Token Discussions - what style do you prefer

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Originally Posted by Zacchaeus

Absolutely top down 3d images; POGS are horrible. And looking ahead POGS would be even more horrible in a 3D environment.

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Word.

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Originally Posted by Blackfoot

By 'Cropped Profiles' you don't actually mean profiles.. right? You mean 'Cropped Images' .. ie. pictures of the monster from the front or side .. ie. not 'top down'.

And.. umm.. what is a 'pog' exactly? I can see the difference in the Token Modules, does it mean.. 'with a background' or something? Obviously it stands for something.. I just don't know what. :)

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You're either at least ten years older or five years younger than me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game)

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Originally Posted by Black Hammer

You're either at least ten years older or five years younger than me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game)

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'Older' seems the more likely. Thanks for the reference ID.

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Originally Posted by Blackfoot

'Older' seems the more likely. Thanks for the reference ID.

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Seemed the easiest way. Just telling you that POG stands for "Passionfruit, Orange, and Guava" seemed amusing but unhelpful.

I am partial to the pogs, in fact, I use that system for my games @ conventions, especially GenCon.

i like the mini's in the first post. The 2.5D standups look pretty good as well.

Cough *3d rendered top-down* cough, lol. I got sold on them from back in the Dundjinni days.

I use and like pogs myself, as this makes creating tokens that fit very easy if making homebrew monsters from artwork, as I am unable to model and render a 3d image to make a topdown view.
I am partial to 3d top down though, as it fits the look of maps and whatnot quite well.

When I DMed at conventions, I was partial to Starburst fruit chews. You could write on them and I had a diehard rule that you ate what you killed. Almost put a kid in diabetic shock at a battle interactive one time. He had a wand of fireballs and his position was being swarmed by a zombie horde.

True story!

More on why I favor pogs:

1) It is easy to create professional-looking pogs with existing tools like tokentool, while top-down 3d renders are beyond the capabilities of most. So you can make what you need.
2) They are more uniform and clean looking.
3) They are easier to handle when there are large numbers of them.