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<blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 1009200" data-attributes="member: 319">Wow, you're so brilliant and non-obvious...Now if only WotC was really marketing these minis the way you say they are, instead of pushing them hard as miniatures for use in role-playing, you'd also be right. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />&quot;Inexpensive, durable plastic, prepainted miniatures for Dungeons &amp; Dragons? Welcome to the Golden Age of Fantasy Gaming!&quot;&quot;These things are really going to be an asset to just about anyone who wants to use minis in a D&amp;D game. There's no grace period between the time you buy these minis and the time they make it through the queue to get assembled, primed, and painted. It's an instant collection of gaming accessories referenced right inside your D&amp;D rulebooks.&quot;&quot;Random packaging of trading cards has been popular for 10 years (much, much longer if you count bubblegum cards). It is, however, relatively new for miniatures, so we'd like to lay out some of our reasons for random packaging. It has real benefits from the gamer's perspective. First and foremost is simplicity. If you're a long-time role player, &quot;simplicity&quot; might sound suspiciously like &quot;dumbing down,&quot; but it's not.&quot;&quot;Actual game-play can also benefit from random packaging. Wizards is aiming with the D&amp;D miniatures not only to boost miniatures use in role-playing but also to build up competitive tabletop play within the D&amp;D universe.&quot;For miniatures that are primarily intended to be a collectible game competing with Mage Knight, it's curious how in every press release or &quot;spotlight&quot; on the WotC page the collectible game aspect of it has taken a backseat to trying to convince role-players this is something they'll want to use in their games. The actual &quot;mini game&quot; hasn't really been previed at all, instead we get things like a miniature gallery full of &quot;PC types&quot;. Hmm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mmu1, post: 1009200, member: 319"] Wow, you're so brilliant and non-obvious... Now if only WotC was really marketing these minis the way [i]you[/i] say they are, instead of pushing them hard as miniatures for use in role-playing, you'd also be right. ;) "Inexpensive, durable plastic, prepainted miniatures for Dungeons & Dragons? Welcome to the Golden Age of Fantasy Gaming!" "These things are really going to be an asset to just about anyone who wants to use minis in a D&D game. There's no grace period between the time you buy these minis and the time they make it through the queue to get assembled, primed, and painted. It's an instant collection of gaming accessories referenced right inside your D&D rulebooks." "Random packaging of trading cards has been popular for 10 years (much, much longer if you count bubblegum cards). It is, however, relatively new for miniatures, so we'd like to lay out some of our reasons for random packaging. It has real benefits from the gamer's perspective. First and foremost is simplicity. If you're a long-time role player, "simplicity" might sound suspiciously like "dumbing down," but it's not." "Actual game-play can also benefit from random packaging. Wizards is aiming with the D&D miniatures not only to boost miniatures use in role-playing but also to build up competitive tabletop play within the D&D universe." For miniatures that are primarily intended to be a collectible game competing with Mage Knight, it's curious how in every press release or "spotlight" on the WotC page the collectible game aspect of it has taken a backseat to trying to convince role-players this is something they'll want to use in their games. The actual "mini game" hasn't really been previed at all, instead we get things like a miniature gallery full of "PC types". Hmm. [/QUOTE]

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