Earlier I posted an article on making your own counters for games. Since then I’ve used them in my Dungeons & Dragons game, and tried different things, and here’s some things I’ve found:
- It’s a good idea to give the players their own color tokens, or write their names on them. If you have a whole bunch of tokens, players may start forgeting that token B is a party member and D is a goblin.
- Avoid putting too much information about the enemy on their token. Players will start trying to get an edge by guessing what HR means.
- Blank tokens are great. Put them out and pencil in information. Use a soft lead pencil, since hard lead may be hard to read.
- I have not found a good 2″ hole punch yet. The Marvy 1″ is the only one I’ve found to punch through a comic book board.
- Laminating a token is not good for wet erase. Still have to try dry erase and grease pencil.
I’ve also found I spend too much time drawing maps and wiping them off the Battlemat. I’m going to try Dungeon Tiles next, and also make my own tiles for Keep on the Shadowfell.