I take the exact opposite approach. Life is too short to skimp out on my hobbies I'm serious about.
I work hard to make my gold. And I treat myself like a king when I can, and when I'm not on the grind. I just bought a bunch of Dwarven Forge. I love it a LOT more than I thought. But this has me thinking a lot about 3d Printing - because I'm super interested in ghost-gunning too. I've been gaming for over four-decades, what price could I possibly put on my favorite hobby after all this time? No price at all, that would be silly. The only thing I aim for is putting on the best game I can within the limits of my interests, right now, I'm into minis again.
Am I chasing the Dragon? Depends on your perspective. I *want* to chase the dragon. And I want to ride it until I fall off and do it all over again, only I'll do it right handed and blind-folded next time. rinse/repeat.
Cry havoc, says I, and let the paint flow!
Greetings!
*Laughing* Yeah, my friend, I am the same way! I wouldn't say that I'm *obsessive*. I'm a ham-fisted ape with a lot of stuff though, and believe in simply living life at full-blast. It's a pretty common trait amongst Marines, too.
It's an interesting question regarding does the Marine Corps *attract* people with such personalities--or does the Marine Corpse *Train* and inculcate such traits into its members? Or maybe some of both are true at the same time? My wife used to tell me that something she really loved and was supr-attracted to Marines for was, as she said, "Marines are intense about everything in life. That kind of intensity and passion is unusual, and very attractive!" So, yeah, I'm pretty intense as a man with most things.
I by paintbrushes by the handful, bottles of miniature paints by the dozens, and miniature figures also by the dozens or hundreds.
I know that most of the time, for example, my players will usually encounter a half dozen, maybe a dozen, Orcs, Goblins, or Beastmen at any one time. What the fuck did I do, though?
I have a whole fucking platoon of Orcs. Probably about 50 of them. Warriors, berserkers, skirmishers, assassins, archers, some shamans and sorcerers.
Same thing with Goblins, and Beastmen. I have about a strong platoon or so for each.
I recently did some shopping for filling out some city encounters. I now probably have several dozen townspeople, merchants, workers, farmers, and the like. I thought about the taverns and nightclubs, so I got sucked into buying I'm guessing about a dozen dancers and tavern thotties, as well as some Short Stack Kim Kardashian strumpets!
I also got some Dance Bar island/Cage thingies and nightclub runways, so all these strumpets can be running around, doing their thing in the clubs whenever the players visit. I have some of the Nightclub "island" platforms rigged with a baby light, so the girls can look extra sexy and special when they get up on these things to dance and be the center of attention.
I have been working on this one design where I have a little glass cube that the miniature can stand in, that's on a raised platform in the nightclub, which is then lit up.
Of course, the women players want their characters to get inside the little lit up glass cubes, too! Gotta show off their dance moves!
Oh, yeah. I also got HATE. HATE by CMON. It's fucking awesome! A *huge* collection of all of these road-warrior, bad-ass barbarian miniatures! And also more than a few ogre and even giant-sized mother fuckers! These guys all have fierce appearances, bad-ass armour, crazy, evil looking weapons, and they all have such fantastic detail! I got the expansions, too, so I have like a fucking barbarian army now.
Cool set of miniatures that can be used for player characters, NPC's, bandits, barbarian warriors, villain characters, evil NPC's, just all kinds of uses for them on the tabletop. I highly recommend HATE!
Semper Fidelis,
SHARK