Greetings!

I have recently started using miniatures in my game campaigns--again. Through the years, I have bounced back and forth from using miniatures a lot in every game session, to not much at all, and relying more on a "Theater of the Mind" approach.

Currently, I have added additional miniatures to my collection--I have new adventurers, villain types, Orcs, Goblins, Beastmen, Minotaurs, monsters, sorcerers and more.

Some of them, I must confess, just looking at them, inspires me to want to create adventures and scenarios for them. Placing them as NPC's for the player characters to meet, placing some of them in dungeons and lairs as adversaries and so on. The ostensible names for some of them on the labels aren't bad, either. "Malvak The Conqueror" or whatever. "Ghelthogg The Beastman Sorcerer" and such like. When I get them painted, they will be totally badass, as I have some modest talent in painting miniatures, after all of these years. So, there's that, too. It seems like they will be fun, and inspiring! Some of my players just get a huge kick out of miniatures, so that's a good thing, too.

How about you, my friends? Do you gain some inspiration from particular miniatures? Moreso when you get them all painted up looking right? What do you think?

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

Miniatures and 3d scenery make any game experience better. 

There is a huge and growing market for 'rpg lite' boardgames and skirmish wargames. They are probably not the "best of both worlds", but certainly combine aspects of both rpg and wargame very well.

I am currently working on creating enough figures to play Ganesha Games' "Sellswords and Spellslingers" solo/co-op skirmish game in the Free League "Forbidden Lands" setting; so that encounters with bandits become encounters with Rust Brothers and such.