From my experience I use chess pieces it's really useful and you can use different chess pieces (Personally I find wizards chess from harry potter the most useful) for different characters, and have the enemies be the other color, also you could use candy and when the enemy (Or you) dies you can just eat them. Reaper Bones minis are decently priced if you're looking for actual minis, and they're good quality for their price, only downside is sometimes things like swords, spears, wand, etc can come bet but that can be fixed. And if your looking for good priced minis, then you can always use the minis form the Dnd board gamed like Legend of Drizzt, Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Tomb of Annihilation, Wrath of Ashardalon, and Castle Ravenloft, each come with a fun board game 45 - 50 minis, and useful cardboard modular dungeon tiles, the minis are durable and their are things like Dragons, Demons, And Devil, they are around 50 -46 dollars and are good quality for their price only down side is you have to paint them, but I know most people enjoy that, I'd recommend the chess pieces out of all of them.
So is there any I missed, what do you use ( if you use minis)
I've used Lego minifigs before. The ones that are fantasy based, like the LoTR or Castle ones, work a bit better, but I may have used a Vicki Vale to repersent a dragonborn bard before.
If you're not concerned about making each 'mini' represent the appearance of the corresponding characters, there are tons of things you could use.
When me and my siblings were kids, we had a ton of lego but only like one or two minifigs. We ended up just using the 1x2 pieces. We'd stack 2 for a short person, and 3 for a tall person. If you want to, you could draw on the pieces with a pencil or something to make them look a little more like your character. If you don't want to draw directly on the lego, just wrap a piece of tape (preferably masking tape since it's drawn on easiest) around it and draw on that. Of course, you could also use minifigs if you have a collection. The cool part about using lego is that you could also use it to make the combat maps that can be quickly adjustable in the middle of an encounter. The minis would snap into place and it even gives you an easy way to put them on top of things (like a slanted roof or a mount). You could say that every 2x2 or 3x3 square is a 5ft square.
You could even use paper minis. Just searching for "DnD paper minis" brings up tons of options. There are plenty of websites, some of which have free content. You could even just draw/print your own. With these, I would recommend gluing a coin or stone to the bottom of them to give them some weight. That way they don't get blown around as easily. You could even cut out some cardboard from different boxes to make them a bit more rigid if you want to.
Just about any small object could be used as a mini: small toys, coins, stones, or other board game pieces. If you have more space and are okay with bigger map squares, you could use even more things like amiiboes or nenderoids. The more space you have, and the bigger the map tiles, the more options you have.
Paper minis are, as you might expect, extremely cheap. In most cases the only cost is the ink and paper used to print them out. A quick Googling of DnD Paper Minis, will get you a plethora of paper minis all free and ready to print.
Paper minis are, as you might expect, extremely cheap. In most cases the only cost is the ink and paper used to print them out. A quick Googling of DnD Paper Minis, will get you a plethora of paper minis all free and ready to print.
Paper mini for the life, I can create my player own custom character paper mini and just print it. The cost is paper and ink.
You can get a 1-inch hole punch and some old magic the gathering cards then punch a hole for the artwork. You can even pick up a couple of free learn to play magic decks at most gaming stores so your only real cost will be the hole punch.
I have done this and created hundreds of pawns and it also works perfect on creatures too.
I've used Lego minifigs before. The ones that are fantasy based, like the LoTR or Castle ones, work a bit better, but I may have used a Vicki Vale to repersent a dragonborn bard before.
I've made minifigures by drawing them on paper and gluing them upright onto pennies or washers. They're surprisingly durable, stand 1" or so, and totally able to be customized!
The idea of candy is pretty fun to me... especially with Halloween coming up it could be fun to buy a bunch of gummies or something and build an encounter around them :P
Paper minis are, as you might expect, extremely cheap. In most cases the only cost is the ink and paper used to print them out. A quick Googling of DnD Paper Minis, will get you a plethora of paper minis all free and ready to print.
Paper mini for the life, I can create my player own custom character paper mini and just print it. The cost is paper and ink.
Paper mini rocks.
I'm interested in a paper mini project myself, but not sure how to go about it. Here's what I'm thinking. My groups been messing around on HeroForge, may plan is to purchase the files for them (I know that's overkill but I like supporting a company for its free tool, especially nowadays). Do front and back screen shots of the mini and put those shots onto some sort of paper mini template, and print from there (maybe even get into a cardstock printer). I just don't know _how_ to do this. That is what tool I should best use to transfer the screenshot to a paper template, etc. Does anyone have or can point me toward a good walkthrough?
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Paper minis are, as you might expect, extremely cheap. In most cases the only cost is the ink and paper used to print them out. A quick Googling of DnD Paper Minis, will get you a plethora of paper minis all free and ready to print.
Paper mini for the life, I can create my player own custom character paper mini and just print it. The cost is paper and ink.
