{"id":142,"date":"2015-01-21T04:55:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T04:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=142"},"modified":"2015-01-22T05:11:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T05:11:38","slug":"dungeons-and-dragons-miniatures-collection-purchase-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Dungeons and Dragons Miniatures Collection Purchase #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gargantuan-white-dragon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-147 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gargantuan-white-dragon.jpg\" alt=\"gargantuan white dragon\" width=\"247\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>So I got a lot of great minis in my first <strong>collection buy<\/strong> (871 minis).\u00a0 Big collections are pretty rare, so I was excited to see this one come up about a week after I started looking.I always have a great time going through collections, seeing what folks liked and didn&#8217;t, whether they have more of one set or another.\u00a0 The centerpiece of the collection are the <strong>Gargantuan Black Dragon<\/strong> and the <strong>Gargantuan White Dragon<\/strong>.\u00a0 My wife bought me the Black and Blue years ago and I kept them even when I sold my first collection, so it&#8217;s nice to have the white to go with them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m considering saving the <strong>Gargantuan Black<\/strong> as a prize for a year-long <strong>warband building\/battling contest<\/strong>&#8230;if folks are interested in something like that, please let me know and I&#8217;ll start doing some contests to see what kind of thing works best.<\/p>\n<p>Not many chase rares, though there was an original <strong>Archfiends Drizzt, Drow Ranger and a Gelatinous Cube<\/strong>.\u00a0 Plus a <strong>Lamia Harridan<\/strong> and <strong>Treachery Demon<\/strong>, which I think are Paizo designs.\u00a0 I was pretty impressed the seller said there were 871 miniatures, and I ended up confirming exactly that. (Even though I had them in a billion different places around my warehouse)<\/p>\n<p>For tracking, here are the stats:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Price<\/strong>:\u00a0 $900<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Minis<\/strong>:\u00a0 871<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Rares<\/strong>:\u00a0 92 DDM 1.0\/2.0 Rares<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paizo Rares<\/strong>:\u00a0 8-10? (I&#8217;m not sure exactly what is or isn&#8217;t a rare from non-DDM lines yet)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gargantuan<\/strong>:\u00a0 2<a href=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gargantuan-white-dragon-card.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-146 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gargantuan-white-dragon-card-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"gargantuan white dragon card\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gargantuan-white-dragon-card-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/gargantuan-white-dragon-card.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Huge Rares<\/strong>:\u00a0 3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Huges<\/strong>:\u00a0 19<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other Minis<\/strong>:\u00a0 (Promos, Starter Kit minis, other Paizo Minis):\u00a0 175<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commons<\/strong>:\u00a0 373<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uncommons<\/strong>:\u00a0 247<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost Per mini<\/strong>:\u00a0 $1.04<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I got a lot of great minis in my first collection buy (871 minis).\u00a0 Big collections are pretty rare, so I was excited to see this one come up about a week after I started looking.I always have a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}