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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 7:18AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 30, 2012
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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?
Do you have an opinion on what campaign settings should be printed in D&D Next? If so, please cast your votes in this poll!
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 7:50AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2008
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I like the miniatures, and would welcome some means of getting non-randomized sets.
I'd suggest that they be packaged with and adventure or as Encounter groups from the Monster Manuals. The real reason behind Random was to have fewer SKU to track (advantage to mass market retailers).
Another hope is that some means of creating stat cards for Next for all of the previously released figures (I know, FAT CHANCE).
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 8:01AM
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Date Joined:
May 12, 2010
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There are many online vendors if single minis and if shop around you can find pretty good prices for most of the common and uncommon ones. On a per mini basis the cost about the same as if you bought them randomized... shipping is usually just a few dollars unless you purchase a truckload at once.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 8:06AM
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Date Joined:
Mar 27, 2008
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That is all true (as I used that extensively to build my collection), but what do you WANT to see?
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 8:56AM
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Jan 18, 2012
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I loved the minis, but always bought 2nd-hand from ebay so I knew what I was getting.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 11:51AM
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Jun 15, 2004
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what do you WANT to see?
A Hasbro line of toys that are on the same scale as D&D miniatures.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 11:52AM
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Date Joined:
Jan 30, 2012
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what do you WANT to see?
A Hasbro line of toys that are on the same scale as D&D miniatures.
I really like that idea.
Do you have an opinion on what campaign settings should be printed in D&D Next? If so, please cast your votes in this poll!
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 12:19PM
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Date Joined:
Jan 20, 2005
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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.
I also like the option of a token pack. Same idea, but thick stock cardboard buttons of your favorite bad guys. Bottom line is I would rather pay a bit more knowing exactly what I'm getting than to get a bunch of stuff you don't need or will never use.
I would prefer the minis, I like them. My entire computer desk is covered in them (to include the gargantuan red dragon, and the huge blue and white dragon (macro)minis). But tokens would be better for those with less pocket change for counters.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 1:42PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 25, 2006
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I never understood why they never released a boxed basic set of miniatures. Really something like this:
Box 1: Kobolds & Goblins
Kobold Warrior (harbinger)
Kobold Soldier (Angelfire)
Snig, Worg Rider (War Drums)
Goblin Sneak (Harbinger)
Goblin Cutter (Legendary Evils) Box 2: Undead Skeleton legionnaire (War Drums) Skeletal Archer (Angel Fire) Zombie (Giants of Legend) Grave touched Ghoul (Unhallowed) Lurking Wraith (Against the Giants) Box 3: Orcs, Bugbears & Hobgoblins Bugbear Champion (dragoneye) Orc Archer (Harbinger) Orc Mauler (War Drums) Hobgoblin Sergeant (Giants of Legend) Box 4: Gnolls, Trolls, Ogres Demonic Gnoll Archer (War of the Dragon Queen) Gnoll (Aberrations) Troll Slasher (Anglefire) Ogre Pulverizer (Demonweb) Box 5: Animals Wolf (Harbinger) Celestial Black Bear (Aberrations) Warhorse (Desert of Desolation) Bat Familiar (Unhallowed) Dire Boar (Harbinger) Box 6: Vermin and Oozes Insects Deathjump Spider (Dungeons of Dread) Giant Centipede (Dungeons of Dread) Stirge (War of the Dragon Queen) Dire Rat (Giants of Legends) Ochre Jelly (Against the Giants) Box 7: Swamp Critters Lizardfolk (Harbinger) Troglodyte Thug (War Drums) Deathrattle Viper (Savage Encounters) Giant Frog (Deathknell) Visejaw Crocodile (Desert of Desolation) Thats it...all most people need for a good game. Box them up and sell them for no more than $8 a pop. If people want multiple creatures they simply by more boxes. It is the same product plan as the booster packs but would allow for people to pick as well.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 13, 2012 - 1:58PM
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Date Joined:
Jan 30, 2012
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Thats it...all most people need for a good game. Box them up and sell them for no more than $8 a pop. If people want multiple creatures they simply by more boxes. It is the same product plan as the booster packs but would allow for people to pick as well.
I like that idea as well.
Personally, I would love to see campaign themed boxes as well. We know FR is in D&D Next, I'd like to see some FR sets. If Eberron is reprinted, there is a ton of campaign-specific miniatures that would likely do very well. In fact, every campaign setting has campaign specific miniatures that would likely do well, especially if the prices were reasonable.
If my favorite campaign setting of all time is reprinted, Planescape, I would probably buy every set of miniatures (and Dungeon Tiles) produced for it, and quite possibly multiples of each.
Do you have an opinion on what campaign settings should be printed in D&D Next? If so, please cast your votes in this poll!
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