So one Silver Sharpie later most of my large groups of miniatures have a number on their base. I don’t have the best penmanship, comes from years of writing books, modules, dungeons, notes and all that longhand but hey I can probably read it most of the time and hopefully if I misread it I’ll misread it all night.
These are a couple of Gnolls, #8 and *15 I grabbed out of the gnoll bin in one of my humanoid cases. I highly recommend you pick up these compartmental cases, it makes it way easy to pick out what you need. I have cases for mass humanoids (orcs, goblins, kolbods, gnolls etc), a case that holds nothing but undead, cases for PC figures (male/female), a ‘beast’ case, a ‘Icky” case (oozes, bugs, wth) and so on.
All this so a player can go “I hit Gnoll 8.” rather than “I hit the gnoll next to Tak, no the other one, no the one between him and Tik. Yeah that one.”
And yes I’ve bought a lot of miniatures.
September 4th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Damn straight you’ve bought a lot of miniatures. Don’t ever complain about my yarn or scrapbooking stuff.
September 6th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Oh oh. That sounds like a wife.
September 6th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Why yes, yes it is. Not only a wife but a player, best of both worlds.
September 6th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
[...] Take a Number I’ve done this for years and years, and I think it’s such a great idea, I wanted to share the “number your minis” idea that Key Our Cars posted about. Take their advice and write a number/letter on every chit, miniature or scrap of cardboard that is used to represent numbers. // // [...]
September 7th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
So where did you buy the cases that you use?
September 8th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Various places, typically as cheaply as a I can. Lowes, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Staples, Michaels, Hobby Lobby (probably some regional specifics in that list). They’re sold as all kinds of things, tool managers, bead holders, sewing boxes, tackle boxes. I typically pay between $2 and $6 for them.