Alatheon
In my "campaign":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/dragonbone-kingdoms I award players "Action Points":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/dragonbone-kingdoms/wikis/action-points for all kinds of things, and I think it would be fun to use some sort of physical coin or chit to represent them.
I know GameMastery makes campaign coins, but those are a little pricey for the number that you get. Does anyone have any suggestions for something that would be distinctive, but not outrageously espensive?
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Although sultanas, raisins or nicer kinds of nuts (cashews, pistachio etc) could be used as well.
The boxed set of the Doctor Who game (DWAITAS) actually comes with a bunch of cardboard tokens to use for this. But if I ever do face to face for it, I'd prefer to use food.
Well, I think Pavlov can explain the rest...
Now, on the subject of food as enemy stand-ins: I really want to run a session some time in which a party finds itself battling its way across the dinner table of some giant/demigod/really enormous being and must battle actual food items that appear at the scale in which a D&D mini would experience real-world food! This idea started percolating one night when one of my players slammed a jar of parmesan cheese down on the battlemap, declaring "You all die by parmesan!" I just haven't had a chance to work something so bizarre into my story... yet.
Now that I'm getting back into Warhammer I was starting to think about hand-painting clay poker chips. This looks a lot faster, so I can paint my minis instead.
NewbieDM's POGs are the awesome. I use them religiously for monsters - and you can even use the actual pog over again by simply gluing another picture to it. The same method could easily be used to create tokens for any need.
Now, that said, if you want to spend a bit of cash (or you might drop the hint to your players - which is what I did) you can also order some really neat things from Pazio and from LITKO games.
Litko sells an amazingly nice set of condition markers, which my gaming group purchased me months ago. We loved them so much, we delved into the custom tokens as well - and ordered a few sets of those as well. Nothing like hearing your monk call out "DERP ON HIM!" ;)
You can find the Litko stuff here: http://www.litkoaero.com/page/LAI/CTGY/TS_4E
Pazio also sells coins and tokens made by GameMastery: http://paizo.com/gameMastery/accessories
Never used them, but they look amazing....
Those last two kinda fall out of the "cheap" range you were looking for *blush* But always remind your players that DMs must be sated with cookies and presents on occasion ;)
I was really hoping someone had a good lead on fantasy themed poker chips that weren't too spendy. I have a mental image of chips with an embossed dragon on the face or around the edge -google did not yield any such thing.
Newbie DM's walkthrough looks promising though, I'm looking into it.
Then, using Newbie's method, simply place a fantasy themed label. The one's I linked are even intended for that - they take 1 1/4 circles. Easily findable in your local craft store in a circle punch!
Heck, those suckers are cheap enough I'm thinking of doing it myself now...
Minifigs are fun for PCs, though, if not a touch expensive. If you're willing and close to a Legoland, however, they usually let you make three custom ones from a few buckets for nine dollars.
I await them with baited breath...