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What can I use instead of minis in D&D?
The Super Cheap Options
- Round Cardboard Chits.
- Wooden Meeples.
- Stand Up Board Game Pieces.
- LEGO Minifigures.
- Pathfinder Pawns.
- Arcknight Flat Plastic Miniatures.
Can you play D&D without miniatures?
Case in point: does D&D require miniatures? Well, in practice, you already know the answer: NO, it doesn’t. After all, it is your game, and you can play it any way you want to. It’s been that way from the beginning; supposedly, Gygax himself didn’t use minis, but Arneson did.
Can you play D&D with miniatures?
Ever since D&D game out forty years ago, however, players and DMs have often used some sort of miniature to represent their characters or monsters. The use of miniatures has evolved in the four decades since, but even today there is no perfect solution for representing monsters and characters at the table.
What is a DND token?
D&D tokens or replay tokens are items that are occasionally available from the Treasure Hunter and from the Imperial Guard Quartermaster. When used, they reset entitlements to Distractions and Diversions.
How big is a DND grid?
For D&D and most other RPGs the most commonly used scale is 25/28mm – this is a scale of 1:64/1:56-58. Mats are usually drawn with 1″ or 25mm grids which are almost the same (1″=25.4mm). For D&D a square represents 5 feet, a scale of 1:60.
Are there any good alternatives to D&D Minis?
LEGO Minifigures LEGO Minifigures make for a fantastic alternative to D&D minis. They’re fairly cheap, though getting a ton of them will add up pretty quickly. You can swap parts, which offers a level of customization that you can’t get from other options.
What’s the best way to get cheap miniatures?
Paper miniatures, either print your own from the image files or PDFs, or preprinted ala SJG and PI Games’ offerings, are a very viable compromise. Light, inexpensive, nice to look at, and (for print-at-home) readily replaced if lost.
Should D&D use tokens instead of Minis?
D&D 3 & 4 both suggest such tokens and illustrate using them instead of minis. Stealing counters from old board games is an ‘ancient and honorable practice’… it’s actually implied strongly in the whitebox D&D rules to do so with Avalon Hill’s Outdoor Survival which has a number of animals and people.
Are Pathfinder pawns D&D Minis?
Pathfinder Pawns are similar to the Arcknight Flat Plastic minis, but they’re cardboard instead. They’re quite a bit cheaper, though, so they’re a great option to use as stand-ins for traditional minis. They’re not designed for D&D, but they are designed for fantasy, so they fit in perfectly with any D&D campaign. 9.