Old School Character & Monster Tokens
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Old School Character & Monster Tokens
I'd love to see some old school character & monster tokens. I've never really had the patience to assemble and paint metal minis and while the plastic ones from WotC did the job they never really inspired. But I really like the tokens that both WotC and Paizo have started doing. They're relatively cheap and you get a good selection. But imagine those tokens with character and monster art by Kovacs and Mullen!!! Properly old school and incredibly evocative!
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Re: Old School Character & Monster Tokens
My problem with the idea of DCC tokens are:
- DCC emphasizes creating unique monsters for every adventure. You can't have tokens for every possible creature, so you would have to use tokens of other creatures as placeholders.
- Tokens aren't big enough to put meaningful art on them. Chunks and pieces of eg. Kovacs and Mullen art don't do their work justice.
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Re: Old School Character & Monster Tokens
Of course, this pre-supposes that gamers are playing DCC RPG with a battlemat or something like that, and the game doesn't stress this in the same way as 4E or other RPGs do.
It would be fun to have a selection of character tokens to pick from, for both PC and NPC use. I'll confess that when I game I avoid actual minis most of the time, and use dice and coins and buttons and stuff like that as tokens. Monsters could be interesting as well if a set could be done for the Goodman Games DCC modules with later "add on" pages as additional modules got written.
I think it's a cool idea, but am curious as to how many people would actually buy and use them.
It would be fun to have a selection of character tokens to pick from, for both PC and NPC use. I'll confess that when I game I avoid actual minis most of the time, and use dice and coins and buttons and stuff like that as tokens. Monsters could be interesting as well if a set could be done for the Goodman Games DCC modules with later "add on" pages as additional modules got written.
I think it's a cool idea, but am curious as to how many people would actually buy and use them.
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Re: Old School Character & Monster Tokens
Count me out. I play Pathfinder quite a bit and one of the things that I find really refreshing is that DCC RPG doesn't use minis and battlemats. I get tired of carting all of that around for my Pathfinder games. Also, the added expense is annoying. Perhaps there is a market for this. It isn't me, however.finarvyn wrote: I think it's a cool idea, but am curious as to how many people would actually buy and use them.
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Re: Old School Character & Monster Tokens
I play a few different systems (DCC, Pathfinder, Shadowrun, World of Darkness, Savage Worlds, etc.) and my opinion is pretty much the same on all fronts:
I don't use minis and maps - except when I do. Some encounters taking place in particularly interesting terrain with numerous enemies benefit from added visualization tools, but most encounters don't.
I already have a mat I can draw whatever I want on it, and already have the whole first set of Pathfinder Battles miniatures (I have gotten rid of all other sorts of minis) - so the only things that would encourage me to buy new maps & minis/tokens are actually unlikely to ever exist.
I'd love to have a vinyl battle map with 1/2 inch square grid on one side and 1/2 inch hex grid on the reverse, and a line of miniatures built to scale to fit said mat at 1" = 1 yard scale.
I don't use minis and maps - except when I do. Some encounters taking place in particularly interesting terrain with numerous enemies benefit from added visualization tools, but most encounters don't.
I already have a mat I can draw whatever I want on it, and already have the whole first set of Pathfinder Battles miniatures (I have gotten rid of all other sorts of minis) - so the only things that would encourage me to buy new maps & minis/tokens are actually unlikely to ever exist.
I'd love to have a vinyl battle map with 1/2 inch square grid on one side and 1/2 inch hex grid on the reverse, and a line of miniatures built to scale to fit said mat at 1" = 1 yard scale.