Star
Sergeant
978 Posts
    
New Britain, CT
 | | 09/29/2007 7:21 PM |
| Posted By PaSquall on 09/29/2007 4:37 AM
Yes, that's my greatest concern for DDM 2.0 : scale and looks.
But since I'll have around 3000 minis after DoD, there's no way I'll renew my collection if scale changes. It then would be singles of the minis I'd be missing, or the few that would look great. End of collecting days... I hope not, but...
Obviously my example was a gross exaggeration, but we've already seen evidence of this with the cosmetic changes to the troll and the size change of the Bar-Lgura. I've tried to give them the benefit of the doubt since the announcement of 4th edition and being fair in my praise and criticism while understanding that they have to make a profit. Making changes to monsters appearance and size is very risky from a business standpoint. There is a very limited number of people who will spend the amount of money that we do on little plastic army men. We are not easily replaced by teenagers. Most long time DDM collectors/RPGers already have a sufficient number of mini's to suit our needs - pissing us off by making the mini's we currently own obsolete is not a good idea. | |
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kyrin
Commander
3139 Posts
| | 09/29/2007 10:01 PM |
| Wow. The more I hear about 4th Edition, the less and less I like.
There is just no way that they can make all these wholesale changes and playtest everything. 4.0 is gonna be buggy as all get-out.
This just strengthens my resolve to wait for 4.5, or even 5th. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars for the privilege of being a Beta tester.
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Corim Danex
Warlord
6562 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 09/30/2007 10:15 AM |
| Posted By Star on 09/29/2007 7:21 PM Making changes to monsters appearance and size is very risky from a business standpoint. There is a very limited number of people who will spend the amount of money that we do on little plastic army men. We are not easily replaced by teenagers.
QFT. I really like the "We are not easily replaced by teenagers line.
Even if a bunch of teenagers wanted to replace us and buy in the quantities that some of us multiple case buyers do, the reality is most of them won't have the money available to do that.
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Ha 80/80---De 60/60---Ar 60/60---GoL 72/72---Ab 60/60---Dk 60/60---Af 60/60---Ud 60/60---WD 60/60---WDQ 60/60---BW 60/60---UH 60/60---NB 60/60---DDe 60/60---SSB 59/60 (Does anyone want to buy my SSB collection?)
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Star
Sergeant
978 Posts
New Britain, CT
| | 10/01/2007 2:19 AM |
| Just to be clear - I didn't mean to offend any teenagers. I only meant to say that most of the people that currently buy multiple cases of mini's are adults with disposable income. If those adults stop buying cases of mini's it will be difficult to replace us with teenagers as most teenagers can't afford to spend the amount of money that adults can.
Replacing older D&D players with teenagers is a sound business decision (even if it might suck for us older players) - the buy in is much less. Trying to replace older mini's players/collectors with teenagers is very risky. | |
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Kaya Kenobi
Underboss
1297 Posts
San Jose, California
| | 10/06/2007 7:54 AM |
| | I think it might be good to expect a grippli :) | |
Just a simple traveler from the swamps of Dagobah otherwise known as Florida. Also known as Hurricane Alley!
I always try to send through delivery confirmation, and I expect the same. It's only 55 cents extra, so it's just a little more than a pay phone call, so just do it for the Kai.  I prefer to trade with people in the US and Canada, sorry everyone else.
http://www.maxminis.com/Forums/tabid/104/forumid/53/postid/655406/view/topic/Default.aspx - references | |
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PaSquall
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 10/07/2007 5:42 AM |
| After all we have the bullywug, so bring on the grippli.
They would come handy for an old TSR module I have. | |
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Kaya Kenobi
Underboss
1297 Posts
San Jose, California
| | 10/16/2007 3:37 PM |
| | Any good things? How bout the fact that 3e books and all these older minis will finally be really cheap? A friend of mine got the core 3.5 books, PHB, MM, and DMG, for 20 bucks total off of eBay. | |
Just a simple traveler from the swamps of Dagobah otherwise known as Florida. Also known as Hurricane Alley!
I always try to send through delivery confirmation, and I expect the same. It's only 55 cents extra, so it's just a little more than a pay phone call, so just do it for the Kai. I prefer to trade with people in the US and Canada, sorry everyone else.
http://www.maxminis.com/Forums/tabid/104/forumid/53/postid/655406/view/topic/Default.aspx - references | |
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PaSquall
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 10/17/2007 8:54 AM |
| | You'll certainly be able tons of 3E books for ultra-cheap. The DD minis are entirely another matter, since there is a very good chance that they will still be compatible with 4E, at least for RPG. | |
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Against the giants called shot : huge cloud giant female
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greyhaze
Warlord
5484 Posts
| | 10/17/2007 9:01 AM |
| | You'll be down to 3 source books again, so you'll have a lighter backpack. :) | |
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Choco Monster
Ghendar
Warlord
10849 Posts
In the constellation of Cygnus, or Central Connecticut
| | 10/17/2007 9:15 AM |
| | One book actually. Since I have zero time to DM, I'll be playing only. For me, its one book, the PH. I'm happy with that. | |
Leaning towards giving 4e the Digitus Impudicus
Champion of the Spider Eater with rider.
I actually love to be swallowed. - Posted By gss_000 on 09/04/2007 2:32 PM
How many times in life do you get to eat your own Ctulhu? - Posted By Pedro on 03/31/2008 2:29 | |
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PaSquall
Underboss
1384 Posts
| | 10/17/2007 9:17 AM |
| Hmmm, I'm certain that he won't be able to resist the urge of buying 3 new core books every year (PHB2, DMG2, MM2 in 2009...) The WotC marketing guys definitely know their enchantment/charm spells  | |
Vindicated Champion of the PSEUDODRAGON
(Unhappy) vindicated champion of the DRYAD
Against the giants called shot : huge cloud giant female
Demonweb called shot : ghost | |
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