Home Made Merchant of Venus Part 4 - The Counters

One can see parts 1-3 and 5 of this discourse here, here, here and here.

I had a bit of an eye opening a few days ago when I was writing the part about how I made my board and I asked my wife if she thought that the board made my game look amatuerish and she told me "No, the board is fine. It is the counters that look bad". And to be honest she does have a point, but the good news is that 1) the quality doesn't affect the game, and 2) if I find a fix to the main problem it is easily fixed.

Now the one thing I have learned and would definitely recommend it to anyone trying for a decent quality PnP game is to print your counters out and attach them to wood. I have messed about with various counters and tokens for miniature games  by doing them on cardboard and the results are not comparable. The difference is the feel between something intended to be temporary and something intended to be permanent.