Would you buy...

[Klaus]

Agreed, I recently purchased a set of plastic stands that a printed pciture could be slid into, making a cheap replacement mini. Regretfully, the stands came as 'assembly required' and the slot into which the picture slids is not very well configured after my mumbly-fingered attempts to put them together.

I would definately go for a product with plastic counters that stood on edge within a proper sized stand. That would look better on the board, easier to categorize and travel with, and less expensive than a real mini.

Fiery Dragon's 4e BattleBox comes with 20 plastic bases (10 black, 10 white). While they're nominally for holding the condition markers, you can certainly slid a counter in there, and they pretty much fill 1 square.

Large or larger counters, though, would require a plastic base of the appropriate size (which could also be accomplished by gluing a plastic base to a larger poker chip.

 

[Argyle King]

::raises hand::

I have a question.

How different would plastic tokens be from me just buying a cheap checkers set from the dollar store and putting pictures or stickers on them?


edit: I didn't see the poker chip comments upon first glance. Those would work as well.

 

[shadzar]

::raises hand::

I have a question.

How different would plastic tokens be from me just buying a cheap checkers set from the dollar store and putting pictures or stickers on them?


edit: I didn't see the poker chip comments upon first glance. Those would work as well.

if you could get different sizes, then not very. If you wanted different sizes to help denote which was in which size category....

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

You can get poker chips ranging in size from quarters to the old dollar coins (pre-Susan B. Anthony or Sacajawea)...plastic ones, at least.

 

[Jhaelen]

Me, I wouldn't be interested. The cardboard ones seem fine to me.

 

[billd91]

These days, I prefer to buy my tokens digitally like the Fiery Dragon CD collections. Then I can print the ones I want in any number I want. I can paste up sheets for a night's adventuring or a particular adventure. And I usually just print them on regular paper, then I don't sweat writing on them to indicate damage and so on. I recycle them after I'm done with them.

The only drawback I've encountered printing them on regular paper is lightness. A good sneeze can rearrange the board...

 

[francisca]

My DragonScale counters I bought at GenCon in 2003 are still holding up just fine.

 

[UnknownAtThisTime]

I know how tough paper/cardboard tokens can be- I have most of mine eating back to the late 1970s, from games like Melee, Wizard, Hotspot, Raid on Antares, Submarine, Helltank, Car Wars and OGRE/G.E.V., etc.

But I've also lost a few from those games (and others) due to damage hardier materials would have survived. And then there is the size/shape issue: do you know how tough it is to find a way to store a Melee/Wizard 7-Hex Dragon made of cardboard safely for 30 years?

Metal or plastic would have made the job a LOT easier.

Ahah, at this price point I expect them to last a few years, not a few decades like you! And I even gave you the storage solution for them (the D & D tokens, not yer fancy hex or shmuzzle shaped pieces).

Shmuzzles. Remember those? Hah, I just sourced thre idea for minis for my army of giant fire lizards.