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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5064929" data-attributes="member: 58197">Indeed. It looks like standard marketing boilerplate to me; the thing you say when you want to plug your upcoming release a little but the big bosses haven't agreed on messaging yet. I yield to no one in my ability to wage scorched-earth forum warfare over quibbles, but freaking out about this seems a bit excessive even by my standards.As for the PHH line: I had a post earlier deriding the quality, but then I took a look at <a href="http://www.ddmspoilers.com/phh_01.php" target="_blank">Greyhaze's</a> <a href="http://www.ddmspoilers.com/phh_02.php" target="_blank">galleries</a> and realized a lot of them are actually pretty good. I'm not sure why I assumed they were crap... sure, a lot of them are repaints of old sculpts, but at least they picked good minis to repaint, and now I can get a Frenzied Berserker for two-fifty instead of ten bucks. (A quick paint job will take care of the silly blue cloak.) Consider me a newly converted fan.But let's be honest, PC minis are not a good choice for the booster pack approach. I'm an unusual case; I supply all* the minis for my game, PCs and monsters alike, and I'm willing to drop a fair bit of disposable income on them, so I have an interest in collecting an array of PC minis. (Of course, I also buy everything on the secondary market... I regard booster packs as a way for less savvy gamers to subsidize my purchases. They buy yochlol tempters and chillfire destroyers so I can get doom dreamers for $0.89. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)As a rule, the player looking for a female eladrin fighter just wants a female eladrin fighter. She has no use for the male tiefling warlord and the male dwarf rogue that come with it. So you're asking her to shell out $11 retail for a single mini, which is substantially more than you'd pay for a metal mini of much higher quality. Sure, the metal mini isn't pre-painted, but still.If WotC wants to continue selling PC minis separately from monsters, they should move to selling singles. They could probably get away with charging $4-$5 apiece. Or they could just merge the PC line back into the monster line, which I suspect is what they'll end up doing.[SIZE=-2]*Well, almost all. One of the players has an unpainted metal kender mini that he uses for his halfling rogue; the rogue is a reincarnation of a character from his 2E days, and that was the mini he used for it then.[/SIZE]</blockquote>

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