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.)

 

[jraines]

I'm thinking about the RPG products I find myself coming back to time and time again as a gift guide for others.

What RPG products do you find yourself using year after year? Which products provide the biggest impact at your table?

Here's my list:

• Pathfinder Flip Mat Basic and Staedtler Lumovision medium black 315-9 wet-erase markers
• Midgard World Book
• Demon Cults and Secret Societies
• Level Up Advanced 5e's Trials and Treasure and Monstrous Menagerie
• Shadowdark Quickstart Rules

My goto is Epic World Builder (i.e. Epic World Builder ) It's a world‑building tool, virtual TTRPG platform, and map maker combined into one. Nearly all of its features are completely free. It gives you a single tool to build worlds, design maps, run campaigns, and play online with friends.
The world‑building system works like Wikipedia, with pages for characters, places, items, and you can link together and attach to maps. The map maker works like Photoshop with a layer system to create maps. It has generators for creating for names or room descriptions, etc. quickly during game. The virtual tabletop supports multiple GMs and players, with incredible lighting that limits what each player can see. My favorite is the darkvision and line‑of‑sight control.

 

[aco175]

@jraines welcome to the site.

I also find myself using the Forgotten Realms wiki site or the Candlekeep site a lot instead of digging out the old books and box sets to looks for location and information while building adventures. The computer and internet just makes things so much better and faster.

 

[Maxperson]

I'm thinking about the RPG products I find myself coming back to time and time again as a gift guide for others.

What RPG products do you find yourself using year after year? Which products provide the biggest impact at your table?

Here's my list:

• Pathfinder Flip Mat Basic and Staedtler Lumovision medium black 315-9 wet-erase markers
• Midgard World Book
• Demon Cults and Secret Societies
• Level Up Advanced 5e's Trials and Treasure and Monstrous Menagerie
• Shadowdark Quickstart Rules

The 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign
The Encyclopedia Magica