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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 9668496" data-attributes="member: 5948">The economics of minis from heroforge etc, or even the time efficiency of painting, kinda depends on purpose of course. The PCs in my game are mostly represented by custom-painted minis, carefully chosen by the players. But as a DM, sometimes you just need a bunch of monsters to chuck on the table for a once-and-done combat. If they’re not perfect, that’s ok, and it’s an expenditure of time I can’t afford to paint them up and customise them. Maybe you can spend a bit more effort on the campaign bbeg, or on recurring NPCs, but for routine combat fodder, prepaints are golden.Having said that, I’m lucky in that I have a lot of the old DDM prepaints, which were vastly cheaper per mini than the newer wizkids ones. Quality varies, the wizkids sculpts are better but garbage paint jobs are common over both ranges. The big advantage of the DDM sets is the rare/uncommon/common distribution and the higher number of minis per pack made it a lot easier to bulk out a basic toolbox of goblins, skeletons, city guards etc. The downside was that the line was designed with the DDM miniatures game in mind, which skewed what was included on n the sets because the factions were alignment-based and in the interest of balance each faction had to get roughly the same love in each set. Which wasn’t helpful for DMs trying to assemble a bunch of monster minis to throw at PCs - I ended up with a truly ridiculous number of variations on ‘dwarf with axe’.Wizkids have a much better distribution of monsters vs good guys, but the pricing and set size is such that you have to spend a LOT on randomised boosters to get what you want. And most other DMs will be targeting the same minis as you (the draconians from the SotDQ set are a case in point) so the singles market can be very expensive too.</blockquote>

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