{"id":192,"date":"2015-01-25T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=192"},"modified":"2015-01-25T16:41:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T16:41:51","slug":"sundays-updates-trade-list-updated-bulk-purchase-1-warbands-for-contest-incoming-dd-3-x-to-ddm-1-1-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=192","title":{"rendered":"Sunday&#8217;s Updates &#8211; Trade List Updated, Bulk Purchase #2, Warbands for Contest Incoming, D&#038;D 3.x to DDM 1.1 Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_196\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mordenkainen.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-196 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mordenkainen.jpg\" alt=\"mordenkainen\" width=\"100\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m easy like Sunday morning.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Howdy y&#8217;all!\u00a0 Hard for me to do anything real specific on Sunday&#8217;s due to hanging with the awesome and beautiful Fam, but I can do some random updates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have\/Want Update<\/strong>:\u00a0 I now have a <a title=\"Have Want List\" href=\"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/76326433\/have%20want%20spreadsheet.xlsx\" target=\"_blank\">spreadsheet on my trade page of my <strong>haves\/wants<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Currently it only has the <strong>rares<\/strong>, but I&#8217;ll get at least half the <strong>uncommons<\/strong> done next this week then the commons.\u00a0 I&#8217;m at around 2000 commons\/uncommons (though at least half of those are bottom tier) so its going to take a bit.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve definitely got to get some <strong>eBay lots<\/strong> up as the numbers of miniatures are quickly getting unmanageable.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to start with all the <strong>non-DDM pieces<\/strong>, then move into lots of duplicate commons and uncommons.\u00a0 I usually keep 4 copies or so of any common\/uncommon minis so I have enough to trade, and they are easy enough to get back even if I trade them all.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collecting Update:<\/strong>\u00a0 Made a semi-decent bulk purchase this weekend&#8230;it was a lot smaller than the first, but had a much better rare set (264 total, 25 rares, $473.67, $1.79\/mini), including a <strong>Silver Dragon, Erinyes, Elminster, Mordenkainen, Ice Devil<\/strong> and a <strong>Large Green Dragon<\/strong> (potentially my favorite sculpt in all of DDM).\u00a0 I&#8217;ll do a full analysis once I receive it.\u00a0 I also forgot to mention I picked up an Archmage this past week.\u00a0 He is one of my <strong>favorite minis<\/strong> and it was $6 shipped, which I think is decent for him as a single.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contest Update<\/strong>:\u00a0 I&#8217;m very happy to already have <a href=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=126\">two warbands submitted for our contest<\/a>, thank you so much guys!\u00a0 I need 2 more and we&#8217;ll get the matches underway, so tell your friends, or build them something and have them send it from their email!;)\u00a0 Both of the submitters have <strong>great tools they created<\/strong> for sorting\/searching minis.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a title=\"Irafay DDM Warband Generator\" href=\"http:\/\/irafay.com\/DDM\/creatures\/search\" target=\"_blank\">Irafay&#8217;s DDM stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And this is <a title=\"FEMC Warband DDM Card Searcher\" href=\"http:\/\/ddmwarbands.altervista.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FEMC&#8217;s DDM searcher tool<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing these kinds of tools reminds me of the fondness folks had\/have for DDM, and makes me thankful that I&#8217;ve gotten back into it, even many years after the height of its popularity.<a href=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mordenkainen-card.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-195 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mordenkainen-card-218x300.gif\" alt=\"mordenkainen card\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>D&amp;D DDM 3.something Conversion<\/strong>:\u00a0 I&#8217;m currently working on a DDM\/D&amp;D 3.x conversion.\u00a0 This is where one would play the role-playing portion of D&amp;D normally, but use a modified character creation system based on DDM.\u00a0 There would be some additional rules around having some additional NPC&#8217;s to fill out your &#8216;warband\/adventuring party&#8217;.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty excited about it, as I always loved D&amp;D (The role-playing side) but hated the combat.\u00a0 I&#8217;m hoping this brings together the best of both worlds.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to buy the <a 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