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<blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5159616" data-attributes="member: 8835"><p>I think legos are a little pricey.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I've used:</p><p></p><p>wooden tokens for each player (cut up scrap wood) for initiative or battlemat placement. 2 tokens for each PC works alright (one for the mat, and then one for the initiative conga line on the side of the mat)</p><p></p><p>wooden canoes for a river journey (easy to carve with a chisel), and the minis fit inside.</p><p></p><p>campfire and log pile. I used twigs, pebbles, and a wooden indian nickle, I glued and set up a campfire ring, and then a seperate firewood pile. Great for those camp site attacks (where's the fire/light source, relative to the PCs.</p><p></p><p>Bar for those tavern scenes (more scrapwood fun).</p><p></p><p>Most of my stuff, I make myselff, usually from scrap wood.</p><p></p><p>I like making stuff, and small game props are fun.</p><p></p><p>I've also done maps. I usually use old printer paper (from my old pile of fan-fold tractor feed paper). paper garbage bages also work. You can buy parchment, and papyrus from art supply stores, but that's a little pricier.</p><p></p><p>leather working can be fun, too.</p><p></p><p>Dice pouch:</p><p>Take the gauntlet off an old welding glove, so up the bottom (the part you cut off the glove), and then punch holes on the rim and run leather lace through it. </p><p></p><p>I also have a leather pencil case (kind of like a scroll case) for my gaming pencils, battlemat marker</p><p></p><p>I have a leather book cover, that holds 2 books, so I put the DMG, PH in it. looks like a big spell book.</p><p></p><p>I just got a bamboo scroll/map case from GreenMan Games at the Texas RenFair. It can hold all the game maps my PC has (thus being more "in character"). I need a longer version to hold my battlemat, then I'd be set.</p><p></p><p>I saw this at OwlCon a few years back during a FireFly LARP, it was a leather "documents" case, kind of like what you see on Pirates of the Caribeen II for the letter of marq that Will goes for. It's a cool way to hand over "orders" to the PC or other official document that a courier might be carrying. Very easy to make. Go get 3 screw in paper holder things (like for 3 hole punch, but meant to screw together. Then cut one sheet of leather bigger than the paper, and another thin strip to hold the paper with the screw things. Punch the holes, and the paper, screw it together, then use some leather lace or buttons to make it stay shut.</p><p></p><p>I bought a life-size puppet of a raven (from some company that makees really nice puppets) and used it to represent the familiar for my gnome Conjurer.</p><p></p><p>I once made a wizard's spell book/journal as a prop/clue for the players. I wrote up a bunch of journal entries, and interspersed all the spells the wizard knew (copied from the SRD) in word. I set the page layout to be landscape, and 2 pages per sheet. Then I set the fonts to be wierd stuff like Futhark runes for the journal entries and LotR elven for the spells. Then I adjusted the page breaks and layout. Then I printed it out into 8 page choruses, and sewed them to a spine made tagboard. I then glued the spine into a cover made of the same stuff (the same kind of material as cereal boxes, but unprinted on). Then I painted the cover, inside and out (so it would not look like cardboard). Basically, it was a simplified book making process. The hard part was producing the book content, namely the journal entries, as you want enough to seem normal, plus the special entries. As well as having enough to appear feasible.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Janx, post: 5159616, member: 8835"] I think legos are a little pricey. Personally, I've used: wooden tokens for each player (cut up scrap wood) for initiative or battlemat placement. 2 tokens for each PC works alright (one for the mat, and then one for the initiative conga line on the side of the mat) wooden canoes for a river journey (easy to carve with a chisel), and the minis fit inside. campfire and log pile. I used twigs, pebbles, and a wooden indian nickle, I glued and set up a campfire ring, and then a seperate firewood pile. Great for those camp site attacks (where's the fire/light source, relative to the PCs. Bar for those tavern scenes (more scrapwood fun). Most of my stuff, I make myselff, usually from scrap wood. I like making stuff, and small game props are fun. I've also done maps. I usually use old printer paper (from my old pile of fan-fold tractor feed paper). paper garbage bages also work. You can buy parchment, and papyrus from art supply stores, but that's a little pricier. leather working can be fun, too. Dice pouch: Take the gauntlet off an old welding glove, so up the bottom (the part you cut off the glove), and then punch holes on the rim and run leather lace through it. I also have a leather pencil case (kind of like a scroll case) for my gaming pencils, battlemat marker I have a leather book cover, that holds 2 books, so I put the DMG, PH in it. looks like a big spell book. I just got a bamboo scroll/map case from GreenMan Games at the Texas RenFair. It can hold all the game maps my PC has (thus being more "in character"). I need a longer version to hold my battlemat, then I'd be set. I saw this at OwlCon a few years back during a FireFly LARP, it was a leather "documents" case, kind of like what you see on Pirates of the Caribeen II for the letter of marq that Will goes for. It's a cool way to hand over "orders" to the PC or other official document that a courier might be carrying. Very easy to make. Go get 3 screw in paper holder things (like for 3 hole punch, but meant to screw together. Then cut one sheet of leather bigger than the paper, and another thin strip to hold the paper with the screw things. Punch the holes, and the paper, screw it together, then use some leather lace or buttons to make it stay shut. I bought a life-size puppet of a raven (from some company that makees really nice puppets) and used it to represent the familiar for my gnome Conjurer. I once made a wizard's spell book/journal as a prop/clue for the players. I wrote up a bunch of journal entries, and interspersed all the spells the wizard knew (copied from the SRD) in word. I set the page layout to be landscape, and 2 pages per sheet. Then I set the fonts to be wierd stuff like Futhark runes for the journal entries and LotR elven for the spells. Then I adjusted the page breaks and layout. Then I printed it out into 8 page choruses, and sewed them to a spine made tagboard. I then glued the spine into a cover made of the same stuff (the same kind of material as cereal boxes, but unprinted on). Then I painted the cover, inside and out (so it would not look like cardboard). Basically, it was a simplified book making process. The hard part was producing the book content, namely the journal entries, as you want enough to seem normal, plus the special entries. As well as having enough to appear feasible. [/QUOTE]
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