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Post by highroad on Jan 15, 2012 15:58:14 GMT -8
I'm prepping for an Agents of Oblivion game for an upcoming convention. I wanted to get some suggestions on interesting benny tokens to use for this espionage meets horror setting.
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Post by stork on Jan 16, 2012 11:32:23 GMT -8
This is one of my favorite things about Savage Worlds, coming up with the actual Benny. I found that the local craft shop has lots of bags of cool things, I found some plastic gems that I use. Wander the aisles of one and see what jumps out at you. That's what I did.
More specific to your game though, I'm thinking: Mini Skulls Bullets (Dummy's of course) Rosary beads Foreign coins
If your really cant choose, they sell glass beads in different colors. They are most often put in clear jars for center pieces and such. They sell them over the internet for cheap. And they make a satisfing sound when tossed into cup.
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Post by HyveMynd on Jan 16, 2012 20:11:36 GMT -8
Well, I don't know anything about the AoO setting, but from what I read on the DTRPG site it can be used to do a bunch of different genres. Are you doing like a spy game in a CoC setting? Then I would suggest plastic eyeballs, like on the cover. That would be pretty cool, and you could probably find them at a doll supply shop.
The glass drops Stork suggested are always good, and of you're a M:tG player you should already have like a billion of them (I do).
Poker chips are good too. Not the little plastic things, but the real-ish ones that have a bit of weight to them. I piked up 10 of them for $5, spray painted them bronze, silver, and gold to look like old coins, and used them as Style Points in my pulp Ubiquity game. They made a nice "chink" when you chucked them onto the table.
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Post by retrosuperhero on Jan 17, 2012 4:47:13 GMT -8
Hyvemynd had a good idea about painting poker chips... never thought of that. He's also right - buy the good ones. I have a complete set from the 50's that I use. The weight and feel makes a big difference.
Somewhat unrelated - Poker chips are the basis any of my current SW games. I currently use the white chips for bennies, place a blue chip under a mini if they are shaken and add red chips underneath to track wounds. I've also printed out character/NPC portraits and glued them onto a chip instead of a mini. During a combat I normally put a couple of each chip color in my pocket of my hoodie and move around the table with the battlemat on it. Sometimes everyone is up and moving around - it seems to make the whole thing more fluid...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2012 18:57:06 GMT -8
I've done coins before, foreign and domestic, but the problem I always ran into was getting a bit distracted or tired or drunk then saying "Hey coins on the table, how'd they get there?" That's when I pocket them until the next combat when I find myself saying "Shit how many bennies did I have?" Candy bennies failed for a similar reason.
If you want to have the coolest convention spy game props ever, give each player a martini glass to put their bennies in. Or a shot glass. Something liquory to set that James Bond mood.
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Post by HyveMynd on Jan 18, 2012 20:41:35 GMT -8
Candy bennies failed for a similar reason. Yeah, I've never been a fan of edible tokens either. There's just too many chances to eat them by accident. Or on purpose too, I guess. Plus, you can't play with them while you're waiting for your turn to come around again; who wants to eat a gummy bear after you've been fingering it for the past 5 minutes. Heh. Sentinel gave me a great idea with his martini glass suggestion. Make the Bennies shot glasses. Go to a dollar store (do those even still exist anymore?) and buy enough cheap shot glasses so that each player will have three. Maybe buy one or two extra as well. Then find clear resin at a craft store and some liquid coloring medium. Most craft stores have a two-part resin that dries clear, so that people can make those cheesy underwater scenes with little plastic fish in them. It shouldn't be that hard to find a kit of it. Use that to make the liquid in each glass. That way it'll look like there is alcohol in the shot glasses, without the chance of annoying spills.
