Not-quite-the-ENnies

[alsih2o]

With the ENnies deadline fast approaching and awards being given by several communities and cons I thought we could all take a moment to review and reccomend our favorite Not-quite-elligible-for-gaming-awards products.

Doritos, Mountain Dew and Crown Royal bags will be inducted in to the Not-Quite-the-ENNies Hall of Fame this year, but we are looking for new products that helped your game for recognition.

Categories include, but are not limited to:

Best Battlemat Marker
Best Non-gaming-intended Mini
Best Visual Aid
Best Prop
Best Table Addition/Modification
Best New Snack
Best Dice Holder
Best Non-Gaming Intended Structure

Feel free to nominate a product for these or any other categories.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

Best Battlemat Marker-The ones in my pencil case, the ones without the smooshed tips

Best Table Addition/Modification-The leaf that makes my table 2 feet longer so everyone can fit

Best New Snack-Baked Lays Potato Chips, for those of us what are trying to lose a few pounds

Best Dice Holder-any convienient flat surface

 

[Rasyr]

Best Non-gaming-intended Mini - those little plastic dinosuar figures sold at many toy stores (often you get a dozen for abotu $1). The same for the giant insects...

 

[jerichothebard]

Best Non-gaming-intended Mini - those little plastic dinosuar figures sold at many toy stores (often you get a dozen for abotu $1). The same for the giant insects...

I found at Target recently some castle figures in the $.99 bin - little viking guys, some knights on horses... all done in the same plastic as little green army men. Though they weren't green.


Best Non-gaming-intended Mini: Lego mini-figs.
Best New Snack: Scotch
Best Gaming Travel Gear: Milk crate. Try it - hardback rulebooks fit like they were made for it, spines up for easy reading.

 

[DaveMage]

Categories include, but are not limited to:

Best Non-gaming-intended Mini

This one is easy: the mini-sized Elmo paying piece from the Sesame Street Chutes & Ladders game. It invoked a response of murderous aggression almost as much as the Elminster miniature does (though nothing will ever compete with that).

 

[KB9JMQ]

Best Table Mod: Adding a dry erase whiteboard top to my plywood sheet gaming table for all kinds of notetaking / number tracking. Then I built a second level for my Tact-Tiles.

Best Dice Holder: My Bag O' Dice Holding from The Gamer's Bag.

Best Snack: Sunflower Seeds

 

[MonsterMash]

Best Snack (of all time): Beer

Cheers!

 

[francisca]

Best Marker: Staedtler LumoColor non-permanent. These now come in a smoosh-resistent fine point tip

Best Non-Gaming Mini: Stuff from Fisher-Price's Imaginext line, especially the Giant and dragons.

Best Dice Holder: toss-up between an empty Altoids tin and the plastic box that CCI sells their Maxi-Mag .22 Magnum ammo in. (For big collections, I recommend .30 or .50 call ammo cans from your friendly local Army/Navy Surplus store)

 

[howandwhy99]

Best Battlemat Marker - Vis a Vis, of course

Best Non-gaming-intended Mini - clear dice cases. These work in a snap for flying PCs. And they're clear and hollow so figs below can be seen.

Best Visual Aid - Trampier pictures. Home-made maps with secrets tied in are great too.

Best Prop - I love props, but we don't really use any. The basics include: books of all sorts, crystal ball, scrolls (an easy one), flasks and vials, cape, hat, gloves, jewelry (including rings), home-made wands, weapons ( I prefer fake), candles, ivory or metal dice, and a waterskin. Other good ones are a chinese puzzle box, bowl (for summoning), quill, fake skull or bones, glass eye, false hand, masks, mirror, and anything that strikes you as immenently cool to add to the game. (All of these are used by the DM and given unknown powers.)

Best Table Addition/Modification - A dedicated gaming room. I don't know how I lived without one before.

Best New Snack - dried flesh.

Best Dice Holder - Used Irish Spring Soapbox.

Best Non-Gaming Intended Structure - ??, Model train sets maybe.

 

[Crothian]

Best Snack: Snyder's of Hanover's pretzel pieces of various flavors. I'm addicted them them, better then combos even!!!