Paper mini rocks.
I'm interested in a paper mini project myself, but not sure how to go about it. Here's what I'm thinking. My groups been messing around on HeroForge, may plan is to purchase the files for them (I know that's overkill but I like supporting a company for its free tool, especially nowadays). Do front and back screen shots of the mini and put those shots onto some sort of paper mini template, and print from there (maybe even get into a cardstock printer). I just don't know _how_ to do this. That is what tool I should best use to transfer the screenshot to a paper template, etc. Does anyone have or can point me toward a good walkthrough?
Technically, you could do this without buying the models. However, I agree that it's nice to support developers who make such great tool available for free.
In terms of the how, you could honestly just use Microsoft word or something. You may have to do some measuring, but could just put all your minis on a sheet (depending on the amount), then print them out. Then you can cut them out in strips and fold them into triangles, and perhaps put a small weight (like a stone or coin) on the bottom to keep them in place at the table. When putting them in a document, just put in an image of the front view, then the back view. Flip one of them upside down, then stack them vertically with the heads a small distance from each other. Make sure to leave a bit of space at each image's feet so that you can fold them together at the bottom of the triangle.
Paper minis are, as you might expect, extremely cheap. In most cases the only cost is the ink and paper used to print them out. A quick Googling of DnD Paper Minis, will get you a plethora of paper minis all free and ready to print.
Paper mini for the life, I can create my player own custom character paper mini and just print it. The cost is paper and ink.
Paper mini rocks.
I'm interested in a paper mini project myself, but not sure how to go about it. Here's what I'm thinking. My groups been messing around on HeroForge, may plan is to purchase the files for them (I know that's overkill but I like supporting a company for its free tool, especially nowadays). Do front and back screen shots of the mini and put those shots onto some sort of paper mini template, and print from there (maybe even get into a cardstock printer). I just don't know _how_ to do this. That is what tool I should best use to transfer the screenshot to a paper template, etc. Does anyone have or can point me toward a good walkthrough?
Technically, you could do this without buying the models. However, I agree that it's nice to support developers who make such great tool available for free.
In terms of the how, you could honestly just use Microsoft word or something. You may have to do some measuring, but could just put all your minis on a sheet (depending on the amount), then print them out. Then you can cut them out in strips and fold them into triangles, and perhaps put a small weight (like a stone or coin) on the bottom to keep them in place at the table. When putting them in a document, just put in an image of the front view, then the back view. Flip one of them upside down, then stack them vertically with the heads a small distance from each other. Make sure to leave a bit of space at each image's feet so that you can fold them together at the bottom of the triangle.
Thanks, the end product you're describing reminds me of the Standees Steve Jackson Games used to turn out and is probably what I'm ultimately looking for. I was hoping for a more plug and play template than pushing around Word, but labor of love I guess. I do appreciate you outlining what the pages should look like and image placement considerations.
I might explore printing on cardstock for a little more durability, but that's just a printer upgrade here I think.
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Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
In my case I'm looking specifically for methods to 2D adapt the images made by things like Hero Forge, etc. I could just get a 3D printer and have thought about it, but I don't really want to be party to dumping more recreational plastic into the world. Paper of course has its own environmental toll, but at least my instincts think paper is slightly less consequence. Relatedly, I've seen some neat things done with Cricut on the 3-D modeling level so may play around with that for monster and terrain/battlemap builds.
From my experience I use chess pieces it's really useful and you can use different chess pieces (Personally I find wizards chess from harry potter the most useful) for different characters, and have the enemies be the other color, also you could use candy and when the enemy (Or you) dies you can just eat them. Reaper Bones minis are decently priced if you're looking for actual minis, and they're good quality for their price, only downside is sometimes things like swords, spears, wand, etc can come bet but that can be fixed. And if your looking for good priced minis, then you can always use the minis form the Dnd board gamed like Legend of Drizzt, Dungeon of the Mad Mage, Tomb of Annihilation, Wrath of Ashardalon, and Castle Ravenloft, each come with a fun board game 45 - 50 minis, and useful cardboard modular dungeon tiles, the minis are durable and their are things like Dragons, Demons, And Devil, they are around 50 -46 dollars and are good quality for their price only down side is you have to paint them, but I know most people enjoy that, I'd recommend the chess pieces out of all of them.
So is there any I missed, what do you use ( if you use minis)
I've used Lego minifigs before. The ones that are fantasy based, like the LoTR or Castle ones, work a bit better, but I may have used a Vicki Vale to repersent a dragonborn bard before.
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If you're not concerned about making each 'mini' represent the appearance of the corresponding characters, there are tons of things you could use.
