I used to take off work or leave work early when minis came out not because I was hiding anything from my wife (then girlfriend), but because the boosters were so awesome to open!

Also, I hated the idea of a few hundred dollars' worth of merchandise sitting on my porch in a big box that looked suspiciously like it might hold a TV... (at the time I started getting the game, I lived across the street from a school, so it just seemed like asking for trouble).

I started ordering cases with, I think, Universe (and never looked back). If I couldn't get the day off (or wasn't sure when the stuff would be delivered), I checked the delivery link obsessively, waiting for word that my package had arrived... and would then find a reason to "get sick" or otherwise go home early. :)

Ah, I miss the good ol' days.

My wife has played minis with me a few times, generally only when she's a little drunk. We've had to mix factions because she likes playing characters who she thinks have funny names, like Bastila Shan and Deepa Billiba.

Male, 39, according to my collection record here I should have just under 1000 SWM. Started collecting with Rebel Storm but focused on stuff for RPG use although my first (and only) two booster packs were CS and had VRs. Mostly purchased sets of commons/uncommons with the occasional rare/VR. Avoided a lot of some sets due to reprints. When sets dropped down to 40 minis I finally started buying a case of each SWM set except for the couple that were so heavy in reprints at common/uncommon.

My DDM collection is probably larger (one case of each set from Abberations to the 2.0 switch) especially if I count the epic dragons but not really as enjoyable.

The reason my wife will never know how much I spent on my minis army is that...

I am too scared to find out myself lol. I have no idea, but I think I would feel a bit bad lol if I knew how much I had spent.

Still, it was all before we were married, so any I buy now I will not have a problem letting her know. And really all I need now is to pick up the odd bargain off ebay and pay for my V-Sets each year, which is quite ok.

I am surprised how many collecters/players are older than 20 though, I thought the demographics would be a lot younger.

That's interesting. I thought roleplaying was for the younger side. It's more time consuming - who has time for it when you're older? For me, miniatures was an outgrowth of boardgaming. I got my first batch of minis second-hand in a trade from someone at boardgamegeek. Boardgamegeek is populated with quite a few former RPGers who no longer have time for that type of game. (It also has quite a few current RPGers as well.)

I believe it's harder and harder to get new players (ie, "kids") into roleplaying. Not only is there a social stigma, but pencil-and-paper RPGs have to compete against texting, facebook, video games, and 500 channels. When I was a kid getting into roleplaying, video games were things like Space Invaders and Missile Command, which didn't exactly satisfy the imagination. How, the competition is fully immersive worlds like World of Warcraft and Mass Effect. (It's no accident that the newest edition of D&D "plays like" a MMO).

On the other hand, a lot of RPGers are RPGers for life. If you started playing in the 1970s, 80s, even 90s, it's a social thing. Most of my circle of friends that I still keep in touch with consists of people I currently roleplay with or that I roleplayed with at one time or another. Heck, out of my dozens and dozens of friends from college (graduated in 1992), the one guy I still see on a regular basis is a guy a RPG with (We have other interests in common, so that's just one element of it).

Speaking for myself, I used to RPG at least once a week (at one point, during a college summer, we had three different weekly games going), but now I'm down to once a month. Doesn't prevent me from buying just as much stuff, though. :)

Everything she took was a duplicate of stuff I still own. I don't really miss them, but they'd be pretty handy trade-bait right now.

I know, right? With less than a year under her belt at playing Pathfinder RPG (or any RPG for that matter), she has already GMed a couple sessions of Pathfinder Society at our local store. She's pretty good, too.

Bask in my lucky-ness.



At least you can find $4 boosters at Target. Id buy some, but there is only one Target in the area, and they havent gotten any in awhile.

I'm the same way with my collection, I have hardly any rebels at all


I have noticed that it is hard to get people our age to roleplay.....even my own brother won't act out characters


And while I have no wife to hide minis from, my comic dealer has lied for me on several occasions when my mom asks how much that case of minis cost

That's hilarious, although I am jealous you have a local shop to buy them from. I have been relagated to buying minis off the internet for over a year now, they are very hard to come buy in "real life" gaming or toy stores. And because we have to import them over, when you do find them they are approx £12-14 each (close to $20 in the states).

I have started my wife on the more complicated board games and card games (like our most recent buy, Dominion) and hope to one day play minis with her, although I am not sure it will ever happen. We do have my Felcor and a few Chicken Walkers on display in the lounge though, which pleases me immensely!

Wow. How does she have that kind of leverage?