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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 6010317" data-attributes="member: 55178">1980-88 - No minis at all.  I'd see them in the store, or the ads in Dragon, but what little gaming I managed to do, mixed with the fact that I was hiding my surviving D&D books from my PTA-induced-witch-hunting mother, mixed with the fact that I was a kid with a dollar a week allowance meant that they were not a viable addition.1989-92 - A new friend in high school introduced me to Battletech, which introduced me to painting minis.    Suddenly I have an army of Battlemechs, and a handful of half painted RPG miniatures that still exist as a coat of primer, and maybe a base coat.1992-97 -  College!  All evidence points to me attempting to major in gaming.  For a number of years I'm a fixture at a local game store where we paint EVERYTHING.  DBA, DBM, and a million other different 15 and 35mm historical games, Hordes of the Things, terrain pieces, Warhammer, 40K, 40K Epic, the one with the boats, the one with the boats in space, some Western duel game that used a deck of cards...  I paint a lot (A LOT) of minis for D&D characters, but they're rarely used on a battlemat.  They're seen as more of a fancy character sketch than anything else.  Combats are usually sketched out on a chalk/dry erase board.  All of this comes crashing to a halt when 3 tackle boxes of fully painted minis, and a 40K army that I was being payed to paint for someone else get stolen right out from under my nose at the Thunderbolt Mountain booth at Gencon.2000-02 - 3rd edition rears its head, and I get the bug to start painting again.  2003-present - I finally realize that having a "game room" at my house, and inviting the people I  want to game with is an option instead of carting all of my stuff to the university gaming club and trying to find a vacant classroom/office.  Looking at the available space, and realizing that I'm on the verge of filling it full of crates and drawers and boxes of miniatures and paint, along with teetering towers of terrain pieces; I come to a decision.  Instead of investing in what I'm sure will end up being a disastrous pack-rat decision, I go 2D.  I start printing out miniature tokens and terrain pieces.  I eventually land on a procedure that allows me to field an army of basically anything, fighting anywhere, at the drop of a hat.  200 orcs riding velociraptors in a jungle pyramid in 24 hours?  I can have the images created, printed, cut, and laminated in 12.Eventually the terrain goes almost entirely digital, I have a miniatures collection of easily over 5000 figures that fits into two <a href="http://www.stack-on.com/categories/drawer-cabinets/products/160" target="_blank">Stack-on</a> cabinets, and somehow I inexplicably find myself with a weekly game night but no one to play D&D with.</blockquote>

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