D&D TOKEN MAKER & PRINTABLE COINS
The Mint
Turn any portrait into a token, and any currency into a coin you can print, cut and stack. Physical money on the table does something to a party that a number on a sheet never will.
THINGS THAT EXIST IN THE ROOM
A number on a sheet is not the same as eight coins in your hand.
There's a reason board games still ship with cardboard money and plastic resources when a spreadsheet would be more accurate. Physical things on a table change how people treat them. You feel a purchase you have to count out. You guard a pile you can see.
Tabletop RPGs mostly gave this up in exchange for convenience, and the trade was understandable, since nobody's going to hand-make currency for a Friday game. But the reason it didn't happen was manufacturing, not desire, and printing solved manufacturing some time ago.
The Mint makes two things: tokens from the portraits already in your campaign, and coins in the currency of your setting. Both come out on a sheet with cut lines.
Two things it mints
Tokens from portraits
Any character with a portrait becomes a token. Circular, framed, ready to print or use digitally.
Coins
Design the currency of your setting, then print it, cut it out and put it on the table.
Print layouts
Sheets laid out for real paper with cut lines, for both tokens and coins.
A print queue
Batch the whole party, the whole encounter or the whole treasury into one job.
Token settings
Border, size, framing, so a set of tokens looks like a set rather than a pile.
Uses your art
Uploaded portraits work exactly like generated ones. Bring your own commissioned pieces.
THE COIN TRICK
Pay them in a currency from somewhere else and watch someone notice.
Here's the thing worth the paper: mint two currencies. The one the party uses at home, and the one from the kingdom across the mountains: different design, different metal, different face on it.
Then pay somebody in the wrong one. You don't have to say anything. Somebody at the table will pick a coin up, turn it over, and ask a question you were hoping they'd ask three sessions before you'd have had to force it.
Questions a DM would actually ask
Are these VTT tokens or physical ones?
Both, depending on what you do with the file. The output is a properly framed circular token. Print it and put it on a battle map, or use the image in whatever virtual tabletop your online game runs on. We don't run a VTT, but we're not going to make the file useless to one.
Why would I print coins?
Because physical money changes how a party behaves. Handing over eight coins for a purchase is a different experience from decrementing a number, and a pile of the local currency on the table does more setting work than a paragraph of description.
Can the coins match my setting?
That's the point of them being designed rather than generic. Different realms mint different coins, and a party that notices the coin they were paid in isn't from around here has learned something you never had to say out loud.
Do I need special paper?
Ordinary paper works for both, with cut lines provided. Card stock makes coins and tokens feel considerably better and is the only upgrade worth bothering with. No special printer, no die-cutter.
Where do the token images come from?
Any portrait already in your campaign, generated in the gallery or uploaded by you. Since your NPCs and party members already have portraits, most of the work is done before you open The Mint.
How is this different from Card Forge?
Card Forge prints information: a stat card you read. The Mint prints objects: a token you move and a coin you spend. Different jobs, same underlying campaign data.
Print your party as tokens. Print the local currency while you're there.
One sheet of card stock is about twenty pence and it will outlast the campaign.
Open your grimoire for freeNo card. No beta waitlist. Always free for your players.
IN THE SAME GRIMOIRE
Illuminator
Give any image a torn-edge, parchment treatment so a handout looks like it came out of a book.
Encounter Runner
Initiative, HP, conditions, factions and mid-combat spawning. The TPK is on you; the bookkeeping is on us.
Card Forge
Printable trading-card and tarot-sized cards for NPCs, monsters, items and spells. Hand your players something real.