Goofy figs.

[Aeric]

I played in a game once where the DM used finger puppets of Hindu gods to represent monsters. He had Kali and Shiva, I think.

I once bought a wind-up chicken which laid candy eggs as it walked specifically to use as a monster in a campaign. Unfortunately, the campaign took a left turn and they never encountered it.

My last DM used a 12" figure of Master Chief from Halo to represent Imix at the end of RttToEE.

 

[Barendd Nobeard]

We once fought a Twizzler Naga.

 

[blargney the second]

In an old Dungeon adventure (Chadranther's Bane) where the PCs were shrunk down to the actual size of minis, I represented a hungry eagle with a life-sized stuffed toy of a parrot.

-blarg

 

[tetsujin28]

We once used a box of Trojans as the getaway car in Shadowrun.

 

[tetsujin28]

I played in a game once where the DM used finger puppets of Hindu gods to represent monsters. He had Kali and Shiva, I think.

That, my friend, is cool beyond cool.

 

[Cathix]

I have used plastic animals. My favorites are the farm themed - chickens and rabbits (giant/dire).

My oldest son, who's 4.5 now but was 2ish at the time, did something unspeakable to my elf fig. So for a few months I used a plastic chicken to represent my elven rogue. And I used that same chicken when our group would take a break from d&d and play 'Kill Dr. Lucky'. I always made an obnoxious 'Bagawk!' noise when my chicken was trying to kill somebody..

 

[Richards]

I've used "Monsters in my Pocket" figures before, although they were used mostly to add some variety to our HeroQuest games. I've also used HeroQuest figures in our D&D games. Most recently, I plunked down a Godzilla figurine to represent a fiendish tyrannosaurus. It worked well, too, because the Lego figures we were using for the PCs fit right into its open mouth when the dinosaur made a bite attack.

Megablocks (I think it's Megablocks, at least) has a dragon line-up that we've used on the occasions where the PCs meet up with dragons.

I also used my wife's glue gun and some colored glue to make my own black pudding miniatures.

Johnathan

 

[AFGNCAAP]

Hmm.. not really that exciting, really: dice, Chess pieces, coins, old Marvel RPG cardboard standups (the 3-sided ones) for fantasy games, generic plastic "pawns" (the multi-colored variety for board games). The occassional rampaging tarrasque (i. e., cat walking across table to saw at the weird small stuff on there). Tiny plastic toy spiders for vermin (I'm looking for plastic toy roaches to use to depict the large roaches statted in FR's Underdark sourcebook).

However, I did have some gamer minis that got some use. Yes, gamer minis. Looked more like the people playing the game that what the characters were supposed to look like. Quite amusing.

 

[demiurge1138]

A plastic Chessex box with an owlbear drawn on it in dry-erase marker.

In one game, every single Huge creature was represented by a Mountain Dew can. They fit the grid perfectly.

Demiurge out.