Token Survey - Results
Heyo everyone!
Thank you to everyone who was able to fill out the survey! We had 1,463 responses! Now that it’s closed and we've had time to sift through the responses we want to share the results with you all! We have a thread on discord to talk a little bit about what, if anything, we plan on using the results for.
In case you missed the survey, or just need a recap on what it was about, this was a survey focused on tokens and aimed at GMs running 5e games.
The main reason we ran this survey (aside from pure curiosity) was to just give us some concrete data to help us prioritize specific tokens when planning out token packs. To pull back the curtain a bit, our current method is mostly “whatever strikes our fancy at the time.” What can we say? We’re artists, and we’re mostly at the whims of our muses. Now we have some actual data on what you all like and use most we can factor that in along with what we like to draw.
If you are interested in the specifics for each question/graph, they'll be in the attached discord thread in the announcements!
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Notes for graphs:
- For questions 4 and 10, which had “other” and short answer responses, we went through and condensed and truncated those responses to make the graphs and data neater. Generally speaking, if a response occurred 5 times or less, it was condensed into another category or truncated.
- There was a typo in question 8; the answer “8-11” should have been “9-11.” We don’t think it’s thrown off the data much, but we did notice it.
- It was pointed out that we missed the adventure Dragon of Icespire Peak as an answer in question 6. We added the option in the evening of the first day the survey was open, after we had already had about 600 responses. So the data on this question is probably a little bit off. We are glad we added it in late though, considering how many responses it got even though it wasn’t included from the start.
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Comments (13)
If I could wish for one thing, that is more Cthulhu Mythos tokens. I know they aren't used as much in DnD, but they are in Pathfinder (which I play)
Is there an HD version of the graphs? I can't read the text with the current resolution.
Added, sorry about that, didnt realize patreon will compress it that much.
Is there a larger version of that image, to look at results? Both the one in the email and here on Patreon are a bit too small to read.
Added, sorry about that, didnt realize patreon will compress it that much.
FWIW - I typically use top-down or isometric tokens for most enemy-type creatures. I use portrait tokens for my PCs, NPCs, and key humanoid enemies. My players have really liked it that way because it helps them keep track of who-is-who among RP characters and PCs, but also keeps the combat map relatively uncluttered when simply mowing down trash mobs, like a swarm of giant wasps or a horde of nameless goblins. I am always on the look out for some nice, clean portrait tokens for humanoids of all races, and "generic NPC types" (the barman, the innkeeper, the milkmaid, the blacksmith, etc)
You have probably seen a token stamp creator that lets you make portrait tokens out of any image?
If you made portrait tokens, I'd absolutely use them!
All righty
So you're not going to make stuff for Pathfinder any more? That seems to be what the survey implies.
"any more" would suggest we did before, we've always focused on 5e first since that's also what the vast majority of our community plays (based on previous survey), That's why this one is also focused on that specifically. Doesn't mean we wont branch into other systems tho
I just want a good Beholder token, because that's impossible to find.
Tom Cartos works with Splattered Ink Games to make tokens. They have awesome beholder tokens :)