Cardboard Counters for minis?

[Chris Tavares]

My personal favorites are Sparks from Cumberland Games. He builds stand-up figures as truetype fonts, so you can resize them however you want with no loss of detail, and you can do entire sheets of minis in Notepad.

 

[rgard]

I have my mount cards available if you want them

http://www.zackfamily.com/pdf/

I just print these and then tack them down to cardboard. Makes it easy for getting stats.

Also, didn't someone sell a punch for medium creatuers... I think it's the company that makes the magnetic status counters. They also had mounts on Poker chips, which was clever I thought.

Festivus! Downloaded, thanks much!!!

Rich

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I use Counter Collection Digital along with the D&D Minis that I have. Now that I have quite a few of the minis, I like to use them wherever possible. If I don't have the right mini though, Counter Collection Digital is my friend.

I print them out on plain paper and laminate them to make them a little sturdier and increase their durability. I love being able to resize the picture to the size that I need.

Olaf the Stout

 

[hong]

I am NOT a cardboard cutout! I am a FULLY REALISED, FLESHED OUT, THREE-DIMENSIONAL INANIMATE METAL OBJECT!

Also a free man.

 

[billd91]

I don't bother with cardstock; I just print 'em on good quality white paper, not the really flimsy stuff, and it works just fine.

I print them on regular old office paper with color laser printer. Then I write on them during combat and everything and toss them in the recycler when done.
I usually kit up a Word document with all the chits I expect to need for a particular scenario, so they're all in one place with the right sizes and quantities.

 

[buzz]

For those of you who use battlemaps, does anyone use cardboard counters or tokens instead of minis?

I use them in addition. I have a bunch of Firey Dragon counters that I cut out and mount on particleboard mni bases. This makes them more durable and gives them heft equivalent to Scrabble tiles.

I prefer these counters to SJG's Cardboard Heroes because a) they are easier for me to distinguish from a distance, since they are portraits and not tiny, full-figure pics, and 2) they face upward rather than sideways. If I were 2" tall and standing on the table, the latter might make more sense, but that's not usually the case.

 

[Klaus]

I use them in addition. I have a bunch of Firey Dragon counters that I cut out and mount on particleboard mni bases. This makes them more durable and gives them heft equivalent to Scrabble tiles.

I prefer these counters to SJG's Cardboard Heroes because a) they are easier for me to distinguish from a distance, since they are portraits and not tiny, full-figure pics, and 2) they face upward rather than sideways. If I were 2" tall and standing on the table, the latter might make more sense, but that's not usually the case.

That's my stance on stand-ups x counters. Counters have a degree of abstractism (is that a word?) that allows you to remove yourself from the battlemap a bit. IME, players can get too caught up in the mini/stand-up representation and it eventually derails into playing with action figures.

 

[megamania]

Never used counters but I like the mount idea!

I use home-made counters for boats, rafts, coaches and anything to be rode on.

In the beginning I printed out and glued images of PCs / Creatures to a wooden coin which worked well. Colored edges represented leaders / classes / power level to aid me as the DM.

 

[Nine Hands]

I use a word document template with some images to make 1 inch square tiles. Print out on a color printer then toss the through the laminator at Staples and I've got some really useful counters. They are cheap, you can write on them with battlemat markers and they are easy to pick up.

I use images from the web and Counter Collection Digital normally.