Tokens

If your being productive, and you do it again, are you being reproductive? I guess it depends on what you were doing...

You said post our thoughts and ideas. This was the first thing to come to mind.

I submit that token style should depend on what gameboard situation you're using.

If it's a basic gameboard style battle map, playing with full theatre of the mind, I enjoy using a full profile picture for tokens in game, where you can see most of the body. One approach is to add a kind of playing card border around the profile picture, along with the character name superimposed on the token. There's a bit of stylization, but the images will pop from the screen a bit.

If the player tokens need to be smaller (i.e. because you're playing on maps and grids), I like to take a head-shot image of a profile picture, crop it into a round shape and put a bordered-ring around it. This way the image doesn't blend into the design of the map. This makes it easier to see everyone's tokens. In games I GM, I will use a grey ring around player tokens, and red rings around npc/monster tokens.

I like that card idea, that's really cool. I tended to use the circle portraits in games I've run since they're easy to make (app that does it here: www.rptools.net/?page=tokentool) 


I put a blue square around the token I like in-game.