DnD for the faint of heart?

Always a good leg to stand on, getting them invested.

Thoughts on good places to buy say, boxes of random baddies of various types? Never much used miniatures and I don't know which ones are the good suppliers to start with.

Well, I know obviously TSR/WotC/Hasbro exists, but they are going to be an arm and a leg by their prices. Kinda unsure about spending a few hundred on guys that may end up not being used for a second game night.

I suppose I can look around dollar stores for children's toy soldiers and see if any are monsters or medieval.

They seem like pretty chill people, weird but good folk.

Check Amazon or your Friendly local gaming store for minis or even counters and beads. There are always nice things like bulk generic baddie minis or zombies to be found among the esoterica rather than spend large sums on pewter or die cast figurines.

You might also want to look into Paizo’s tokens or find small plastic stands to print and cut your own card stock paper tokens/figures out from easily findable downloaded PDFs.

Expanded comments for flat bottomed glass beads or counters, you can find them sold cheaply and in relative bulk at hobby, crafting, & fabric stores. Joanne’s Fabric and Michael’s Arts & Crafts come to mind as reputable chains in this instance.

Lord, I wish we had any of the above where we are. Here in the great white north we have no craft store nor gaming store, Amazon though we can try. Hopefully get a decent shipping price.

We're sadly far enough north where many companies that use Amazon refuse to ship here. We are past the tree line.

Oh, funderful.

Well, if not directly to you maybe you can ship to a holding or receiving office a road trip away?

Yeah, that is a possibility. But not a road trip, we don't have one of those.

Hike. Train. Sled?