Homemade Paper Miniatures

[MiscTeatime]

I've been using the official paper miniatures for my games so far, RotR and now Kingmaker, but upon buying the Rivers Run Red set I noticed that it lacked some of the miniatures I'd hoped to get and I can't find a set for The Varnhold Vanishing. I've already made my players custom paper minis and figured I could do so for some of the more memorable monsters and such in the Rivers Run Red and the future APs.

The easiest way would simply be to stick the official artwork in photoshop, scale it down a little and add a base of the appropriate size but I'm not sure how copyright and such would work with this.
Is it ok to edit the artwork like this as long as I'm not trying to make money of it?
Would it be ok to share my work here for others GMs to use?

[Darkholme]

Nobody is going to give you a hard time if you throw the official art into photoshop for your own use, but you won't be able to share it with people using the official art.

[Greycloak of Bowness]

They won't let you post your work here.

I've done something similar for my campaigns and it counts as fair use so long as you don't distribute Paizo's copyrighted artwork, for free or for fee.

[MiscTeatime]

Thanks for the quick answers! :D

That makes sense I guess. Well, here's hoping they'll get around to making more paper miniatures soon.

[Darkholme]

I wish you luck with your custom paper minis.

Last time I did something like that it was before Paizo's paper minis. I made round bases that fit in the squares, and put portraits on the top.

They were basically like various sized poker chips that had different pictures on them.

But I set them up for my own houserules, that don't use squares, and use actual distances instead, in inches; and small creatures aren't the same size as medium creatures (making them tokens that are 1/2 an inch wide), who have a 1/2 inch reach.

It worked out pretty well. The reduced reach makes small creatures a bit weaker though, but the group didnt make any halflings or gnomes anyways, so we were okay.

[Umbral Reaver]

I had a go at this, with the following results:

Paper Minis

See here TekTek for the avatar creator. You can easily customise characters to suit the party and NPCs.

[Cleanthes]

For anyone wanting to make paper minis, there are some great free bases at the One Monk Miniatures webpage, here. You can also find a wealth of free paper minis for fantasy campaigns there, especially scads of NPC's that Dryw the Harper has made which fill holes for "ordinary people" minis that the pre-painted market still has.