For the Love of Minis

[Stormonu]

What is your attitude towards minis? How do you use them in your game? What do you use for minis (if any?)


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I love minis myself. When I got my first D&D books back for Christmas in '79, I got two sets of minis with them - this set of PCs (my favorite is the two halflings, one standing on the other's shoulders) and this set of monsters (never could get the skeleton with the flag to stand properly, and I had an Efreet & Djinn in my set instead of the F & J figures). Since then, I've always used minis in my game, even if it was just to mark marching order. Usually, I just set the minis up for marching order or we used them in setpiece fights.

When I finally got my first set of Dwarven Forge dungeon bricks, I started actually using minis in conjunction with dungeon exploration. WotC's dungeon tiles - and the plastic minis, while less glamorous in many ways, eventually replaced the latter setup just because it was much quicker to set up than the dwarven forge (and the plastics were already painted...).

I still use minis to this day quite extensively, and shake my head sadly when others say D&D was "miniaturized" by 3E. I'd been doing it since Basic.
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[Dannyalcatraz]

I voted that I used minis in all of the editions of D&D.

FWIW, I've also used minis in SF and Supers games as well. I've got mecha, robots, cyborgs, dudes w/capes...the list goes on.

 

[the Jester]

More or less love them.

I've used them since 3e, with a tiny bit of using them in OD&D, 1e and 2e, but not enough to count as a yes on the poll. Late in 2e we started using a whiteboard, which led to minis at the very end.

 

[Dice4Hire]

I play pretty tactical D&D, so I used them in 3E and 4E. I played earlier games, but we did not relly use minis in combat, though I ahd a few metal ones that were occasionally used.

 

[JakeJekel37]

I never used minis until 4E. However, I started playing in 1990, or 1991 with 2E, played for about 5 years, and only started getting into it again about 5 months ago. Decided after buying/reading through DMG 1 and PHB 1 for 4E that I would use minis once I got a group together. While I'm a bit late to the game, especially considering they just stopped production of minis, I love 'em. Never used them back in the day, didn't even know they existed back then (I was 11 when I started and 16 when I quit), but I have no problem with them now. I don't know that I could really imagine playing 4E without them, but then I don't have a whole lot of experience with it just yet. I'm sure after awhile I could imagine playing without them, but I don't see a reason not to use them if I have them available.

 

[The Shaman]

What is your attitude towards minis?

Strict discipline tempered by parental affection.

Ideally minis are a nice-to-have; I'm not interested in roleplaying games in which they are a need-to-have.

How do you use them in your game?

Sliding them around the table making **PEWPEWPEW* noises is a popular option.

I don't use grids for anything except Traveller/Snapshot, so mostly I use them just for relative positioning and to make the table look cool.

What do you use for minis (if any?)

These.

 

[frankthedm]

Action figures make great minis IMHO.


My miniature thread

 

[pawsplay]

I love 'em. If only they didn't take so much time, money, and storage space, we could be so happy together. And by the way:

OTHERWORLD | Store - O Series

That's what I'm talkin' about.

 

[Haltherrion]

I love mini's. It's part of the game for me. I used to paint them and have used them since my first session (OD&D) but one of my players far surpassed me. These days, we began every campaign with a slate of 25-35 newly painted figures from which the players draw their PC or in some cases a 'portfolio' of figures.

Our latest slate of figures is here:
The Draft Figures - Affliction

 

[Jhaelen]

We've eventually been using minis (or tokens, or other suitable substitutes) in every rpg we've ever played, not just D&D. Their introduction helped to reduce stupid arguments a lot, even if we just put them on graph paper to show their general positions.