Pre-Painted Plastic Minis!!!
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KnowTheToe
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The random box is the current trend and I am sure they will follow it. It worked for hero clix, Mage Knight and Mech Warrior. It is a tested success, why would they break the trend?
From GamingReport.com
"This game will be randomly packed pre-painted plastic miniatures. Yes, I said randomly packed pre-painted plastic miniatures."
The source cited is a WotC sales rep.
I too am in the camp of people who would like to at least have the option of getting a box of orcs or goblins. I would love to be able to pick up cheap Wererats or Hellhounds on Wednesday for Thursdays game. But random boxes won't help me there.
One of my local game stores sells individual Heroclix figures, but that isn't the perfect solution. The prices are based on both the rarity of the fig and on demand. Mooks are cheaper than the average price per fig when you buy a booster, but everything else is much more expensive.
Quality on its own isn't really an issue, I'm willing to get what I pay for. We already use counters to supplement our figs, but we play on a big table and 3D is much easier to keep track of than flat counters. After two decades of using risk pieces to represent a hoard of orcs, I would love to have 40 colour figs for under $50.
Cheers.
"This game will be randomly packed pre-painted plastic miniatures. Yes, I said randomly packed pre-painted plastic miniatures."
The source cited is a WotC sales rep.
I too am in the camp of people who would like to at least have the option of getting a box of orcs or goblins. I would love to be able to pick up cheap Wererats or Hellhounds on Wednesday for Thursdays game. But random boxes won't help me there.
One of my local game stores sells individual Heroclix figures, but that isn't the perfect solution. The prices are based on both the rarity of the fig and on demand. Mooks are cheaper than the average price per fig when you buy a booster, but everything else is much more expensive.
Quality on its own isn't really an issue, I'm willing to get what I pay for. We already use counters to supplement our figs, but we play on a big table and 3D is much easier to keep track of than flat counters. After two decades of using risk pieces to represent a hoard of orcs, I would love to have 40 colour figs for under $50.
Cheers.
Monte At Home
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It's possible that they'll be releasing some non-random packs for D&D players, although I haven't heard that they are.
It's confusing when one week they announce their collectible plastic minis game and then the next hype D&D saying "and you'll be able to buy cheap plastic minis."
It's confusing when one week they announce their collectible plastic minis game and then the next hype D&D saying "and you'll be able to buy cheap plastic minis."
Scout_Sniper
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Pre-Painted Plastic
You know... if you don't care what your visuals look like and you're too poor to buy quality minis and paint them, then use cardboard, or paper, or plastic beads, or whatever your heart desires. But don't drag the rest of down into your visually "blech" games.
Quality pewter minis, pain-stakingly painted, show a deep level of commitment to asthetics and role-playing in general. Some people don't like to use the little green plastic army guys to represent a hobgoblin tribal adept and his band of acolytes. If you do, fine. But people who care more about that particular aspect of the game would like the oppurtunity to develop such an outlet.
You know... if you don't care what your visuals look like and you're too poor to buy quality minis and paint them, then use cardboard, or paper, or plastic beads, or whatever your heart desires. But don't drag the rest of down into your visually "blech" games.
Quality pewter minis, pain-stakingly painted, show a deep level of commitment to asthetics and role-playing in general. Some people don't like to use the little green plastic army guys to represent a hobgoblin tribal adept and his band of acolytes. If you do, fine. But people who care more about that particular aspect of the game would like the oppurtunity to develop such an outlet.
