kraken monster
kraken monster
they are just recreating an old videogame
Honestly, this is more OG than most people realize. You’re doing it right.
Coins, and even dice work in a pinch too.
As a totally cheap-ass DM, my recommendation is to find some printable DnD tokens that you like and glue them to things like bottle-caps, or small round bits of wood (like chunks off of a dowel from the hardware store). There are a bunch around. If you want to splurge, take the bits you want somewhere you can pay for a quality color printout.
Personally, I’m a fan of these generic tokens. They’re useful for every encounter: www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-p…
I glued these to some sculpey discs of the same color. I also used transparent binder sleeves for HP tracker sheets, so I could use dry-erase marker. Lastly, my battle map was a large (but cheap) poster frame with 1" grid paper inside^1^. This let me use those dry-erase markers to draw terrain.
In many cases you don’t need mini at all, it’s rpg not a miniature game.
No mini nor battlemap gives more freedom to everyone (at the price of less tactical depth), and if you need a view on the situation, a whiteboard with a sketch + cross/letter does can bring you pretty far
The extra large is $220, but there are more affordable options if you’re willing to go smaller.