Plastic Coins?

[chitzk0i]

It sounds somewhat inconvenient. At least in D&D, any coinage you actually care about gets pretty big pretty fast. Besides, what are the players going to do with it at the end of the session? Write down their gold total and hand them back? I guess it wouldn't be so bad as a prop for payments, but after a while, I wouldn't want to deal with that many coins.

 

[Scribble]

It sounds somewhat inconvenient. At least in D&D, any coinage you actually care about gets pretty big pretty fast. Besides, what are the players going to do with it at the end of the session? Write down their gold total and hand them back? I guess it wouldn't be so bad as a prop for payments, but after a while, I wouldn't want to deal with that many coins.

Heh... You've never seen my groups... Too much gold never seem to a be problem.


Seriously though, I think thats the importance of having coins with higher denominations on them, so instead of having to hold onto 500 gold tokens, they would have one 500 GP token.

Since we generally game in the same place handing in their tokens shouldn't be needed.

But yeah, all in all I've never done it before so it might be a royal pain... So I'm wondering if anyone here has experience doing it, and what the pros/cons they actually experienced were.


On a related note, I started printing out the magic items they find on cards already, and the act of actually being handed "something" when they get a new item does seem to add something to the experience. I think I will actually start printing all treasure found on cards. (Up until now it was just the magic items since I just printed them off the DDI, but I don't think it would be hard for a general treasure template.)

 

[Wombat]

One occasions where I needed coins for my games, I tended to pick up bulk washers and spraypaint them as necessary.

 

[Scribble]

One occasions where I needed coins for my games, I tended to pick up bulk washers and spraypaint them as necessary.

This may in fact be the way I go to start.

The gamer coin things are way up there on my thosearesoawesomeImusthavethem! meter, but the cost would really make me sad if I bought them then decided I didn't want to use them.

I think I'll start with washers, and if the idea works, move on to the gamer coins.

 

[evildmguy]

I have the Campaign Coins and they are a lot of fun! it was pricey, though. They do have denominations that are all different shapes for the game. Lots of fun!

I also have the PDF money and printed them on different colored paper for the different types. It's easy to tell the paper money types, copper vs gold, based on the color.

What I thought would be cool would be to track money this way, almost like Monopoly. I haven't done it, though, for many reasons but the temptation is still there.

edg

 

[Xath]

If you're willing to blow some real money, Campaign Coins sets the gold standard (pun intended). Not cheap, but not cheaply made either...

I LOVE Campaign Coins. They are incredibly well crafted, are useful in any coin-economy game, and they make the most satisfying "clink" sound.

The only bad thing I can even think to say about them is that they don't stack. But they are so pretty.....

 

[FATDRAGONGAMES]

I had picked up a set of toy coins at Toys-R-Us years ago that was a pirate treasure set. The coins were vac-coated in different metallic colors and worked great for this. I lost them in one of my many moves over the years, but I bet something like that is still available. I love the idea of painting poker chips though!