Sources of images for use as tokens

[ilikepie]

These are incredible. Have you done duergar/gray dwarves yet? I'm about to run the "Horned Hold" in Thunderspire Labyrinth...

EDIT: Wow, you're about fifty steps ahead of me. Just found the thunderspire labyrinth sheet and it's amazing. Thank you.

 

[frankthedm]

EDIT: Wow, you're about fifty steps ahead of me. Just found the thunderspire labyrinth sheet and it's amazing. Thank you.

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4830/duergar.png Post 127 has a dedicated dark dwarf sheet

Also, I know that Paizo pdf's have full-resolution images embedded so if you have, say, the monster manual (or any of their adventure paths) you can right click on an image and save as a bmp, jpg or tiff. It's handy for adding to markers/minis or for printing out an image for players that doesn't have stats associated with it.

You can also search through the Paizo blog, as they post many full-res images there as well.

thanks for the reminder!

"You must spread some Experience Points around before giving it to mgbeach again."

 

[mgbeach]

thanks for the reminder!

Sure thing.. and man I love the Pathfinder goblins!

 

[frankthedm]

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Lamia ~ Leech ~ lich ~ Linnorm ~ lizardmen ~ Lizards ~ Lycantropes ~Manticore ~ mantis ~Medusa ~ Minotaurs ~mite ~

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img169.imageshack.us/img169/9630/leeeeches111.png
img263.imageshack.us/img263/1448/lich.png
img94.imageshack.us/img94/4926/linnorm.png
img219.imageshack.us/img219/9228/lizardmenr.png
img217.imageshack.us/img217/8529/lizards.png
img140.imageshack.us/img140/111/lycanthrope.png
img265.imageshack.us/img265/502/montefull.png
img689.imageshack.us/img689/8536/mantisu.png
img685.imageshack.us/img685/8681/medusa.png
img16.imageshack.us/img16/3135/minotaurs.png
img15.imageshack.us/img15/906/mite.png

 

[frankthedm]

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Mimic ~ Mohrg ~ Morlock ~ Mummy ~ Nagas ~ Advanced nagas and snake tailed Serpent folk ~ Nagalord & Serpent folk cult ~ Nightmare [PDF] ~ Ochre ~ Octopus ~ Ogres ~ Oni ~ Orc

img138.imageshack.us/img138/4636/mimic.png
img153.imageshack.us/img153/2060/mohrghahaha.png
img96.imageshack.us/img96/1387/morlock.png
img15.imageshack.us/img15/3742/mummysarc.png
img148.imageshack.us/img148/8692/nagamedlarge.png
img26.imageshack.us/img26/2192/nagaandsnakecultists.png
img687.imageshack.us/img687/2589/nagalordcult.png
img72.imageshack.us/img72/6303/nightmare.pdf
img341.imageshack.us/img341/4181/oozeofilldefinedcolour.png
img171.imageshack.us/img171/535/octo.png
img594.imageshack.us/img594/8619/ogresinchains.png
img140.imageshack.us/img140/6375/oniv.png
img94.imageshack.us/img94/6954/orcswshieldchoppa.png

 

[frankthedm]

Love these monsters though i'm not sure how practical a print out of an all black critter would be [especially if one is paying for the ink]. if these are too grey, i could darken them.



Nightshades: Mystarian Nightcrawler, Mystarian Nightwalker, Mystarian Nightwing & Faerûnian Nighthaunt
Horror Counters: Haunter of the dark & Nightgaunt

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunter_of_the_Dark http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thehaunterofthedark.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightgaunt http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thedreamquestofunknownkadath.htm

 

[Halberd22]

Thanks!

Thanks for all the hard work Frank, my players and I appreciate it!

 

[Ruined]

Just found this thread. Great stuff Frank! Thanks!

 

[mo123813]

I know this may a little dumb and all, but I just found out about this tokens and boy, I was up all night looking at these! Anyway, I looked at those websites with sprites, and it got me wondering: How do you make these? Is there a tutorial you can locate me to? Do you have any token blanks? Do you use PDF to make these?

 

[frankthedm]

I know this may a little dumb and all, but I just found out about this tokens and boy, I was up all night looking at these!