When me and my siblings were kids, we had a ton of lego but only like one or two minifigs. We ended up just using the 1x2 pieces. We'd stack 2 for a short person, and 3 for a tall person. If you want to, you could draw on the pieces with a pencil or something to make them look a little more like your character. If you don't want to draw directly on the lego, just wrap a piece of tape (preferably masking tape since it's drawn on easiest) around it and draw on that. Of course, you could also use minifigs if you have a collection.
The cool part about using lego is that you could also use it to make the combat maps that can be quickly adjustable in the middle of an encounter. The minis would snap into place and it even gives you an easy way to put them on top of things (like a slanted roof or a mount). You could say that every 2x2 or 3x3 square is a 5ft square.
You could even use paper minis. Just searching for "DnD paper minis" brings up tons of options. There are plenty of websites, some of which have free content. You could even just draw/print your own. With these, I would recommend gluing a coin or stone to the bottom of them to give them some weight. That way they don't get blown around as easily. You could even cut out some cardboard from different boxes to make them a bit more rigid if you want to.
Just about any small object could be used as a mini: small toys, coins, stones, or other board game pieces.
If you have more space and are okay with bigger map squares, you could use even more things like amiiboes or nenderoids. The more space you have, and the bigger the map tiles, the more options you have.
How to add tooltips on dndbeyond
Paper minis are, as you might expect, extremely cheap. In most cases the only cost is the ink and paper used to print them out. A quick Googling of DnD Paper Minis, will get you a plethora of paper minis all free and ready to print.
Paper mini for the life, I can create my player own custom character paper mini and just print it. The cost is paper and ink.
Paper mini rocks.
I have found some 1 inch dry erase minipoker/bingo/counting chips work too. Especially at cons.
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You can get a 1-inch hole punch and some old magic the gathering cards then punch a hole for the artwork. You can even pick up a couple of free learn to play magic decks at most gaming stores so your only real cost will be the hole punch.
I have done this and created hundreds of pawns and it also works perfect on creatures too.
I used Comansi and/or Tente figurines.
My Ready-to-rock&roll chars:
Dertinus Tristany // Amilcar Barca // Vicenç Sacrarius // Oriol Deulofeu // Grovtuk
I've made minifigures by drawing them on paper and gluing them upright onto pennies or washers. They're surprisingly durable, stand 1" or so, and totally able to be customized!
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also, you can find old D&ZD 4th edition token easily on google
fat dragon also makes token too.
The idea of candy is pretty fun to me... especially with Halloween coming up it could be fun to buy a bunch of gummies or something and build an encounter around them :P
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I am looking into shrinky dink minis. I've got
-printable shrinky dink paper
-bottlecaps with a slice sawed into it for a base
-and because I'm not half as artsy as most people, a good google search of "d&d printable minis"
I have yet to find a guide on how big to make the character to make it shrink properly (typically 1/3 the size but I want it to be perfect),
I'm interested in a paper mini project myself, but not sure how to go about it. Here's what I'm thinking. My groups been messing around on HeroForge, may plan is to purchase the files for them (I know that's overkill but I like supporting a company for its free tool, especially nowadays). Do front and back screen shots of the mini and put those shots onto some sort of paper mini template, and print from there (maybe even get into a cardstock printer). I just don't know _how_ to do this. That is what tool I should best use to transfer the screenshot to a paper template, etc. Does anyone have or can point me toward a good walkthrough?
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Technically, you could do this without buying the models. However, I agree that it's nice to support developers who make such great tool available for free.
In terms of the how, you could honestly just use Microsoft word or something. You may have to do some measuring, but could just put all your minis on a sheet (depending on the amount), then print them out. Then you can cut them out in strips and fold them into triangles, and perhaps put a small weight (like a stone or coin) on the bottom to keep them in place at the table.
When putting them in a document, just put in an image of the front view, then the back view. Flip one of them upside down, then stack them vertically with the heads a small distance from each other. Make sure to leave a bit of space at each image's feet so that you can fold them together at the bottom of the triangle.
How to add tooltips on dndbeyond
Thanks, the end product you're describing reminds me of the Standees Steve Jackson Games used to turn out and is probably what I'm ultimately looking for. I was hoping for a more plug and play template than pushing around Word, but labor of love I guess. I do appreciate you outlining what the pages should look like and image placement considerations.
I might explore printing on cardstock for a little more durability, but that's just a printer upgrade here I think.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
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Usually if your local library has a 3d printer you can go there and get on for free. All you need is some technical know how
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In my case I'm looking specifically for methods to 2D adapt the images made by things like Hero Forge, etc. I could just get a 3D printer and have thought about it, but I don't really want to be party to dumping more recreational plastic into the world. Paper of course has its own environmental toll, but at least my instincts think paper is slightly less consequence. Relatedly, I've seen some neat things done with Cricut on the 3-D modeling level so may play around with that for monster and terrain/battlemap builds.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Also Pathfinder has 2d paper mins, called pawns. you should give that a shot.
Heroforge is coming out with pawn design tools.
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