Numbered gaming tokens?

[Ry]

My brother works trades at a pioneer village, so he should be able to work me up some discs no problem... I'm thinking of just numbers and colours though instead of pictures; I'd like to varnish them like you suggested, but I don't know what my options are for getting a nice bright colour with that.

 

[jmucchiello]

Most craft stores carry 1" wooden discs. You may even find them in the craft section of Wal*Mart. Get a sharpie and number them.

 

[catsclaw227]

You are right, they do. I bought my first set at a Michaels hobbies. I ended up buying in bulk and got them from the woodcraft supply company.

I also bought a 1" circular hole punch (for Med), a 3/4" circular hole punch (for small), and a fiskars circle cutter and cutter guide for 2", 3", 4" circles.

I have a script I wrote in Corel Draw which converts a square 300dpi image into the appropriate bordered circle image (1", 2", etc...)

It's a quick system once I did it the first time.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

Go buy a box of the cheapest poker chips you can find.

Or, what we did back in the day was to cut 1/2" diameter dowels into 1" lengths (use a mitre box or they'll never stand square) and number the ends.

Going to a crafts store is a really good idea. You'll likely find all kinds of things you can use.

 

[Lanefan]

If you drop by the local dollar store you should be able to find some cheap toy soldiers, or some cheap chess sets, or whatever. Then, get a permanent marker and add numbers. Chess sets are the best, as you end up with different tokens (pieces) for different sizes-types of critters, and lots of pawns for the grunts.

My Friday night DM got a bag of 100 replacement zombies used in the Zombies board game and numbered them 1 to 100...I can't count how many times we've killed those things...

Glass beads can be handy for small things, but they can also be a pain to somehow get numbers on to.

Lanefan

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Game stores often carry tubes of flat color beads that I've used for this purpose.

Another great thing to do is:
1. find an image of the critters you want
2. copy the image to your hard drive
3. open up MS Paint and crop the head of one of the critter in roughly a square
4. open up MS Powerpoint and paste the head of the critter on a blank page
5. with the image "active" (meaning you've clicked on it) go down to the drawing tool bar and click on the icon "line color" - this will put a black line around the image, making it easier to size and cut out
6. resize the image to be approx. 1" x 1"
7. copy the image and then "paste" as many of the critters as you need!
8. print and cut them out - instant army!

I often use Fiery Dragon's counter sets for this. When I like to get fancy I use spray adhesive and glue the printed page on some tougher card stock, and then cut them out for tougher counters.

I think that you could do the same thing, but much easier, in Microsoft Word.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Merkuri]

Game stores often carry tubes of flat color beads that I've used for this purpose.

Another great thing to do is:
1. find an image of the critters you want
2. copy the image to your hard drive
3. open up MS Paint and crop the head of one of the critter in roughly a square
4. open up MS Powerpoint and paste the head of the critter on a blank page
5. with the image "active" (meaning you've clicked on it) go down to the drawing tool bar and click on the icon "line color" - this will put a black line around the image, making it easier to size and cut out
6. resize the image to be approx. 1" x 1"
7. copy the image and then "paste" as many of the critters as you need!
8. print and cut them out - instant army!

I often use Fiery Dragon's counter sets for this. When I like to get fancy I use spray adhesive and glue the printed page on some tougher card stock, and then cut them out for tougher counters.

You can do that in one step with the free program, TokenTool .