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Message no. 1
From: Apone <mpcheval@********.FR>
Subject: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 16:55:12 +0200
Just as a matter of curiosity, I was wondering which things people here
uses for tokens.
Our group uses corn grains but as the different sort of tokens increase
(wounds, nuyens, rage, virus, goods...and so on) it sometimes becomes a
bit confusing :"Whoops ! my virus tokens have mixed with my
credstick...".
Any suggestion would be welcome.

so long,

Apone.

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"You may bury my body down by the highway side,
So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus n'ride."
Robert Johnson
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Message no. 2
From: Jörg Melcher <jom@********.COM>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 17:10:05 +0200
At 04:55 PM 5/25/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Just as a matter of curiosity, I was wondering which things people here
>uses for tokens.
>Our group uses corn grains but as the different sort of tokens increase
>(wounds, nuyens, rage, virus, goods...and so on) it sometimes becomes a
>bit confusing :"Whoops ! my virus tokens have mixed with my
>credstick...".
>Any suggestion would be welcome.
>
>so long,
>
> Apone.

We us glass counters in different colours.

JOM
Message no. 3
From: "Bourgault, Patrick" <pbourgau@***.CA>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 11:13:00 PDT
My group uses pennies and we had the same kind of problems. Since we
don't want to had nickles, dimes or quarters, we use the card itself.
Damages go on the threat rating, Shadowland counters go on top of the
cards, special tokkens (Urban Brawl, Courrier Run, Virus) goes in the
middle.

PS. For those not in North America, a penny is the cheapest amount of
money. The nickle is the second, etc.....

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From: Apone[SMTP:mpcheval@********.FR]
Reply To: Shadowrun Trading Card Game Discussion
Sent: 25 mai, 1998 10:55
To: SRCARD@********.ITRIBE.NET
Subject: An unusual Tokens question

Just as a matter of curiosity, I was wondering which things people here
uses for tokens.
Our group uses corn grains but as the different sort of tokens increase
(wounds, nuyens, rage, virus, goods...and so on) it sometimes becomes a
bit confusing :"Whoops ! my virus tokens have mixed with my
credstick...".
Any suggestion would be welcome.

so long,

Apone.

--
------------------------------------------------------------------------

"You may bury my body down by the highway side,
So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus n'ride."
Robert Johnson
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Message no. 4
From: Quicksilver <qwksilvr@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 14:35:50 -0500
At 04:55 PM 5/25/98 +0200, you wrote:
>Just as a matter of curiosity, I was wondering which things people here
>uses for tokens.
>Our group uses corn grains but as the different sort of tokens increase
>(wounds, nuyens, rage, virus, goods...and so on) it sometimes becomes a
>bit confusing :"Whoops ! my virus tokens have mixed with my
>credstick...".
>Any suggestion would be welcome.

I use actual Japanese Yen coins for my credstick, a friend went to a
gunshop and picked up a bag of bullets for damage counters (just some
smallish rounded bullets, not whole cartridges), and I use the simple glass
counters for misc marking. I've been toying with using some 'shrinkart'
plastic to make some of the more specialized counters (but who's got the
time?).
I've also heard of people using little post-it notes for some things.

Hg

....an analog person, stuck, in a digital world
Message no. 5
From: Norman McLeod <mcleodn@***********.NET>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 16:23:29 -0400
>Just as a matter of curiosity, I was wondering which things people here
>uses for tokens.
>Our group uses corn grains but as the different sort of tokens increase
>(wounds, nuyens, rage, virus, goods...and so on) it sometimes becomes a
>bit confusing :"Whoops ! my virus tokens have mixed with my
>credstick...".
>Any suggestion would be welcome.


We use dice on cards. Different colours of dice for different tokens, but
mostly the inportant thing is to keep them on the cards they are relevent
to. If we need several types, we use little torn off bits of paper, small
change, or whatever else is available. We also put one of each type of
token, except damage and credstick on the source of those tokens.
Message no. 6
From: David Reis <david.reis@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 13:37:42 -0700
Apone <mpcheval@********.FR> wrote:
>Just as a matter of curiosity, I was wondering which things people here
>uses for tokens.
>Our group uses corn grains but as the different sort of tokens increase
>(wounds, nuyens, rage, virus, goods...and so on) it sometimes becomes a
>bit confusing :"Whoops ! my virus tokens have mixed with my
>credstick...".
>Any suggestion would be welcome.
>
My play group has never considered using anything other than poker chips as
tokens. The connection between cards and poker chips is obvious, and the
different colored chips lends itself pretty well to the different token
types. We use red and blue for nuyen (5 and 1 respectively); red for
damage; gold, red, and white for rep (10, 5, and 1 respectively); and white
for miscellaneous other tokens.

