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What would be a good token or counter to have in Redemption?

For instance, a paralysis token for when hero afflicted by the serpent.

I saw those at nats and that what gave me the idea to ask this question. Also, there are tokens that have a dial so you can set a number and count down.

All of those are really solid

A regular die with the words "Poisoned" and "Paralyzed" along the edges would be really cool and probably pretty simple to produce.

A TLG logo of course...

I use a standard six sided die and just keep track in my mind of what each die is for (if I even need that many, which I virtually never do). Some dice are smaller (12mm), and IMO, nicer than the standard board game size, such as this kind (which are what I use and sell):

https://m.facebook.com/yourturngames/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1567942920184906

Hope this helps ya.

I'm surprised no one has made like full art "poisoned", "paralyzed" or "provisioned" token cards like they have in Magic for 1/1 tokens.

I feel like that would be SUPER easy to have someone design token cards and players just use the fake cards as counters. I'm sure if enough people want to chip in you could even have a print on demand company whip you up some token cards too!

I think the point of counters is not just for your reference but for your opponent's reference as well. Knowing what the numbers represent is fine but I would rather have a way that everyone can recognize.

There's no question that a counter is a reference for all players involved in the game, and not just the one using the counter.; however, from my play experience (and I'm sure many other players as well) using dice as counters worked just fine for all players who were in the game as we all knew what the counter(s) was for.  I've yet to encounter a situation (while others, I'm sure, have encountered such a situation) where there was a specific need for special counters as there hasn't been multiple counters needed to differentiate what each counter was for (granted, I haven't played as long as some folks in here have; and the games I have played were T1 deck and didn't have situations arise where an increased/decreased character is also paralyzed and/or poisoned, or what have you), although they're definitely a nice benefit to have/use for those kinds of situations.  For most games, though, dice or some other method of counting work just fine.  With that being said, I'm all for a special kind of counter that doesn't have MTG references and images all over them.

Function is not really the point. Other than experience credit, players who have a shot at winning big tournaments already don't even need the dice.

*EDIT* Upon reading your post more closely, are you suffering from MPD? It seems like a different person is writing every other sentence there disagreeing with the guy who wrote the last one!

I sent you a PM regarding your comments.