Play aids and other neat tools

[Jussi Marttila]

Those look really nice!

Thanks; they do really help the players out so were worth doing. Printed, backed, and laminated - they look great. I'm pretty pleased with the clear and clean design and readability. I could 'knock up' some RAW versions if you want and you'll get some use out of them?

I probably would, actually, if you wouldn't mind.

[Hirobumi]

One accessory I can really recommend is the combat pad by Paizo. You have magnets on which you can write the names of the characters and the adversaries together with some stats (parry rating...). You then put the magnets on the board in the correct order of combat. Usually my players don't tell me every round in which stance they continue to fight, they only tell me if they want to change their stance. My players tell me what they want to do, I calculate the TN, the player rolls the dice and we then together describe what happens. This way is fast, thrilling and entertaining for everybody.

[Rich H]

Those look really nice!

Thanks; they do really help the players out so were worth doing. Printed, backed, and laminated - they look great. I'm pretty pleased with the clear and clean design and readability. I could 'knock up' some RAW versions if you want and you'll get some use out of them?

I probably would, actually, if you wouldn't mind.

Not at all. I'll take a look at doing them tomorrow night for you (its a bit late now) and do a version without too much of the rules text, so that they aren't cluttered and are easily accessible. In my experience, players don't really need the rules detail on the cards when it comes to combat tasks just the summary of what it helps out with.

[Rich H]

I find the following useful aswell...

Character summary sheet, so the LM has quick access to pertinent PC information: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... ummary.pdf

Adversary sheet: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... ummary.pdf

Player scratch sheet, so that the character sheets are spared constant changes for those elements in the game that get altered a lot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... 0Sheet.pdf

And here's a zip file of the template documents that I often use: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... 20Pack.zip

Hope those help.

[Dunkelbrink]

And a big cheers to Rich for the useful Combat role cards; just was I was hoping someone had gone and made!

[Stormcrow]

Someone should locate all of these make make a sticky for them...

[ghaste]

Wow, seriously great job, I was at that moment trying to do a stance mat with the new rules and bam, I found this pearl!

Thank you.

[Rich H]

Going to be RAWifying (great word) some of these today. Will make a new post when I do.

[Rich H]

Here are RAWified versions of the play aids, etc...

Stance Mat: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... RAW%29.pdf

Updated with all the new rules; Voidstate produced the original one years ago.

Combat Stance Cards: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... RAW%29.pdf

I tried to balance rules detail with usefulness of the cards being a decent quick reference guide for players. I think the balance is about right. If this is 'too much' then I could do a 'lighter' version - just let me know.

Combat Role Cards: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... RAW%29.pdf

A bit 'text dense' but I think they're okay. Again, I could do a 'lighter' version if peeps want one.

Player Scratch Sheet: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... RAW%29.pdf

Useful for keeping the main PC sheet clear of those numbers etc that get altered a lot during a game session.

Player-hero Summary Sheet: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... RAW%29.pdf

I've found this useful for me as an LM in recording those bits of information about the PCs that I often need to refer to.

Adversary Summary Sheet: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... RAW%29.pdf

Sheet for recording adversary details. Saves me flipping through various books.

Document Sheets and Templates: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/795 ... 20Pack.zip

A zip file of the template documents that I often use for creating my house rule pdfs, etc.

Think that's them all.

[Jussi Marttila]

Thanks, these will come in handy!

My own game mat project (I finally got my War of the Ring game back from one of my players) is going to eventually feature spaces for combat pairing, i.e. making it easier to track who's fighting who. I'll post pictures and such whenever I have the time to finish it.