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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Argyle King" data-source="post: 5579516" data-attributes="member: 58416">One of the reasons I started painting my own minis was due to how random the WoTC ones were.  (There were other reasons as well -such as the poor quality- but being able to pick and paint what I wanted was one.)  For a time I still did buy the occasional DDM set just to have minis, but there for a while it seemed a though the price was going up while the quality was simultaneously going down; the double whammy being that I also had no idea what I was getting from a pack.(on a side note: I have bought a few packs recently from the local 5 And Below store because they had packs of DDM minis and Star Wars minis for $5 and below.)For me, my ideal mini situation would be to have a few set sets for some of the more common monsters - a bag of kobolds for example.  If the company still wanted to toss one or two randoms in there as well, that wouldn't bug me.  Surely there's some way to find a middle ground between randomization and known content which performs better than what the D&D minis were.Either way, I'll still probably continue the mini painting route for my primary mini source.  It would be very nice to have a good quality prepainted route to enhance my collection though.</blockquote>