I'm up to 3am - 6am myself many nights copying and pasting these together

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Otyugh ~ Owlbears ~ Pazuzu ~ Pegasai Large, medium & huge ~ Pegasus 1.5 ~ Phase Spiders ~ Skull Phase spiders ~ Phoenix & Rhuk ~ Pixies, med ~ Pixies, small [20mm ~ 3/4th" base] PDF ~ Pseudonatural sampler Medium, large & Garg. ~ Psuedonatural sampler, huge ~ Purple worm classic ~ Purple worm plated ~ Rakshasa ~ rat swarm ~ Rats ~ Remoraz ~ Retriever ~ Rhino ~ Roc ~ Roper ~ Rust monsters ~ Sahuagin ~ Satyrs ~ Scorpions ~ Shark, mega ~ Sharks ~ Shoggoth tide ~ Shoggoths large & garg. ~ Slamander, fire ~ Spiders Small, medium, large, huge & Garg. ~

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img215.imageshack.us/img215/3580/hoot.png
img37.imageshack.us/img37/8604/pazuzu.png
img535.imageshack.us/img535/3204/pegasuslargemediumhuge.pdf
img708.imageshack.us/img708/4853/pegasus1p5.png
img19.imageshack.us/img19/8625/facespiders.png
img717.imageshack.us/img717/1772/phoenixrhuk.png
img199.imageshack.us/img199/6618/timetogetdusted.png
img28.imageshack.us/img28/3102/pixietribesmallbases.pdf
img35.imageshack.us/img35/8915/pseudohorror.pdf
img202.imageshack.us/img202/5043/dunwichfamilyreunion.png
img408.imageshack.us/img408/1991/purplewormclassic.png
img69.imageshack.us/img69/5361/purplewormplated.png
img192.imageshack.us/img192/5082/crossbowtime.png
img153.imageshack.us/img153/5299/ratswarm.png
img685.imageshack.us/img685/6500/direrats.png
img693.imageshack.us/img693/8682/polarworms.png
img571.imageshack.us/img571/2977/retriever.png
img101.imageshack.us/img101/6653/rhino.png
img717.imageshack.us/img717/1772/phoenixrhuk.png
img193.imageshack.us/img193/3517/roper.png
img96.imageshack.us/img96/3895/rustmonsters.png
img96.imageshack.us/img96/2716/fishmenbetta.png
img708.imageshack.us/img708/1283/attractedtomovement.png
img13.imageshack.us/img13/1599/getoverhere1.png
img532.imageshack.us/img532/9504/dundundun.png
img526.imageshack.us/img526/1695/gummisharks.png
img717.imageshack.us/img717/4317/itchangedshape1lg.png
img69.imageshack.us/img69/6520/itchangedshape111.png
img704.imageshack.us/img704/1861/skullfacephasespiders.png
img534.imageshack.us/img534/3503/salamander.png
img29.imageshack.us/img29/4837/spidersheetb.png

I’ll have to edit in the Mystarian Frost Salamander.


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Do you use PDF to make these?

MS Paint mostly. When I need to shift colours, I use Open Office* to tweak the image's colours to make underground monkeys & elemental rock paper scissors variants then use the "PRINT SCREEN" button to copy a snapshot of the screen into another window of Paint.

I usually only post the sheets in PDF when the original sprites won't match the bases without too much stretching. Sadly not every sprite I find conforms to the 96 pixels to the inch, & sprites get ugly if not stretched by whole numbers [200%, 300% 400%] so a PDF cheat pops up ever once in a while. When it is PDF time, Open office has a PDF export option.

* Open office has an odd flaw, if a piece of a picture [select tool] is copied from paint and pasted into a Open Office Writer document, that image is streched a few pixels. This can be fixed after being copied back to paint, but it is something to watch out for.

Anyway, I looked at those websites with sprites, and it got me wondering: How do you make these? Is there a tutorial you can locate me to?

Those site have tutorials on making sprite sheets sometimes and I think Paint tutorials exist on the web. Basically find a sprite that looks good, paste it into a freshly opened window of paint*, make any changes you want. Open a separate paint window [START > All programs> Accessories > Paint] to paste your grid into, paste the sprite onto your grid, add your credit notations for the original sprite ripper if you plan to post the sheet., save as a PNG [or BPM if you have to}. Saving as JPG will destroy the pixels & GIF will screw the colors.

* If the background turns black when pasting into paint, you can use the "PRINT SCREEN" button to copy a snapshot of the screen.

When working with sprites, don’t use white or black for the background, generally that radioactive green or Florecent Pink make a good background to work with since a sprite will rarely use those colours.

Speaking of colours, double clicking the colour boxes at the screen bottom will open a colour window pop up with more colours. Hitting that “Define custom colors button” opens up the full scale paint has for colours.

WARNING: Paint can only EDIT> UNDO the last three changes in the versions I've used. Be cautious and don’t be shy about saving your work or EDIT> Select All> EDIT> Copy and STARTing one more paint window to Paste your work into. My taskbar usually has 1d6+1 paint windows open at any given time
EDIT:

Do you have any token blanks?

Here...