{"id":319,"date":"2015-03-02T04:55:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T04:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=319"},"modified":"2015-03-02T04:55:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T04:55:23","slug":"weekend-updates-an-army-of-drow-a-barrel-of-boosters-and-some-new-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Updates: an Army of Drow, a Barrel of Boosters, and Some New Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"drow<\/a>Wow, what a weekend!<\/p>\n

One thing to remember when buying on eBay is that while most folks put ‘lot, collection, D&D miniatures’ and some other search terms into their auctions, not everyone does.\u00a0 I almost missed a HUGE opportunity by not searching ‘D&D miniatures ‘collection’ ‘ this week (which is usually a very ‘slow’ term, meaning there aren’t many lots advertised as ‘collections’).\u00a0 As I was bidding on an auction yesterday evening, I was lucky to see a picture of a huge number of minis in one of the advertisements that show up at the bottom of a listing.\u00a0 Most shocking of all, but this lot only had 2 hours left to go!\u00a0 I usually track all the big lots, whether I am going to bid or not, from as soon as they show up (usually 7 or 10 days earlier), so it was amazing that I saw this one with only a couple hours to go.\u00a0 If I wasn’t online bidding, I would have missed it.<\/p>\n

The lot was for what must be the largest D&D Miniatures collection of Drow in the country, and maybe the world.\u00a0 No joke, I’ll leave the list of minis from the auction at the bottom.\u00a0 3 Champion of Eilistraee, including one bagged.\u00a0 24 total Driders.\u00a0 7 Large Deep Dragon (one of my favorite dragons)…4 more Drow Cleric of Lolth (putting me at 7!).\u00a0 14 Mounted Drow Patrols!\u00a0 The uncommons are just as crazy…50 Drow Fighters, 21 Drow Wizards!\u00a0 I can’t imagine the time and effort it took to acquire this collection, my hat is off to the owner.\u00a0 And these were just the D&D Minis…there were also 50 metal miniatures and dozens of Drow Sourcebooks, including another copy of Fane of the Drow (can never have too many maps!), 2 copies of the original Harbinger rulebooks, and a bunch of map tiles.\u00a0 My wife says I have a man-crush on the owner, which I probably do.\u00a0 One of the best parts is the seller has all the cards in binders, which I haven’t ended up with in many of the lots I’ve won.<\/p>\n

While that would have been an amazing enough win for one weekend, I also won the largest booster auction I’ve seen yet on eBay.\u00a0 My guess is it is the liquidation inventory of a game store.\u00a0 106 total boosters, essentially 10 cases of miniatures or so, including 12 Giants of Legend Boosters, 6 Against the Giants, and 8 Lords of Madness.\u00a0 Plus, just enough for me to play sealed with, are 2 Harbinger boosters.=)\u00a0 I doubt they can stand up against the newer sets in terms of sealed, but it’s always fun to see what you get.\u00a0 This will put me at 148 unopened boosters from 14 total sets.<\/p>\n

I’ll work on updating my total costs and collecting page tomorrow.\u00a0 I had gotten my cost per mini down to about $.81 (with about 2000 minis left) as I’ve sold about $5000 worth of minis or so, but this weekend will definitely bump it up back over $1.25 or so until I can figure out what I want to clear and what I want to keep.\u00a0 I know I originally said I would only collect the Original Edition Sets, but as I’ve made so much progress in just 2 months, I think I’ve decided I will try to collect ALL the D&D minis instead, especially with a case each of Against the Giants and Lords of Madness to open!<\/p>\n

One more announcement for tonight…I think I’ve decided to start designing accessories for D&D Miniatures Original Edition.\u00a0 I’m going to commission some maps, create some scenarios, and basically create and sell some starter and adventure kits.\u00a0 I don’t expect the market to be huge, and I may only sell a few, but I definitely want to be involved in DDM in a bigger way.\u00a0 My goal is to someday fund the creation of a real PC client to play DDM.\u00a0 I’ll definitely try to get some help via Kickstarter, and I’ll have to call my line of products something different due to Copyright, but with most of the OE monsters plus the rules being part of the OGL, I’ll have a lot to work with.\u00a0 As Kickstarter backers like to see ‘other work’ folks have done, if I have some professional maps, kits, and other design credits, they’ll be more likely to think a project will be completed successfully.<\/p>\n

