Kickstarter-Watch: Acrylic Creature Tokens for TTRPGs

Some of my favourite games growing up, including Dragon Quest, made use of cardboard standees for the characters, enemies, doors, and the like. Miniatures are expensive. Today, they’re a lot more common than they used to be, but they’re still a lot of work. You usually need to paint them if you want a really attractive mini.

That’s why sets like this are appealing. Darryl T. Jones is releasing a set of hundreds of acrylic tokens for use in your tabletop roleplaying games. They are cut from acrylic, with gorgeous artwork printed onto them.

As things go, this is an incredibly simple product. It’s really just clear plastic, cut to shape and printed. Projects like this live and die on three factors:

• Basic usability
• aesthetic
• price

As usual, I’ll talk about price at the end of this post. The usability and aesthetic both seem spot on. Acrylic is pretty durable, lightweight, and able to carry decent quality printing. Although the acrylic pieces are larger than the prints they contain, the fact that it’s transparent helps, as you’ll still see through to the map and grid that you’d likely also be using if you’re using these pieces.

Aesthetically, the set is just fantastic, too. Jones is a fantastic artist, as can be seen in his previous projects. These are beautiful objects and the campaign picks out some important details:

There is, of course, a range of different sizes of tokens to go along with the many different creatures represented in the set. There are a number of differently-themed sets that you can pick up. My favourite of these is the subterranean set:

So, we’ve got a ton of tokens, printed on clear, lightweight, durable acrylic. They’re system-agnostic and can be used for a lot of different games. The artwork is really solid, and the whole set is well-presented.

How would I rate the value?

Well, not too bad. We’re looking at $26 for two of the themed sets. You can add more sets, collecting free binders along the way, until you get everything at $188. The individual sets are pretty well-priced, but there are just so many of them.

If you’re someone who regularly uses virtual tabletop solutions to play online, another option is to get just the art files. The whole collection of art files will cost you $68.

I don’t think these are for me, but the whole collection – expensive though it may be – will truly kit out a DM with most of what they’ll ever need, token-wise.

You can click here to visit the campaign page at Kickstarter.