Useless Conversation

[Sky]

  Thanks Sky.  You bastard.

You'd be the second to express that sentiment.

It's just such a phenomenal deal I have to preach it around. Of course, it's also in my best interest, since more pledges means more stretch goals means more freebies means better deal for everyone.

Right now we're 2-3 hours from unlocking the next goal, which will be the THIRD goal unlocked TODAY:

[RhyssaFireheart]

I hate you, Sky.  I have no spare cash atm and I WANT THAT!!!

[Sky]

That's what kidneys are for!

[Ingmar]

I would pay possibly 3x as much for prepaints of all that, but I have near-total lack of interest in unpainted minis.

[Sky]

I will sell you painted versions of an entire Vampire level pledge.

In 2075 when I finish painting them all 

[Ingmar]

The prepaint world has kind of sucked since WotC stopped making DDM. The Pathfinder ones are fine, looks-wise, but they're hideously expensive by comparison.

[Paelos]

What exactly are these miniture things for?

[Sky]

What aren't they for!?

RPG/War/Boardgaming.

Or just for painting.

[Ingmar]

For me, collecting/use in tabletop RPGs. Although I used to play the associated skirmish game that WotC put out competitively. At one point I was ranked #5 in the world for one format, I was a nerd superstar*.

*Not really.

[Draegan]

#5 out of 10?

[Ingmar]

Pretty close. 

[sickrubik]

still better than 5 other slobs.

[Evildrider]

I totally want those "spider centaurs".  However since I don't game anymore and I can't paint worth a damn they'd just sit in my cabinet probably.  :(

[Jherad]

Oh good grief. That's $100 + Idon'tknowhowmanydollarsworthofoptions I absolutely positively must have. 

Thanks Sky.

[Sky]

Yay!

[Paelos]

I still don't understand exactly what they are for, but I'm going to assume geek street cred and nod politely.

[ghost]

What is confusing you, Paelos?

[Ingmar]

I still don't understand exactly what they are for, but I'm going to assume geek street cred and nod politely.

[IainC]

Alternatively you spend a few months painting up this many and then take them off the table over the course of 6 turns because your opponent rolled more dice than you did.


P1020682 by Iain Compton, on Flickr

[Sky]

Alternatively you spend a few months painting up this many and then take them off the table over the course of 6 turns because your opponent rolled more dice than you did.

Looking good is really the main thing. Don't let those board game geeks tell you otherwise. Pure jealousy, I think the entire site is just people who paint like children.

[Paelos]

Ok I see, you can put them in board games that are custom stuff for pnp. I thought those were just played in your head and on paper (never done that).

[Evildrider]

Miniatures are fun for PnP.  Gives you a better sense of what is going on.

[Merusk]

Ok I see, you can put them in board games that are custom stuff for pnp. I thought those were just played in your head and on paper (never done that).

Not just PnP, there are whole rule systems around miniatures.  Templates for aoe damage,rules for how many inches you move a turn,etc.  Have you really never seen that?  Not even a heroclix game.

[ghost]

We are having a serious "go the fuck to sleep" moment in the ghost household tonight.  In fact, it has been a "go the fuck to sleep" week.  I hate separation anxiety.  I wasn't built to deal with 2 year olds.....

[Paelos]

Ok I see, you can put them in board games that are custom stuff for pnp. I thought those were just played in your head and on paper (never done that).

Not just PnP, there are whole rule systems around miniatures.  Templates for aoe damage,rules for how many inches you move a turn,etc.  Have you really never seen that?  Not even a heroclix game.

No, I've never played a pnp game in my life. We were M:tG geeks in school.

[proudft]

There is a certain contingent of RPG snobs that prefer the imagination/scribbles-on-paper method, but I've always preferred figures.  Even if it was with corridors drawn in the dirt in elementary school.  It's just much easier to keep track of who is doing what.  And way less arguing.

[Soln]

We are having a serious "go the fuck to sleep" moment in the ghost household tonight.  In fact, it has been a "go the fuck to sleep" week.  I hate separation anxiety.  I wasn't built to deal with 2 year olds.....

I hear that.  Fuck this heat on toddlers.  Oh and potty training.

[Sky]

I originally got into D&D because there was a little hobby shop on the way to school (I was in 4th grade) and I thought the minis were amazing (Ral Partha elves or something).

We pretty much always used minis for D&D.

[Samwise]

When I first started playing D&D, it was all in our heads first and foremost.  Sometimes the DM would sketch out the scene of a fight to help us picture it in our heads, but he never used his sketch as a "board", if that makes sense; it was just to establish the general spatial relations so we didn't get confused as he described things.

When we did use minis, I remember it was primarily to establish "marching order" as the party was traveling through a dungeon, so we'd know who would be the first to step on a trap, or who would get attacked if a monster snuck up on the party from behind.  We didn't have your fancy painted minis; we borrowed pieces from board games, used Lego dudes, stuff like that.

Nowadays when I play D&D it's mostly with pewter minis on a battle mat; it does make it easy to see who's where, but I feel like some of that element of imagination is gone when you have to think of everything in terms of 5' squares.  It's part of why I've started gravitating toward more narrative-based RPGs in recent years; it's much closer to my early D&D experiences than the modern editions are.

[Lantyssa]

I like minis for fights, but then I'm also a huge b'tech fan.  For basic travel a map is fine.

[Sky]

Back in the day we used full-table plexi with grease pencils to map stuff out. At my house I had that on one table and a chalkboard on another.

[Sjofn]

Doing vague handwaving for D&D gives me a headache. I don't need pretty minis (I am totally fine with hordes of nameless goblins being pennies, for example), but I definitely need something to look at so I know where the fuck everything is.

[Sky]

Four goals reached in one day for the Reaper KS, double the added daily user previous best and daily cash previous best!

Bananas. This might be the hottest mini event in ever.

Some scale pics for more recent goals:

[Signe]

Ok I see, you can put them in board games that are custom stuff for pnp. I thought those were just played in your head and on paper (never done that).

Not just PnP, there are whole rule systems around miniatures.  Templates for aoe damage,rules for how many inches you move a turn,etc.  Have you really never seen that?  Not even a heroclix game.

No, I've never played a pnp game in my life. We were M:tG geeks in school.

Me either but, from Ingmar's pic, I see they have something to do with penises.  I like that.  As for me... they look like something I'd have to dust.  Although, they're lovely and some of them are gory enough that I probably wouldn't mind the dusting.  I used to buy these sorts of things for my nephew to paint and he made them beautiful.  The Grenadier company was local to me when he was a kid and we'd get some really different ones from them.  I must have bought him hundreds and he painted every one of them.  He even had a "contraption" that held them and a magnifier attached.  My sister still has them all in a box.  Now I'm homesick!

[Strazos]

When we played DnD years ago it was all in the head, however...this led to most campaigns being decidedly low-magic, since determining AoE was a pain.

Later, when we got back into it we were totally a minis group; most of us had dumped a lot of time into TRPGs like FFT and the like. The added spatial awareness was nice to line up things "just so."