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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jephlewis" data-source="post: 4603355" data-attributes="member: 81304">You know, I pretty much agree. The only minis I have are from some of the 'black dragon' 3.x basic sets that I picked up cheap at hastings, and like three or four boosters.I like the minis in the basic sets that I bought because they were 'common' bad guys, there were quite a few [when you buy multiple basic sets], and I knew what I was getting.Scaling, poses, quality, and containers weren't things I was too upset about, though. Well, quality could have been better, like 'descent: journeys in the dark boardgame' good.Now, terrain, YES! I don't need dwarven forge or anything, but wotc should have come out with...well...'playsets'. BIG playsets, like at least twenty five minis each:'small tavern' - cardboard dungeon tiles for the floor, cardboard bar and tables, some mini patrons, serving staff, and of course the hooded old stranger guy'king's court' - cardboard throne and steps, cardboard pillars, mini guards, king's advisor's, visiting dignitaries'druid grove' - forested dungeon tiles, cardboard trees, some cardboard stonehenge stuff, mini druids, rangers, and woodland creatures'dark dock' - cardboard barrels, chests, and crates, mini sailors, dock workers, and some thieves'wizard's tower' - cardboard trap tiles, tables, alchemical equipment, torture rack, bookcases, mini wizard and apprentices, and some aberrations'restless dead' - cardboard cemetery dungeon tiles, cardboard graves and mausoleums, ruined church, mini zombies, skeletons, and ghostsMarketing it as a playset would've gotten them into places other than book stores as toys, probably on the shelf right next to heroscape. Include some sample adventures [or 'quests', or 'missions']...say ten, some pre-gen characters, stats for the minis, the same rules that were in the 4E starter set and keep on the shadowfell, and you've got a whole game 'for only 29.99!!!'.Sales of the core books would have gone up, young gamers and old gamers would have gamed together more often, the hobby would have grown, 'non gamer' families would play D&D together [because it was an imaginative board game, you see], cats and dogs would frolick together, an extra friday would be added to each week, and eventually, world peace.I never liked the pig farmer.<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=":)" /></blockquote>

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