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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turhan" data-source="post: 2673369" data-attributes="member: 21856">Yeah, Bosco's is my spot for buying mini's.  Pretty good selection.  I'm not in the military anymore, and live in one spot so I can afford to collect stuff without worrying about storing it for deployments.  Our chief DM is ex Air force and spent a lot of time training up players as he moved about-- but that was 1976-82 or so.....  Since then he trained our curent group of 3 players.  Lat few years, I've taken 80% of the dm duty.Mini's are about half of my interest in gaming.  Avid collector, painter.  Almost all are used in game though.I'm part of an old group of dnd'ers.  The Old guy started in the 70's.  I'm only 15 years in.We tried Star Wars d20 a while back and enjoyed that but the player who dm'ed it had work conflicts so I had to revert to dm.  That means good old dnd with orcs and dungeons and such.I tried warhammer eyars ago, but it never caught my attention.  Sold off a couple armies and went back to dnd.  We tired a hybrid of dnd and Ars Magica and that went well, in a highly over powered sort of way.None of our group likes vampires so ravenloft as a setting never caught on.  I bought a bunch of the Mordheim minis but we never played it.  We have always sort of played our dnd as a mini's skirmish game anyway.  Always used mini's on teh table, always use scenery.  I build tons of stuff: rocks, trees, mountains, fountains, inns, hovels and palaces.  A garage full of stuff.  Some of it still gets used.I'm now trying to figure out how to post pics on the Reaper Mini's forums, so if you get over to their Show Off or Terrain forums in future weaks, you may find some of my junk.Reaper forums:   <a href="http://www.reapermini.com/forum/" target="_blank">http://www.reapermini.com/forum/</a>So you do the PbP thing?  How does it work out??   I've wondered about trying that as a way to get an occassional extra dnd fix, butthen I figure, if you can't commit to a long game, better not get started.What MMO do you play?  Our group of four (gang of Four??!!?)  started Guild Wars last month and are hooked.  Buy the game, play on line for free.  Nice deal- no monthly charges, but you need a cable modem or dsl.  I was surprised when our "guild"  all four of us, crossed "over the wall' to the dangerous area and got our butts handed to us because we tried to advance without tactical planning.  In the easy area the four of us can wade in and slay.  In the tough areas, no way.  The enemy AI is fierce.  Now we look for terrain and creep in slow til we can get in a good initial hit.  Makes it a lot more fun.Before Guild wars I played Neverwinter Nights on PC, but the rest of the crew is Xbox heavy, so they favored the action stuff.  Later, gamer.</blockquote>

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