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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sheep" data-source="post: 1483709" data-attributes="member: 4965">My wife and I have 4 starter packs (they were on sale at Amazon a few months ago, so I grabbed a bunch) and 1 each of the Harbinger and Dragoneye packs.  So that's 80 figures, I think.My wife enjoys painting minis, so we have a reasonable collection of (mainly Reaper) metal miniatures, and we were using those before the D&D minis came out.We use the plastic minis fairly often: mainly the humanoid figures though, since those are the most common sorts of opponents.  We have 3 or 4 of the hyaenas from Harbinger that I'm not likely to ever use.  On the other hand, there are a bunch that we haven't used yet (like the shambling mound) that I'm sure will come in useful one day.Although I can see the attraction in collecting them all, it isn't worth the expense for me.  I can see the attraction in having lots of cheap figures; but once you start spending hundreds of dollars on them, it stops being cheap.I'll probably by an expansion pack or two from each set in the future.We haven't ever played the skirmish game.  These minis are only ever used for D&D.  We still use metal minis for the PCs, though, since custom painted metal still looks better.  For large battles, when we run out of miniatures which look vaguely right, we use glass beads for counters.So to answer the question: even a small collection can be useful for roleplaying, particularly if it is part of a larger collection of miniatures, or in conjunction with lots of counters.Corran</blockquote>

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