Paper miniatures? Anybody use 'em?

Mutant Lord · June 18, 2012, 06:48:35 PM

I guess I put this to both game designers and and players. Does anybody here use those print and play paper miniatures in their games? I'm thinking of the 30mm ones you buy at drivethru rpg.com like these pirates or something.

There are a lot of fantasy and sci-fi figures out there, but not many Post apocalyptic ones, and as a PA publisher, we're thinking of doing a few sets and just looking for opinions on them.

VectorSigma · June 18, 2012, 07:15:54 PM

I use paper minis occasionally and have built up quite a collection - mostly because there's so much decent free stuff out there.

Check out onemonk.com, they have some free-to-download compilations which contain post-apoc stuff (MUTANT COW!) amongst the fantasy.

Mutant Lord · June 18, 2012, 07:53:06 PM

Cool, they have a set of post-apocalyptic guys , Thanks!

Will

Tommy Brownell · June 18, 2012, 07:56:21 PM

I absolutely love paper minis, when I have a working printer (and I just bought one). I started with Savage Worlds figure flats, but I'm not afraid to use any paper minis that are pretty much in the same scale with what I'm using and look good.

Silverlion · June 18, 2012, 08:31:16 PM

I do, when I have ink for my printer (currently out.) Normally, though I love to use the little things when they're needed over plastic/whatever minis because most of them are cheap, I can color them (most of the ones I get come with black and white outlines.)

My favorites are S.John Ross "Sparks." Since they're a font, I can use in an art program to make them easy to color.

jcfiala · June 19, 2012, 12:20:55 AM

I've used them in the past, yeah.

Somewhere I've got a CD loaded with Sparks - these are miniatures that are done up as a font, so you can make them different sizes/colors/whichever.

Mutant Lord · June 19, 2012, 01:48:17 AM

Very interesting. We will certainly provide an ink only and colored version.

It would be great to have other objects and obstacles included in a paper minis set, like barrels of toxic sludge, fire, mutation area effects, crates, maybe even some vegetation or rubble stand ups.

When I was a kid, long ago, we used to buy something called 'poke out books', or that's what we called them. They were books with perforated paper models sets, such as towns or farms, castles or trains. Each set had houses, trees, vehicles and people. Loved those!

Silverlion · June 19, 2012, 03:43:44 AM

Might try doing some "gray scale" ink outlines, so I can print them on Shrinky Dink paper once colored and have hard ones for the PCs!

(I'm probably the only person who'd use the Shrinky Dink paper, so really ignore me.)

DestroyYouAlot · June 20, 2012, 06:41:33 AM

I use paper minis when I'm running something that's not Euro fantasy (since I have a huge D&D mini collection, and not much else besides 40K stuff) - in particular, most recently I was looking for MF minis.

(I actually settled on some that came with a Fallout pen-and-paper game, since I'm doing MF with a Fallout flavor.)

Lynn · June 20, 2012, 01:47:47 PM

I like paper minis but not without bases.

http://www.litko.net/products/Paper-Figure-Counter-Stands.html

The Litko ones are pretty nice, but at $1 each that adds up. Anyone know if anything similar, but lower priced?

Elfdart · June 24, 2012, 11:11:08 PM

I've always preferred to use cardboard counters -usually half or 3/4" ones. We started off using the ones from Battlesystem, but soon started drawing and cutting our own for characters, as well as monsters that weren't included in the set.

They're much handier and more convenient to use, don't chip or break if you drop them, and they are easily replaced.

DestroyYouAlot · June 27, 2012, 11:56:15 AM

Quote from: Lynn;550452I like paper minis but not without bases.

http://www.litko.net/products/Paper-Figure-Counter-Stands.html

The Litko ones are pretty nice, but at $1 each that adds up. Anyone know if anything similar, but lower priced?

I use appropriately-sized squares of foamcore. Just slice'em down the middle (being careful not to go all the way through the back) and slide the paper mini on in.

Here's an article on methods that get a little more involved than this:

http://sirrob01.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/how-to-base-paper-miniatures/

thedungeondelver · June 27, 2012, 11:00:09 PM

Quote from: Lynn;550452I like paper minis but not without bases.

http://www.litko.net/products/Paper-Figure-Counter-Stands.html

The Litko ones are pretty nice, but at $1 each that adds up. Anyone know if anything similar, but lower priced?

Washers from home depot. $1.00 for ten. Or pennies. $1.00 for 100.