The Ultimate Guide to Paper Miniatures for D&D, Pathfinder, OnePageRules, Frostgrave, and more 

Dude exactly what I was looking for thank you great video

Would definitely love to see a Terrain version!

I personally think a nice glossy cardstock makes the colors soooo much more vivid and vibrant

Dude. DUDE! Duuuuude. This is awesome, and really encouraging for me. I just really, really despise 3d minis and everything to do with them. The storage, the logistics, the PAINT! Hate it all. Paper, though? Man, this is the freaking way. Thank you for the detailed instructions.

This was exactly what I was looking for to start silver bayonet. Thank you.

Baller. Not gonna lie, paper miniatures saved the hobby for me. After painting about 30 miniatures and still needed a wider variety, I gave them away to a friend and almost just kind of gave up. I like your solution, I'll incorporate some of the aspects for sure. Thanks for posting.

I'm a big fan of doing a black background, and using a black marker on the edges after trimming. It uses more ink, but I think they look a bit better.

I made more than 80 paper minis for like 5€ (went to a professional printer). I customise the size o a document word and print on paper. Then stick to cereal cardstock and base with foamcore. If you want to store them flat you can always just leave a straight cut on the foamcore base and use it with different minis. Great video mate! 👌

You can toss from HF not only front &back but also side and top views into a collab program to make a six sided paper dice. Thats if you want more of a dimension.

To avoid sticky fingers, I score and fold the card, then slather that stuff on the short side. I cut when it's dry. Works a treat if you don't like it icky. Paper minis rule, looking forward to this. Good luck with the channel 😊

The HeroForge idea is great. Really helpful video, can't wait for more!

wow!! such a high quality video! insta subbed. plus: are you voice actor? thanks for your content!!

Always enjoyable watching what other paper craft builders do!

Thank you for all the efforts put into this video! I will definitely use this in my upcoming campaign.

Looking forward to see the future of this very promising channel

Loved the ideas...

As someone very socially akward I love what you do with your hands.

I would LOVE to see that Rime of the Frostmaiden series! Great video, it taught me so much!

Fantastic video, exactly what I needed when I was thinking about getting some travel RPG packages going!

This is a banger of a first video.

Such a great video. High quality for your first one on RU-vid. I love the detail and passion you have put into this tutorial for paper minis :)

So, I purchased several humble bundles that included PDFs of minis. I printed them out and really struggled to used them, getting just card holders. This video is so helpful! Using the trading card sheets to organize including folders for campaigns is a great idea and I’m looking forward to reorganizing my minis and getting the paper minis bases, which I didn’t know existed. Thank you!

Am getting into paper minis/terrain for playtesting my own game. this is AMAZING information. everything I needed. thank you!

This video is so awesome! I've been wanting to get into minis/terrain but the price has deterred me. Between your paper terrain video and this one I am so excited to include these in my next campaign. Thank you! :)

Great Video! I started in the hobby with paper minis and still have them. This video came at a great time as I am running games at a con and the card sleeves will make for easy travel. Oh, and a bonus, grew up in Brooklyn. Keep up the good work.

Nice video again! you made perfect videos for my niche interest.

Informative video! Thanks for making it :) I'm a fan of papercraft minis, terrain and Ultimate Dungeon Terrain and I look forward to seeing what you craft next.

I love this video! We use paper minis in all of our games (roleplaying and tabletop), and have done so for quite a few years. Its affordable and easy to put together, and they have a uniqueness of their own. There are lots of great makers out there as well. I am a fan of Trash Mob Minis, and Sundered Vault they both have great cartoon styles. Sundered Vault's games are good too, but I use their historical minis (WW2 and Napoleonics) a lot!

I started with paper minis when I first got into DND and while I still have a ton of them I've also adopted 3D minis for at least the player characters. Paper minis are fantastic for grunts and other monsters that don't NEED full fledged minis i.e. orcs and goblins and other low level stuff. My quick and dirty method is glueing a bunch of index cards together back to back for strength with tacky glue, glueing the printouts onto the cards, sealing them with packing tape, cutting them out with a combo of scissors and a box cutter, and then marking up the sides with black permanent markers to hide the white edges. For stands I use assorted sizes of binder clips and just pop off the metal arms you use to open them when they're properly based. 😁

I found this video after I found out that one page rules made a bunch of their paper minis free on drive thru rpg. Great video thanks.

my dear Paper Jack, please make regular content about paper craft, then i can share in the paper groups.

