Which came first, the paint pot or the dice bag?

[DM of Doom]

I played Star Wars RPG and D&D for years before I even saw a mini. When combats got really intense we\'d draw sketches of what was going on, or in some cases, break out the action figures.

Mind you, life is better with the lil leadfellows...

 

[airhead]

started playing D&D with parcheesi tokens. (I call the red one)

Then some friends started buying minis for a mass army campaign (chainmail - 70\'s version). We painted by assembly line - do the boots, pass it on to the next guy that is doing pants, etc. After you\'ve done a couple hundred boots on only 3 or 4 different minis all day, your eyes and fingers start cramping up.

 

[Mosch]

DSA was more than ten years before miniatures for me. Well, I did play Heroquest with a friend, but the minis were unpainted and we didn\'t care about them at all.
I only started to use miniatures in role playing games after I started playing W40k.

 

[Sithtainius]

RPGs came first, then minis, then tabletop battle games

 

[NecroN]

Minis first but not for me.

I was exposed to minis long before roleplaying, but I rolplayed before I ever painted a mini.

My Dad was into Roleplaying from the start (from Magic Realm, Chainmail, Blackmoor, Sword and Sorcery - came with all the rules and the minis to play, and the paints, etc). This was as long as I can remember. It wasn\'t until I was 8 that I snuck a peak at his copy of Marvel Super Heroes and realized how easy this \'adult\' game was.

As for painting picked that up a few years later (long after my dad had quit and his mins gathered dust). Started with his old stuff and still have many pots of official AD&D paints (Cloud Giant blue still one of my faves) that have lasted 30 or so years.

 

[Zora]

RPGs first for me, too. THEN painting! Actually started painting as a way to increase my patience. Didn\'t work.lol

Got into painting some stuff, met my first wife -who was an artistic soul- and she helped teach me some fundamentals. THAT was a loooonnnggg time ago.

Now I need to get back into painting.