What will you/do you use for marks?

[Shado]

Title says it all.

I'm trying to prepare for my groups transition to 4e and I'm looking for ideas on using marks.

For playing around with the XP pregens, my group just grabbed coins.

I tried looking around for plastic chips in a variety of colors, but there's not much out there appropriate for 1" scale mats.

I'm currently prepping an experiment with washers glued to the base of each mini, and using painted 1" circular magnets I picked up at Lowes.

We'll see how that goes.

Any other ideas? If there's a product involved, where did you purchase it?

 

[FireLance]

I managed to get a set of 3/4 inch diameter metallic rings (I think they're called loose leaf binder rings) in various colours in a stationery store. I just drape them over my minis, and I use them for tracking other conditions, too.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Play-Doh.

It's also a Hasbro Product!

 

[Shroomy]

What about those sticky multi-colored flags that you use to mark certain pages? They're pretty cheap and you can buy a lot at once.

 

[Thorr the Destroyer]

little paper tents

 

[Thasmodious]

I've got a ton of small colored rings that fit over the old style small round bases. They were used to mark player positions in the original editions of Blood Bowl. I have 4 colors and conveniently 4 players. So I will just let any player that drops an effect use a ring and then they remember the effect or make a small note. The rings will just help us remember that there are effects to count. If that turns out not to be enough, I will refer back to this thread.

 

[Olfactatron]

Colored Rubber bands.

 

[ProfessorCirno]

Knowing how my games go, we'll go with a mix of whatever change we have in our pockets alongside stray objects we leave in whatever room of whoever's house we're playing in.

"Wait, so the pawn chess piece, that's the king?"
"Right."
"Why not use the king chess piece?"
"All I could find was a pawn! Now, do you want your penny to attack the pen cap or not?"

 

[Orc_Courtesy]

I have a bunch of plastic hair clips shaped like butterflies, in a variety of mostly metallic colors. They clip onto the head of a D&D mini very nicely. I originally got them to represent stirges & their attachment to hapless PCs, but we've been using them for marks as well.

 

[Intrope]

I may try little plastic clothespin-type clips.