Quote from: flyingmiceI'm not disputing that, Hellhound. The players obviously love it, though it leaves me indifferent. I just keep forgetting, and it staggers me afresh each time. :O

-clash

You should see what happens in LARPS. People can make some nice bucks catering to those players.

Damn that's cool I may do something like this for my next campaign.

Quote from: The HellHound 101In order to avoid hijacking the old-school dungeoncrawl thread any further...



So, in the game I ran this weekend, I had my first opportunity to use the Campaign Coins I've been clinking around since GenCon.

Here's a recap, crossposted from a thread I started on another forum about them.

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So, Dex just opened up her box of Campaign Coins and...

WOW THEY ARE SEXY.



Each box has 120 coins in 4 metals (copper, gold, silver and platinum because no one but Diaglo uses electrum anymore) and 1, 10, 100 and 1000 denominations.



I thought they were cute at first, but after digging into Dex's leather pouch of coins, these things are awesome. A double set would be enough to handle most D&D campaigns (over 130,000 gp worth of coins).

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So, in the game I ran last night, we tracked all wealth using these coins and now each player has a small pouch of coins in their dice bag.

They've been a huge hit at our table.

Are they actually metal? Or plastic?

Metal. If they were plastic I would be far less excited.

Just a random brain dropping. Those coins look awesome, but I'm on the poverty plan.

Some years ago, I was in an original play about the life of Shakespeare. The director wanted coins that jingled for one scene, but since we were in a tiny space, and the audience was right on top of us, US coins looked like... US coins. One fo the cast experimented, and using a sledge hammer, pounded the coins flat. He mostly used nickels, but I think he also tried a few pennies. They had a nice heft, jingled convincingly, didn't leave metallic paint on the costumes, and cost less than washers. It's a sad day when real money is cheaper than fake money.
 
Players do love shinies. I brough in some craft gems to mark some magical McGuffin, and my players were fascinated. Must've been crows in a former life...

Quote from: flyingmiceIt always stuns me how much some people like paraphenalia like this. The people that make money in roleplaying are the folks who make minis and paraphenalia.

-clash

and Cheetohs.

Quote from: Leo KnightOne fo the cast experimented, and using a sledge hammer, pounded the coins flat. He mostly used nickels, but I think he also tried a few pennies. They had a nice heft, jingled convincingly, didn't leave metallic paint on the costumes, and cost less than washers. It's a sad day when real money is cheaper than fake money.

Railroad tracks are less time consuming.

I showed these to some of the guys from my gaming group, and they thought it was the coolest gaming accessory/prop they've ever seen.  It's up with Kayuda Maps as my Best Find of Gen Con.  I know they're pricey, but they're also just amazingly cool and well-done.

Hi, my name is Jim, and I'm a gamer.

When I was in Indy, we were doing the family thing - so we went to the childrens museum and the zoo.  Now, all over the place, they have these machines where you put in two quarters and a penny and crank this handle (turning big gears and looking neat to the kids).  It then spits out the penny, but flattened (wafer thin) and with a design on one face - a train, butterflies, dolphins. Tons of kids in both places were dragging their parents over to these machines and blowing $.50 a pop to get a flattened penny. And thing I thought of?

That would be cool to make coins for gaming...

Ooooh..there's an idea.  Get some that make the pennies into random "coins" and set them up all over Gencon next year....

Chocolate money is another cheap alternative, although they wouldn't last 5 minutes in my games. The characters would be on skid row and the players in a diabetic coma.

Quote from: GunslingerRailroad tracks are less time consuming.

Good point, and since I use them all the time in my games to begin with...

"Choo Choo, here comes the module! AND it's making our cool coin props at the same time!"

Quote from: GunslingerRailroad tracks are less time consuming.

I suppose so. The fellow had some rationale for the hammer technique, which I forget now. I keep imagining his coin flattening experiment derailing a train, and him being hauled off in chains to Gitmo, ranting, "You don't understand! It was for a play!"

Of course, if we derail a train, we must rant, "It was for a game!"

Mardi-gras coins could be used as a cheaper alternative for those of us who live in the deep south (why didn't I think of this before?)