[Poll] What extra figures do you have?

[Sjeng]

expanded my collection with Mantic's "Mhorgoth's Revenge": dwarven and undead armies. Look awesome. Also a Warhammer Ogre regiment box.
And of course the Reaper Bones kickstarter, which will add around 250 extra miniatures to my games
So I guess I've reached the point where "Are you nuts? Most of my collection is 'other' figs!" is more appropriate

[Sinned]

Don't you guys think the 'feel' of HQ is lost that way (using other/non-vintage GW minis)?
To me, it would...but then again: I played it when it was released so I may see things different due to that

[TMU]

Don't you guys think the 'feel' of HQ is lost that way (using other/non-vintage GW minis)?
To me, it would...but then again: I played it when it was released so I may see things different due to that

Of course that depends on how you use them and how much do you use them in original quests.

[Sjeng]

untill now, I've only used some extra skeletons from D&D and zombies from Mantic in my games. The rest is all original. Next up are some GW skaven, more D&D boardgame minis and after that GW ogres. So until now, it's been pretty old school.
But when my Mantic dwarves enter the fray, and my Mantic skeleton hordes, and the reaper Bones, it might get a bit jumbled, but I really don't mind. The more minis the merrier!

[Blackthorn]

I'm a purist and I generally only use HeroQuest figures to play HeroQuest. I once used a metal knight for Sir Ragnar and it just didn't feel right. Besides the Game System I own all four American Quest Packs and I also have an extra set of heroes and a set of Men-at-Arms from Wizards of Morcar.

I actually own several games with compatible minis including HeroScape, Lionheart, Castle Ravenloft and Talisman, but the only non original miniatures I've used with HeroQuest are from Dragon Strike (I only own the miniatures, not the game).

[knightkrawler]

Bumping a thread to brag obscenely...

I have...
(***Breathe in***)

the minis from
- 3 or 4 HQ game systems
- each EU expansion once
- 1 master edition
- lots of spares
- 2 Advanced HeroQuest games

- 2 DarkWorld games
- 2 DarkWorld: Village of Fear
- spares plus Trolls from Dragon's Gate

- 2 game systems of D&D board game (2003)
- 2 copies of each expansion

- Descent 1st edition
- Descent 2nd edition
- lots of spares

- 2 copies of D&D: Castle Ravenloft
- 2 copies of D&D: Wrath of Ashardalon
- 2 copies of D&D: Legend of Drizzt

- Various board games: Carnage, DungeonQuest (1st edition, German Drachenhort), Dragon Quest, DragonStrike, Armalion

- various plastic boxes and lots from Warhammer, mostly 4th edition, but also newer stuff
- various characters from Warhammer, Chronopia, Confrontation and other stuff...

- the Reaper Bones to arrive soon...

(***Breathe out***)

[Jewels!]

I have (extra) the minis from...

1 HQ game system
1 HQ Advanced Quest
2½ AHQ sets

1 Legend of Zagor baddie
A couple hundred D&D minis

...and I got to thinking and remembered I got a couple boxes of D&D Chainmail figures for cheap when the comic shop closed. I have...

an owlbear
A box of dwarves
and surprisingly a box of ogres/orcs or something that I'd completely forgot about. No idea what quality these are as the boxes are still sealed.

EDIT: except the owlbear, which I remember now made me think twice about these as the base doesn't have a slot to put the mini in

[chaoticprime]

I am not sure if I have figures that aren't extras. I sold all my retired painted Player Character miniatures. I barely consider Heroquest miniatures as being the same thing as other miniatures, though. They're predominantly game pieces. I feel the same about Talisman, and other board games, too. Plastic miniatures, outside of the protection of a board games' box, are basically worthless (exempting how charming they are).

I own a metric shit-ton of vintage Grenadier, Citadel, Harlequinn and Ral Partha miniatures. My brother likes Reaper stuff, but I am more critical about scaling. Some of their monsters, and many of their older miniatures, play well with the majority of my stuff.

The best miniatures ever made are the Julie Guthrie's Fantasy Personalities range that Grenadier produced back in the day. Mega Miniatures sold the whole line at $1.50 apiece for years, until JD sold the whole lot of them to my friend Matt. Matt is dragging his feet about getting them back up and running, too. At least he bought all mine that I had painted up.

Another series of figures (of which I have most) are Sandra Garrity's Personalities Apart, also released by Grenadier. They scale well with HeroQuest, actually. Sandra Garrity has been known to sculpt things that are neither dragons or people with 1990's "mom-hair," from time to time. Here is a link to where you can still buy them: http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cP ... dc83faed05

[Goblin-King]

chaoticprime, you seem extremely into gaming. May I ask what you actually do for a living? I'm just curious

[knightkrawler]

I barely consider Heroquest miniatures as being the same thing as other miniatures, though. They're predominantly game pieces. I feel the same about Talisman, and other board games, too. Plastic miniatures, outside of the protection of a board games' box, are basically worthless (exempting how charming they are)

I feel the same.
As you can see in my list, I predominantly own minis from board games and that's because I don't collect miniatures, but HeroQuest compatibles.
My hobby is HeroQuest and not miniatures or wargaming. I expand into these areas, of course, concerning the things I buy and own.
I also own many RPG sourcebooks, mostly bestiaries, but that's also (merely) inspiration material.

For me, the minis I own are game pieces. As long as they're not painted they are color coded to give them a unified look. That means I spray them with Army Painter primers I can live with shinig through when they are painted. You know, orcs are dark green, skaven fur brown, goblins light green, yetis light blue, undead skeleton bone...
Heroes and NPCs are grey. Men-At-Arms get a colored rim, as my four hero classes are also color coded, so that we always know which henchman belongs to which hero. Sjeng did something similar.
I like the unified look among minis of a kind that perfectly combines with the simple rule appeal of the game, which is why I want 4th edition Warhammer orcs with bows to fill my ranks and not the new ones. (But only as long as there's no better option). I won't put a new Warhammer orc in HQ and tell my players it's an Orc with the stats HQ orcs have. That's just ridiculous when you know how Orcs have changed to something bigger than HQ ogres over the Warhammer years...

But I digress... The thing is: Everything I own is there to play with. Period.

I had a comic book collection consisting of 6000 books. I read them all. Physically. Including Giant-Sized X-Men #1 and (The Uncanny) X-Men #94.
I only expanded into another series if I was interested and found the time to read it. That's why I almost exclusively owned X-Men books, guest appearances and so on,
so that, in the end, I owned an almost complete chronological string of X-Men appearances from 1975 through 2008. That was my collection and I read all those books with my own sweaty hands and drooling over the underlying sexual tension between Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost.

All things one can collect should have some purpose. Sometimes it's only being looked at closely - like stamps. But sometimes it's more.
I don't give a flying f**k about something I own and can't touch because people expect me not to touch it and thereby keep it pristine.
I hate MISB.
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Oh, and I also keep selling stuff for prices that are fair (which means, fair for me as well, mind you).
Changing, expanding, renewing, improving, specializing a collection takes a lot of time and money.
For me, part of my hobby is trading and I know what my stuff is worth, so I won't have people sh*t over my price policies and the fact that I sometimes try to take in money for my stuff over ebay.
Trust me, buyers need/want/look for this stuff and I invest in different stuff.
I can't afford to give things away although I sometimes do.

That last paragraph I felt I had to add because of no specific reason. That whole goldendboy82 stuff casts a negative light on us traders, I guess.