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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4686633" data-attributes="member: 5143">The last I heard is they were going to be charging for minis.  They'd give you tokens to represent monsters and characters, but they'd just be circles with "A" or whatever written on them.  If you wanted 3d minis or 3d terrain tiles, you'd have to pay extra.  They kept changing their mind about how they were going to charge for them: Sets of them for a single price, individual pricing, random boosters, pay a single price for a mini and use as many copies of that one mini as you wanted were all mentioned.  It was said that flat D&D minis tiles would be free but 3d objects(like braziers, altars, and the like) and 3d tiles would cost extra.But the concept of charging for minis and tiles didn't seem to be part of their original design.  I could be wrong about that, but there was way too much talk very late into the design about WOTC "Not knowing how the purchasing would work" for the minis.  I could be wrong about that.  But it seems that it would be one of the things you'd like to nail down so you could tell the programmers how to put it into the code.  And, I wish I could find the blog where I read it last year, but I swear someone(maybe Critical-Hits, maybe somewhere else) said that they talked to one of the WOTC people at GenCon and they admitted that getting the DRM for which minis you had access to into the Game Table was holding things up because of the amount of code they had to rewrite to accommodate it.  I REALLY wish I could find it.  Mainly because I have the tendency to remember things that didn't happen and convince myself that they did.  I certainly hope this isn't know of those times.Even if I didn't read it somewhere, it seems like a valid theory.</blockquote>

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