Minis, Tokens, or Both?

[pjrake]

Just want to know if any of you mix both tokens and minis? I would love to use just miniatures, but it get very expensive, and using tokens, while much less expensive, doesn't have that "wow" factor the 3D minis have.

So I wanna get a general idea of what you guys use, and if anyone doesn't mind mixing 'em up.

Thanks!

-PJ

 

[darjr]

I'll use either, or mix em up.

I'd prefer mini's. But depending on the game I'll ditch em, no problem.

Tokens or chits are very convenient and cool as well. Just not as cool.

 

[the Jester]

I prefer minis, and have enough that it is very rare that I need to substitute something else.

However, I have used tokens, coins, chits, stones, bones, beer cans, bongs and even full pickle jars as monsters when I needed a specific size or I didn't have enough of something.

 

[cmrscorpio]

I use both.

I favor tokens for minions in 4e because I just don't have enough copies of certain minis. It can get very confusing when you run a fight where the PCs fight a gang of orcs, of which 4 are minions and each figure on display is a unique mini.

 

[scourger]

I have used both. I prefer painted minis, but they just aren't practical for some settings. Minis cost time, money & effort to find, but & paint. I have even made counters out of 4-square pictures downloaded from the internet into Word and then scored & cut to make a sort of standing square. If I mix minis & counters, I prefer to have minis for the PCs and counters for the foes. It just makes seeing things easier. The next time I do counters, I plan to buy a circle punch at a craft or scrapbooking store to make it really simple to print on cardstock and then punch the counters out. I've also been saving bottle caps to glue them on in case I want to.

 

[darjr]

I got to use a dice case for a green slime the other day. I love 4e green slime. The player stared holes into me noggin over it too.

 

[pjrake]

I prefer to have minis for the PCs and counters for the foes.

I was thinking of doing the same thing! Maybe even using minis for major foes and tokens for minions (since we're running Savage Worlds at the moment, maybe mini's for Wild Cards and tokens for Extras).

-PJ

 

[darjr]

I've seen PC mini's vs NPC tokens in a-lot of games. I've been looking for cheap paper chits, but I'm thinking of getting one of those scrabble bag of tiles, they come already marked.

 

[delericho]

For every game except D&D, I try very hard to use neither.

For D&D, I have typically used tokens. However, I'm expecting to start a new campaign shortly, and one player has requested that we use minis, so we probably will.

I don't like the idea of mixing the two, though - one or other at a time, thanks!

 

[Davachido]

We use tall counters for the players and flat coin like tokens for the monsters, using OHP pens writing on the top of the counters to show which monsters they are. We always have homebrew campaign enemies so as much as they have the same stats in the MM they aren't the same monster thus the mini's don't make sense much for us.

Or if we have a projector we use a program one of my friends wrote and use a digital board and say out squares like its chess (i.e. I move myself to E-7 and attack the monster in E-8, sliding him 2 sqaures to F-10).