Your WotC spending: More on Minis or Books?

[DaveMage]

Well, this is my first attempt at a POLL, let's see how it goes...

I've been spending a lot of $$ on minis lately, and it occured to me that I'm spending significantly more money on minitures than I am on gaming books from WotC (though not necessarily from all d20 publishers).

If minis are outselling the gaming books, I'm wondering what effect this will having on future product decisions by WotC.

What do you all think?

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

While I'm waiting for the poll...

I'm spending, and planning on spending, more money on minis than on books. Furthermore, I'll probably not buy a new book for a long time. I might pick up a book used, but rarely a new one. Things will probably be different when World's Biggest Dungeon comes out

AR

 

[Torm]

Seems almost a sure thing that they will include a hook for minis in any future RPG products, and it might even lead to an instance of reversal - an RPG BASED on a miniatures game.

Then again, maybe not - I always kinda expected WotC to do a D&D add-on or maybe a whole separate RPG based on Magic: The Gathering, but it hasn't happened yet. And that would be about the same thing.

It'd be interesting if it lead to a 3rd party company including a hook for their own line of minis. Or this may have already happened - pardon my ignorance, if so......

 

[Umbran]

I haven't bought a single mini, and I don't really intend to, either.

 

[MerricB]

More on miniatures than books recently. Quite a bit more, I think.

If minis are outselling the gaming books, I'm wondering what effect this will having on future product decisions by WotC.

Better miniatures.

Seriously, Wizards have known for a long time that people who buy miniatures spend a lot more money than people who just play RPGs. See the survey they did back a while ago.

Cheers!

 

[MerricB]

Seems almost a sure thing that they will include a hook for minis in any future RPG products, and it might even lead to an instance of reversal - an RPG BASED on a miniatures game.

No need. They already have the RPG, they don't need to create a new one.

You see miniatures based on D&D monsters, and you see D&D monsters designed to fill needs of the miniatures game - both add variety and are good.

Cheers!

 

[frankthedm]

more on wotc books than wotc minis

more on non wotc minis than on non wotc books

 

[Torm]

I was thinking more along the lines of other genre RPGs. For instance, I wonder if D20 Future will have anything built into the core book about using minis......

 

[Gothmog]

I have only bought one pack of WotC minis, and they were terrible (paint jobs, detail, poses). I don't like the random aspect, and the fun part of minis (painting them) is already done, so whats the point? So I'd have to say, I spend more on WotC books than their minis.

However, I spend MUCH more on non WotC books than on WotC books. I also spend more on Reaper minis than on WotC books. And probably more on non-WotC books than Reaper minis.

 

[Greylock]

Now that I've actually had a chance to use the minis, I'm dead set against them. Like it was said above, I like painting my own, but besides that, they seem awfully cheap and poorly done. That, and the feel is just wrong. There is something about the heft and coldness of a traditional miniature that I miss with the vinyl alternative.