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<blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5410885" data-attributes="member: 18253">Ooh! Excellent suggestion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />On the gems front, you can sometimes find budding lapidarist selling their practice gems. I once picked up ~30 faceted smokey quartz for about $0.50 each. Sure they are irregular shapes and sometimes chipped but it is sure fun to toss a bunch of cut gems out on the table. If you check out Ebay you can find some fairly nice cut stones in the 50 cent to $10 range if you bottom feed for off colors, off stones, synthetic rubies and the like (I've got a synthetic ruby, 10ct for about $1 a carat). The glass ones you mention are just as good.&nbsp;I've also used various daggers over the years as props. I once used a Dragon's Breath dagger as a key prop in a save the world campaign some years ago. Letting the players handle the dagger brings out a completely different level of response.&nbsp;Of course, for props there are also figures, dungeon and castle diorama pieces and the like. We sometimes use a set of cast dungeon tiles (3D) and my painter buddy has done a good part of a castle and a cavern we sometimes get out. Great for mood.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Haltherrion, post: 5410885, member: 18253"] Ooh! Excellent suggestion ;) On the gems front, you can sometimes find budding lapidarist selling their practice gems. I once picked up ~30 faceted smokey quartz for about $0.50 each. Sure they are irregular shapes and sometimes chipped but it is sure fun to toss a bunch of cut gems out on the table. If you check out Ebay you can find some fairly nice cut stones in the 50 cent to $10 range if you bottom feed for off colors, off stones, synthetic rubies and the like (I've got a synthetic ruby, 10ct for about $1 a carat). The glass ones you mention are just as good. I've also used various daggers over the years as props. I once used a Dragon's Breath dagger as a key prop in a save the world campaign some years ago. Letting the players handle the dagger brings out a completely different level of response. Of course, for props there are also figures, dungeon and castle diorama pieces and the like. We sometimes use a set of cast dungeon tiles (3D) and my painter buddy has done a good part of a castle and a cavern we sometimes get out. Great for mood. [/QUOTE]

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