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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zaruthustran" data-source="post: 828821" data-attributes="member: 1457">=friendly jibe=Why stop there? They should charge $.25 a blister. No, wait--how about a penny? And they should allow each customer to custom-design the figures, down to the type of jewelry and style of hair cut. As a DM, I know what I want--and if I want a blind half-drow/half-dragon monk/blackguard with bracers of armor, a three-section staff, and a mohawk, then WotC should darn well produce and sell me that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />=/friendly jibe=WotC's random packaging strategy allows for a greater variety of miniatures, including unusual creatures. How? Because instead of taking inventory risk on a hundred individual skus (each of which must be stocked individually), WotC--and it's retail outlets--need only stock 2 skus: the starter and the booster. This strategy lets WotC create seldom-used but miniatures such as Hound Archons, Medusae, Beholders, and whatnot.This is especially great for dirt retailers. Instead of having to buy in 10 packs of Elf Rangers, 10 packs of Gnome Sorcerors, 10 packs of Displacer Beasts, 10 packs of Paladins, and 10 packs of every other figure in the 80-figure release (and having to devote valuable shelf space to these 800 packs of figures), a retailer can simply order 20 packs of each of the starter and booster packs. Much easier. And it completely elminates the problem of being sold out of Paladins but overstocked in Gnomes.Realize that many figures are sold in "assortments"--you can't order *just* 10 paladins, you have to order 10 of everything in the product line. This creates a nightmare for retailers since obviously not all figures will sell at the same rate. WotC's plan completely eliminates this problem.Where does this leave us gamers? Much better than before. If you're a D&D RPG player, and you buy the figures for this new D&D Miniatures game, well hey--each D&D Miniatures figure can also be used in D&D RPG (each figure comes with a card that lists stats for both games). If you want to buy just a single, specific figure, then do so--eBay and dirt game stores are your source; most common figs will probably sell for around... (drum roll) $.50-$1.00! Exactly the price you wished for above. (source: the price of Mage Knight commons at my local dirt hobby store)So be of good cheer. D&D Miniatures is a fun game, and it'll be real boon for D&D RPG gamers.-z</blockquote>

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