

There are a few ways to represent large monsters using such tokens. This is far better than fighting "ghoul A". Skull C is the ghoul with the caved-in chest, and so on. Skull B is the ghoul with the bones sticking out of his back. Skull A is a ghoul with an arrow in her head. This way you have an in-game narrative that connects the story of the monster with the token. Thus, the ghoul represented by the skull A token becomes the "ghoul with an arrow in her head". Define Monsterous Characteristics by the Token's Letterĭuring the game, when a character damages a monster, ask the player to identify an interesting physical characteristic of the monster they hit that starts with the letter of the token. If you're running single-session games and don't know what character classes players will choose, use the generic blue adventurer tokens from the PDF. Then you can scale, print, trim, punch, and turn that image into a token using the same steps above for making monster tokens. It may be worth investing in miniatures for the characters, even painting them if desired.Īs a cheap alternative, ask players to email you an online image of their character. While generic monster tokens work well to represent monsters, we may want something better for the characters. Representing Characters with Custom Tokens or Miniatures The crowned skulls and dragons represent boss monsters. The monster tokens can represent humanoids, monsters, undead, and spellcasters with the skulls filling in for anything weird. When complete you'll have a set of 34 tokens: 6 adventurer tokens, 4 boss tokens, and 24 monster tokens. This way you can use two different kinds of tokens and still have them each start with A, B, and C. Stick them together in reverse alphabetical order so your As are glued to your Fs, your Bs to your Es, and so on. If you're going this route, stick cultists to beasts, helms to skulls, and crowned skulls to dragons. If you want to make double-sided tokens, you can use a glue-stick to stick monster tokens back to back.
5E TOKEN MAKER PDF
Print the Lazy Monster Token PDF on a single sheet of rigid paper.The hole punch, epoxy stickers, magnets, and glue stick run about $30. Adhesive magnets for single-sided tokens.Here's the material you'll need to build up to two sets of monster tokens: If you'd prefer a video on this topic, you can watch this ten minute YouTube video on crafting lazy monster tokens.

Third, organizing, sorting, and pulling out miniatures can be very time consuming. Second, it always seems like you're missing the one miniature you need. First, building a collection can be very expensive. While many prefer pre-painted plastic miniatures, they suffer from a few problems. A great many DMs and players prefer candy. Others, myself included, claim you can run large elaborate battles with nothing but a quick diagram on a sheet of paper and some good narrative. Some swear by a large collection of pre-painted miniatures. What to use to represent characters and monsters when running combat in D&D is a constant and continual conversation among D&D enthusiasts. New to Sly Flourish? Start Here! Crafting Lazy Monster Tokens for D&D
