D20 Tokkens During Play: Your Experience?

[Steel_Wind]

Has anyone attempted to use Tokkens in your game - and if so - what have been the results?

For those who were at Gencon or Origins last year, you'll recall these were the magic item cards made of tin. Collectable D20 magic items. 400 in all. Link to the Tokken website is here: http://www.tokkens.com/tokkens/index.asp

For reasons I am not sure of now, I bought two display boxes of Tokkens recently via mail order. So I have 250 of these things plus a dozen or so freebies from Gencon. I have never seen them in my FLGS and I am wondering if this product ever really got off the ground. Any news on this? Did this get sacrificed on the altar of the D20 glut?

Whatever the case, I opened one of the display boxes today and sorted throught my treasure.

I have left the other 25 packs unopened.

In a fit of 1st edition nostalgia, I am entertaining the idea of rewarding the PCs with a magic drop after a large climactic "boss" fight. As you might surmise, a treasure chest will contain... an unopened deck of Tokkens. In the shrink.

So that's the kicker: what's in the pack is what's in the chest. The terrifying randomness of this both repels and exults.

Anyone tried this? The sheer rarity of uber-items tends to make me think this might not go over TOO badly for a 10-12th level party. It is highly unlikely to have an artifact or something horrible pop up in the loot....but it is not impossible.

There is one pack in the 25 in a display box that is guaranteed to contain an item worth more than 60,000 GP. In the display box I opened today, that uber-item was a +5 Mace of Disruption.

Seeing as I am running Age of Worms and the characters are just starting a Gathering of Winds, I shudder to think what sort of impact a find like this might have had on my campaign.

Still...it's tempting. I know the players would be extremely interested in the novelty of this and you got to admit, it does have a Deck of Many Things randomness to it that is certain to have everybody standing and rubbernecking as the pack in opened - all without the Void lurking in the draw to wreck my campaign.

Thoughts?

 

[Nikroecyst]

This is the first I have seen the "Tokkens" but I use "Game Mastery" cards for my group's equiptment. I think I would prefer the Tokkens due to the fact that they are already created and stats are already set up. With game mastery you get to make up what each card is. Those theres something nice about both company's product. I think I like the presentation with game mastery better. I dont' know what it is about it but I just see the words "collectable cards" and it makes me not want to buy the product.

If the company set up thier packs based on level that would really pull me in. I would use the randomness of just handing out unopened packs every time they defeated any monster.

 

[Steel_Wind]

The use of tin as opposed to cardboard does give the card a more ... substantial feel. This adds to the use-in-play of the Tokken.

The random element of the packaging is, of course, less than wonderful if your aim is to collect the entire set. As a means of treasure distribution, however, it doth hath its appeal.

 

[rossik]

i just cant find any pictures of it!

the url doenst work for me...

 

[Desdichado]

No tokkens, but I have played games where we listened to Dokken during the session.

 

[teitan]

We got a couple free samples and I thought they were pointless and over priced. I don't even use the Paizo cards because, really, how hard is it to write +1 Dagger or whatnot on your character sheet and what DM doesn't keep updated copies of his players sheets?