not_IOkraken monster
LaunchesKayaksI forgot my minis for a session one day, but remembered to bring the Werther’s originals. So we used soda tabs, beer caps, and Werther’s for minis that day.
dejected_warp_coreHonestly, this is more OG than most people realize. You’re doing it right.
Coins, and even dice work in a pinch too.
I only have like 10 minis and the party I DM for is 5 people, so I use a lot of random stuff as minis. I’m slowly building a collection, but it’s expensive lol
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.
You can also do Lego minifigs if you don’t mind paying shipping. They’re super cheap from places like Bricklink and you can get a lot of different designs pretty easy.