Your Most Useful and Most Used RPG Products

[aramis erak]

Are the poker chips that have been mentioned more than once used in place of minatures?

Not by me.

 

[MNblockhead]

For status markers, I just use the plastic rings that come on soda bottles after you twist the cap off. I have mostly red for bloodied, but a few other colors can pull double duty. I mean, how many effects are going on at one time. Put the ring on the mini and on the player's turn he see it and is- oh, right, I'm still blind or whatever.

That's highly dependent on the game, characters' levels, and group.

 

[adrianthebard]

That's highly dependent on the game, characters' levels, and group.

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TRUE, i also use plenty of bottle Rings and caps. Collection among beer/wine/water it Nets you a High variety and the clearer ones can be written numbers on with dry erase markers.
The problem with bottle caps Is that they are finnicky in games with many status ailments, also if played on grid you run the risk of knocking off miniatures and the like. I much prefer tracking those on a paper sheet, much faster.

Also that golem thing Is EPIC, did you do It yourself?

 

[Joshua Randall]

Well. I am a 4e neo-grognard so much of what I use dates back to those days. But still!

• Dungeon Tiles. (Looks like they have been "reincarnated".) My most used of these tiles is, weirdly, the wilderness ones, because I have plenty of city and dungeon specific...
• Poster Maps. I'm not going to link to a specific product because I have these from everywhere: every published 4e adventure, many published 3e adventures, Paizo, Star Wars, 13th Age... basically anything with a 1-inch grid or at that scale for eye-balling distances (in the case of a game like 13th Age that doesn't track gridded movement). Related to these...
• Lamination. I would seriously love if someone got me a gift card to FedEx Kinko / OfficeMax / Staples / whatever and wrote on it "to be used for laminating poster maps."
• Colored glass beads. From craft stores. These can represent everything from conditions (red = bloodied, green = poisoned, etc.) to temporary map elements (conjured walls, clouds) to hordes of minions.
• Colored hair bands. From drugstores or anywhere that sells girls'/women's hair products. They fit nicely over minis and again can be used to represent conditions. Particularly bloodied (red) and marked (where we have established conventions that yellow or white = paladin's, blue = fighter's, purple = swordmage's... and if someone bring in one of those weird random powers that marks for no apparent reason on a class that otherwise doesn't do any marking, they get brown).

So there you go - some maybe off the beaten path gift ideas! (My supply of hair bands is low, please send some.)