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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 4170867" data-attributes="member: 50987">Yeah, we used poker chips (red for bloodied, blue for marked, etc.), but it was still a colossal pain in the ass.  We had to remember to place them under the minis and we had to remember to take them away after we were done with them, and if several minis were all adjacent to each other the chips wouldn't fit over the right squares, and the chips weren't visible under anything larger than Medium-sized, etc.The theory is good.  But in practice, poker chips (or bottle caps, or little bits of string, or pipe cleaners, etc.) are just one more thing on the table that you have to keep track of.  One more thing that keeps falling off the table, or keeps getting buried under papers, or keeps knocking other stuff over.  As if all of the books, maps, character sheets, notes, dice, pencils, minis, and wet-erase markers piled on top of my battlemat-turned-tablecloth weren't already making me crazy./rantAnyhoo.  After the second battle, we tossed 'em back into the package and started doing all of the marking from memory.I'm still holding out hope that Marking and other "aura" buffs aren't as prevalent in the official 4E books, as the previews make them sound.  I wouldn't mind having to deal with them on rare occasions, but certainly not every battle.</blockquote>