular fashion, and my collection is still modest. However, I have players with vast collections and fellow GMs who gladly let me borrow theirs, and I can get whatever I want from the secondary market. But still there's really no comparison to tearing open that box and discovering your first Beholder, or Large Dragon, for example. If I had 3-4 minis of every creature type, I wouldn't probably enjoy it as much, but I think I would still buy one or two packs every now and then.I know I can get unpainted minis, but those have always been available; if I enjoyed painting them, I probably would have bought more metal minis in the past. Here's the thing: I'm really crappy at painting (although I'd probably do a better paint job than I've seen on some WoTC minis in the latest sets) and I'm too impatient and busy to paint them myself. I could buy tokens, but I want to use my dungeon tiles and minis for their visual appeal and effect; in addition, cardboard tokens are not only easily lost or broken, they also look pretty lame next to PC minis. And that's my biggest issue with them. I guess Fiery Dragon's metal tokens might be more durable, but I'd still prefer cutout cardboard figures with stands, if someone produced them.</blockquote>

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