Combat Task Cards and More

[jamesrbrown]

Here are some simple Combat task cards if you'd like to use them. Nothing fancy. Print a set for each of your players on card stock, cut them, and slip them into a card sleeve. The cards are standard 2.5" x 3.5".

Combat Task Cards

Combat Tasks + Combat Options Cards

Also, in the following picture you will see an example of an engagement using my Battle Mat (which you can download from my site). Each of the player-heroes is engaged by two adversaries in their own engagement circle.



I use those small wooden numbered disks in pretty much all my roleplaying games to represent PCs and their foes. So, I created a wooden Stance coaster for the player-hero disks in TOR to assist players in combat. Each player gets a set of 4 colored-coded Stance coasters. The top left shows their place in the order of combat and the top right shows the base TN for the stance. At the top of every round, players pick one coaster and place it under their disk.

[Francesco]

...great stuff James!

Francesco

[zedturtle]

Very nice and clean. I like the wooden plugs, I've been thinking of various ways to represent engagement and stance tactilely without getting into miniatures (which I think can make people change mindsets to a tactical one that's no quite in sync with TOR).

[jamesrbrown]

What would be really cool is to create pictures for the disks that represent the adversaries. Something similar to the markers that come in the Beginners Sets for the new Star Wars roleplaying game. Actually, that could be easily done by printing on sticker paper (or regular paper that is glued on). Hmmmm...

The disks are 1 inch. Large creatures should use a 1.5 inch disk. Great-size creatures could use 2 inch disks. All the disks can be found on Amazon by the way.

Also, the Battle Mat could be a bit larger to accommodate larger disks. I left it so that it could be printed out on one page; but I could make it so that it could be printed on two pages, requiring cutting and taping together.

[Majestic]

Those are pretty nice, james!

Are the numbers (14, 18, etc.) the totals needed to hit those characters?

[jamesrbrown]

I'm glad you like the Combat Task Cards guys! Especially you Francesco!

Are the numbers (14, 18, etc.) the totals needed to hit those characters?

No. The disks are just numbered to differentiate between characters. So, Player-hero #1, #2, and #3. Adversary #13, #14, #15, etc.

[aramis]

Very nice and clean. I like the wooden plugs, I've been thinking of various ways to represent engagement and stance tactilely without getting into miniatures (which I think can make people change mindsets to a tactical one that's no quite in sync with TOR).

Wooden gaming cubes work well, too, as do meeples. I've used both.

[shipwreck]

Looking good!

[StuartJ]

Thanks for sharing James - this looks very helpful, especially after watching your video of using it in action!

I also like the notion of combining your standard battle mat with the occasional custom battle mat like Rich H. suggested for set-piece 'special' battles.

What would be really cool is to create pictures for the disks that represent the adversaries. Something similar to the markers that come in the Beginners Sets for the new Star Wars roleplaying game. Actually, that could be easily done by printing on sticker paper (or regular paper that is glued on). Hmmmm...

You could maybe use the suggestions from the discussion on the old forum about paper tokens. The suggestion to use TokenTool looks especially promising given the opportunity to screengrab from e.g. the artwork in PDFs. In fact, DylanRPG already did that and shared a link to a sheet of tokens in the discussion about Paper figures, flats, tokens.

[jamesrbrown]

I have updated the PDF to include Combat options as well (Knockback, Remove Helm, Called Shot) here.