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u/kylania · 13 pointsr/DnD

Pathfinder Pawns might be a good start.

Monster Codex Pawns

Beastiary Box Pawns

If you're playing 5E they won't match up exactly, but $30 for 300 "minis" ain't bad. Otherwise start dropping $120 a brick for the official minis or check ebay for the occasional lot of prepainted plastics. They seem to be around $1-2 each at the moment.

u/dtwithpp · 3 pointsr/DMAcademy

The Angry GM did a very good article recently on metagaming. (If you're unfamiliar with Angry, he has a very different style than most gaming writers. If you're able to get past his "f&%$s" and "s@#&s," you'll find some very well researched and reasoned advice, and some good humor as well.)

I've been actively DMing for about four or five months now, and one of my players is the group's original DM and a DM for a Roll20 group. She uses the more prevalent definition of "metagaming," while I use Angry's, and it's been an interesting transition in the group.

Essentially, if the players are able to come to the correct conclusion about a major part of the storyline, while circumventing all of the deflections and delays I had put in their path (as happened recently), I don't see any reason to punish that. I rewarded that player with additional XP for clever thinking, even if I had to jump well passed what I had planned. If the bard knows a monster's weakness, they probably heard about it in some ballad. If one player acts on information on another player that they haven't formally discussed in character at the table, well, they've been traveling together for the better part of a year in game; the characters must have talked about it in the would-be-boring travel scenes that I gloss over.

As far as the monster inventory situation is concerned, I recommend getting some Pathfinder Pawns (I've linked to the two boxes I have on Amazon). They let you surprise your players with a huge variety of them. If you go on Paizo's website, you can buy printable versions for cheaper. The art is pretty good, and it's hard to beat the variety you get for your dollar.

In the end, everyone has a different playing style. I prefer to resolve differences when I can. Encourage some frank, open discussion at the table and away from it. If you can't resolve your different styles with your roommate, it might be best if they don't continue with the group. The overall group's fun level is really the deciding factor.

u/CleverTwigboy · 2 pointsr/DnD

It's £29 for the monster box, which has ~300 pawns in it, so you're paying a really small amount per pawn.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pathfinder-Pawns-Monster-Codex-Box/dp/1601257171/

This particular box has:

  • Boggard
  • Bugbears
  • Drow
  • Duergar
  • Fire giants
  • Frost Giants
  • Ghouls
  • Gnolls
  • Goblins
  • Hobgoblins
  • Kobolds
  • Lizardfolk
  • Ogres
  • Orcs
  • Ratfolk
  • Sahuagin
  • Serpentfolk
  • Troglodytes
  • Trolls
  • Vampires

    I'm not entirely sure where £36 is coming from, but I have a feeling you might have looked at the actual bestiary- the pathfinder monster manual- rather than the pawns.

    Bestiary 1 is more expensive, but that's due to it being out of print atm if I remember.
u/kodamun · 1 pointr/DnD
  1. [Tabletop Audio] (http://tabletopaudio.com/) will fill 85% of your ambient music/noise needs
  2. Relax, have fun. Start with an adventure written by someone who is experienced - there have been 3 full adventures published by WotC, plus there is a lot of fan made content out there. The adventure modules are good because you have a really good campaign to get comfortable with without having to worry so much about pacing, and because they have been published, there is plenty of DM prep out there. Here's a list of all of them - my wife DM'd all of the Hoard of the Dragon Queen/Rise of Tiamat, and her players had a lot of fun. Out of the Abyss is also really good, but not as beginner friendly. At some point they had the first chapter or two of each module free online, but a quick google search doesn't turn them up.

    The slot is specifically for the Pathfinder cardboard pawns, which are really good if you want a lot of figures for cheap. Each box contains roughly 50 or more monsters and/or NPCs, that fit snuggly in their bases, and cost roughly $35-50 USD per box. [Here's an example of the most recent pawn box.] (http://www.amazon.com/Pathfinder-Pawns-Monster-Codex-Box/dp/1601257171/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1453164499&sr=1-1&keywords=pathfinder+pawns)

    The boxes usually come with bases included. I probably wouldn't worry about adding the vertical slot to the base, unless you want an easy way to shove in printouts.

    Speaking of bases, do you plan on sharing your models? I'd be interested in trying to get some printed out myself as they'd be good generic token holders.
u/MyEloise · 1 pointr/DnD

At price per mini, you might look at Pathfinder pawns: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/1601257171/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_7u5azbKAZ4PBP

There are also lots of paper minis if you check out Pinterest, like this board: http://pin.it/CdYyBU1 just print on card stock and fold over or glue to a washer or penny to stand up. I also found some cool art and just used paint to copy it onto one of these sheets to make character minis

u/Authentic_Contiguity · 1 pointr/DungeonsAndDragons

There are lots of other Pathfinder pawn sets on Amazon.com at the moment, such as the Monster Codex Box for $30. The monsters for Pathfinder are pretty much the same as for D&D, since it's a version of D&D, so Wizards has no real reason to make their own it seems.

u/Phanues · 1 pointr/highrollersdnd

Good to hear it. you might consider springing for some custom heroforge minis for your players characters if/once you and your friends start a campaign that is going to be somewhat long-lasting, though they do cost a bit more.

if you are just starting and don't want to spring a ton of cash for minis, a good alternative is to get some packs of pathfinder pawns.
They're basically monsters printed on a piece of cardboard which you can stand upright in a plastic holder.
Though they are for pathfinder - that was basically built on the back of 3rd edition, and many of the creatures are the same or similar.

For example, a pack with 300(!) creature pawns will only run you ~30 dollars, which is a lot cheaper then what 300 actual 3d minis would run you :
http://www.amazon.com/Pathfinder-Pawns-Monster-Codex-Box/dp/1601257171/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1458153012&sr=8-3&keywords=Pathfinder+Pawns

u/CosmicFungus · 1 pointr/DMAcademy

Personally I got them on Amazon EU. Dunno if it's just the stock but the prices there seems a bit lower.

 

The Monster Codex is showing on Amazon US for like $27 here and most of the others can be found there as well for a moderately lower price.

 

I will agree the one off price seems higher in comparison to say a small box of mini's for $10, but the mini per dollar value is just superb. You're looking at $0.10, per mini for one of the $30 dollar boxes, not including postage, as they average 250-300 tokens per box.

 

If the price is putting you off there are a few ways you can have a similar effects making your own, assuming you have a printer. Example, just search about in the various DnD subreddits (/r/dndnext , /r/dnd, /r/DnDBehindTheScreen etc.) for paper craft mini's and such.