A miniature figure, also known as a "miniature", "mini", "figure", or "fig". Also questions related to them.
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Good sources for pre-painted minis? [closed]
Does anyone know some good places to look for pre-painted minis besides the WOTC and Reaper lines? I'm interested in either factory-painted or hand-painted.
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How many sets of Dwarven Forge do I need to start with?
I'm not saying I have the kind of cash for dropping on my RPG that Dwarven Forge is asking, but I'm wondering if anyone here has actually played a campaign using them, and how many kits you'd need to ...
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What are some alternatives to using miniatures for games that require them?
Miniatures traditionally are expensive and time-consuming to paint. Plus, most of us aren't great artists. If I'm playing a game that requires miniatures of some kind, but people aren't sticklers for ...
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Homemade Terrain w/miniatures
I am looking for ideas to make some homemade terrain for combat; I am not a great miniature painter as I usually fat-finger most of them, but I am pretty handy and know my way around my neighborhood ...
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Undead skeleton papercraft minitatures
Where can I find a digital, downloadable set of papercraft skeleton miniatures (or even just a single miniature)? Please note that by skeleton I mean the animated, undead monster (not a design aid for ...
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Where can I find fantasy minis on the cheap?
I'm looking to build a collection of fantasy miniatures, preferably pewter - but I don't want to buy them one at a time from my local hobby store... Much too expensive, and they don't often carry ...
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What is a good way to get a large range of fantasy miniatures? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find fantasy minis on the cheap?
I am looking to start a collection of miniatures. I mostly want one or two of a lot of different creatures, such as for ...
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Where can I find Ral Partha miniatures for cheap? [closed]
I live in Canada and I own a few of the old Ral Partha D&D miniatures which are pretty cool. Unfortunately, I haven't seen them for sale anywhere for the last couple of years. I checked out a ...
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Status Markers for Miniatures Games
The DM at the table I was at for the WOTC DD 1 hour dungeon delve at Gencon this year was using some neat little status markers to indicate when your character was bloodied (little plastic blood ...
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Diceless miniatures? [closed]
I've seen diceless systems for narrative-focused role playing. But do any diceless combat tactics games exist, possibly based on miniatures? I'm thinking of personal-level combat where a single unit ...
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What’s an organized storage solution found for miniatures?
What is a good way to keep your miniatures organized and safe? I am currently using a shoe box, and the miniatures are all thrown together. The pieces I have a lot of are pretty easy to get to, but ...
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Combat system that is less abstract than hit points yet is not more lethal
I have a campaign based on battles with miniatures in mind, with my players controlling the standard "heroes". It should be possible for the players to keep their characters alive through the ...
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Narrative Combat versus Use of Miniatures
When I first started playing D&D, my DM did not use battlemaps or miniatures to describe combat. Everything was described to us, and questions to the DM were part and parcel of the experience, ...
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How can I obtain Custom miniatures? [closed]
I wish to get custom minatures for my kids (they play such widely available characters as a Wilden Shaman/Runepriest and a Shardmind Psion).
Where can I purchase them? How onerous a process is this?
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Where do I find the Lord of the Rings miniatures for D&D
Years ago we used to have wonderful 25mm miniatures that we used for our D&D games. I seem to remember they were based on the Lord of the Rings. They were grey rather than silver and were ...
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How to handle miniatures on a forum-based game?
When running a web forum game of an RPG that requires miniatures (such as D&D 4e), what's the most elegant way to handle a combat grid?
In particular:
Players should be able to change the map ...
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How to reduce minis dependence in d20-based games?
In Pathfinder and similar versions of D&D, there is a lot more miniatures/tactical map dependence than in earlier versions (and in most other RPGs). I am interested in reducing the dependence on ...
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Pre-painted Miniatures for D&D other than from Wizards
Are there substitutes for the official Wizards miniatures? Is there anything pre-painted that we can buy per lot?
We love them, but they are getting harder to buy. My group really values props and ...
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What is a good method for storing papercraft buildings and the like?
I've recently taken to creating papercraft buildings, castle walls and towers, bridges, crates, hay-bales, etc. for my tabletop RPG combat sessions:
They are fragile and need to be stored upright ...
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What does the symbol on the bottom of a WotC miniature mean?
When I look on the bottom of the latest official D&D miniatures, there is some information about what product line a particular miniature came from. But there is also a small symbol below that, ...
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What's the cheapest, good way for someone to try getting into painting miniatures?
I want to try painting miniatures (plastic ones ala Castle Ravenloft and the World of Warcraft board game), but I don't want to spend a lot of money on supplies only to find out that I stink, but I ...
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How can I make paper minatures?
How can you take an images and easily (automatically) turn them into paper minis?
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Where can I find miniatures for AD&D monsters?
This is a follow-on to this question.
I am looking specifically for only monster, not character or NPC, miniatures from the 1st edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual, Fiend Folio, ...
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Where can I find a Monk miniature?
I need a good monk mini, no weapons, ideally female elf. Where can I find one?
Material (lead vs plastic) and painted vs. unpainted is useful to know but are all doable.
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Are D&D Miniatures compatible with D&D HeroScape?
Or are they two completely different incompatible things? Are they at least the same size/scale?
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Where do you find Dark Sun Minis?
Apart from picking up the old 2ed Dark Sun miniatures off ebay, does anyone have any suggestions for a line of mini's that work well thematically for Dark Sun?
Perhaps a line of primitive or aztec ...
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Paper model and landscape patterns for Cricut?
I was at GenCon and this guy had a booth where he had built this huge castle out of card-stock. He was selling "it" for $15. When I expressed interest he informed me it was a .pdf download that you ...
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Any toys that are at proper miniature scale?
One thing I've periodically wondered is whether there are any kid's toy/action figures that are of the proper scale to be used as minis. Has anybody found anything that works?
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Is it possible to run Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition without a battlemap?
The push, pull, and slide mechanics immediately come to mind as being difficult to track accurately without a battlemap. Auras are another.
Has anyone come up with a simple solution to narrating ...
