Best source of portrait style tokens?

[Nilram the Grey]

Is there a good source of portrait style tokens for characters already packaged up for FG? I don't like top down tokens and the ones that come with the 5e PHB are too limited.

Also it seems like the 5e Monster Manual tokens are portrait style. Can someone confirm this? Do people know of a source of additional monster tokens that are portrait style? I like to mix it up some even if the 5e MM tokens are outstanding.

[Phystus]

The Fiery Dragon tokens in the store are portrait style. They don't say they're for 5th edition but it shouldn't matter, a token is a token.

~P

[Xorn]

If you're asking for external sources, then I'll second the Fiery Dragon tokens. If you're asking about making your own, Google Images/Deviant Art + TokenTool.

[Trenloe]

Have a look through the token packs in the store, there are a few that are portraits (use the next page button as there are many pages of tokens): https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/?sys=-1&pub=-1&typ=11&search=&sort=1


A couple of examples:
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/product.xcp?id=WOTCTokensVol1
https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/product.xcp?id=WOTCTokensVol2

As has been mentioned above, the Fiery Dragon tokens are usually portraits: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/store/?sys=-1&pub=6&typ=11&search=&sort=1

[Griogre]

I'd second, using Fiery Dragon tokens if you like portrait style. The line art is clean and works well if you use a token standard size less than 50 pixels. I use 32 pixels myself. When I made my 5E Monster Manual I was able to reuse my 4E and earlier tokens. Here's some old screen shots to show the tokens (these are actually from old 4E campaigns). Note the square tokens are the Fiery Dragon Tokens:

https://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m222/Griogre/FG%20Target%20range%20bug_zpsouudxa7v.png

https://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m222/Griogre/DrawingScreenshot_zps251a9dc3.png

https://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m222/Griogre/TokenCondition.png

There were about 5,000 4E monsters and right now there are around 350 5E monsters. 4E had a lot more variants of monster type ie 20ish types of Goblins. I really should screen shot some 5E games...

[Moon Wizard]

I prefer portrait tokens as well. I've been using the Fiery Dragons ones for years.

JPG

[damned]

I have swayed between top down and portraits a lot - there are so many awesome examples of both these days!
I tend to use portrait style for players and top down for everyone else.
I have snagged a bunch of images off DeviantArt (so many great artists there) to expand my player portrait collection :)

[Zacchaeus]

Indeed, having some variants for 5e would be nice (even if they are only portrait style - I do prefer the top down token). It's a tad frustrating that there are no 'generic' type tokens, like Dwarf, Human, Priest, Mage etc among the official tokens from WotC. It would make creating encounters and named NPCs that are 'commoners' or such generic NPC types a bit more interesting.

[Nilram the Grey]

Thanks for the responses. I did search the store before asking and found only top down outside of the official 5E products having portrait style. I'll do some digging and figure out what I'm doing wrong when searching the store.

I own a giant set of tokens for all 4E monsters. I guess I need to figure out how to import them all.

[JohnD]

Put them in Tokens/Host directory.

[Valarian]

Is there a good source of portrait style tokens for characters already packaged up for FG? I don't like top down tokens and the ones that come with the 5e PHB are too limited.

Also it seems like the 5e Monster Manual tokens are portrait style. Can someone confirm this? Do people know of a source of additional monster tokens that are portrait style? I like to mix it up some even if the 5e MM tokens are outstanding.
TokenTool, plus whatever image you've got to hand. It'll create the POG style tokens from any image you give it.
https://www.rptools.net/toolbox/token-tool/

[Trenloe]

If you source your own tokens, and if you have a handful of tokens you can put then in tokens\host. However, I would not recommend putting a lot (more than a few 100) in this location as they are each individually loaded into memory when FG starts and this uses a lot of memory and also increases the load time of FG (which may or may not bother you). Put tokens into a module (or more than one themed modules), which you can open and close as and when needed, which reduces the resource load on FG, even when open, compared to using the tokens\host directory.

Info on creating a tokens module here: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/forums/showthread.php?21396-How-do-I-create-a-Token-Module

[Nilram the Grey]

Whoops. I just added around 500 tokens to FG. That is a small portion of what I have. Is it really that memory intense? I have used quadruple this number of tokens in other VTTs (which is why I have some many already).

[Trenloe]

Is it really that memory intense?
It can be, if you have lots and lots of tokens. It can then give issues if you have a bunch of other modules open (scenarios, Players reference, GMs reference, etc.). Just put the tokens in modules like I mentioned above. It only takes a couple of minutes to create a token module. Then only open the ones you need at any particular time.

[Griogre]

Nilram, to further answer your question, its directly a matter of how much RAM the tokens take up not a fixed number of tokens. So if you use 32 pixel base tokens like I do then, I at one time had about 2,000 tokens in my host folder and it worked fine (on a 64 bit OS). But if you use 50 pixel or 100 pixel base size tokens you would probably run out of application RAM on a 32 bit OS if you had 2,000 of the larger pixel base tokens loading into memory.

The module method that Trenloe mentioned is the most flexible long term way of dealing with tokens though.

[Nilram the Grey]

Yeah, I have tried the module method. It hasn't worked for me yet. I'm sure I'm getting some detail wrong. I'll figure it out I'm sure when I put some more time into this. Thanks for the answers. I love the spirit of these forums.

[damned]

The module not working often comes down to zip issues.
Only use ZIP compression no other personal favourites :)
Dont zip the parent folder - always start at the level of the content.
Make sure you change extension names - dont end up with something that looks like tokens.mod.zip (I dont know how this looks and feels on a Mac).