So I finally broke down and backed the Reaper Miniatures "Bones" plastic Gaming figures line on kickstarter, the temptation for all those figures was just a little bit more than I could bear.
I grew up on small plastic toys like that, whether vikings, soldiers, old western U.S. themed, or medieval. The thing is they advertise them mostly as gaming minis and I don't happen to be a D&D or other P+P role player.
So I'm a bit curious and almost have to ask; How essential and/or common are gaming minis to the average P+P role play experience?
Take a look at the Bones kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-an-evolution-of-gaming-min?ref=category
How much more or less effective would having representative figures be for enhancing the immersion of a role playing game? What always mentally turned me off of trying to join a role playing game was that I could never get over the fact that it seemed to be just people sitting around and talking for the most part with little visual stimulus. I think something like this may help me get into a P+P game more readily than my stereotypical notions of hand drawn paper depictions of encounters, a card set, or a book that needs flipped through. I don't know if something like that is practical though, and would like to ask those more experienced in P+P games.
-Thanks
Seamus
I grew up on small plastic toys like that, whether vikings, soldiers, old western U.S. themed, or medieval. The thing is they advertise them mostly as gaming minis and I don't happen to be a D&D or other P+P role player.
So I'm a bit curious and almost have to ask; How essential and/or common are gaming minis to the average P+P role play experience?
Take a look at the Bones kickstarter
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-an-evolution-of-gaming-min?ref=category
How much more or less effective would having representative figures be for enhancing the immersion of a role playing game? What always mentally turned me off of trying to join a role playing game was that I could never get over the fact that it seemed to be just people sitting around and talking for the most part with little visual stimulus. I think something like this may help me get into a P+P game more readily than my stereotypical notions of hand drawn paper depictions of encounters, a card set, or a book that needs flipped through. I don't know if something like that is practical though, and would like to ask those more experienced in P+P games.
-Thanks
Seamus