orcmonk220
Underboss
1608 Posts
    
 | | 02/19/2006 8:42 AM |
| | OK, so how do I keep track of combat if I lack decent, resonable minis (i.e. few rats)? I was thinking labelled disks. | |
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griffrat
Commander
3507 Posts
| | 02/19/2006 8:55 AM |
| I have taken some card stock (i.e. a cerel box) and cut the entire thing into squares. I have tons of 1x1, 2x2 and 3x3 inch squares to use as proxies for the lacking mini.
I know that others have actually used photos attached to this card stock as not to detract from the rest of the 3D aspect. I haven't had the time to do this. Although, I like the idea!! [:D] | |
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 02/19/2006 11:33 AM |
| We had a GM who took metal washers and glued pictures that he printed out onto them. It worked well enough and we still use them to keep track of where there are dead bodies.
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taliesin
Underboss
1113 Posts
| | 02/19/2006 12:40 PM |
| | A long while back, Dungeon magazine often came with cardboard cut-outs of every encounter in that month's issue. It was in 3.0, so many larges were 5'x10' instead of 10'x10', but many of them are still usuable (anything size Medium or smaller, and a lot of the huges), and I still use those things if I don't have time to find the proper figures or there isn't a decent proxy. | |
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Zippy
Underboss
1993 Posts
Whitewater, WI
| | 02/19/2006 1:42 PM |
| wet or dry erase board laid flat on the table can work well too (esp with frame removed.
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orcmonk220
Underboss
1608 Posts
| | 02/20/2006 4:53 AM |
| hmm..... Washers is a very interesting idea. Cheers for that. Along with the cardboard disks. Thanks
Chris [:)] | |
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 02/20/2006 9:06 AM |
| | My current DM is using the candy method. Pieces of candy represent the monsters and when you kill it you get to eat the candy. | | | |
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Thor
Underboss
1938 Posts
| | 02/20/2006 10:40 PM |
| My Dm also used the "candy" method....
I now wiegh over 400 lbs. and I'm only a 6 lvl fighter !!!
Once we switched to the plastic minis I have lost 54 lbs and only had to have one DDM dire lion removed from my colen...
The DM is still a little nervous using rare minis in our game.
Orc's taste like chicken BTW...........GRIN | |
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glumag
Warlord
5968 Posts
| | 02/20/2006 11:58 PM |
| | Sheesh...for the longest time I used to run games without any miniatures or props...just a pen and a paper and lots of imagination...kids today with their fancy minis and counters [:p] | |
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Mushroom King
Thor
Underboss
1938 Posts
| | 02/21/2006 12:08 AM |
| ---Old folk talk --
Heck, we used to game before dice...only had coins - everything was 50/50...........
I know what you mean. But I do love the "props"...
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jgsugden
Commander
4320 Posts
Walnut Creek, CA
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2838 Posts
| | 02/21/2006 1:56 AM |
| Well, if you've got a halfway decent printer and plenty of color ink, I'd say it was time to put the gallery to good use!
35 Dire Rates coming up...You just need something to glue them on. Most hobby shops have bags of wooden discs that are available in a variety of sizes (1", 40mm, and 3"--convenient that...), or you could use some of the colored foam sheets and cut counters out of those.
Once you have the counters cut out, it's time for a gel-pen, outliner (silver/gold ink with an "outlining color" that sets up once you start writing with it--I THINK they still make those), or other marker to ID which counters are which. | |
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Red Ranger
Sergeant
708 Posts
| | 02/21/2006 2:56 AM |
| | When I needed a Beetle Swarm I went online and found a great pick of some tiny green beetles, copied it a bazillion times in photoshop and then printed it on photo paper. Cut them into 1" squares and voila! Swarms especially are great done that way. Many companies sell PDF's of beasties you can print on cardstock and cutout too. | |
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nycfarmkid
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Wadsworth, OH
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Luisjoey
Underboss
1704 Posts
Caracas Venezuela
| | 02/21/2006 6:48 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by jacksonm
My current DM is using the candy method. Pieces of candy represent the monsters and when you kill it you get to eat the candy.
Jajajaja Really nice idea! Very tricky!
Everthing works as proxy for characters and monsters in D&D sometimes i use the dices to make players know where are everything. | |
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Malin Lug
Sergeant
742 Posts
| | 02/21/2006 5:03 PM |
| Not only did he use washers, but he also has magnets that are the same size. They do a really good job of showing elevation even under regular minis. One magnetic disk for every 10 feet. The table is metal also. Like I said, we actually still use the washers with skulls on them to show where we have left corpses. We have about 40 of them, and have on occasion, used all of them.
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orcmonk220
Underboss
1608 Posts
| | 02/22/2006 8:41 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by jgsugden
Buy more miniatures.
Duh. [}:)]
Bit tricky for Dire Rats! The Gallery idea is also ideal, thanks to all.
Chris [:D] | |
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Sir Bozak The Damned
Commander
2854 Posts
Québec
| | 02/22/2006 1:23 PM |
| | Hey Thor, everything tastes like chicken [)] | |
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Thenameless
Warlord
12481 Posts
The Fortress of Solitude
| | 02/26/2006 2:44 AM |
| | We used to use dice. They come in many shapes, sizes, and colours. | |
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Scarecrow
Sergeant
788 Posts
| | 02/26/2006 3:07 AM |
| Bottlecaps....
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LargeMarmot
Sergeant
463 Posts
| | 03/04/2006 12:04 AM |
| | I'd look into icehouse pieces, thats what I use for stand-ins. There are 3 different sizes so they visually make sense for most encounters, although they bases wont be the size you need but you can always but them on wooden disks. Plus they look awesome. | |
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frogrodeo
Sergeant
706 Posts
| | 03/05/2006 12:26 AM |
| | Get some firewood and a nice sharp whittling knife. Then go to summer camp for a month and learn to whittle from the three-toothed, one-legged, one-eyed, long bearded, left-handed ,albino, ,eskimo, camp janitor (good thing there is one in every camp in the continental 52 states). Then, you can spend a few years creating your own figures, and voila! - problem solved! [)] | |
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True_Blue
Underboss
2386 Posts
| | 03/10/2006 5:24 AM |
| | Well i've used graph paper before, and just marked where everyone was. For the most part, it worked really well. If you have a battlemap, I think things like bottle caps would work great as mentioned. Also I've found out that poker chips are usually the same size as a Large base in D&DM. I use some crappy ones for bases on my old Large metal minis. | |
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Luisjoey
Underboss
1704 Posts
Caracas Venezuela
| | 03/11/2006 11:48 PM |
| | following the candy idea you could find some candy with forms, like bears, worms (huge snakes), octopus, whatever! the matter is to find them and that they could be used once... [:D] Yumi | |
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