Comments on: NewbieDM Tutorial – Counters, Tokens, or Pogs

By: Meet The Meat Of My Game | Gnome Stew

Meet The Meat Of My Game | Gnome Stew — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:24:11 +0000

[...] but it is sometimes nice to get an idea of layouts. To that end, we’ve used tokens, vis a vis Newbie DM’s article and Patrick’s article that built on Newbie DM’s original work. Here are the tokens that [...]

By: Emma

Emma — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:12:22 +0000

I wanted to thank you for this awesome tutorial. I used the Gimp for an image tool and a local drugstore to print these babies out for me. I can comfortably fit 12 on a 4×6 sheet using the snap and ruler tools in Gimp. It costs me a little under twenty cents a sheet for printing.

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:56:07 +0000

Sorry for the double post. My computer is acting up.

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:55:31 +0000

What about making the markers that show if a character is stunned or prone, etc… Can you just do that in MS Word?

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:53:57 +0000

How about making the little tags like the one in the very top picture – that show status (stunned, etc..)? Do you just make those using MS Word?

By: Gavvro Greywacke

Gavvro Greywacke — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:56:49 +0000

I’m planning to DM a custom campaign for the first time and I was glad to come across this tutorial. I never knew there was such a thing as a 1″ hole punch, and I didn’t look forward to cutting out every single token by hand.

A few suggestions:

(1) Skip the circle template business and just create a 4″x6″ grid, and paste in 1″ pics, to make 24 pics per grid. The hole punch will take care of the cropping. Save it as a *.jpg file and upload it to the photo site of your choice. Walgreens sells 4″x6″ prints for $0.12 apiece, which at 24 tokens per print means a HALF A CENT PER TOKEN. Can’t get much cheaper than that.

(2) To mount them, go to your local homebrew shop or search on Amazon for bottlecaps. I found a gross of them (144!) for $2.50 plus $5.49 shipping. Buy two sets and that nets you 288 for $10.49 which works out to roughly 3.6 cents per cap. They’re durable but lighter than metal washers, plus if you re-use your own they’re free (finally I know why I’ve been hoarding them all these years!). Similarly, milk caps are perfectly-sized for large creatures.

Total spent = 4 cents per token (4 and a half if you want double-sided) for regular-sized creatures. If you want to get fancy, you can get 1″ circle clear epoxy stickers to put on top, easily found with scrapbooking supplies or on Amazon; these might be useful for distinguishing PCs and elites. The only other things necessary are the punch and the glue.

By: Meet The Meat Of My Game - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog

Meet The Meat Of My Game - Gnome Stew, the Game Mastering Blog — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:32:13 +0000

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By: the hekerler

the hekerler — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:04:58 +0000

it sucks i mean whats the blood picture for

By: The Alexandrian » Blog Archive » Better Dungeon Maps #7 – The Monster Roster

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:02:48 +0000

[...] Numbered counters are easy to find on the cheap. It’s also pretty easy to make your own by printing out the numbers and then affixing them to washers or quarters or something of the [...]