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I sure would like to get this, can't find it anywhere.
Scratch-and-dent Combat Pads for $12.71/each are still available. I picked one of them up, and to be perfectly honest, it was in virtually perfect condition - one VERY minor ding to a corner, and something I'd expect to find in a shop somewhere.
Heck of a deal, and considering that they're sold out of the non-"damaged" ones, probably your best bet for getting one.
Scratch-and-dent Combat Pads for $12.71/each are still available. I picked one of them up, and to be perfectly honest, it was in virtually perfect condition - one VERY minor ding to a corner, and something I'd expect to find in a shop somewhere.
Heck of a deal, and considering that they're sold out of the non-"damaged" ones, probably your best bet for getting one.
I also got one of these. It looked like my buddy's new one did after he'd used it for a couple of months: just dented corners.
Kvantum
(Pathfinder Adventure Path Charter Subscriber; Roleplaying Game, Campaign Setting, Companion, Modules Subscriber)
Our partner at Open Mind Games is working on it, and has been for a while, but we don't have a delivery date yet.
Especially frustrating because the GM Guide touts this item over and over, doing a very good job of stating how invaluable it is to gaming (and rightly so). Unfortunately, it means I have multiple people now asking me when this is due back in the store.
It sucks that my only answer is, "Someday..."
When I saw this product first advertised years ago, I went to Wal-Mart with a $10 bill and came out with all the components I needed to make my own. Mine isn't as nice, but it's just as functional. Probably moreso, since I have color and shape coded magnetic stars, circles, and other shapes I can tag rounds to effects and effects to characters.
When I saw this product first advertised years ago, I went to Wal-Mart with a $10 bill and came out with all the components I needed to make my own. Mine isn't as nice, but it's just as functional. Probably moreso, since I have color and shape coded magnetic stars, circles, and other shapes I can tag rounds to effects and effects to characters.
I have the Game Mastery Combat Pad but I would like to have details about what you put together.
I have the Game Mastery Combat Pad but I would like to have details about what you put together.
When I saw this product first advertised years ago, I went to Wal-Mart with a $10 bill and came out with all the components I needed to make my own. Mine isn't as nice, but it's just as functional. Probably moreso, since I have color and shape coded magnetic stars, circles, and other shapes I can tag rounds to effects and effects to characters.
If it's anything like mine, it's a small magnetic dry erase board, a handful of colored plastic magnets, and sticker dots to label the magnets. Use permanent marker to list out the initiative count and any extra stuff that you want to keep and use dry erase for notes during the rounds.
That said, I still bought a Combat Pad from the scratch and dent sale to take to Conventions because it is much easier to tote around.
I used a pack of printable magnetic business cards and a sheet of printable flexible magnet. I used a word processing program to get a layout with rounds listed 1-20 across the top, initiative from 30 to -5 down the side (with "tabbed over" columns for readying and delaying), and a blank space on the right side for notes.
Using another program, I printed out (on the magnetic business cards) the names of my PCs in different fonts and different color borders, four to a card, with several blank ones with black borders. These initiative trackers are therefore about 1/4 of a typical business card in size. Every surface got coated with clear contact paper to make it dry-erase friendly.
I also printed out a business card in red, orange, blue, yellow and green, then used a hobby knife to cut a pair of big arrows (in red) to track rounds and who has the current action, and used special hole punches normally used for scrapbooking to get circles, stars, etc in pairs. I use these to mark notes (one next to a spell's name under "Notes" and the other on the round it ends) or tag effects to characters.
The whole thing was put onto a metal kitchen dry-erase noteboard, slightly bigger than 8"X11" (like 9"x12" or so).
The new edition of the Combat Pad should be in stock in September. There's a new thread to discuss that edition, so I'm closing this thread.