
MrCaptainPants |
I love the Monster Core pawns, but does anyone have any recommendations for pawns to represent Player Characters?
I know the NPC Core pawn box will be released soon, but I'm not sure if many of those will be suitable for representing adventurers.
If you use pawns at your table, what do your players use to represent their characters on the table?
Thanks in advance!

moosher12 |
Most of my players use Hero Forge. It's a service that lets you make customized characters. I run online games, so they normally just use generated visual tokens of their characters, but Hero Forge has a 3D-Color printing service that might be useful. If 3D color prints are too expensive, color standees could fill a similar role. It's about 40-50 USD for a 3D color-printed mini, 13 USD for a color standee, 20-40 USD for an unpainted plastic mini, and 8 USD for an stl file to print yourself.
Other than that, your local gameshop might have myriad miscellaneous unpainted figures for the purpose. And it's just a matter of finding one that's close enough to the concept. Doesn't have to be exact.

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Although most of the original PF2e pawns are sold out you can still get the PDFs and print them yourself.
I've also seen some people hand-draw pawns, that can range from I know how to draw to just stick figures. Someone even posted a down load for hand-drawn pawns for a Starfinder free RPG day adventure.
Our local PFS group the GM used pawns and the players used minis, it made it easy to tell what side everyone was on.
The begginers box has a few PC pawns but mostly just for the pregens in the box.
As long as everyone can tell who is who anything can work. One of the players at our table made a clay figure that even had yarn for hair and a cloth robe. Another player used Lego people.

Claxon |

For a long time, my group used beer bottle caps.
As we've gotten older, we have gotten nicer minifigs, printed pawns, and other representations. A lot of the gaming even happens in a digital format, so whatever digital image you can find or create can be turned into a digital pawn.
Just depends what your group is into.

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Although most of the original PF2e pawns are sold out you can still get the PDFs and print them yourself.
I've also seen some people hand-draw pawns, that can range from I know how to draw to just stick figures. Someone even posted a down load for hand-drawn pawns for a Starfinder free RPG day adventure.
Our local PFS group the GM used pawns and the players used minis, it made it easy to tell what side everyone was on.
The begginers box has a few PC pawns but mostly just for the pregens in the box.
As long as everyone can tell who is who anything can work. One of the players at our table made a clay figure that even had yarn for hair and a cloth robe. Another player used Lego people.
Lots of great resources in this response especially!! I'm bad at painting, so I've absolutely used Lego minifigs before. Although, once I used a really pretty pebble that I felt represented my character well.

BigHatMarisa |
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I like using Hero Forge, as well, even if I don't plan on actually buying the minis. Very good tool for realizing your character concept, even if it doesn't have everything perfect I want (compromising is good practice in and of itself, I think).
For online VTTs, pretty much anything works, obviously. Meme images or official art, as long as you think it represents your concept properly. My Hell's Vengeance Oread Gnome named Chrysoberyl has a raw chunk of crystal as his token on Foundry.
If physically playing and money is a concern, Errenor's suggestion is pretty perfect, especially if you like to recycle old boxes you have lying around. We had a boatload of dice when I played 5e with friends a while back, and so we just used different dice whenever we had to pull out the battlemap.

Meraki |

We've still got all our old 1E pawns, like the boxes from Inner Sea World Guide and Villain Codex, so we usually fish them out of there. Pawns are system agnostic, after all!
I'm not sure if they're available physically anymore, but if they still have the PDFs up for sale, you could get those and print the ones you want, maybe.

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Maya Coleman wrote:once I used a really pretty pebble that I felt represented my character well.That reminds me of something. I used to have a neighbor who made little people figures out of acorns and other seed or plant parts, that could be a fun project for leshys minis.
This sounds incredible for a beautiful myriad of reasons!!

MrCaptainPants |
Wow, thank you for all the responses, folks. I appreciate you all taking the time to reply.
After I posted the question, I saw on the Paizo website that they once sold a PC pawn collection that is now out of print, but they still sell the PDF version for $9.99. I picked that up, and then just started thinking that if Im printing out character art, I could just as easily use any art I can find on the internet (strictly for home use, of course; I'm not advocating for art piracy!).
I didn't know Hero Forge sold standees, so I'll have to look into that!
Again, thanks so much for everyone's replies and suggestions! I appreciate all of you!

Jerdane |

I like using Hero Forge, as well, even if I don't plan on actually buying the minis. Very good tool for realizing your character concept, even if it doesn't have everything perfect I want (compromising is good practice in and of itself, I think).
For online VTTs, pretty much anything works, obviously. Meme images or official art, as long as you think it represents your concept properly. My Hell's Vengeance Oread Gnome named Chrysoberyl has a raw chunk of crystal as his token on Foundry.
If physically playing and money is a concern, Errenor's suggestion is pretty perfect, especially if you like to recycle old boxes you have lying around. We had a boatload of dice when I played 5e with friends a while back, and so we just used different dice whenever we had to pull out the battlemap.
Another use for Hero Force is to take a screenshot of a character and use it as their VTT icon. That's what I'm doing for my current campaign. They have a premium membership if you want to add some fancy effects too.

Rory Collins |
Most of my players use Hero Forge. It's a service that lets you make customized characters. I run online games, so they normally just use generated visual tokens of their characters, but Hero Forge has a 3D-Color printing service that might be useful. If 3D color prints are too expensive, color standees could fill a similar role. It's about 40-50 USD for a 3D color-printed mini, 13 USD for a color standee, 20-40 USD for an unpainted plastic mini, and 8 USD for an stl file to print yourself.
Other than that, your local gameshop might have myriad miscellaneous unpainted figures for the purpose. And it's just a matter of finding one that's close enough to the concept. Doesn't have to be exact.
Definitely Hero Forge. You can make a mini of various materials or an acrylic stand. If making a mini I would avoid the pre-colored ones. I have done that and because the colors are layered on by the filament it is not very detailed. It ends up looking almost like a Wiz Kids mini where details are hard to see.

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Maya Coleman wrote:Although, once I used a really pretty pebble that I felt represented my character well.Okay there is a story here and I am curious. As a corvid I want to hear all about the pretty pebble hero.
First Pathfinder character ever! A fey-touched gnome bard named Yofyx! I put a deep connection to nature and the forest in their backstory, and I encountered the rock while humming on a path IRL, so it reminded me of the character!