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Try Ikea. I bought one of the half-width (15 or so inches) Billy bookcases, along with a glass door, glass shelves, and a couple of lights to illuminate the whole thing for not much over $100. I had to drill a few more holes to get shelves close to the top and bottom and the sides are solid instead of glass, but overall it works great and was a whole lot cheaper than any other decent display case I looked at.

Ikea actually does have a full glass case (Detolf, $65), but it only has four non-adjustable shelves, which puts the shelves much farther apart than they need to be for minis.

We are a group that has been playing Pathfinder for a few years, but are now looking for a few new players. We meet in Euless every other Saturday night to play a campaign set in Golarion. We also sometimes meet on the Friday of the alternate weekend to paint miniatures or play lighter games like Munchkin (though not everyone participates every time; this is much less formal than our normal game session).

We are in our twenties or thirties and most of us have children, and ideally we would like players of at least that age and maturity. In addition, we would prefer players that want to play a fun, relaxed, game, rather than those who feel an obsessive need to "win", rules lawyer, or generally disrupt play. Our normal play style is a decent mix of role play and roll play; you'll need your dice, but it's certainly not "bash door/kill monster/loot room/repeat". The house we play at is non-smoking, and we do not tend to take smoke breaks during the game.

If you are interested, please email me at demkane (at) gmail.com.

Jacek Varilion is the scion of a rich house, minor nobility but also the owner of a vast mercantile empire. As the third son, he was freed of the need to take over either the family title or the family business, and thus spent his time in either the fencing halls or the dance halls of Egorian. He developed quite a reputation as a brash young rake and haunts the nightmares of plenty of fathers of the boys he duels and the girls he beds. In fact, he has lately fostered a habit of bedding a girl to provoke a brother to challenge his sword, a game that he has mostly escaped unscathed. Unfortunately, he played this game once too often, being caught with the (formerly) virgin daughter of one of his father's business partners the night before her wedding. This caused both the girl's arranged marriage and an important deal of his father's to fall through. His father was furious, giving him two choices: be disowned and disinherited or grow up and represent the family interests on a mission to the north. There was not really a choice for him, as losing his name and his money would ruin the lifestyle he has come to embrace. Instead, he buckled on his rapier and swore in Asmodeus's temple to expand his family's business in the new northern territories.

Jacek is hot-headed and passionate, but lives (and perhaps will die) by his personal honor. A human, he is a bit below six feet tall, with dark hair and a rakish mustache and goatee. While he wants to get his father's trading post established and get back to Egorian, he takes the oath he swore seriously. Of course, if he could find something more exciting to do while still fulfilling his responsibility...

Game-wise, he is a human LN rogue (I'm picturing him more as a duelist/swashbuckler rather than a pickpocket type of rogue). Naturally, he is a settler rather than a militiaman.