Skyscraper
Sergeant
659 Posts
    
Montreal
 | | 12/12/2006 12:18 PM |
| While i'm at asking questions: what about flying or levitating PCs?
I've used shooter glasses 
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Cthulhufnord
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| | 12/12/2006 12:21 PM |
| | Mage Knight had some shooter glass style cilinders for that purpose, i still have some kicking around that I use. | |
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gss_000
Commander
3204 Posts
Baltimore, MD
| | 12/12/2006 2:59 PM |
| | A buddy of mine does the same with clear cubes, each one an inch high (or more) so you can know the exact height. There is a product out there that are magnetic discs that can be placed underneath a fig that shows status. One color signifies flight and the number signifies height. Other discs show stunned, unconscious, poisoned, invisible, etc. It's aneat idea but I don't like modding figs (you need to glue a magnet to the base to make the others stick so you can move the stack around). | |
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kestrel.ca
Underboss
1671 Posts
| | 12/12/2006 3:30 PM |
| Unfortunately, the MK cylinders are a little too big -- they're about 1.5 inches in diameter and take up more space than most PCs.
To show flying characters, I usually place them on a die, with the number of the die indicating how high they are in 5' increments. For example, to show a PC flying at 30', I'd place him on a die with a 6 on top. This works better with DDM minis than with others as the bottom is flatter and they don't need to be balanced as carefully. | |
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YRM_DM
Sergeant
901 Posts
| | 12/12/2006 3:58 PM |
| I'm not sure the exact measurements, but, why not check the clear plastic candy holding candy cane shaped tubes that kids get for Christmas?
If you cut down the flat end on a few of them, you could probably have a pretty good array of clear plastic cylinders. | |
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zenthrus
Commander
4647 Posts
SLC, UT
| | 12/12/2006 4:15 PM |
| I just make flying PCs flap their arms 
More practically, I have some nice 1" clear d6 dice that I put miniatures on to represent temporarily flying minis. | |
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CarrionCrawler
Underboss
1760 Posts
| | 12/12/2006 7:27 PM |
| | I saw a pic somewhere of this guy's gaming table. He tied the minis to string/fishing wire and tied that to a push pin and stuck it to the ceiling. It was a pretty spiffy setup. | |
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maijstral
Underboss
2105 Posts
| | 12/12/2006 8:24 PM |
| | We use two things, both of which every gamer should have , a die to mark how high the PC is flying or levitating and the small plastic table a lot of pizza places use in there boxes to prevent the pizza from getting smushed. Low tech and inexpensive but it works for us. | | | |
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yack
Commander
3134 Posts
Ottawa, Canada
| | 12/12/2006 8:59 PM |
| | I use the plastic case that dice sets come in or sometimes a clear tube that crazy glue comes in. | |
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nyjastul69
Commander
2710 Posts
Rhode Island
| | 12/13/2006 6:32 AM |
| Posted By kestrel.ca on 12/12/2006 3:30 PM
To show flying characters, I usually place them on a die, with the number of the die indicating how high they are in 5' increments. For example, to show a PC flying at 30', I'd place him on a die with a 6 on top. This works better with DDM minis than with others as the bottom is flatter and they don't need to be balanced as carefully. This is how our group handles it as well. | |
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yack
Commander
3134 Posts
Ottawa, Canada
| | 12/13/2006 6:57 AM |
| | thats not a bad idea.... a little too low for effect but good idea for tracking. | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10076 Posts
United States
| | 12/13/2006 8:07 AM |
| Posted By yack on 12/12/2006 8:59 PM
I use the plastic case that dice sets come in or sometimes a clear tube that crazy glue comes in. I keep the boxes that Chessex sells dice in and use them for this purpose.
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Commander
3754 Posts
Adelaide
| | 12/13/2006 6:10 PM |
| | Dice boxes, and Pizza spreaders. | |
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sam500
Sergeant
413 Posts
Berkeley, CA
| | 12/15/2006 3:19 PM |
| aleatools magnetic status effect thingies
they're cool.
You can write the height you're flying on them in dry erase on the side of them. You can also color code lots of the same monster.
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smilinIrish
Sergeant
908 Posts
| | 01/05/2007 10:09 PM |
| | I work in a hospital. When someone's blood sugar is critically low, we give them an injection of dextrose solution. One day I noticed that the glass tube (like a shot glass) that the dextrose was in was about an inch in diameter. It's about six inches tall. You can put a D12 inside to show how high you are (5' increments and all). The glass is relatively thin, so having several in a box doesn't add 10 pounds of encumbrance to by bag. | |
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tourette's
Skirmisher
24 Posts
Colorado
| | 01/07/2007 6:27 PM |
| | One of my players made a bunch of 1" blocks at 1", 2", and 3" high that have velcro on them for stacking. Pros: Easy to tell how high the PC or enemy is at and there is no mistaking the fact that they are not on the ground. Cons: Unstable if you get too high and nobody can hang out under them. We tend to use the old dice boxes too. | | | |
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