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<blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 4440495" data-attributes="member: 55178">I had been agonizing over what to use in my campaign.&nbsp; We use laminated, cardstock chits, not minis, so I wanted to avoid hiding what the chit was, and we didn't have handy bits of miniature to hang beads and pipe cleaners off of.&nbsp; &nbsp;Poker chips bothered me because they were both too wide, and not tall enough.&nbsp; A decent vertical profile was what was really important to me, and I had really liked the idea of the Alea Tools, though the magnetic bit was kind of a turn off.&nbsp; I tried mussing around with a dowel rod cut to 1/4 inch lengths, and with a bunch of double thick shrinky dinks, but got bogged down in the process of actually making a couple dozen of the things.&nbsp;One of the things I had been hoping to find at Gencon this year was a deluge of different 4E inspired toys.&nbsp; I was a little surprised that the only company out there really offering something in the realm of &quot;marks&quot; was Alea Tools.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;I think that, in the end, what I had been hoping to find were a bunch of colored acrylic/plexiglass disks.&nbsp; I'm currently looking into having someone laser cut a buttload of them for a couple of cents a piece.&nbsp; We'll see how they work out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nytmare, post: 4440495, member: 55178"] I had been agonizing over what to use in my campaign. We use laminated, cardstock chits, not minis, so I wanted to avoid hiding what the chit was, and we didn't have handy bits of miniature to hang beads and pipe cleaners off of. Poker chips bothered me because they were both too wide, and not tall enough. A decent vertical profile was what was really important to me, and I had really liked the idea of the Alea Tools, though the magnetic bit was kind of a turn off. I tried mussing around with a dowel rod cut to 1/4 inch lengths, and with a bunch of double thick shrinky dinks, but got bogged down in the process of actually making a couple dozen of the things. One of the things I had been hoping to find at Gencon this year was a deluge of different 4E inspired toys. I was a little surprised that the only company out there really offering something in the realm of "marks" was Alea Tools. I think that, in the end, what I had been hoping to find were a bunch of colored acrylic/plexiglass disks. I'm currently looking into having someone laser cut a buttload of them for a couple of cents a piece. We'll see how they work out. [/QUOTE]

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