[Solo RPGs] OSR-style tokens.
Today I finished the first batch of tokens to use for my solo rpg adventures. I have a hankering for more tactical combat from time to time and while I have a sizeable miniature collection for other styles of games, there is seldom something painted and ready to go that fits my OSR crawls.
I am lucky to count myself among those who have the fortune to own a couple 3D-printers which means it's incredibly easy to essentially just press a button and have a miniature in my hand.
But still..
Do I really want to paint miniatures for this aswell? Miniaturepainting, and wargaming, is an incredibly rewarding hobby for me. It shuts up my brain in a way few other things do. It makes me more creative on a daily basis. It gives instant gratification (rolls eyes at self) as the process and result is tangible. It´s also timeconsuming in a way that makes it a neverending endeavour. If I want to play X, then I need to paint atleast Y, ontop of building Z. Rinse and repeat for every style of game...
No. I don´t want to paint miniatures by the numbers for solo OSR. I want to play solo OSR, now.
Thankfully I am also lucky to own a black & white laserprinter. So I went ahead and scoured the internet for a good repository of OSR-style fantasy pictures and happened upon the Dungeon Detritus VTT Pack from John Michael Topple. I scaled them to 25mm, printed out on 120gr paper and punched them out with, you guessed it, a 25mm holepunch.
I went on to sculpt (using the word "sculpt" very loosely here) discs with a 30mm diameter that has a slight indentation to hold the punched portraits and threw the whole thing in the FDM-printer.
Glue, watered down paints and a few hours later I am happy with the end result. I have chosen to do a handful of PCs and a collection of goblins and lowlevel undead for now and plan on adding more when needed. Why 30mm tokens you ask?
I have 30mm squares on my new dungeon-tiles.
Time well spent.
/Skald
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