sephiroa Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 hey you guys, since i love puppet wars and already did some demo's I noticed 1 thing. the black, white, yellow, green, red, purple and blue tokens, i don't like their look, in fact it's one of the reasons some people don't want to buy/play it. the tokens, okay, but giving them only a color,, it would have looked better if they at least have something printed on them so in this thread, I'm going to give them a look in a way you "know" what they are. a lot of people said 1 thing, nice models, nice board, nice cards and stat cards, but those color tokens, they just don't fit in. and it's not easy to see the difference in a neutral work bench and impassable terrain on a first glance. what am I going to do? well, this is wehre i could use some help from you guys. the board is the top of a table/desk. so the black tokens should be something that could be in the way from the puppets. i have some different options atm: a thimble perhaps? some needles in a cussion perhap? or i could just put some "pillars" i have some molds from some nice broken pillers to put on them. workbenches: maybe a small desk or just put a sticker on it so the people at least know what it is. and the counters: playing with 4 people, sometimes (most of the times) you don't have enough exausted counters, so i'm going to find a way to print some cheap thin cardboard counters. + a king of the hill counter, a shiny counter, etc, etc. so, what are your opinions in this? (could be I'm not the only one who started a thread like this but I'm not seeing it atm so i start one myself) cheerz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePandaDirector Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 Though I've not been too bothered about the tokens, I can certainly see what you mean. I think a good idea that I first saw Ratty do, was create IT that filled more than one space. If it's an office desk then ink wells, candles, wax seal, as well as thimbles, string and odd trinkets. Workbences should probably be pin cushions, treat it like an operating table. Having recently bought a chess set with a foldable board, I've been tempted to do my own modelled PW set, but until then I'll keep an eye on this thread. Good luck =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clousseau Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 I've replaced the dark grey tokens with black ones, and bought some small (6mm dia) coloured counters for exhausted tokens. Quick solution (and cheap) until I find something better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratty Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 (edited) Talking of that I was messing around with WB tokens today. They really need to be flat as models will sit on top of them. The only issue I'm having is I would need to cast around 31 of them to get enough for 4 colours and neutral, so what I'm thinking of doing is adding bolts into the 6 large stones which the coloured discs will sit happily within. That way I only need to make 7 and then you slot in coloured discs when captured. I also got some cute bottles so I'm making a couple of bases they fit into, in the end they will have stuff like blood and poison in and some little labels. And all my tokens so far. Edited November 27, 2011 by Ratty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tauwolf Posted November 27, 2011 Report Share Posted November 27, 2011 Great work Ratty! I really like the workbench, and love the bottle. I'm going to start working on my custom board in the near future and I hope you don't mind if I borrow some of your ideas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 Ratty, really like the bases. I have been using sewing bobbins, keeping with the rips / tear / puppet theme. Not as creepy or interesting as those above, but they stand out and are cheap. Not sure what to do about everything else. I have just been using the chips for the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephiroa Posted November 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 Alright, that's about what i was thinking to do now i have something to work with, thanks a lot to share this ratty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephiroa Posted November 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 one question though, where did you found that skull of a bird and the head of a teddy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratty Posted November 28, 2011 Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 one question though, where did you found that skull of a bird and the head of a teddy? Sculpted them from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephiroa Posted November 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2011 Sculpted them from scratch. Wow nice one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omenbringer Posted November 30, 2011 Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 one question though, where did you ... the head of a teddy? Nightmare Teddy comes with an extra Head that could be used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePandaDirector Posted November 30, 2011 Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 Nightmare Teddy comes with an extra Head that could be used. So that's why I got two NE Teddies.... As for the skull, I passed a dead pigeon on my way to uni the other say, wonder if it's still there.... What? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omenbringer Posted November 30, 2011 Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 So that's why I got two NE Teddies.... As for the skull, I passed a dead pigeon on my way to uni the other say, wonder if it's still there.... What? So then you have 2 extra heads. For the bird skull, I wonder if a taxidermist might have a few of those lying around somewhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciaran Posted November 30, 2011 Report Share Posted November 30, 2011 So..... Bird skull = ewww NE Teddy Heads = Too big I think. We may all have to Gamer up and do some real work. Well, gaming related work. Not like farm work. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rapton Posted December 20, 2011 Report Share Posted December 20, 2011 Bit late to the discussion,but ratty those bases look mental. Been wondering what to do with the tokens which once on the table look quite ambiguous. Those have definatly given me food for thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damore Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Where did you find the small bottles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratty Posted December 21, 2011 Report Share Posted December 21, 2011 Where did you find the small bottles? Stole them off my Girlfriend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrapnelsmile Posted December 24, 2011 Report Share Posted December 24, 2011 I like the thought of thimbles and thread wheels for blocking line of site. As for the lightly colored markers, we are going to try to find something else. Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bohemian Posted December 28, 2011 Report Share Posted December 28, 2011 I used colored beads at GenCon for exhausted tokens. Those worked great. I also did them for the round counters. I want to do something different for the other tokens, WBs, terrain, etc. I have a few ideas and will share them when I get around to making them happen. I was thinking of using some colored chips with the paper tokens glued on top. I need to find some small round tokens. Like I mentioned in another thread, LITKO makes a lot of tokens that can be used. There was someone at GenCon that was using them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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