Really wish wizards of the coast just had a mass miniature pack covering all the monster manual monsters. I get that It'd be pricey, but man do i want it.

oh FINALLY, free minis for my campaigns, THANK YOU!!!

You could also make a duplicate of the monster with a red 'X' across it, paste that to the flip side, and use it to mark difficult terrain due to dead monster.

I've been doing this for a little while for my D&D group. I don't have loads of tokens, but if anyone was interested I could link PSD files for the correct D&D map/grid size tokens for all the different monsters, and some of the tokens I use myself.

I know this is old now but it was a huge help. I used Photoshop since I have it but the steps were easy to translate and simple to follow. Thank you!

This is awesome. Knocked out around 40-45 distinct mini's today :D

Thanks for the tutorial! I used your template and made about 90 tokens (I also made some generic ones for initiative order and inspiration), my only real complaint is that they are a little hard to pick up off the table since they are flat. I'm new to d&d so I'll be using these while I slowly build a collection of mini's, just wanted to drop a message and say thank you for your videos. They have been very helpful!

I know that this video is old, but instead of using the polyline tool, what you can do is click the tiny arrow beside the crop tool on the toolbar, to get the mask tool, and you can crop the image to be a circle.

I've seen suggested the use of circular plastic coin holders for tokens. You can get some which are around an inch wide which would let you print out the tokens and stick them inside the coin holders. This has the added benefit of being easily reusable. You could even get some large ones for creatures which are larger than medium sized.

This is a great idea. So much better than just printing off pictures of the monsters and cutting them out.

Thank you for this tutorial. My son is 9 and just getting into D&D and I'm not ready to spend a ton on the game just yet. This will make our adventure a little more fun while still keeping some coins in my purse.

Even 4 years down the line this is still a super nice and simple way of making pngs look a little more refined in play. Thanks for the assistance :)

this is very easy to do once you get the hang of it and the trimmers you put into the linked token template make this a breeze honestly this is a DMs best friend

love these tokens there so cheep and versatile whats not to like. seen a few comments saying that a problem to these tokens was picking them up from the middle of a table is fiddly (because there flat) so just a small recommendation if your using metal washers and finding it hard to pick them up off middle of table grab a travel chess set and use the pieces like a magnetic handle to pick them straight up the reason i suggest the magnetic chess set is a fridge mag will probably be to strong and mark or damage the art or might grab multiple tokens at once . problem if you can call it that is solved

Nate, thanks so much man! This never occurred to me and its so bleeding obvious! I'm DMing on such a tiny budget but I wanted to give my new players visual aids to keep track in battle. You have just provided a solution to my problem. I've just made tokens for the entire starter set. Keep up the good work Sir!

My husband and I played the sunless citadel. Thanks for the tutorial

Awesome video man. Thanks for showing me how to do this, ever since I learned this technique it’s my go-to for token creating when running tabletop games. Super fast, easy as could be. Best of all: FREE!!!!

I just made some of these using a free online token maker, printed that image out on card stock, cut it out then glued onto 1” wood crafting circles which I painted black. Not heavy but easy to pick up and move around. (200 wooden discs for $6 on Amazon).

Wow! Using washers is ingenious!! Thanks so much :)

Extra tips: If you size the image to 1 inch by 1 inch, it will be sized perfectly in the document. Get some way to make a really consistent 1 inch circle. For example, a Fiskars 1" hole punch. After doing the previous one, oversize your tokens a little bit so you don't risk a little white along an edge when you miss by a tiny bit. "Laminate" your tokens to protect them a little. You can do this by actually laminating the sheet you printed, coating the sheet in clear packaging tape, or by doing a coat of Mod Podge over the entire token.

Thank you for this tip. I didn't even know about Google Drawing until I see this video. Now I will have mini's for my campaign.

Thank you very much for this video! Super easy guide to follow and great looking results ^^ My group just bought a battle map and I can't wait to make tokens for all the characters/monsters in our campaign! :D

A 1" circle punch makes the cut out process a Lot easier :-) seem to be at most any craft shop

I appreciate the simplicity of this. I use transparent peel-n-stick covers from Hobby story (concave design) that stick on the face side of the token and give a subtle round top to the token that protects it from damage. I get these fairly cheap and like the design. I'll have to make bases for these like you show to give them some heft and keep them from sliding about so much. Make a great room saver in my mini-case as well. I like that they set lower than my player's minis on the tabletop as well. Though I'll have to think about the "Dragon' token a bit more. The ferocity is kinda lost when the token is a flat piece compared to the PC mini. LOL !

