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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4267312" data-attributes="member: 14159">My FLGS has a big wall of Reaper minis.&nbsp; I've bought a few and painted them, not as replacements for plastic, but for when the collectable mini format really hurts.Here's an example from a few years back:I wanted to have an illithid villain in my upcoming adventure I was running the next week.&nbsp; I didn't have any illithid plastic minis, and all the ones out were rare and had irritatingly high prices on the secondary market.&nbsp; (I haven't kept up with D&amp;D mini releases, I don't know if any non-rares ever were made).&nbsp; So, for a plastic mini of a creature I want I can order it online and pay ~$12 or more after shipping and it might get here in time for the game next week. . .or I can go down to my FLGS and pick up a Reaper mini.&nbsp; For a lot of WotC &quot;Product Identity&quot; monsters they have creatures that look an awful lot like them but with a different name (Bathaglian for Illithid, Phase Cat for Displacer Beast, Eyebeast for Beholder. . .).&nbsp; Since those distinctive creatures typically have expensive secondary-market costs it was actually cheaper for me to buy a metal mini and spend a little time painting it myself than it was to just get a piece of plastic.If the big advantage of randomized minis is they are cheaper, that's defeated by the secondary market costs being ridiculously high on minis for creatures that may be rare in minis distribution but most DM's would want to use.&nbsp; Also, Reaper has a lot of minis of things you don't often see D&amp;D minis of, like a lot of townsfolk minis if you want bystanders for your tavern brawls ect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 4267312, member: 14159"] My FLGS has a big wall of Reaper minis. I've bought a few and painted them, not as replacements for plastic, but for when the collectable mini format really hurts. Here's an example from a few years back: I wanted to have an illithid villain in my upcoming adventure I was running the next week. I didn't have any illithid plastic minis, and all the ones out were rare and had irritatingly high prices on the secondary market. (I haven't kept up with D&D mini releases, I don't know if any non-rares ever were made). So, for a plastic mini of a creature I want I can order it online and pay ~$12 or more after shipping and it might get here in time for the game next week. . .or I can go down to my FLGS and pick up a Reaper mini. For a lot of WotC "Product Identity" monsters they have creatures that look an awful lot like them but with a different name (Bathaglian for Illithid, Phase Cat for Displacer Beast, Eyebeast for Beholder. . .). Since those distinctive creatures typically have expensive secondary-market costs it was actually cheaper for me to buy a metal mini and spend a little time painting it myself than it was to just get a piece of plastic. If the big advantage of randomized minis is they are cheaper, that's defeated by the secondary market costs being ridiculously high on minis for creatures that may be rare in minis distribution but most DM's would want to use. Also, Reaper has a lot of minis of things you don't often see D&D minis of, like a lot of townsfolk minis if you want bystanders for your tavern brawls ect. [/QUOTE]

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