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Post by gandalftheplaid on Jan 18, 2012 21:37:17 GMT -8
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Post by Nolinquisitor on Jan 19, 2012 8:52:15 GMT -8
Some other benny ideas: - Old Coins: Ideal for 20-30's pulp-ish games. You can find old 1930's dimes in money collecting shops. Sometimes old money is worthless because of commonality or damage. So you can give real 30's coin to your players! - Dime Novels: You can buy them by the volume in used book store. Small books are preferable. - Small Green Toy Soldiers: Ideal for post-apocalyptic, WWII, Vietnam-era settings. Cheap and they come in bucket! - Glass Beads: Very cheap and good when your PC's are kids (i.e. Grimm). - Old CD's: I have a ton of scrap CD's at home. I could use them for post-apocalyptic game and write on it with a marker. - Chess Pieces!: You could have a special mechanic to go with each different piece. (i.e. Queens are +2 on everything, King are + 2 to damage, etc.) - Monopoly Tokens: "Oh shit, Jimmy have the car!" (+1 move bonus)
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Post by highroad on Jan 30, 2012 14:37:51 GMT -8
Awesome ideas all around one and all. Many thanks.
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Post by jazzisblues on Feb 8, 2012 6:51:33 GMT -8
Bennies are one of my favorite things about SW. Craft stores, Art supply stores, hobby stores are all good places to look for potential bennies ... Some that I have used or plan to use ...
Small pieces of what look like coal (Thank you Gina for finding these for me) for a turn of the century (Jack the Ripper) game in London.
Small wooden stars for a Slipstream (pulp sci-fi) game.
Small plastic animals for a kids game with amazon jungle themes. (must remember to pick these up before OrcCon)
Pre-WWII pulp game (Haven't figured out what to do with these yet)
(idea) Gold coins for either a fantasy or a pirate game. [Paizo markets packs of them that are not too expensive. Might be a little $$$ for a con game but for a campaign I'd totally do it.]
Just as important as the bennies themselves though ... The bennie cup ...
Do not forget to have something cool for the bennies to go into as they are spent. Watching the bennie bowl fill up is part of the fun.
JiB
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Post by SirGuido on Feb 9, 2012 7:55:43 GMT -8
I used small ghost shaped erasers for my Ghostbusters game that I kept on the table in a pumpkin bucket(Halloween game), I got about 100 spent shells for my Deadlands game(am willing to part with some as soon as I sort through and get the ones out that I want) which I plan to keep in either a wooden pail or cowboy hat, for my Star Trek game I was thinking of using some of the new Star Trek HeroClix as minis and some star trek pins that a friend has as bennies, and for a Necessary Evil game I've got percolating I was going to use HeroClix as minis and some dollar store action figures as bennies. Not sure about "bennie cups" for the last two yet though. I also have an awesomely cool deck of cards for the Deadlands game, but none for the others yet(though I did use clear plastic cards for the Ghostbusters game).
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Post by jazzisblues on Feb 9, 2012 10:29:17 GMT -8
Action decks are another thing that make Savage such a fun game. I rather covet your very spiffy Deadlands cards. But if they disappear I don't know anything about it. JiB
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Post by Forresst on Feb 9, 2012 12:10:54 GMT -8
I had an idea for Benny tokens yesterday! Up here in Canada, we have this store called Canadian Tire, and they have a coupon system where you get a 5 cent coupon for every x amount of dollars you spend, see. Except, the coupons are made to look like tiny dollar bills. It's Canadian Tire money! It's like monopoly money with better production values! And every person in Canada has a fistful of Canadian Tire money. It's almost the law. If anyone wants some I can mail out a little bit
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Post by clockworkmonk on Feb 9, 2012 12:32:34 GMT -8
Action decks are another thing that make Savage such a fun game. I rather covet your very spiffy Deadlands cards. But if they disappear I don't know anything about it. JiB There were Star Wars poker table-sized card decks on sale for around $7 the other day. I was very tempted to buy one in case I ran a Savage Star Wars conversion in the future. Alas, the deal is over now.
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Post by jazzisblues on Feb 9, 2012 13:26:56 GMT -8
I had an idea for Benny tokens yesterday! Up here in Canada, we have this store called Canadian Tire, and they have a coupon system where you get a 5 cent coupon for every x amount of dollars you spend, see. Except, the coupons are made to look like tiny dollar bills. It's Canadian Tire money! It's like monopoly money with better production values! And every person in Canada has a fistful of Canadian Tire money. It's almost the law. If anyone wants some I can mail out a little bit That's awesome ... Now what sort of game could I do that I would want $$$ for bennies ... Hmmmmm ... *wheels begin to turn* JiB
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