Thank you! I have very few minis and not enough money to buy more, this is extremely helpful!

Thank you for this video. I think the rainbow monsters would make it easy to know which "bad guy" a player was attacking. Especially since seeing tiny numbers on the token might be hard.

Big THANK YOU! We're just about to start playing and these Tokens will surely help us. Just tried it, and it's so easy!

Wow that's pretty sick. I'll definitely have to make some of these if I decide to make any maps. Shoot might even just make them for the hell of it.

Wow, I was just looking at a local store to see what minis they had but I couldn't find it on the website. I was debating a 45 minute drive and then this video got recommended. Making my own, ftw

I know its damn late, but I just used this today. Very easy and fast. Thanks for the great tip!

Amazing! This helped me a lot with creating tokens for my upcoming campaign. Thumbs-up!

Great video! I love the idea of using google drawings to make minis. I have a few tips and little things I would like to mention for those who would like to use this. 1) You can crop images in google drawings. If you double click on the image, you will be given the ability to crop the image. This however only works in a rectangular shape. 2) The reason why you can not click on the inner circle is that although you made the inside clear, the software still recognizes it as a full circle. If you wish to avoid this, I would recommend using the donut shape instead. This would allow you to click the inner circle, but you can not define the width of either circle with this method. I would also recommend you make the line transparent as the donut shape already acts like a circle and using the lines makes this method even less precise than it already is. I hope this helps some of you guys make your own cheap minis

Wonderful tutorial! I bought some wooden discs and some epoxy resin dome stickers and my tokens look sturdy and expensive!

I use wooden circles. You can buy 1 inch to 2 inch.

Thank you for making this video, I am doing a podcast campaign using these types of tokens. We'll be using your circle template because we are on such a budget with 6 players.

I don't have the patience to do this despite your guide being very helpful. I just ordered Hero Set Tokens from SidequestTTM. Worth checking out. (It is cool you are playing Sunless Citadel, one of my favourite modules)

I know this is a few years back, but YEAH!!! thanks a Bazillion times over!!! This is a genius idea, now to make some monster minis and not getting confused at who is the "good guy" and who is the monster! Thank you thank you thank you by the heavens thank you!!

Thank you for this video! I needed miniatures for a D&D group I want to make at my school this is a really affordable option.

thank you so much i am new to D&D and i am running my very first game soon with a few friends and i have NOTHING but i wanted to use a map you are a lifesaver

Awesome video man! I'm a new DM, about to take my friends through there first adventure and this is going to help immensely!

Huge help! Literally. I don't have any huge sized creatures or tokens for my combat and I'm running Storm King's Thunder lol

This video was a huge inspiration and help. Although I don't use this for the enemies as much as I would like to, easier to adjust combats on the fly if I don't have to have every enemy have a print out, it is great for the player characters and NPC's.

Thanks for the video!! Definiteley a help for someone who has neither the time nor the skill for minitures.

I got 3 sheets of cardstock and a 17 dollars worth of fender washers and made every mini for lost mines of phandelver this is great

Wow, randomly started this and I am running the sunless citadel for my group right now. I love it so far and I hope you will also!

Absolutely genius, I don't know why I hadn't thought about this before

I used google images and powerpoint to make one inch wide minis that I cut out and glued to pennies!

amazing! Really useful, specially because minis are so expensive here and we need to get around that to create battles

What a great idea. I need some more "gribblies"... this is perfect!

These are much nicer than the ones I made. I printed out a bunch of images on card and then used 19mm fold back/bulldog clips (they were the smallest I could find in the shop) to hold them and then took the arms off the clips (they can be reattached later to remove the card cause those things grip hard) to use as bases so I had reusable bases. They're somewhat unwieldy when it comes to swapping over the bits of card though.

This is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you so much.

