Do you use minis?

[drothgery]

I picked "I just use counters or whatever's on hand"; that's usually minis, but it's because the DM has a lot of minis. I'd be just as happy with dice or Army Men or any other random thing to take up a square on a battlemat...

 

[Desdichado]

Depends on which d20 game I'm playing, mostly. For Cthulhu we don't use anything. For most others, we usually use a battle map with a combination of specially printed counters, prepainted D&D minis, unpainted or manually painted minis from other sources (Warhammer, Reaper, Warmachine, Rackham, etc.) or whatever's on hand, including spare dice.

I'm sure we use more of the D&D minis than anything else, but that's not exclusive. Often I like to use a specially painted mini that I have, and I sometimes even have to prepare monster stats that specifically match it. At my session last week, I used four WH40k termagaunt minis, for instance. Made up some stats on the spot. If I'd been more on the ball, I might have used kythons from the BoVD. Point is, I occasionally let minis drive the action rather than the other way around.

In theory, I'd prefer play without minis, or any tactical battle representation at all. I don't actually much like dropping out of the RPG and into the mini tactical game. But d20's other benefits lead me to ignore that most of the time.

 

[Turhan]

We have less than a thousand minis, most of which I painted and contributed to the game. I bought a few pre painted plastics, and a couple are good enough to use on the table top, but most lack the heft, and finesse of the metals. The plastic dragons aren't really big enough for my tastes, but the giants tend to be.

WE always use minis on the table top, along with lots of terrain stuff I build or find. we don't use a rigid grid system like normal skirmish games, but we probably should....

All of that makes the skeleton for our imaginations to wrap a world around, but all of the bones are out on the table, so to speak, unless they're invisible of course.

 

[der_kluge]

I have a fair collection of "toys" that I've picked up at toy stores which are suitables for certain monsters. I also have a decent collection of the WoTC figs. And I have maybe a dozen or so Reaper figs, some of which I have painted (some my wife painted), and some which are not painted. I also have 3 big Reaper Dragon figs, two of which I still need to assemble and paint. One is complete.

 

[CRGreathouse]

I think multiple choice would have been best. I paint my own minis, but we use counters and whatnot for many monsters, since we don't have that many minis.

 

[sjmiller]

I love using painted metal miniatures, old and new. I also love using the newer WotC pre-painted plastic ones. I also use Cardboard Heroes (stand-up figures), counters of all sorts, and some plastic toy stand-ins.

I would have a lot more painted metal figures if I wasn't allergic to the paints. Still, I can occasionally beg friends to paint them for me.

 

[Desdichado]

We have less than a thousand minis,

So do we. Except, in our case, it's a lot less...

 

[Dread October]

Primarily I use minis but if I'm running a game and the poarty has to face large numbers of opponents, then I use lots of d6 of various colors. Color and number showing designate different things. It's easier to say "I cast hold person of green thug #3." than "I cast hold person on that guy <points finger>"


Dread October

 

[Ibram]

I buy and paint my own minis... at first it was mostly WHFB stuff, but now its almost exclusivly Reaper.

 

[Jdvn1]

I buy pre-painted minis, unpainted minis (and use them unpainted), and use counters (for mass creatures).

I have no clue what to vote.