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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2913491" data-attributes="member: 12332">When I started playing D&D ... a while back ... I didn't use any miniatures at all.  Just dots on a graph-paper map - "Yer here, here, and here."After 3.X I slowly sunk into the minis "thing".  At first it was buying a 1" grid play mat.  Then buying some cardboard counters.  Then MAKING some cardboard counters.  When the D&D minis came out, I wasn't hot for buying boxes of randomized minis, but I DID like getting proper-scale pre-painted character minis for 0.50-0.79 apiece.  So for a while the only minis on the table were the PCs, in plastic, and the badguys were all in cardboard chits.The group I play with now is coo-coo for minis.  Where I thought I was hot stuff for drawing out my map on Tact-Tiles ... they use Dwarven Forge and Hirst Arts terrain to build every combat room.  Where I had a handful of plastic minis for the PCs ... they've got minis of every shape, size, material, and manufacture.For instance ... my character is a mid-level Cleric of St. Cuthbert.  There were no really good minis portraying a human male in armor with a great-club.  So our resident miniphile took a 28mm Uruk-Hai LotR mini .... cut off the head, added a new one, added sprues for other weapons, backpack, etc.  Repainted the whole thing in proper colors.When my character casts Lesser Holy Transformation and turns into a Protectar, we've got a Heroscape winged mini in armor that we replace him with.When I cast Enlarge Person or Righteous Might we've got a LotR poseable toy figure that's about the right size that we add a club to.So, at least among us "hobbyist gamers", I think it usually boils down to what will do the job.  I haven't met the hobby-snobby types who think all minis must be Reaper minis or whatever, but I haven't met enough barking mad gamers yet.--fje</blockquote>

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