Re: Visual Aides, Counter Collections vs. Minis.

[MarauderX]

I think most groups I have been in have used whatever was around. I use a lot of the pewter figures that I have had since I can remember, counters, plastic figs, and sometimes coins or other game pieces. And I am looking forward to the plastic minis so we don't have to use the goofy Mage Knight figs whose bases are just a little too big.

 

[Anubus]

Generally pewter mini's, though I've used action figures for giants and things

 

[Arnwyn]

We use mintures for PC and important NPC that are reacuring.

Regular monsters and NPC's are counters, dice are anything else that handy.

Ditto here. (We exclusively use dice for grunts/monsters - they are numbered, and come in different colours in groups of six: white, red, green, blue. This helps speed combat along as the DM instantly knows which hp total goes with which monster/NPC.)

 

[Gothmog]

Only pewter minis when we game. I have been collecting and painting them for over 20 years, and have probably 8000 of them. So I have a mini for pretty much anything I want, and if I don't have it, I make it.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I use mini's for PC's and major NPC's. I use d6's for units - that way I can number them 1-6 and have multiple colors to represent multiple units (ie: the red dice are the three Giants, the blue dice are 6 ogres, the green dice are the other 6 ogres, etc) and glass beads to represent large numbers of small beasties like orcs or ghouls- especially if they're likely to take 1 hit and go down.

 

[Imperialus]

like most here my group uses pewter minis for characters, important BBEG's and the like. Otherwise we bust out the dice we use for shadowrun and proceed to have a small army of little square plastic men... with six eyes

 

[Olive]

This poll should be multi choice...

I use pewter minis, some painted, coins, dice and anything else. I'm looking forward to the plastics, and for some combat situations we use the imagination only.

It really depends.

 

[pogre]

ummm, well, yeah - painted metal only, BUT

I do sometimes have to substitute - a Dire Rat from a dire badger or whatever. It makes me cringe when I have to do it though.

I have a new rule in my game I love - if you summon it you better supply an appropriate figure or the spell fails!

I like polls that force choices BTW - people are surely choosing the thing they mostly do and for me that's more informative.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

I'll also add that this poll really needs to be multiple choice.

We use a combination of everything: painted minis, unpainted minis, half-painted/primed minis, lots of counters, dice, and just about anything else thats around. As much as I'd like to just use minis, the counter collections are a great, cheap source of just about anything you could ask for.

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

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