Great video nate! Never knew about that google photoshop, totally going to take this advice

Absolutely fantastic tutorial. You are a true hero of the people.

Something that seems it would make this a bit easier is setting your image size to 1 inch by 1 inch at the start. This (theoretically) would cut out the resizing step when you add the image to the printing sheet. Also, if someone wanted to use the color changing tool more heavily, using a grey-scale monster image (and border color) would make the color change much cleaner.

This is excellent. I am trying to make something called a piecepack and this si just what I needed. Many thanks.

Awesome and really useful! Thanks Nate!

Great video. Kids and I used to make tokens. Thanks!

thanks Nate you just made my life really easy, nice instructional

THANK YOU!!! I've been trying to find more token to fit with the default Edge of the Empire tokens and now I won't have to buy minis.

Thanks so much for this video. Great looking tokens and so easy even i can do it. I'll probably use minis for the bigger monsters, but man these make for great cannon fodder.

I'm gonna try to use round 1" magnets from staples for bases :)

I would use Photoshop mix & Photoshop Express for this instead. Both free apps on the App store, they have far more features and Functions. Great video!

Congrats on 25k subs!

These would look really good on inkjet heat shrink paper. That would turn them into real plastic tokens.

Looks good, maybe add 1 inch round epoxy stickers to protect them

I love you man. This is sooo effin useful!!!!

Thanks for this one! I'm really a fan of this method, though as you say, GDrawings could be more helpful. I opted for beer bottle caps and quarters in lieu of card stock. Bottle caps for PCs and quarters for monsters and NPCs. Bottle caps from one session can be recycled into new monsters for future sessions!

I appreciate the upload - good stuff thanks!

Great video and super useful. Thank you.

When he made the pic he chose 3x3 inches. And if you look at the ruler at 8:16 you'll see that the pic is still 3 inches big. Meaning that if you just set the original image to 1x1 inches, then you don't have to resize it later, right?

You really helped me out

you are awesome, this saved my ass, i totally forgot about making enemy figures so thanks

great video! excellent tip! Thanks!

Thanks man. Nice.

You amazing person! this is just what I needed.

thank you sir

Thank you very very much! You are amazing and a life saver! And I love your channel!

BRILLIANT!!! *Clinks beer glass*

@wasd20 Don't cut those by hand. Get a circle punch from the craft store. Comes in all sizes. www.michaels.com/recollections-lever-punch-circle/M10358843.html?dwvar_M10358843_color=White#q=circle+punch&start=1

Great tutorial! Thanks a lot.

Great idea! Love it

This is awesome! Thanks a lot!

So here's a late question, could these same tokens be used for a virtual campaign (not roll20/fantasy grounds)? Say google slide?

Is there an art file size that one should stay above so that the print quality can be good?

What size washer are you all using? Is it considered a flat washer?

this helped me so much

All I would need is a good base for the images, I wonder what other alternatives I should look for...

How will the tokens be used - physical or digital games? Where does the artwork come from? Do you have a license to use the copyrighted art work? Does anyone else?

Hi - late to the game (get it - game! Ha, I crack myself up) for this but THANKS! Quick question. After printing, how did you cut them prior to gluing to the painted washers? Looks like they are perfect circles, which I feel would be difficult with scissors or with an XActo knife?

You are awesome!

Wooooo hoo awesome

Great video indeed! i was wondering what i could use as minis and this pops out, thanks man, i've only got one doubt, where can i glue this into? i know you say washers but do you have any other idea? Maybe even greater than 1-inch, you know, for huge monsters and stuff like that.

You spend a lot of time shuffling the circle around. Drive now (Jan, 2018) has a feature where you can right-click and "Center" => "Horizontally" or "Vertically". Likwise, if you "resize" the Kobold down to an inch (or 0.75) it should import at the correct size.

Thanks dude.

Where did you get those rounded stands for your tokens? Thanks.

Great tutorial man

sorry if i write twice, but do you think it could be a good idea to just laminate the paper without using bases?

Cool !!! gonna try this! thnx for sharing sir. ;-)

Noob DM here. Where would you find the monster images themselves to put into the token circle? Google image searches haven't produced many great results

That looks so cool.......I'm so sad I don't have a printer (goes home crying)😭