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<blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 4605544" data-attributes="member: 61026"><p>If you want the intro-box-set and expansion set prices to be outrageously cheap, they could only include counters, at most, instead of painted miniatures. </p><p></p><p>Maybe WotC could come up with a newer style of counters: Painted images on flat plastic "cutout"-shaped figures that snap into flat plastic bases. That might be visually more appealing than the solid-color (White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green -- how M:tG!) 3-D miniatures that were included in the Parker Brothers "Fantasy Adventure Board Game" that was sold in the UK -- while simultaneously weighing less, due to being 2-D instead of 3-D. Also, plastic counters might be sturdier than paper counters. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Good point. IMHO, WotC should keep making actual minis, but not try to include actual minis in the kind of intro/expansion sets that jephlewis was talking about. </p><p>That way, the beginners could get their cheap starter packages; but after they had been playing with those for a while, they could graduate (or escalate) from those to the full D&D game with actual minis -- assuming they will eventually become interested in playing greater campaigns with more options.</p><p>[It would help if the intro/expansion counters were the same scale as the line of minis. (25mm? 28mm?)]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tuxgeo, post: 4605544, member: 61026"] If you want the intro-box-set and expansion set prices to be outrageously cheap, they could only include counters, at most, instead of painted miniatures. Maybe WotC could come up with a newer style of counters: Painted images on flat plastic "cutout"-shaped figures that snap into flat plastic bases. That might be visually more appealing than the solid-color (White, Blue, Black, Red, and Green -- how M:tG!) 3-D miniatures that were included in the Parker Brothers "Fantasy Adventure Board Game" that was sold in the UK -- while simultaneously weighing less, due to being 2-D instead of 3-D. Also, plastic counters might be sturdier than paper counters. Good point. IMHO, WotC should keep making actual minis, but not try to include actual minis in the kind of intro/expansion sets that jephlewis was talking about. That way, the beginners could get their cheap starter packages; but after they had been playing with those for a while, they could graduate (or escalate) from those to the full D&D game with actual minis -- assuming they will eventually become interested in playing greater campaigns with more options. [It would help if the intro/expansion counters were the same scale as the line of minis. (25mm? 28mm?)] [/QUOTE]
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