David
Message no. 7
From: Keldon Mor <Keldon@********.NET>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 15:43:21 -0500
> I use actual Japanese Yen coins for my credstick, a friend went to
a
>gunshop and picked up a bag of bullets for damage counters (just some
>smallish rounded bullets, not whole cartridges), and I use the simple glass
>counters for misc marking. I've been toying with using some 'shrinkart'
>plastic to make some of the more specialized counters (but who's got the
>time?).

The yen coins sound cool, where would one pick those up? How much would
it cost (in US$)?

Peace,
Keldon Mor
Keldon@********.net
http://ww2.NetNitco.net/users/keldon/
Message no. 8
From: Norman McLeod <mcleodn@***********.NET>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 16:50:18 -0400
I forgot to mention. For Reputation, we just keep the Objectives in a pile,
and put cards that effect it in the pile as well.
Message no. 9
From: Quicksilver <qwksilvr@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 18:36:39 -0500
At 03:43 PM 5/25/98 -0500, you wrote:
>> I use actual Japanese Yen coins for my credstick, a friend went to
>a
>>gunshop and picked up a bag of bullets for damage counters (just some
>>smallish rounded bullets, not whole cartridges), and I use the simple glass
>>counters for misc marking. I've been toying with using some 'shrinkart'
>>plastic to make some of the more specialized counters (but who's got the
>>time?).
>
> The yen coins sound cool, where would one pick those up? How much would
>it cost (in US$)?

I got mine from ex-military family. I've been trying to get my hands on
more with little luck.
Last I checked, the exchange rate was something like 130 yen to a dollar.
Unfortunately, the smallest denomination any moneychangers around here will
handle is a 1000 yen bill, not very practical for tokens <g>.

Hg
....an analog person, stuck, in a digital world
Message no. 10
From: Peicky <Peicky@***.COM>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 04:03:12 EDT
Hi There!

Another way to reduce the tokens is to print out a creditstick-paper which
simply contains the Nuyens from 1 to ??? (we use 1 - 50). When you are using a
harder paper and/or a transparent film it will last for a long time. Maybe you
use a box like me for your deck then you could fix the measures of the paper
with the measures of the box and use it like a inlay without loosing space for
the cards. With a creditstick paper you only need 1 Token to mark your
Nuyens. For the damage we use dice (D12 make no problems).

Have a nice day,
Peicky
Message no. 11
From: Donald Arganbright <jayden63@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 07:55:56 PDT
>
>Hi There!
>
>Another way to reduce the tokens is to print out a creditstick-paper
which
>simply contains the Nuyens from 1 to ??? (we use 1 - 50). When you are
using a
>harder paper and/or a transparent film it will last for a long time.
Maybe you
>use a box like me for your deck then you could fix the measures of the
paper
>with the measures of the box and use it like a inlay without loosing
space for
>the cards. With a creditstick paper you only need 1 Token to mark your
>Nuyens. For the damage we use dice (D12 make no problems).
>
>Have a nice day,
>Peicky
>
My group mainly uses dice for everything. A pair of 10 siders for
the nuyen (gives range of 00-99, I personally have had 34 at one time).
And a bunch of 8 sided dice for damage. 10 sided dice
for info or drug tokens (rarely do I have a character with both)
and six sided dice for virus tokens. +1/+1 tokens are four sided
dice. This works great. With the amount of RPGing that I do, I
have plenty of dice or all sizes and it is just easier to change
one dye than keep track of lots of counters.

*** In ruling, the Sage attends to the heart, not the eye ***
*** - Tao ***


Donald Arganbright
Jayden Stormwalker


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Message no. 12
From: Hansen <hansen@********.COM.SG>
Subject: Re: An unusual Tokens question
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 13:23:35 +0800
>>
>>Hi There!
>>
>>Another way to reduce the tokens is to print out a creditstick-paper
>which
>>simply contains the Nuyens from 1 to ??? (we use 1 - 50). When you are
>using a
>>harder paper and/or a transparent film it will last for a long time.
>Maybe you
>>use a box like me for your deck then you could fix the measures of the
>paper
>>with the measures of the box and use it like a inlay without loosing
>space for
>>the cards. With a creditstick paper you only need 1 Token to mark your
>>Nuyens. For the damage we use dice (D12 make no problems).
>>
>>Have a nice day,
>>Peicky
>>
>My group mainly uses dice for everything. A pair of 10 siders for
>the nuyen (gives range of 00-99, I personally have had 34 at one time).
>And a bunch of 8 sided dice for damage. 10 sided dice
>for info or drug tokens (rarely do I have a character with both)
>and six sided dice for virus tokens. +1/+1 tokens are four sided
>dice. This works great. With the amount of RPGing that I do, I
>have plenty of dice or all sizes and it is just easier to change
>one dye than keep track of lots of counters.


Ultra Pro (the deck protector makers) are coming up with a counter that's
the size of a card. It can count from 1-50. Unforunately the illustrations
on it are MtG. Maybe they'll come up with ageneric one...

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