Possible Counter Options???

[Power_Word_Wedgie]

I was just wondering if anyone knows of source for sell of counters for hex-mat combat - similar to coin shapers. I know Dungeon had those sheets in the magazine a while back, but I was thinking of something that is on a little thicker board stock and with more options than just the monsters that were in the published encounters. I don't know if anyone is familiar with the wargame "War at Sea", but I was thinking of a counter similar to that. Honestly, I'd be more included to buy a product like that.

I'm bringing this up not really as a complaint about the new pricing for miniatures but more due to that with all of the books I have to haul around, I really don't have the room for miniatures. Furthermore, I could just throw the counters into a plastic bag and could care less whether they got broken. Thanks for any assistance in advance.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

A technique I've used successfully:

Scan pages into your favorite photo program, and crop the monster pictures down to small circles/squares/whatever. Print and glue to 1" washers or cardboard stock. Cheap, easy, and durable.

Fiery Dragon sells great counters, as does one other company (someone will pop up and refresh my memory, I'm sure).

 

[physicscarp]

Before the D&D miniatures came out, anytime I needed a new monster or NPC for the game, I would go through the boxes of common Magic cards at my local shop. There are all kinds of interesting counters there, and for large creatures you simply cut the entire picture out. I've found a Dire Ape, Half-Elf Barbarian, Owl, Wolves, and many others.

And besides, I got to destroy Magic cards!

Carp

 

[Ottergame]

Personally, I would use colored beads in your situation.

 

[Power_Word_Wedgie]

Thanks everyone for the assistance. I've just placed my order at the RPGshop. Their counters are pretty reasonably priced - after all, $12.00 doesn't sound too much for 400 counters. Thus, I also ordered the rooms from SJG and the counter collection 2. Well, enough of this or else I will sound like a commercial.

 

[Staffan]

Scan pages into your favorite photo program, and crop the monster pictures down to small circles/squares/whatever.

That's what I do, except I download the pictures from WOTC's art galleries instead. I use IrfanView (a freeware image viewer) to crop the pictures to the right proportions, and Power Point works great for making the actual counters.

 

[Nightfall]

Get Fiery Dragon counters. Or better yet just get the ones of Klaus/Claudio's site.

 

[Power_Word_Wedgie]

To clarify what I did, I got the Fiery Dragon Creature Collections 1 and 2, as well as the room package from Steve Jackson games. All of it can to about $50 which included shipping. Not too bad. FYI.

edit: That comes to 800 counters as well as a dungeon room pack (the rooms pack says that it come with about 100 rooms and furniture, traps, etc.)

 

[Voadam]

www.dragonscalecounters.com you can get individual cardstock counters for a great variety of d20 creatures and characters. They are full body image and a 3/4 top down/front perspective for races and top down for creatures.

Fiery dragon has better deals for big sets of d20 creatures including fiends from Green Ronin products and Arcana Unearthed races. They are upper body portraits with straight on images. They come in a sheet and must be removed.

Steve Jackson games has cardboard heroes, a huge assortment of counters that stand up and have both front and back full images. They must be cut out.

There are also a number of printout pdf ones from various companies. Some use computer generated art, some are photos of minis, some are standard print art. I'm currently looking over the big sets of print art ones from interactive design associates (they did the lunar knights pdf) and liking them, although some of the buxomness of the ladies is over the top.