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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ForceUser" data-source="post: 1640768" data-attributes="member: 2785">I love the new D&D minis. As a DM who enjoys using the battlemat but has neither the time nor the inclination to paint loads of monsters, I did backflips of pure glee when I first heard about the plastic minis. Not because they were randomly packaged - that stinks. Not because of the character minis - those are uniformly terrible. No, because of the oogles of monsters I could gather to throw against my players. So I'd have the official(tm) monsters, straight out of the Monster Manual! So I could point to a mini and say "You see that! It looks exactly like THAT!! And there are twelve of them!"Perhaps I've gone overboard. I now own close to 800 minis, mostly multiples of critters. I have 40-something hobgoblins, 20+ troglodytes, 30ish orcs. Five manticores. A dozen dretch. Four bone devils, to complement my quatrain of vrocks. And on and on. I'm completely obsessed. Whenever I see a cool monster come out, such as the hill giant, I say to myself, "I need at least two of those. No, wait, maybe three or four. Actually, I can imagine a scenario wherein my PCs face eight of these at least. Yeah, I better get eight." So I buy eight. Or twelve. Or forty.I love my collection. I cackle with private joy over which minis I'll use each session. I plan out encounters using minis (which ones, how many) in detail. I plot for future idyllic (for me, at least) scenarios wherein I can use dozens of my minis at once. I scan messageboards weekly for any news on upcoming sets (anyone have the word on Aberrations yet? I hunger.) My girlfriend worries. She says I'm obsessed. "Don't you have enough?" she often asks. "No," I reply. "It's never enough. I will never fill this void. I must have them all. Except for the Human Commoner, from the Harbinger set, which was a waste of Chinese child labor that could have been put to more productive use assembling succubi or kobold sorcerers."I suspect that I might have a problem.</blockquote>

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