Q: About 15 to 20 years ago, Dragon Magazine had a cartoon called "Fineous Fingers." He was a thief with a band of adventurer friends. Around that time there was a set of miniature metal figures offered in a box set with all the main characters. A supposed friend of mine got light fingered and walked off with the Wizard miniature from the set and claimed he accidentally lost it. Right!

I was wondering if you could tell me if there is any place I could either get a replacement or another entire set? If not can you tell me where to look or who to ask?

A: Fineous Fingers is a little older than you remember! We checked our 20-year-old Dragon magazines, and he was no longer in them, then went back to our 25-year-old ones -- the oldest ones we had easy access to --and he was not in them either. A little poking around on the Web then revealed that he appeared in Dragon magazine in 1980 and before but, as far as we can tell, not since.

With regard to the miniatures, our condolences; we have all lost gaming stuff over the years to similar "friends" (many of whom no doubt misguidedly style themselves after Fineous). You are not the only one who no longer has a set of these, either; in our cursory research into this subject, we came across the following quote in an online gaming forum: "I used to own a full set of Fineous Fingers figures, but alas, they're lost now. Never got around to painting them, but they were awesome."

If you are interested in replacing any of them, our recommendation would be to periodically do a search on eBay. We ran a quick check for you just now and no luck, but new stuff gets listed every day, and that might end up being your best bet. We have quite a few gaming props there, both ones we used to have and ones we could not afford back in the day.

Hope that helps!