Greater production value – You can laminate your tokens, which is awesome, and lamination machines aren’t as expensive as you think or simply use photo paper when you print.ĭifferent sizes – If your character changes sizes often (our Sorcerer often use Enlarge Person on our Paladin, for example) you can make a larger size token for your character. Now take a pair of scissors, cut out the rectangle and glue it on a piece of corrugated fiberboard (they are sometimes also called chipboard or graphic cardboard). It’s nice if it matches the main colors of the character, but it’s more effective if every character in the party have a different frame color, to make it easier to locate every player character in a busy fight scene. I use 2.5 points as the width of the rectangle. I recommend a good stout line so it will give you wiggle room if you cut it a bit crooked later on. Now you should set the border of the square. Selected the file you’ve cropped and see that the picture fill the square. Select your rectangle and choose the “fill” option using a file. If the creature is a large creature use 2 inch by 2 inch (5.08 cm by 5.08 cm), huge is 3 by 3 (7.62 by 7.62) etc. Mark the height and the width as 1 inch (2.54 cm). Right click the rectangle, select properties and then size. Now open a blank PowerPoint presentation (I’m using Powerpoint, you can any equivalent software such as Google Slides ) and insert a simple rectangle into your presentation. If you take a picture from artists’ site (such as the old favorite ) email the artist, complement their art and ask for permission, it’s the nice thing to do.įor our example I’ll take this image of my character Bester Everskill created by Ori Ayalon (thanks!)Ĭrop the picture to a rough square (Open it using Microsoft paint, select a square, and click the crop option on the top left). If you’re thinking about using the images for anything other than private use at home, reconsider. You can use a simple Google image search – Note that if you’re doing this just for home use it’s probably OK to download or print screen any picture you want. Surprisingly, this is usually the hardest part. But sometimes you have to make your own, for example if one of the players create character portraits for all of the characters in the party and you want to use those.įirst find a picture you really like. Quick note, you can always do this by buying a set of tokens, it’s easier. There are other guides like it, but this one is mine. Following a lot of requests I’m making this simple guide to creating roleplay tokens.
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