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<blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 4505350" data-attributes="member: 10095">This is where I pop in and shill for the Alea Tools guys. I've been using these magnetic markers for months now, and they're pure awesome. We did run into some issues with them interacting with eachother horizontally, but fixed that by placing a sheet of galvanized steel beneath our battlemat (4' by 3' sheet of metal runs about $20 without cuts). Each player has their own Bloodied token and a few others (Hunter's Quarry, mark, ongoing damage, etc) and having every involved in marking all the minis makes it all go faster.I picked up their DM kit (about $75), and also ordered a couple of others individually (the 10-pack red tokens; the 5-pack silver/gold and burguny/teal just to have all the colors). I also have the hole puncher and a ton of conversion circles, which I use to make tokens (primarily for minions, but also for monsters that we don't have minis for). If you use them, I highly suggest using some super glue to bond the conversion circles to the minis, as they can come off in hot weather.<a href="http://www.aleatools.com" target="_blank">Alea Tools, Home of Magnetically Stackable Markers!</a>As for 4e DMing advice... make sure you REALLY use the terrain in your encounter. I've run a couple of encounters where I didn't focus too much on it, so it really didn't come into play at all, and it kinda served as a waste of design time to add to the encounter. With my last encounter, I was using the terrain to the NPCs advantage non-stop and it really made my players think more tactically and eventually turned the tables. I got more compliments on that last encounter than all of the previous ones combined.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Little Raven, post: 4505350, member: 10095"] This is where I pop in and shill for the Alea Tools guys. I've been using these magnetic markers for months now, and they're pure awesome. We did run into some issues with them interacting with eachother horizontally, but fixed that by placing a sheet of galvanized steel beneath our battlemat (4' by 3' sheet of metal runs about $20 without cuts). Each player has their own Bloodied token and a few others (Hunter's Quarry, mark, ongoing damage, etc) and having every involved in marking all the minis makes it all go faster. I picked up their DM kit (about $75), and also ordered a couple of others individually (the 10-pack red tokens; the 5-pack silver/gold and burguny/teal just to have all the colors). I also have the hole puncher and a ton of conversion circles, which I use to make tokens (primarily for minions, but also for monsters that we don't have minis for). If you use them, I highly suggest using some super glue to bond the conversion circles to the minis, as they can come off in hot weather. [url=http://www.aleatools.com]Alea Tools, Home of Magnetically Stackable Markers![/url] As for 4e DMing advice... make sure you REALLY use the terrain in your encounter. I've run a couple of encounters where I didn't focus too much on it, so it really didn't come into play at all, and it kinda served as a waste of design time to add to the encounter. With my last encounter, I was using the terrain to the NPCs advantage non-stop and it really made my players think more tactically and eventually turned the tables. I got more compliments on that last encounter than all of the previous ones combined. [/QUOTE]

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