Proxy Mini

[Voadam]

I also ran a similar scenario to the comic where an oracle told the party verbally they would face a wight dragon and that improper preparation would come back to bite them. Going to the alchemist shop and getting protection from cold potions did not help them against the fire-breathing undead brass dragon.

 

[Richards]

When I first started gaming with my boys in 1994 (using the AD&D 2E rules), they used Lego minis for their PCs. They got pretty elaborate with them, as I recall - one of my sons "knit" a cloak out of white thread for his PC and then colored on a fire motif using magic markers.

Johnathan

 

[MarkB]

Having owned both Star Wars and D&D miniatures, Quarren figures make adequate subsitute Mind Flayers, and vice versa.

My favourite mini that wasn't sold as an actual mini was from a Star Wars / Transformers crossover - a LAAT gunship that turned into a giant robot. I never turned it into robot form except once shortly after I bought it, to see what it looked like, because when it was in gunship form it was almost perfectly in the correct scale for RPG minis, and looked completely realistic. I used it in several SWSE campaigns, and I don't think more than one or two players ever knew it was a transformer.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hey now! When I graduated HS, I was 6'3" and weighed 150lbs. I feel attacked lol

Whatever, “Slim”!

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Nothing too exciting - I've used a d4 for a mini in a pinch, before I got back into painting my own. Although, there was one con game where no one else brought minis and the DM was using a battlemat. So I ended up outfitting the rest of the group with minis I had for my other characters. It was weird looking down and seeing all my characters on the table in play at once.

 

[darjr]

DND Encounters of ye olden days used to give out these

I used to have a whole set of genreric ones from encounters. I sent them to a deployed soldier after all his dnd stuff was destroyed.

Redirect Notice

 

[darjr]

Sly Flourish has these Crafting Lazy Monster Tokens for D&D

 

[J.Quondam]

My typical proxies are mostly just small coins and flattened decorative glass stones.

However... When I was in college in the 90s my main DM had an enormous barrel of d12s*. One of those might occasionally get used as a proxy mini for a random NPC. For the most, though, they served as an entire proxy army. That is, the DM would spread out fistfuls of d12s to represent an onslaught of monsters, then twirl a compass set to "fireball radius!" in their midst to determine how many got fried.

That was very satisfying.


* I'm pretty sure he must have owned like 1 in every 3 of the d12s that existed in the US at the time.

 

[MGibster]

For a Rifts game I was running, one of the PCs was a dragon and I painted up a great looking miniature that was more or less to scale with the miniatures of the other PCs. The player opted to use a meeple dragon figure from a board game that barely took up a single hex on the map. It was frustrating.

 

[Shiroiken]

The most epic 4E encounter I ever played in had the enemies entirely as candy. Minions were M&Ms, medium monsters were gobstoppers, large monsters were York Peppermint Patties, and the BBEG was a pair of Snickers taped together. Yes, you got to eat what you killed. Yes, we used very poor tactics to try and kill steal for the candy. Yes, it was nearly a TPK