A yes, liked, subbed and rung the bell (i think this is the 2nd ever channel i done this with). This is some Really good quality content mate ^^

thanks for making this video! really helpful, I’m printing minis for Curse of Strahd since the official ones are so damn expensive lol

love that you made a video like this. I've been using paper mini's like these for a few years now too. I figured, why spend so much time and money on 3d minis of monsters that are going to die so quickly? I would recommend a paper cutter if you were looking to drop a bit more money into your process. I got a silhouette portrait and its made my process faster and more consistent. The free Silhouette Studio software is also very helpful to formatting paper minis to print out. I personally enjoy using photo paper and spray adhesive for my mini's but it does cost more but folks should start where they can and do what works for them. One last thing, Paper Mage is another great paper mini artist that you might add to your list.

Kev's Lounge/Papercraft Dungeon has some good ones, but I don't think he's released much lately. He had a really cool foldable base that was really robust.

Hey man you are doing great keep going

I like to draw my character from the rear side too, basically I trace the front outline and draw again from the back , so when drawing a character from the front I try to do the feet standing on plane level that won't messed up the perspective when the outline is reused to draw it from the rear side. I like to use grey as their background to blend better over the battlemap, I plan to stuff the center part of my character to make them slightly conical make it more visible from the side/ less flat profile view perhaps I will glue in a flattened boba straw in the center of the character , I cut them all oval shape not following their idividual shape, but I fill in some of the grey background with either flag or crest of their faction so they look more like part of an army.

Great video! A topic could be your process for prepping the print, especially a custom piece (in this video, it would be hero forge) where someone new to the hobby would not know how to go about aligning the print, mirroring, programs for editing, etc. Wishing you success on your channel!

This is great I just did something like this recently I used foam board to give it a 2D look. I really like the video the mini's look excellent 👌

you could also use Tokens with artwork on it (round bottle caps or wood chips with artwork glued on it and a epoxi sticker on it)

My Canon G7020 only goes to 53lb paper (per the specs). It's worth checking your supported paper types because heavier stuff can get jammed a lot if it's outside of the spec. Especially the case if your printer has a duplex unit.

Me having around 400 real physical 3d minis: That is really cool maybe i should print some minis

i have been using paper minatures for years. but i dont use Cardstock to print on i use paper. and why i do that is because after i glue them togetter i then go 2 steps more. 1 i pain the edges and sometime give more colors on the minatures by tush. after it all dry. then i laminate them and then i cut them out 1 more time. and the reason is my mintures i have last for months even years. and then i used my 3d printet stands with numbers on so easy to keep track on the battle field

Even cheaper alternative for bases, pick up a pack of small binder clips, clamp it onto the mini and then pop out the little handles. You can even get multicolored ones to color code the enemies or whatever. These clear bases seem great, but just thought I'd throw out this cheaper option. I've been using JP Coovert's paper mini design, which works great but they don't lay flat for storage, so I might be trying out a hybrid between these methods. Speaking of: @JPCoovert is a fantastic resource for learning how to draw your own characters for minis, and make maps and dungeons, and all that. So if you want to make your own artwork to combine with these DIY minis, or can't find artworks that fits what you want, he's a great channel to check out. He also has a pack of all the minis needed for the Lost Mines of Phandelver.

Great stuff! Those litko bases look amazing but I cant find anything similar (with the squiggly slot) in my country. Will have to settle for the card holders. If anyone knows of other brands, please let me know!

This is gonna change the way we play for sure. 3D minis were getting to expensive

I am very interested in the character sheet you teased there

I think paper minis are an overlooked under utilized resource

I am such a lazy person. Dont You by chance have some ready to print A4 pdfs with kinda a starter army I could just print and cut to skip going one by one from sources and triing to fit them in right size :?) pretty please

I know that most of the pappercraft minis if you click in the PDF they give you a black border to cut around Wich makes them cleaner than the white

What do you use to keep the terrain standing? Do you use more of those card holders glued to litko bases?

Binders full of wom... ahem minis!

How do you get the front and backside of the prints, is thad a patreon feature? I'm only getting the frontside in the free version.

Hi Jack! Im a big Pathfinder second edition player and conditionds in that system are very important to keep track of. Ive seen the plastic ring method, which seems good, but curious if you think it would work for paper minis? Also pathfinder conditions can become alot, and some of them are at different levels (e.g frightened can go up to level 3 or even 4 in game)

Not sure if anyone asked but when you find what your looking for, how do you size them on the computer?

Are there any options for WWII or modern military?

I love your insults you hurled at yourself. You're a shill, you work for Hero Forge! Hilarious

Sooo... Ive just been asked to run a dnd club at work. Given that ill need to travel with everything paper minis would be perfect 😊 Thanks for this idea

Just get a cutting machine let it do the hard work

You print with white backgrounds instead of the black outlined version? Eww. Gross.

Love your hands! Ok now that is out of the way…another incredible source for paper minis of all sorts is OKUMART down on drivethru rpg. He has sets for every kind of monster/heroes. And by the way…I didn’t know that trick with the marker and the litko standees…AWESOME! I will try that next time!