Working on some designs for custom poker chips to use in board games (looking at you, 1830 Railroads and Robber Barons).
Found a place that can print custom designs onto high-quality ceramic chips. Just toying around with design ideas at this point, but I definitely don't want any casino-like names and logos on them and I don't want dollar-signs.
What do you think?
For context: In 18XX games, it's important to see who has how much money (players as well as railroad companies). The included paper money just sits in a stack and tells you nothing, but if you use stacks of poker chips instead it's suddenly quick and easy to keep an overview of all the financials.
Even more context (maybe more than you care about 😉)
There's several types of poker chips:
1. Plastic - light und no fun in any way.
2. Plastic + metal slug - much better weight.
3. Clay Composite ("China clay") - plastic/resin with bits of clay mixed in. Feel good, less slippery.
4. Clay - (+ chalk + sand + ??? for strength). Top tier.
All these are injection molded with stickers on top.
5. Ceramic - (actually plastic + ceramic) good weight, good feel, can be printed on!
@col000r I went through this process a few years ago as I wanted a custom set for home games.
I went for Nexgen pro classic chips. 9gm, clay composite, no metal insert. You can order them without labels in a good variety of colours. Then I did custom labels.
This offered the best ratio of feel, weight, customisation and cost for me and are pretty comparable to casino chips, imo.
Custom printed ceramics are the dream. We don't play for high enough stakes to make it possible for me though.
Markus Hofer
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