Goofy figs.

[KaosDevice]

What is the silliest thing you've used instead of a miniature in an RPG?

Mine would have to be a set of Elvis shot glasses for a group of orcs.

 

[diaglo]

i've used minis.

i have the Comedy Lords boxed sets... the halfling in plate is a riot.

 

[smootrk]

I have used plastic animals. My favorites are the farm themed - chickens and rabbits (giant/dire).

 

[Sejs]

I regularly use plastic cavemen as a substitute for generic humanoid mook figures. I've got a couple plastic squeezy dinosaur bath toys that I've used for giant lizards - they can squirt water from their mouths if loaded up. Can't wait to spring a spit acid attack on the PCs and just have the line of water ejected be the aoe. I've used a little wooden buddha figurine, plastic vending-machine princesses, homies, pokemon, and winnie-the-pooh-in-animal-costumes toys for miniatures before.


The top of my list and what has been my regular gaming miniature for years now, however, is a miniature from the short-lived Macho Women with Guns line:

A semihumanoid crow, holding a machine gun, wearing a bowler hat, and chomping down on a cigar.

It's the greatest thing ever.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

I was at one game where the DM mistakenly, while groping blindly into a drawer for something to use as a mini for a giant, pulled out a 'gag' gift he had been given for his recent engagement.

It was a, ummmm. Battery Powered Silicon representation of a Male Adult Entertainer's 'Naughty bits'.

Sorta knocked the drama right out of that encounter.

 

[Chaldfont]

We played 3.0 for years with "MUSCLE Men" figures from the 80s. I even glued pieces of cardboard to their feat so they would stand up. They were layed off when the D&D Minis came out. Here are just a few of the ones we used:

This last one always struck fear in the hearts of my players:

Add to that Lego knights and a set of German WWII soldiers and you've got a D&D game!

 

[Kuld]

My son’s toys like a little Grover and Cookie Monster.

Make a spot check, Elmo’s lurking in the darkness…

 

[Zander]

I used the sleeve of a navy blue jacket once as a purple worm. It looked the part but was difficult to move around.

I have a bunch of silly minis that I've found excuses to use over the years including a skeleton pizza delivery man, a dwarf on stilts, a wizard with a machine gun, Snoopy in chainmail, a fighter with everything including a kitchen sink, a 3-headed/3 Stooges troll and the TMNTs.

 

[AegisKelt]

Most of the time, since im a cheap SOB, we use pennies spray painted white with the name of the monster/player/etc. wrote on a side. With this though you get 2 monsters for the price of one, one side of pennies had orc wrote on it, the other kobold, etc etc.

 

[LostSoul]

We played 3.0 for years with "MUSCLE Men" figures from the 80s. I even glued pieces of cardboard to their feat so they would stand up. They were layed off when the D&D Minis came out. Here are just a few of the ones we used:

Add to that Lego knights and a set of German WWII soldiers and you've got a D&D game!

Cool, we did the same thing until we got into minis.

And I really got into LEGO for Star Wars. We built whole sets for the game. Filled the whole table up with it. Each 3 dots was 2 metres.

Would have taken pictures with the digital camera, but my sister moved into my old room and took everything apart.