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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kronovan" data-source="post: 9863341" data-attributes="member: 6775134">My enthusiasm for collecting and painting minis waxed with my son and daughter reaching an age where they could paint (both became good mini painters), and waned as they approached their late teens and lost interest. We mostly collected Reapers for fantasy figs. My son and I were also fans of WoTC's D&D Miniatures and Star Wars Miniatures games, which featured prepainted minis. We collected about a 100 D&D figs, but well over 500 SW figs. My son is now the keeper of those and continues to play the miniature skirmish game and also uses them in his PF1e, 5e and WEG Star Wars campaigns.My son and I got into Battletech many moons ago at a local tabeltop club, so we collected and painted about 2 companies worth of Catalyst Games Labs battlemech miniatures. He now lives in a different city, so I gave that set to him and have since collected and are painting 2 new battalions of CGLs battlemechs and 2 companies of tanks & vehicles. Two of my groups enjoys military-SciFi with lots of heavy metal on the ground, so those battletech mini get used for a variety of SciFi TTRPGs. I also have some of Iron Wind's Battletech aerospace minis, which get used in the same campaigns.With my son and daughter no longer painting with me, my enthusiasm for collecting fantasy miniatues fell off. When my son became keeper of our fantasy mini collection, I couldn't be bothered to paint more. So, instead I bought a number of those Paizo PF pawn boxes, a few of their SF pawn boxes and few of Kobold Presses' and Pinnacle's pawn collections. Those worked very well for the times my players and I want minis on the table. I run a lot of ToTM and zone-based encounters these days though, so those pawns are getting to the table less and less.Post Covid, I've also been running more TTRPGs (FATE, 13th Age, STA, & recently WH40k IM ) that use zones for action encounters. I've found that tokens seem to be a better fit for those - somehow a more abstract representation of a character seems better suited to the more abstract zones on maps. I now find myself doing something I rarely did before - buying beginner/starter boxes, which usually include tokens. And I have to say, I'm really enjoying the content in those boxes - well worth the cost.I've also been making my own tokens by printing them on card stock and sticking them to the adhesive foam you can buy at hobby/craft stores. I've been buying and making digital tokens for a while for my 2 VTTs, and with recently added features, I can now export those tokens and print them out.As strange as it still seems ot me, in the past 2 decades I've gone from an enthusiastic collector and painter of metal and epoxy miniatures, to a collector of tokens. My Battletech-Alpha Strike hobby is still a thing for me, but that's now the full extent of my miniatures activities.</blockquote>

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