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<blockquote data-quote="Emirikol" data-source="post: 3364795" data-attributes="member: 10638"><p>I prefer Steve Jackson's Cardboard Heroes. You get plenty of orcs, giants, dragons, fighters, rogues, wizards, oriental, slimes, bats, lizardmen, ratmen, etc.</p><p></p><p>I've also downloaded cartoon pictures of things like camels and whatnot from GOOGLE and printed out enough to make caravans etc. It's also a good way to do horses. Print them, cut a square hole in the top big enough to drop a mini into and you have SOMETHING THAT FINALLY WORKS AS A MOUNT FOR A MINI!</p><p></p><p>Other things that are great to have are:</p><p>AC D&D stuff" Revenge of Rusak (wilderness counters) etc.</p><p></p><p>DOORS are a must. You need at least 4 double doors and 6 single doors. These are great for dungeons where the PC's haven't gone into a room yet. </p><p></p><p>I hear Feiry Dragon games has good ones..but I"ve not tried them out yet.</p><p></p><p>On the same subject, we keep the following stuff around:</p><p>Handfull of pebbles (try to use ones that are sort of flat in case PC's climb up)</p><p>Larger flat rocks (make good cliffs)</p><p>Modelling clay (both the colored and the "clay colored kind)</p><p>Tin cans for towers</p><p>Cardboard tower walls</p><p>Cardboard houses (really cheap ones in the old GREYHAWK falcon series modules)</p><p>CASTLES product had a bunch of castle segments that were excellent (until my frakin wife threw them out)</p><p>Onion bag netting (for nets, webs, etc)</p><p>TORCHES (just twist up some cotton and paint it red/orange and use a small bit of tape wrpped around the base painted brown for a stem that you can set over a sword)</p><p>Cotton colored a little red (for flames and walls of fire)</p><p>Dominoes for walls of ruins, etc.</p><p></p><p>Clear plastic firm packing casing..for players who have miniatures that won't stand up (that's after filing them down doesn't work) <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>small sticks (for logs)</p><p></p><p></p><p>Authentic stuff from your backyard works and looks much better than a plain drawing on a plain battlemat (yawn).</p><p></p><p>I like to use cardboard for the enemies over plastic/pewter for all the obvious reasons..but I'll take the good stuff when I can get it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>jh</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Emirikol, post: 3364795, member: 10638"] I prefer Steve Jackson's Cardboard Heroes. You get plenty of orcs, giants, dragons, fighters, rogues, wizards, oriental, slimes, bats, lizardmen, ratmen, etc. I've also downloaded cartoon pictures of things like camels and whatnot from GOOGLE and printed out enough to make caravans etc. It's also a good way to do horses. Print them, cut a square hole in the top big enough to drop a mini into and you have SOMETHING THAT FINALLY WORKS AS A MOUNT FOR A MINI! Other things that are great to have are: AC D&D stuff" Revenge of Rusak (wilderness counters) etc. DOORS are a must. You need at least 4 double doors and 6 single doors. These are great for dungeons where the PC's haven't gone into a room yet. I hear Feiry Dragon games has good ones..but I"ve not tried them out yet. On the same subject, we keep the following stuff around: Handfull of pebbles (try to use ones that are sort of flat in case PC's climb up) Larger flat rocks (make good cliffs) Modelling clay (both the colored and the "clay colored kind) Tin cans for towers Cardboard tower walls Cardboard houses (really cheap ones in the old GREYHAWK falcon series modules) CASTLES product had a bunch of castle segments that were excellent (until my frakin wife threw them out) Onion bag netting (for nets, webs, etc) TORCHES (just twist up some cotton and paint it red/orange and use a small bit of tape wrpped around the base painted brown for a stem that you can set over a sword) Cotton colored a little red (for flames and walls of fire) Dominoes for walls of ruins, etc. Clear plastic firm packing casing..for players who have miniatures that won't stand up (that's after filing them down doesn't work) :) small sticks (for logs) Authentic stuff from your backyard works and looks much better than a plain drawing on a plain battlemat (yawn). I like to use cardboard for the enemies over plastic/pewter for all the obvious reasons..but I'll take the good stuff when I can get it :) jh [/QUOTE]
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