Reply To: Mantic Crazy Mystery Boxes

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I got the Terrain crazy box.  I couldn’t be bothered to track out which sets everything came from as it was loads of part sets.  I could imagine it would roughly be around the £125 mark.  Around 2/3 would be useful for early-mid 20th century – statues, ruins, bomb-damaged furniture, telephone box, that sort of thing. The rest was mainly modern stuff like tents.  One pile of treasure for fantasy and some “dungeon furniture” type stuff that I will probably donate to D&D-playing friends.  I’m happy with that.  I won’t be using the modern stuff anytime soon, but its good stuff, so if I ever take up a game in that genre then the stuff’s all ready for me, or if a friend does I’ll give it to them. And I easily got my money’s worth of things that I definitely will use.  With this kind of random buy, you are unlikely to have an immediate use for everything and I was anticipating that.  Would I have wished for a bigger proportion of “useful” to “not immediately useful” stuff? Sure.  And I really would have preferred more chunky blocking terrain rather than “dressing” and “scatter” type items.  But it was still worthwhile.  And part of the fun is the punt – £25 isn’t a lot these days to chance on some fun.