My mini fetish, or When is enough, enough?
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WizarDru
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We use a mix. For the core characters of our main campaign, we have exquisitely painted metal minis....which need to be treated like fine crystal when transporting them. Some of our boss monsters get the same treatment...but most monsters and NPCs don't require such treatment, and plastic minis are perfect.
Especially as my painting skills are average and my speed is slow....I have no time to paint all the minis I'd use. Now, with the D&D minis, I have most of the creatures I need available on command....and I can let the kids play with them. My soon likes to grab a bunch of them and run them, like a party, through his 'labyrinth jr.' game.
Especially as my painting skills are average and my speed is slow....I have no time to paint all the minis I'd use. Now, with the D&D minis, I have most of the creatures I need available on command....and I can let the kids play with them. My soon likes to grab a bunch of them and run them, like a party, through his 'labyrinth jr.' game.
D+1
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Yeah, I too have hundreds of wotc minis (and a few hundred metals as well). Most of the plastic I have crammed into two plastic parts cabinets with maybe 60 drawers each. Some drawers are really packed pretty close. The ones I left out are rares from earlier sets that I'm going to trade away to try to support my habit in GoL and some that multiples of commons/uncommons I just don't care for and am quite certain I'll never use in a campaign. Oh, and a few of the larger ones that I just don't want my players to see that I actually HAVE. When they see ORCUS step out with his size 12's - followed by a Nightstalker and whatever other large, shocking minis I intend to kill them with - that's a moment too good to be spoiled by them seeing them ahead of time.
I knew I was spending more money than I really ought to have on the minis up to now. So with Giants I've only bought 3 boosters so far, will not be buying any cases, and I think I'm unlikely to actually try to complete the set. The only mini's from Giants I'm really interested in are the monsters, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to trade away the huges and rares I'm not interested in for those.
I knew I was spending more money than I really ought to have on the minis up to now. So with Giants I've only bought 3 boosters so far, will not be buying any cases, and I think I'm unlikely to actually try to complete the set. The only mini's from Giants I'm really interested in are the monsters, so I'm hoping that I'll be able to trade away the huges and rares I'm not interested in for those.
WizarDru said:....and I can let the kids play with them. My soon likes to grab a bunch of them and run them, like a party, through his 'labyrinth jr.' game.
Thats one of my excuses for getting them also. My 5 yr old boy loves playing with the 'D&D Guys' and makes castles out of his ImagineNext stuff for them.
Kae'Yoss
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I'm relieved
Really, I'm relieved. I thought I was addicted to D&D Minis, having about 160 and wanting to get them all eventually. But now I read about people who want them several times over and have hundreds, and I knw I'm not the worst off
But I like them, and like to collect. Those ******* from Wizards got me with the minis - something they didn's achieve with Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, L5R TDG or any of the other Collectibles. And it started innocently, with a single Sun Soul Initiate: I was in a big game store and was looking for a mini for my Monk character, something without hair or overly large weapons. And I found not a single metal mini that fit. But then one of the owners kindly gave me a sun soul initiate - it wasn't perfect, but closer to anything I have found as metal. I thought to get a couple of cases and hope to get the Lion Falcon Monk, which was more or less perfect.
Long story short, I now have bought several boxes, and got a lot of minis from Ebay. And sooner or later, I want to get them all.
Really, I'm relieved. I thought I was addicted to D&D Minis, having about 160 and wanting to get them all eventually. But now I read about people who want them several times over and have hundreds, and I knw I'm not the worst off
But I like them, and like to collect. Those ******* from Wizards got me with the minis - something they didn's achieve with Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, L5R TDG or any of the other Collectibles. And it started innocently, with a single Sun Soul Initiate: I was in a big game store and was looking for a mini for my Monk character, something without hair or overly large weapons. And I found not a single metal mini that fit. But then one of the owners kindly gave me a sun soul initiate - it wasn't perfect, but closer to anything I have found as metal. I thought to get a couple of cases and hope to get the Lion Falcon Monk, which was more or less perfect.
Long story short, I now have bought several boxes, and got a lot of minis from Ebay. And sooner or later, I want to get them all.
shock the monkey
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I now have well over a thousand of these things. Loads of treants, giants, gauths, salmanders... well, you name it. Got all the Huge minis, too, and I love it. Didn't have to paint a single one and I'll never have to worry about small pieces breaking off as I did with my unpainted, lead minis. The paint jobs are getting better, too, though the eyes leave a lot to be imagined. Can't wait to see Aberrations. Let's hope they get the Beholder right.
