A use of old MtG cards

[johnsemlak]

A player in my group made a counter for his character by scanning and printing a picture of an ogre (he's a half-ogre), cutting it out to a 10X10 size (our Fiery Dragon ogre counters are 5X5 as per 3.0 rules), and pasting it to cardboard of a old MtG card.

Another player commented "So your character has a magical background"

 

[Frostmarrow]

For some characters even the scanning is unnecessary. Just cut out the magic-picture of say... a Sengir and voila - instant half-vampire!

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I thought everyone just put them in the spokes of their bicycles.

 

[Piratecat]

I recently needed a monster that was 10x10, but my Fiery Dragon counter was 15 x 15. I color photocopied it and reduced it, producing a damn fine duplicate. Then I folded the extra paper under it, weighted it with paperclips, and had a correctly sized monster.

I love those counters.

 

[d12]

The character photos at the WoTC site also make good counters for PCs or NPCs. Can;t afford miniatures? Just copy the WoTC pic into a word doc, resize and print. Tape it to some cereal box cardboard and ta da!