Comments on: Craft (Creature Tokens)

By: Gohu

Gohu — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:41:20 +0000

You can get this exact type of punch at any Michaels store nationwide.
What program do you find works best for printing mini sheets?

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:18:23 +0000

As Alea Tools was mentioned, I wanted to give anyone reading this a heads’ up. Just a caveat emptor: I highly suggest shopping around to see if you can locate the products somewhere other than Alea Tools. One of my items arrived damaged and I have been trying to get in touch with someone at Alea Tools. It’s been nearly a month now and despite repeated efforts to contact them using the e-mail addresses provided on their site (plus replying directly to the invoice e-mail) I haven’t heard anything back. Now that I am looking around online I am hearing from other people that the company does not seem to reply to e-mails–ever. As neither their site nor their invoice includes a phone number, I am at a dead end. Their products may be a good idea but if you run into a problem with missing or broken items, or any situation at all in which you need to reach someone at the company, best of luck. Remember: caveat emptor if you place an order with them.

By: Jul

Jul — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:27:43 +0000

THankyou! That’s a great tool!

By: One Bad Egg » Blog Archive » Where we sit conflicted

One Bad Egg » Blog Archive » Where we sit conflicted — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:22:22 +0000

[...] mind seeing these expanded and sold as a product by themselves. (Yes, yes, I know you can make tokens…but I don’t much find time to make anything nowadays. Build it, and they will [...]

By: Adam Dray

Adam Dray — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:57:20 +0000

Here are some shots of mine!

I use little wooden discs that I buy in bulk. Including all my supplies, my creature tokens cost me about 4 cents each. One downside to wooden discs is that they’re not very evenly shaped. On the plus side, you can get 2″ diameter ones for the Large creatures!

I don’t like the magnetic ones (I played in one of Rob’s games at GenCon), though they’re as pretty as my wooden ones. Yes, you can stack them and they stick together, but… they stick together. Get too many tokens on the battle map and they start repelling and attracting one another like a science project run by kobolds.

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:35:56 +0000

@Justin: When ever I have to do large creatures, I just cut out extra heavy cardstock in the 2×2 square pattern. I don’t use discs much.

If I could find a source, I probably would though.

By: justin

justin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:27:56 +0000

@Rob: I didn’t mention, but Alea sells sheets of adhesive flexible magnetic material. Probably slightly more expensive but maybe easier to work with overall.

Open Question: What have people done about large creatures? Anyone have a source for 2″ diameter metal discs? My lunch game is a Queen of Spiders conversions, and there are a lot of giants, ogres, and other biggies running around.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:23:56 +0000

When I can find it, I buy sheets of flexible magnetic material and punch out 1 inch rounds from it. I then mount the tokens on that, and I bring some washers with me. Since the washers are ferrous, I just stick the now magnetic tokens to them when I need to use them. Adds a little bit of prep time, but it greatly reduces the size and weight of the kit.

-Rob D.

By: Rechan

Rechan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:29:50 +0000

I’ve found that printing out a sheet of counters, applying adhesive spray to them, and then sticking them to a piece of cardboard stock works wonders. Then all you do is cut them out with scissors.

I use empty cereal boxes for the backs of my minis.

The suggestion to use Token Tools, however, is fantastic.