Gamers: Unusual Uses for Non-Gaming Items
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diaglo said:
Upon reading that, my first thought was "Great Idea!" as I've got a padded rifle case that I keep my high quality pellet rifle in that would be perfect for carrying minis to Game Days and such. My next thought was "Since we have the NC Game Day at a college campus, maybe bringing a rifle case wouldn't be such a good idea." I have a wooden cigar box that used to be filled with cigars I brought back from Costa Rica that serves to carry a relatively small number of minis when necessary.
At a local yard sale I found an aluminum sided carrying case for a laptop computer that was the perfect size for carrying around my books. It always looks like I'm toting around Important Government Documents and like it should be handcuffed to my wrist.
I used some clear mylar report covers to make templates for spell areas of effect. These are great to have around. But we had to resort to a bigger sheet of mylar for the AoE for Entangle which is a whopping 16 inch diameter circle.
I use the clear plastic boxes that dice come in (which I suppose makes them a "gaming item" technically speaking) to put figures on when we want to represent them as flying or climbing up on a wall.
Just last week I bought a bag of a dozen plastic insects meant to be used as party favors (if you're a partying entomologist I guess) and used them to represent insectoid monsters. A dozen painted figures for $1.99 ain't bad. I also recommend doing this with dinosaurs or farm animals which the store had plenty of. After all, who wants to spend valuable time painting cow figures (as if you could even find them).
One thing I used in Champions were those little plasic "pizza topping saver" thingies that you get so the box top does not squish the toppings.
The were great for flying characters since one round was about one inch. I also herd tell of using coke cans every 3 or 4 inches.
-The Luddite
The were great for flying characters since one round was about one inch. I also herd tell of using coke cans every 3 or 4 inches.
-The Luddite
I remember one session of Champions where the PCs were trapped on a Jurassic Park-like Dinosaur Island. We used G. I. Joes (the little figures, not the Barbie-sized ones we had when I was a kid) for the PCs/mad scientist bad guy and plastic dinosaurs for the dinosaurs. We set everything up in the basement, using the sofa for a cliff face, making hills out of blankets, and so forth. It was a good time!
Johnathan
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gunter uxbridge
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Years ago I worked for a library system in Marietta, Ohio. We retired the old card catalogs in all of our branches to make way for a computer system. That left something on the order of a couple million typed 3X5 cards to dispose of. I grabbed a couple thousand and took them home. The are great for scrap, making notes, all sorts of stuff. Unfortunately I am down to my last thousand cards and will run out in a year or so. Sad sad sad....
Once while running a game of the Star Trek RPG, I needed a Borg cube for a starship combat. I just painted a wooden block black and left it at that.
An old DM of mine used to make a milk crate fort as his DM screen. It had all of his books lined up and worked great. Of course we could barely see him, but no matter, it worked for us.
Once while running a game of the Star Trek RPG, I needed a Borg cube for a starship combat. I just painted a wooden block black and left it at that.
An old DM of mine used to make a milk crate fort as his DM screen. It had all of his books lined up and worked great. Of course we could barely see him, but no matter, it worked for us.
haiiro
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I guess I've got two:
- Small tins for storing dice -- I've got a Jelly Belly one that's deep enough for d20s, a mini-Altoids tin for mini-dice, etc. Those and a bunch of other stuff sit in side my small Rook box, which is intended for CCGs but does wonders for dice and pens as well.
- A Black & Decker tote for screws and other small bits, which holds my nicely divided collection of Fiery Dragon counters. It's got four trays that slide in vertically, each of which have lots of compartments. I call it my battle purse.
thedangerranger discovered this one, and he uses it too -- it's damn near perfect for storing counters, except that they sometimes hop from compartment to compartment.
- Small tins for storing dice -- I've got a Jelly Belly one that's deep enough for d20s, a mini-Altoids tin for mini-dice, etc. Those and a bunch of other stuff sit in side my small Rook box, which is intended for CCGs but does wonders for dice and pens as well.
- A Black & Decker tote for screws and other small bits, which holds my nicely divided collection of Fiery Dragon counters. It's got four trays that slide in vertically, each of which have lots of compartments. I call it my battle purse.
thedangerranger discovered this one, and he uses it too -- it's damn near perfect for storing counters, except that they sometimes hop from compartment to compartment.
