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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4134221" data-attributes="member: 2011">Clips on heads? Yuck. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Maybe different colored poker (or other round) chips that go under the miniatures.I was really disappointed when I read that article as well.After all of the hype and videos about how much smoother and faster 4E was going to run, they then put out an article explaining how new techniques are needed to make 4E run smoother. WT???However, I have to admit something. My group has used "artificial coins and gems" of differing denominations for years now. Last year, I decided to remove them because it was taking up game time counting them out. It's a lot faster to just write numbers down on character sheets. But, my players asked me to re-institute them. They enjoyed using the props a lot more than they were bothered by using the props. It didn't matter to them that it might take a minute or two to figure out how much money their PC had, they enjoyed "paying" for things with "cash".I think with a good set of props for 4E, it will probably run fairly well. In this case, I think the props will be much faster than writing marked PC names on a sheet of paper. For example, I hand the "Marked by Monster 1" (MtG-like) card to Joe when his PC is marked by it. Joe's PC marks the monster, so we put his Blue PC Mark chip under the monster miniature, etc.A red poker chip under the miniature means bloodied. I'm hoping that Combat Advantage will be obvious just by looking, but maybe a different colored poker chip for it.</blockquote>

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