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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Howery" data-source="post: 5470332" data-attributes="member: 17239"><p>I love minis.  I got into D&D way back when because of minis.  A local game shop in Bozeman (where I went to college) had a big display of them, and I noticed them first, long before I ever knew of the game that went with them.  In fact, I started painting minis before I learned how to play the game.  Over my years of gaming, I bought dozens of them, even though I never used half of them.  When I started going to Gencon regularly, I always haunted the mini market stalls in the great hall; I bought dozens of 'bargain bin' ones.  I branched out from D&D minis into some historical ones (all kinds of medieval ones, a nearly complete 'defenders of the Alamo' collection, assorted ancient/medieval/age of rifles, Iroquois, Sioux, etc.).  My nephew were into GW's Warhammer and LOTR games, so I picked up some of those too, so they'd have someone else to game against.  Nowadays, even though I don't game anymore, I still buy and paint minis just for fun.  I focus now on ones that I just like the looks of... and if you've ever seen Reaper and Copplestone's lines, you know they have some really goofy ones (I've got Santa Claus, sexied up versions of Alice in Wonderland and Sleeping Beauty, and Zombie Hitler).  Someday, I need to put some shelves up so I have a decent display space for them...</p></blockquote><p></p>