It will definitely be slow going for a bit as I’m just one guy and my business is going gangbusters right now (not to mention I have twin one-year olds and another on the way!), but even that is an encouragement.\u00a0 If I have 8-9 more years like I had this \"booster<\/a>past year, I’ll be able to retire in my early 50’s, sell or turn the business over to my girls, and start working more heavily on my passions, which mainly means gaming.\u00a0 Of course, anything can happen, but I’m hopeful.\u00a0 Maybe in another 8 years (more like ‘probably’ I think) the price of 3d printing will be so low that I will be able to run a miniature-production operation out of my own facilities…and just as likely, if you don’t want me to mail them, I will be able to simply sell you ‘schematics’ of the minis you want for a warband and you’ll be able to print them out yourself on your personal 3d printer…for less than the price of a booster today.\u00a0 That may sound like wishful thinking, but the pace of technological change we are in for over the next 20 years is going to be beyond what we can comprehend today.\u00a0 Large scale 3d manufacturing will be able to build anything from molecule size blood cells to skyscraper size buildings, at a fraction of the cost of conventional technology.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, before I start boring you with talk of the singularity, I’m off to play a game of League of Legends before bed!<\/p>\n

May your warbands always be victorious, warriors!<\/p>\n

RARES: \u00a0(121)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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Aspect of Lolth – x1 (bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Blade Spider – x6<\/span><\/div>\n
Champion of Eilistraee – x3 (1bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Clawborn Scorrow – x5<\/span><\/div>\n
Draegloth – x16<\/span><\/div>\n
Draegloth Favored One – x3 (1 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Drider – x13 (8 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Drider Sorcerer – x11 (8 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Arachnomancer – x9<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Cleric of Lolth – x4 (1 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Demonbinder – x3 (1 red(bagged)\/2 purple-promo)<\/span><\/div>\n
Fiendish Monstrous Scorpion – x4 (1 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Large Deep Dragon – x7<\/span><\/div>\n
Large Monstrous Spider – x6<\/span><\/div>\n
Mounted Drow Patrol – x14 (2 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Ryld Argith – x1<\/span><\/div>\n
Web Golem x2 (1bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Xen’drix Champion – x12 (1 missing head)<\/span><\/div>\n
Xen’drix Drow Stingblade – x1 (1 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
UNCOMMONS: \u00a0(341)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Drider Fanglord – x5<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Adventurer – x9<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Arcane Guard – x50<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Archer – x16<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Enforcer – x24<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Fighter – x12<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Fighter – x38 (GoL)<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Rogue – x32<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Sergeant – x17<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Spiderguard – x1 (bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Spider Priestress – x46<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Wand Mage – x2<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Warrior – x30<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Wizard – x21<\/span><\/div>\n
Huge Fiendish Spider – x9<\/span><\/div>\n
Phaseweb Spider – x4 (2 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Scorpion Clan Drow Fighter – x33<\/span><\/div>\n
Spiderbound Drow Warrior – x4 (1 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Swarm of Spiders – x21<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
COMMONS: \u00a0(314)<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Deathjump Spider – x41 (37 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Demonweb Swarm – x17<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Assassin – x10 (7 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Drow Blademaster – x64 (1 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Lolthbound Goblin – x8 (8 bagged)<\/span><\/div>\n
Lolth’s Sting – x130<\/span><\/div>\n
Spider of Lolth – x44<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
OTHER MINIATURES: \u00a0(43)<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
Chitine – x12 (9 cards)<\/span><\/div>\n
Ettercap – x20 (2 cards)<\/span><\/div>\n
Ettercap Webspinner – x11<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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METAL MINIATURES: \u00a0(50)<\/span><\/div>\n
City of The Queen Miniatures\u00a0(100% complete\/unpainted)<\/div>\n
Attack of the Drow Miniature Set\u00a0(mostly assembled, Ranger missing 1 hand, 8 character cards & 2 tiles)<\/div>\n
Menzoberranzan Miniatures\u00a0(100% complete\/unpainted)<\/div>\n
Cadirith (sealed)<\/span><\/div>\n
Labith Female Spider Demon – x3 (complete -loose is zip bags)<\/span><\/div>\n
Dark Elf Queen\/Throne – x6 (5 sealed)<\/span><\/div>\n
Spider Centaur – x2 (1 sealed)<\/span><\/div>\n
Giant Spider & Victims<\/span><\/div>\n
SWARMS – Tarantulas (1 large – 9 small))<\/span><\/div>\n
DUNGEON DECOR Bookshelves (2 bookshelves & 2 bodies)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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