Do any of the rest of you use plastic silver coins for your games? I've always had a stack of gold, but not silver. I finally found them. Regarding use:

* estimate 5 players (need 500 silver coins and probably 50 gold coins for the bank)

* I've taken about 10 gold coins and just painted them black and they count as 50 silver coins each.
* I don't use brass, but it would be cheapest just to use pennies.

www.wholesalepartystore.com/store/p/50334-Plastic-Coins-silver-100-Pkg-.html

These here are cheaper, but they're U.S. coins and that kind of ruins the "feel": www.centurynovelty.com/detail_303_146-096.html

Here are some aluminum dubloons: www.mardigrasoutlet.com/catalog/332.html

IN a pinch, you could get some gold coins and just paint them silver.

jh

Never used coins. Never saw a reason why I should.

Of course it is nice to give out coins that players can touch and count. But imho that effect never justified the costs which are quite high if you want quality coins.

Also I tend to have a more or less lux attitude towards keeping track of player's money and how they spend it. I prefer a metric currency system, so in this regard I consider Warhammer a pain in the arse.

Also the table is already loaded as it is.

So... no.

I'm with you. I would have preferred a metric 100 brass to 100 silver.

jh

Im using these babys here:

www.campaigncoins.com/

And here is my chest (with only a little fraction of the ones I have bought):

But be warned, they are not the cheap ones. Bought enough coins for 160 Australian Dollars. The gold and silver coins both count as silver at my round. So 100 Silver, or 100 dwarven gold counts as 1 gold in warhammer. Brass is also in. My dwarf only group counts them all the time how much they have acumulated.

They made astarter pack 2 years ago and this november they will make a relaunch of the starter pack. They are sold by paizo in the US I think.

Glorian Underhill said:

Since you spent a fortune on those coins I sense that you are convinced of their use at a gaming table? Could you share some of your experiences why you feel they are needed? I am just curious, I always wondered what people saw in them. I might be blind.

You know i'm really excited to try these coins at some point too. I really can appriciate the tangible aspect of items and coins you encounter during your games. I was very reulctant at first, but in a recent game the GM used the Paizo item cards to hand us all our equipment (backpack, clothes, weapons, rope, rations, etc.). I instantly had a sense of how much i was carrying and the weight of it all.

Further it lended itself nicely to the roleplaying aspects where youc an easily decide what equipment you leave in the Inn, what you have on you at all times, not to mention item trading between characters and NPCs is a breeze and there is never any concern as to who is carrying what. ("did you remember to brign the rope? Oh the card is in the inn, well crap").

So i see the coins as a nice extension of this. Players spending money by tossing a few coins around the table really makes you feel like you are rich, or spending a fortune. Tipping someone for information somehowe feels all that more imersive.

Gitman

P.S. We've been talking about jumping into the coins for the past two episodes of Reckless Dice, have yet to do it though.

Well most reviewers say that the players find them great and then lost the interest after two or three sessions. We are using them 2 Sessions already so we are still hyped.

What was boring for the players was allways this, yeah you get some money, and then they write it on their sheet, or miscalculate or simply are to lazy to write the ammount of brass off. With the coins I can tell them what they need to pay, and they pay it. Also when I give them money for searching they almost jump to the tablemiddle where I have put the money.

Drawbacks are these: You need enough exchange money and also need more place for your change box. Also when they have to buy a beer everyone has to grab for money. This has changed to one of them buys for all a round of sleep, eat and stuff. Same as before with pen and paper. Also a drawback is when they get coins they couldnt seperate even under each one. They begin to count back and forth to get it straight. My dwarf group is extremly gold orientated, so actually I count gold counting as good roleplay.

Also they try to barter everything. I have bought them small coin bags, so their stach doesn't fly around.

The positive is still that I can show them real money before their noses so that they so something. And it works most of the time.

Glorian Underhill said:

Hahah, as soon I will GM for a band of greedy dwarfs I'll try it. Seems like a powerful GM Tool to lure them into bad situations.

Great idea! Will try to use it.

Especially useful if you have enough coins to simulate sacks of low-value coinage that burdens you...

We play with coins - I like it ... its quick and feels good when your GM hands you a pile of coins when you cash in your reward ... or you count out 10 silver and offer a NPC compensation for information and then throw a couple of coins for each piece of useful information he tells you .... or (I imagine) gambling and raising with actual coins

I don't know if you guys use table tents, but I adapted ours with little trays on the back. The trays are good for holding extra chits, fortune point cards, coins, etc. They are a good option for storing coins if you do use them as props in your games I make most of our table tents from the clear plastic that makes up blister-packs from toys and other stuff (not the one shown below..thats just chintzy cardboard!)

Here's an example of a D&D table tent (and a person who obviously drinks a lot of soda pop). This isn't what I use, but it shows a tray behind it.

I bought a starter pack of Campaign Coins a couple of years back. We used'em for a couple of sessions, but I kept running into the problem of not having enough change. This was most definitely due to the fact that we have an Agent in the group that works for a noble house, so his purse is almost always full.

During the next leg of my campaign , the players are all playing lower tier characters (pickpockets, thugs, rat catchers, etc) so I'm thinking about reintroducing physical coins at the table, since aquiring even a few brass will be exciting for'em.

I'm such and old fart that seeing Wizard/Barbarian actually made m e physically cringe.