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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7748554" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>Which you get the players to provide, for the character(s) they play.</p><p></p><p>Some cheap but perfectly functional alternatives for each of these:</p><p></p><p>Twig Blight 10 - any little bits of wood you can find e.g. saw a pencil into ten pieces</p><p>Dire Rat 3 - coloured glass beads</p><p>Oversized dire rat 1 - a bigger coloured glass bead, or just one of a different colour</p><p>Skeleton 5 - game pawns (10 or 12 for a buck at your local dollar store)</p><p>Quasit 1 - game pawn or something distinctive - a chess piece?</p><p>Kobold 15 - game pawns or anything else small - toy soldiers?</p><p>Kobold sorcerer 1 - whatever you used for the quasit if they're met at different times</p><p>Goblin 8 - game pawns again</p><p>Goblin cleric 1 - whatever you used for the quasit, above</p><p>Hobgoblin 3 - toy soldiers (20+ for a buck at your local dollar store)</p><p>Hobgoblin chief 1 - different-colour toy soldier, paint one if you have to</p><p>Troll 1 - a king or queen piece from a chess set</p><p>Water mephit 1 - whatever you used for the quasit, above</p><p>Cave rats 8 - glass beads</p><p>Gnome cleric 1 - whatever you used for the quasit, above</p><p>White wyrmling 1 - a plastic dinosaur (5 for a buck at the dollar store)</p><p>Bugbear 1 - a king or queen piece from a chess set</p><p>Thoqqua 1 - a piece of coloured chalk</p><p>Shadow 1 - a game pawn, or a piece of black fluff if you want to be creative</p><p>Druid 1 - a game pawn, or an actual mini if there's any extras e.g. from dead PCs</p><p>Paladin 1 - as per the druid above, or a painted toy soldier</p><p>Wizard 1 - as per the druid above</p><p></p><p>The point is, you can have "minis" for everything without having to buy actual costly minis for everything. Other than maybe the three classed characters at the end of the list, even if you couldn't find any of these things (or reasonable substitutes) lying around the house the whole lot would cost at most 5 or 6 dollars; and you can easily re-use the same objects at different times to represent different monsters as shown above.</p><p></p><p>Lan-"though I've got lots of 'real' minis now, I still most often use the game pawns because finding the right minis for the monsters just takes too long"-efan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7748554, member: 29398"] Which you get the players to provide, for the character(s) they play. Some cheap but perfectly functional alternatives for each of these: Twig Blight 10 - any little bits of wood you can find e.g. saw a pencil into ten pieces Dire Rat 3 - coloured glass beads Oversized dire rat 1 - a bigger coloured glass bead, or just one of a different colour Skeleton 5 - game pawns (10 or 12 for a buck at your local dollar store) Quasit 1 - game pawn or something distinctive - a chess piece? Kobold 15 - game pawns or anything else small - toy soldiers? Kobold sorcerer 1 - whatever you used for the quasit if they're met at different times Goblin 8 - game pawns again Goblin cleric 1 - whatever you used for the quasit, above Hobgoblin 3 - toy soldiers (20+ for a buck at your local dollar store) Hobgoblin chief 1 - different-colour toy soldier, paint one if you have to Troll 1 - a king or queen piece from a chess set Water mephit 1 - whatever you used for the quasit, above Cave rats 8 - glass beads Gnome cleric 1 - whatever you used for the quasit, above White wyrmling 1 - a plastic dinosaur (5 for a buck at the dollar store) Bugbear 1 - a king or queen piece from a chess set Thoqqua 1 - a piece of coloured chalk Shadow 1 - a game pawn, or a piece of black fluff if you want to be creative Druid 1 - a game pawn, or an actual mini if there's any extras e.g. from dead PCs Paladin 1 - as per the druid above, or a painted toy soldier Wizard 1 - as per the druid above The point is, you can have "minis" for everything without having to buy actual costly minis for everything. Other than maybe the three classed characters at the end of the list, even if you couldn't find any of these things (or reasonable substitutes) lying around the house the whole lot would cost at most 5 or 6 dollars; and you can easily re-use the same objects at different times to represent different monsters as shown above. Lan-"though I've got lots of 'real' minis now, I still most often use the game pawns because finding the right minis for the monsters just takes too long"-efan [/QUOTE]
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