Thank you, using OpenOffice to make them fit on one page helps a lot. I was alternating between trying to use paint or GIMP. I had an issue with copying the image from the thread and then pasting it into GIMP; it was reading more than the size of a page.
The OO way works much better, and with the color correcting things in GIMP, it won't be hard for me to have tokens that look slightly different, so I can tell one kobold slinger from the next.
I find tweaking individual sprites for the mass troops a tad time consuming, but the effect an be nice. Did that on some of the of shield bearing hobgoblins i did up today. Also got some of their carnivorous ape pets from 1e along with the two trolls 3E puts in their groupings. {they also have ogres and dire wolves on thier '# appearing' entry, so if someone needs those, they are upthread. ] Edit: Seems some deep ones snuck in...
Edited Edit: Crap, while i reached for my shotgun, more aberrant horrors and loathsome ghouls have gathered.
Are they Cthonians or are they Neolithids? That depends if the players have shotguns or magic swords and shields. Also along for the ride are some larval flayers and Ultrolithids [sp]. Stealth editing in a horde of hydra. And some golems
I used to make tons of monsters myself. I got most of the images from the WotC boards and edited them in photoshop. I would either print them on cardstock, although sometimes i would upload them to Walmart.com and print out full sheets of glossy monsters. I would rarely use these now that i have so many plastic minis, but they're still cool. If i needed a bunch of minions i would definitely use them, or a huge rare monster didn't have a model for.
Most were flat, but sometimes i propped them up with pennies and hardened clay and pop sickle sticks. I have more monster tokens i made than i'll ever use actually, They're pretty quick to whip up yourself, and the gloss paper really makes a difference. Although players might not care.
I dug through my old boxes and found these sheets i had printed. If i can find the original files i'll post them for download, but i'm pretty sure they're saved on a CD somewhere, no longer on my hard drive.
I just wanted to give this a little bump of appreciation, as I've downloaded & printed a bunch of these for my game tonight.
Thank you!
__________________ DM of Adventure Path Story Hour (now in Thunderspire Labyrinth!): Ryam Plays Dice - updated 8th June 09 (campaign on indefinite hiatus).
Player in Swordlands Story Hour: Interview with a Fey - updated 15th June 09. News just in - this campaign may be restarting in the near future! Watch this space!
I also have the singular honour of being Rouseketeer #20.
Did I miss the Formians and Slaadi? Or can I request them?
Ant centaurs sound hard to find, though i might be able to find some classic tri-kreen sprites as stand ins. This one will take time, so feel free to ask for another sprite sheet since i do need ideas.
Never been keen on colour coded biped frogs being chaos incarnate, but glad to fulfill the request.
I'll probably be coming back in later with a request - I'm about to start a brainstorming thread and once I get some ideas I'll be back here requesting tiles for them!
__________________ DM of Adventure Path Story Hour (now in Thunderspire Labyrinth!): Ryam Plays Dice - updated 8th June 09 (campaign on indefinite hiatus).
Player in Swordlands Story Hour: Interview with a Fey - updated 15th June 09. News just in - this campaign may be restarting in the near future! Watch this space!
I also have the singular honour of being Rouseketeer #20.
It would be really great if you could do an Eidolon counter for me, please? I'm running a game at shortish notice on Monday and I reckon a big runecarved figure that thinks it's a god would be a pretty good centrepiece.
Otherwise - so many, many thanks for this thread! for someone like me who doesn't want to buy a lot of miniatures it's fantastic.
Have you thought about doing a "Generic Adventurers" set - covering male/female of each PHB race and offering a range of classes for each?
__________________ DM of Adventure Path Story Hour (now in Thunderspire Labyrinth!): Ryam Plays Dice - updated 8th June 09 (campaign on indefinite hiatus).
Player in Swordlands Story Hour: Interview with a Fey - updated 15th June 09. News just in - this campaign may be restarting in the near future! Watch this space!
I also have the singular honour of being Rouseketeer #20.
I do almost all of my gaming online now, and thoroughly enjoy doing more than the usual Excel tactical maps for my encounters. But I have trouble finding decent quality overhead views of classes or critters for these maps. I can use .png files in CC3 and scale them appropriately if I can just find some images. Anyone know a source?
I'm attaching a sample 'map' with some character symbols I've customized to fit the ones in my game to show what I'm getting at, but this customization is pretty labor intensive for me so I'm looking for shortcuts - .png files would be just the thing, I think.
A real map would have hex numbers as well for reference in posting.
Here is a ling to PNG formated sprites and icons, tons of characters, monsters and items for use in all kinds of maps. These are within an excel spreadsheet and are months and months worth of collecting sprites (even hand working many of them)
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