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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8163820" data-attributes="member: 14159">Exactly.In many ways, it's a golden age of D&D minis like never before.  Before 2003, there was just pewter metal minis. . .expensive enough that the groups I knew didn't even bother with minis.  In 2003, thanks to the success of Mage Knight, WotC launched their collectable minis game, which made D&D minis cheap enough for groups to use, but the "collectable" format meant that if a group wanted this or that mini it would mean finding someone dealing on the secondary market, or getting lucky, or buying so many boxes of minis that they'd end up with a lot of stuff they didn't want.Now, as you said, between the Nolzur's miniatures line (the best thing about the 5e era, IMO, I just now know I need to check the size on minis for some creatures), 3D printing, custom options on Etsy, and the Reaper Bones line of affordable plastic minis, it's easier than ever before to buy minis and get what you want and need. Heck, for Christmas, a gift I gave several of my closest friends was custom 3D printed minis from Hero Forge for their most famous characters.  Being able to design a mini that looks exactly like your character, instead of just finding a sculpt that is "close enough" and trying to repaint or customize them, have them 3D printed in full color and mailed to you would be like science fiction if you told me about it when I started playing D&D back in the 90's.</blockquote>

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