Using Craft Supplies

That is a great site. I definately will keep it in mind.

However it isn't exactly what I want. And the problem is, what I want may not exist.

Basically, I want in one container, a place to put up to 15 tokens of the size i mentioned in my previous post of each color, with a spot for 5 colors (I originally said 10, but my brain had a moron attack and counted wrong. I've punished it by making it listen to horrible music...)

What I need is for those 5 containers to be connected, similar to a coin holder for the different kinds of coins. The tokens need to be able to be reached quickly, to not slow the game down too much. I'm probably asking for too much, I know.

(When I get the rules together I'll post it in the journal's section, under For the People (a voting game based on each player being a senator for a particular state.)

Thanks for the help, and also thanks in advance for any other comments.

Edit: After looking at the website again, I decided that if I could find the containers cheap, I guess I could build what I want out of them, but it would be a lot of work...

I have a bunch of those stones from when i played magic or lotr. Those are probably too expensive in my eyes for a prototype, although the 2000 one doesn't seem too bad. Was the $22 before the shipping or after? I couldn't find the kind you bought, which kind was it again?

I've cut out all of my tokens for the Nova game, and the tokens look and feel great. People will tell that they were cut by a human and not a machine, but other wise they are bright and you can tell the colors apart easily. It actually took me an hour of actual cutting.

I'm going to try cardboard and acrylic paints for my planets. I bought some extra large index cards (5'' by 7'' maybe?) and am going to use that for my player reference/victory point/speed tracker.

Anyone know where to get small houses (like monopoly houses) and / or small mine-like structures (these need to be about the same size as the monopoly houses)

Also on the coin containers, I'm not looking to put coins in their, but actually tokens of different colors. I'm probably going to go with sandwich bags (until i can convince my wife to sew cloth bags for me.) I may incorporate screens to help the voting be more secretative but will test to see if I actually need them before making them.

Wow I like that site. It does got a lot of things, in the colors I will need. Shipping may be actually worth it. Maybe if they have an American distributer or a distributer like them here?

For houses, there's also Rolco Games in U.S.A. Thread about Rolco. You can always check out BGDF's Web Resources. There's a section on Game Parts.

Thanks I'll check it out. I forgot about the links part in this site.

The $22 is for shipping alone. Note that I'm in Canada and they added a $5 surcharge for handling a "small order" hence why I think Crystal Rivers would have been a wiser choice. Oh well...

Item Subtotal: $33.00
Shipping Cost: $17.20
Small Order Fee: $5
GRAND TOTAL: $55.20

So in the end, it cost about 0.03 per stone or 0.18 per game. Enough stones to make 300 games.

That's not that bad then, if you only need the 3 colors. My game needs 6 colors, so it wouldn't work so well for me. (although I believe I saw multi color stuff there too)

Thanks for your help...

-Steve

edit: I sent Rolco an email about the custom parts I need. I'll relay the info I get back here. Thanks again.

So I have to find another way to color them, but they come in bags of 90 for like $2... I guess that's between 2 and 3 cents apiece. And they are shaped like little mushrooms or huts- flat on the bottom and curved on top. I think they'll look nice for any application where the token either represents a building Monopoly houses), or any generic thing (PR colonists). If it's generic, you wouldn't even need to color them.

When I was in Wal-mart the last time looking for stuff and was about to give up, I saw something that I believed would work. That was the creative wood buttons. To me they looked like futuristic mines. I only needed 30 of them, but at the price they were the extras could be used in another prototype (after all the work on this one, I don't know if I want to make another one...that's another story in itself.)

I got some acrylic paints for cheap (44 cents a piece at wal-mart) so probably for 5 bucks I could make enough of them for 3 games.

The tiny army men are perfect. The ones I used had very tiny guns, it could almost look like they are pointing their fingers instead of shooting something. The paint made them look great. The planets are made out of cardboard, and painted as well. So far it looks great, and now all I got left is writing up the player references and ship boards, and playtesting can begin.