How do you use Pathfinder Pawn PDFs?

[pennywit]

About a year and a half ago, I experimented with using Pathfinder Pawns at my table. I ended up giving up after a few months. I never seemed to be able to find the right pawns easily at the table. And if I tried to squirrel the right ones away ahead of time, I would inevitably lose track of them when packing up and leaving the gaming table. So I use dice, counters, and other things.

But I'm revisiting this and thinking of using the PDF pawns. How would I use them at my table? What could I do with them? I work a busy job and have a family to take care of, so I don't have time for craft projects involving glue and cardboard backs. Are there other things I can do?

[ShadowsOverScotland]

print on paper and fold over an existing pawn?
Means you can grab out a bunch of centipedes or whatever for a session.
Skips out on the crafts side and makes it easy to throw them onto the table.

[Brother Fen]

Sort your pawns before a session and keep them in their own easily browsed container. I prefer a desk drawer tray for each campaign.

PDFs are best for virtual table top play.

[Haladir]

I keep my pawns in their original cardboard sheets, in the original sets they came in. (Granted, I only have the pawn sets for the Bestiary, Beginner Box, Rise of the Runelords, and Shattered Star APs...)

Before play, I take out the pawns I expect to be using and have them ready behind the GM screen.

As for the PDFs...they're useful for online play, for make-you-own face cards, and for DIY physical pawns.

[GinoA]

I keep my pawns in the original cardboard as well. These go into full-sheet plastic sleeves and those go in binders. One binder per set.

I have an index of all the pawns I own that is printed and at the beginning of one of the binders.

I only have four sets so far, but this has worked well for me.

[Brother Fen]

I have ALL of the pawns and keep them in the Bestiary Boxes. Makes for easy storing and sorting.

[Oli Ironbar]

I have Bestiary 1 and NPC Codex and I found that you can pop them out of the cardboard and lay them all on their sides like index cards in a card catalog. Used the cardboard leftover to make dividers and fill up the extra space.

I sorted Bestiary by size, then put them in number order, real easy to find them and store them away again.

Took an afternoon to put together.