Low-Cost Alternative to D&D Miniatures - 30 Cent Lazy Monster Tokens  

Sorry my big dumb hand was in the way when making the token itself. Also sorry for the left-channel audio. I blame Apple.

Thanks for this tutorial. I used to make character tokens my group and I called "pogs" by drawing the PC's faces inside one inch circles on cardstock paper, and then laminated them with clear tape. But I never knew about the epoxy stickers. Great idea

It's great to see you making so many videos.

Perfect timing as I am trying to stay out the the "buying miniatures forever" clan

Including the link to Game-Icons was a great decision. So much choice and variety. I plan on doing this next weekend once the bits&bobs arrive. Will make my DNDing worlds easier. Thanks for the tutorial and the books you've written

I really like this idea. Seems like a great alternative to storing akward minis

Excellent ! Most of the time we use VTT and digital tokens but like this week were laying at a Game store, these would rock for Battle positions and etc, I ordered the Hole Punch, and those epoxy stickers, BUT I found 1" Colored Plastic discs for about the same price, Im running a Lankhmar campaign so most enemy or Humanoids so this will work great, going to make a set and keep them in my DM kit. (I have tons of Minis but too much to load up because most of my games are at others' houses closer to the center of all the players of the group.

Thank you so much! Bought all the stuff and made these tokens for a board game I’m giving to somebody for Christmas! They didn’t have expansion packs for the game, so I made my own deck of cards but I also needed tokens! These are perfect!

This is an awesome video, man. I don't comment often, but this is absolutely perfect!

I got all your books and keep watching your videos. After several years of D&D DMing, and other systems, you STILL show me so much gold. True value here. Thank you so much ^^

This is great! I'm not looking to start buying and painting minis. These look great, are cheap, easy, and I can (hopefully) just "store" them on the side of my fridge! "Oh wait, I forgot the wererat tokens!" *walks to fridge* "Okay, roll initiative!"

The look, the feel, and the simplicity makes this video exactly what I was looking for and what I desperately needed for my upcoming campaign. Thank you so much for taking the time to make an edit a video to help people like me out. Greatly appreciated.

Thanks so much! I've been trying to figure this out and this video saved me lots of headache and thinking!!

This is absolutely incredible, thank you so much!

This is really awesome thank you for making this.

This was so great! I just made a token set for my Mausritter campaign and they look absolutely gorgeous on the table. You're the best Mike!

I really like this metod to make minis, thanks!!!

I don't know how I would be a DM without Sly Flourish advices hahahaha

This is excellent, so easy to do

Awesome video!

Just a perfect idea! I also considered the coin holders, though I wonder if that would be too light. I already used the icon site to make my PC's, some generic "bad guys", and a few "big bads". Furthermore, this video helped me visualize what you meant about two-sided, high to low on one side & low to high on the other side. Thank you, as always, for sharing!

I'm a little late, but I love this. I used Word to set up a grid of 1.25" squares and then put a design in each square until I had six different designs for each class, and made them all blue. Then a sheet of monsters (in black), and another of treasure and spell effects (in orange because Word doesn't have red for some reason). I can also make specific ones as I need them. The game-icons page has an amazing variety. Thank you so much!

Great video, thanks! This will make my first attempt at true mini gaming that much easier.

This is a treasure! I was doing some papercraft with bi-fold and tri-fold figs and a plastic clip base. Then I can use a card sleeve sheet or binder to hold my minis. The Index Card RPG card sets are great for that

Woooh I so glad I found this! This was great I need to do this go get maybe some different size hole punch now XD.

Thanks I just made a couple for my PCs, much better than purchasing expensive mini's, and much better looking then me trying to draw the character

thank you so much!

You could also use old MTG/Dead ccg commons for this, especially if you want specific art, rather than the more abstract look Sly is using.

Thanks!

Awesome!

Cool! I like the generic tokens idea. I came up with an almost identical idea using an 8.5x11 sheet of adhesive cork that I punched. They were lightweight; I like the magnet idea better. Now if the one inch hole punch could punch through a 8.5x11 magnetic sheet, that might be even cheaper (but more labor intensive).

Great idea. The tokens should have a 1 inch circle border around it to show the cut position.

You’re a saint. Ever so great full.

I do the MTG card route and I punch out art from bulk cards and just glue them to little wooden coins, some of them are double sided. I like doing it that way because like I have werewolf tokens that are human on one side / werewolf on the other, and undead tokens that are living creature on one side / zombie on the back. I've got like aven (or aarakocra in D&D terms) and khenra (basically like leonin or tabaxi, but based on jackals instead of lions / cats) that have zombies on the back since the Amonkhet set for magic heavily used beastfolk type races and zombies of those beastfolk.

hi great video. i was thinking in making my own tokens using that page you linked in the video, what size you used for each token when designing that tokens to print? one inch exactly?

What the ever loving fuck?! That's an awesome idea! As a broke GM I'm definatly going to be trying this Edit: After looking around for a bit I also found a 2 inch puncher and 2 epoxy stickers for larger creatures which is fantastic

Sweet! ! I'm gonna try this for sure, but any idea on how i can upscale the pdf for large, huge and gargantuan monsters?

Great idea. I used hole punches and 1" adhesive felt disks, but this is better. Why not add suggested cut marks to the document?

I've made a whole set of these for my LMOP campaign. It's perfect! Any tips on keeping them sorted for storage? Also, the epoxy tops stick to each other for whatever reason.

only thing about this method is how you handle large monsters. the 2 inch or 4 inch tokens

I use lego for player characters and meeples for npc was thinking about making some monster tokens tho

Look great, thanks for sharing! I ordered the material. ;-) Does anyone have a suggestion on a container to store these in (or take them with you)?

I loved this video and I will surely use this method to craft my tokens! just a question, what can be used instead of epoxy stickers tto craft the tokens? I can't buy them on Amazon for now and I don't know in what shops I can find them

Neat idea. Could use highlighter or markers to color them up a bit.

I bought multi color pawns and extra chess pieces from amazon.... guess I'm lazier than lazy. Only minis are player minis.

What program did you use to put on number

Man I've been searching amazon for stuff like this forever and couldn't find anything. Thanks a lot! Also does anyone have good suggestions for how to do bigger monsters and conditions? I could imagine cutting out some 2, 3, and 4 inch circles out of a metal sheet and sticking them onto it, but that has a bit of an inelegant feel to it. Conditions would work great with coloured rings, but where do you get coloured rings that are a tiny bit over 1"? O-Rings maybe?

Can you write on the epoxy tops with wet or dry erase and have it stick?

Did you print on just regular printer paper or cardstock?

What about medium or large creatures?

As a nurse, all I saw was porn in this video. So much vein porn. Thanks for the helpful video and tools. Now wash your hands!

Costs 30 cents. Than add the $7 for a punch, more for magnets, even more for adhesive. Really? Why do you feel the need to lie? And how close is close? Punch a hole with edge of the paper against the inside of the punch and measure, for god's sake. And why are you blaming Apple for not checking/editing your video? Who ties your shoes these days? 😡