Paper Miniatures!

Guild Ball has official paper miniatures and free rules that you can buy from their site

>>50060097
I bought Pathfinder pawns and they've been enough for most everything I needed.

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I have a particular soft spot for paper miniatures which share a consistent art style. As an added bonus if the group has a drawfag you can have him edit/create miniatures as needed between sessions if, say, a PC is particularly picky about being portrayed accurately

This guy has a pretty decent set of guides for making your own single and regiments of paper minis.
https://youtu.be/VWWu9Ny8cW8
https://youtu.be/foQj8PDNF9w
https://youtu.be/wQe0LJv9BOE

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>>50060123

I've used pawns before but I find I wind up not enjoying the lack of different equipment, especially when I'm using a system that requires clearly distinguished gear

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Another miniatures problem, not having the right miniatures for a certain genre. For example a modern warfare setting, or Sci Fi with specific aliens or even an anime based game

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They seem like they'd be murder to have to print, cut out, fold, glue, and store, but I've seen different kinds of 3D miniatures and the idea really intrigues me. They also have that sort of low-poly "retro graphics" thing going on like older computer games, which I really wish more indie vidya would embrace.

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>>50061866

I like 3D paper miniatures as well... but you run in to the same problems a DM might have with traditional miniatures, namely time invested. Plus, I imagine there is much less variety to choose from

I agree with the low-poly appeal, though. Very PS1 graphics

>>50060097
Just go full theatre of mind.

You've seriously never run anything you didn't have the minis for? Do you have a huge collections or are your players always fighting the same monsters?

>>50062884
>OP: hey guys, how do i paper miniatures?
>Anon: don't
shitposting at its finest.

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>>50062884

No, most of my games have wound up using proxies (usually spare dice) to stand in for albino one-legged dwarves and the like. And if I'm doing a stand in with dice it cheapens the feel

As to theater of the mind... I've played in a couple games which tried it and they we're a mess. Simple layouts are necessary to convey location and distance accurately and quickly, descriptor based combat usually leads to lots of handwaving or oversimplified combat in my experience

To clarify, I respect theater of mind styles of play but I've yet to see it handle complicated combat situations well

>>50062884
Many games require specific distances and placement to function properly. In this case you can literally just print out more pieces to cutout each week. This is a way to have a completely diverse cast of minis.

>>50060097
I use circular tokens made from cardboard and printed pictures.
I'd use standing ones, but it just bothers me that they're flat from the side. My players sit in a circle so it'll look bad regardless of the way I arrange it.
For PCs I use reaper bones, and I have some minis from the old (3e?) D&D board games and starter sets for common shit like goblins and skeletons.

>>50066093
Oh, and something else I do - I don't paint miniatures with specific colour schemes, I paint them to look like statues to make it easier for players to "project" their character on to.
Same with dragons or other colour coded stuff - it's a lot harder for people to remember "this red dragon mini is actually a blue dragon" than "the mini is grey, it's whatever dragon the DM says".

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>>50066110
This is the mini that gave me the idea, and gives a good idea of the look I go for