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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Razjah" data-source="post: 6127954" data-attributes="member: 98806">I have had great success with flat plastic thread bobbins (probably not the right name) and small plastic screw top containers. Add masking tape and you can number scrolls and the players can later identify them and label them. I had a leather dice bag that was starting to wear which I converted into a prop coin purse with some clearance rack chains to make up the bulk of the weight.A "decorate yourself" wine bottle case from a craft store works great as a scroll case.I found an old Jewish prayer book that had Hebrew (or Yiddish, or another language I can't speak) on the right side and English on the left. It makes for a cool prop. Ripped out pages of a destroyed book of genealogies make good props for stuff. The page is set up in a semi-circle instead of the normal branches so it can be more useful as a prop than a page that looks like a flowchart.I gutted my sister's old Clarinet case and have used it many times.I found an old warped pool stick someone was throwing out. The tip is broken, but the back half is carved and decorated. It can even unscrew at various points for a macguffin to assemble, a wand, a staff, a club, and more.I have a craft made "Indian Talking Stick" or something like that. I have used it as a speaking stick when I have had new players being tread on by the more experienced players and as a prop as a totem/fetish/item of power for rituals.Toy handcuffs make decent props "Your character is shackled. Put this on. You have to roll your dice with them still on."The cheap wooden puzzles at dollar stores and other discount places can make great props.An "ancient" laptop that really doesn't work anymore makes a good prop for any game with some hacking or any Mission Impossible related anything.A bathrobe. Seriously. Put it on backwards for a doctor, wear it open for a grumpy old man, close it for a wizard, hold a toy lightsaber to act as a Jedi.Glasses- think of all the elderly NPCs who wear spectacles. Sunglasses for various sensors/scanners/epic future binoculars in a sci-fi game.A three pack of little ceramic vases for all sorts of things (bound genie, decanter of endless water, Mr. Hyde potion, etc).</blockquote>

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