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1 year ago ::
Apr 25, 2012 - 2:16PM
#31
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As long as there is tabletop role playing, I'll be using minis in some shape or form. For D&D Next, I hope they have room for both minis and counters/tiles/tokens/pogs. I love the Essentials Monster Manual box sets, and think there's room for both minis and tokens to co-exist on a table. I prefer minis, but a quick token is nice too for when I don't have a mini available.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 25, 2012 - 2:36PM
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personally I'd rather have unpainted models than the poor standard of the prepainted models.
Me not.
I can paint them to a better standard then that in just a few minutes (that's for the entire box).
But I simply don't want to. I could but I have absolutely no intention to ever do it again. I once painted some 12 elves for GW's LotR tabletop game and even one PC mini and I didn't enjoy a second of this. I have better things to do in my freetime than work for my D&D hobby.
I'd rather they weren't made of the awful quality plastic that pre-painted minis are usually made with.
I love the material they're made out or painted with. I can just hazardously toss them in an unpadded box and don't have to worry that they break or the paint chips away from hard impacts (unlike my one painted metal PC mini)
That just leads people to ebay for the models that they want and they usually end up paying more than they would have for a good quality miniatures.
No really. I'd rather pay 15€ for a prepainted mini on the secondary market than buy a unpainted one for 5€ and have someone paint it to me for 20€+postage (and than have mini that needs to be handled like a raw egg lest it breaks or gets ugly blots where the paint chipped away)
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1 year ago ::
Apr 26, 2012 - 9:16AM
#33
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D&D Miniatures are my favorite product. This seems hard to believe once you are aware of the fact I've never bought them! I do have a collection of about 500 D&D Miniatures, but I got them very inexpensively off of someone who didn't want them anymore.
Why have I never bought them? They were randomized. When I played M:tG the randomized packs weren't a concern to me. However, with minis, I absolutely, positively cannot stand it. It prevented me from buying what I have long considered as my favorite D&D product.
I want minis so I can have cool looking representations of characters and monsters when I game, especially for grid fights. In D&D Next, if we had non-randomized miniatures I would buy them all the time. If they were released in large, varied (non-random) packages I would buy them as well. In fact, if every monster in the monster manual were released in one huge miniature package, I'd preorder it the second I found out about it. As it stands today, I'm likely going to buy the skirmish game so I can use the miniatures in D&D.
How do you guys feel about miniatures? What do you want to see or not see regarding them? Keep in mind, I am aware they are discontinued but the release of D&D Next would be a good time to bring them back if WotC found enough player support for them. What do you guys think?
If they were made of gold and were 1 dollar, I'd buy them! Why doesnt WOTC do whats been demonstrated as economically unfeasible and offer a crap selection cater to my taste? After all, I'm too lazy to use the secondary market to get the figures I want cheap! Oooh look, I found a Cheeto in my economics armchair!
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1 year ago ::
Apr 26, 2012 - 9:18AM
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Non random packs.
I would like to come up with an adventure involving undead, and be able to run down to the FLGS and buy myself 2 packs of skeletons, 2 packs of zombies, a pack of ghouls, and a few mage looking dudes because there is a necromancer looking one in there I like (and having some extra wizards around would be cool as well), and wait there is another cool one that I am going to get for s&g.
You can, in Reaper's anemic line. Sadly, once you get past basic dungeon fodder and level 1-4 monsters, you're SOL.
Random offers variety, price, and even non-random on the secondary market.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 26, 2012 - 9:23AM
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I've got your answers for you all right here and right now!
Pathfinder Archvillian pack $19.99 Out today
Pathfinder Hero pack $14.99 Out Today
Pathfinder randomized miniature set of 40 figures, Out Today
Paizo has heard you and they have already fulfilled your requests for more prepainted plastic miniatures. Furthermore, these minis are out TODAY, so go to your local gaming store and buy them, TODAY.
August Rise of Runelords minis set will finally be released to the public and the figures look totally fantastic.
But they want them non-random! They dont care about prices of mold, sculpting cost, common:uncommon:rare ratios and price breaks, fodder vs specific creatures, etc. Those are FACTS! This is the internet, we have a proud tradition of not caring about anything but satisfying our desires, no matter how unfeasible or unreasonable it is!
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1 year ago ::
Apr 26, 2012 - 9:25AM
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personally I'd rather have unpainted models than the poor standard of the prepainted models. I can paint them to a better standard then that in just a few minutes (that's for the entire box). I'd rather they weren't made of the awful quality plastic that pre-painted minis are usually made with. I'd rather they didn't come in randomised boxes. That just leads people to ebay for the models that they want and they usually end up paying more than they would have for a good quality miniatures.
Reapers trying that with their "Bones" line. Unfortunately, its based on what they already have in plastic, which is like... 40 models in 3-4 years now. So one day you might get a giant, or something.
Incidentally, commons/uncommons are almost always cheaper in pre-paint than metal equivalents. Its a tradeoff of quality vs convenience. I paint, but use a lot of pre-paints in gaming. They take a beating much better and I can just throw them in a freezer bag for transport.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 26, 2012 - 11:00AM
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Date Joined:
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what wizards needs to do with command :
1st, expand on the basic monsters...i expext to see iconics such as dwarves,elves, humans
, but go further...add deva, aasimar, more goliath, dragonborn if fact let's expand on this and add...
2nd more diversity...yes...there are now more female and minorities playing d&D let's reflect that with choices in the figures, for pete sake.
3rd..pieces that aren't just about combat..paizos upcoming rise of the runelords mini set has at least two minis that act as patrons, perhaps wizards can follow suit.
4th add variety to the monsters in a set..i don't need three of a monster type ..looking at you paizo....but add different monsters than the basics...
i read on the wany of non mionature packs..and i beilive that Lisa stevens , CEO of paizo stated why the random packs were needed. i'll find her reply and post it here later.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 26, 2012 - 9:37PM
#38
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Date Joined:
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As long as they're random and blind packaged I will not buy them. Especially with the poor quality sculpts and paint jobs that the D&D minis have had. Throughout 3.x, I filled out a lot of product surveys for WotC and always made a note of that.
I would rather have cardboard monster tokens than blindpacked minis. Either I know what I'm paying for or I'm not paying fot it.
Playtest or get off the playtest boards.
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I want justice for the voice that can't be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
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1 year ago ::
Apr 26, 2012 - 9:57PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 12, 2011
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This is the internet, we have a proud tradition of not caring about anything but satisfying our desires, no matter how unfeasible or unreasonable it is!
And apparently we also have a proud tradition of idiotic hyperbole full of sarcastic psuedo-intellectualism. Wow, cunsumers wanting to know what they're getting before they buy something is soooo unreasonable.
You can keep making excuses for businesses that use practices that do not benefit to the end user, but I'll vote with my wallet. Businesses are not entitled to consumers buying their products--it is a privilege that must be earned by producing the product that the consumer wants.
Playtest or get off the playtest boards.
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I want justice for the voice that can't be heard
Vindication for every suffering and hurt
Let retribution hold dominion over earth
--Nemesis, VNV Nation
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1 year ago ::
Apr 26, 2012 - 10:15PM
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Azzy1974 you receive a +1 sword of awesomeness
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