Hi all,
I am a recent PF player, currently very involved in my local PFS. I am probably the "odd man out" in a sense, having been the DM for most of my PnP RPG career and almost never a player.
Now playing in PFS, I have been wondering what other players use to help them during a game session. For example, my main character is a Bard. After seeing another player use poker chips to keep track of spells/day ramaining, I thought this would be a good idea to keep track of my bardic performances left per day. Really helped not having to track on paper, then erasing it once we hit midnight, and so on.
Now I am of course wondering what other things like these people find useful. I'm not really talking about electronic tools like Hero Lab or iPhone/iPad apps, but more creative solutions to streamline the process.
What other cool ideas are out there?
3x5 cards listing what buff spells do. Or what your bardic performance does. Put them out there so everyone can see what's going on.
If I'm playing a melee type, I have a few dice out in front of me that show my current to hit and damage bonuses, so I can just roll the dice and add the number in front of me without having to add up everything every round.
A Gamemastery deck with buff cards will be coming out soon. Some of the other card decks are also useful.
At our table, we've had a lot of good use out of the Steel Sqwire templates for AoE spells (different sized of radii and both straight and diagonal cones). One tip: get a different colour for each type of spell template (e.g., our radius templates are black, the diagonal cones are red, and the straight cones are blue). But they can be expensive for some budgets.
Hi all,
I am a recent PF player, currently very involved in my local PFS. I am probably the "odd man out" in a sense, having been the DM for most of my PnP RPG career and almost never a player.
Now playing in PFS, I have been wondering what other players use to help them during a game session. For example, my main character is a Bard. After seeing another player use poker chips to keep track of spells/day ramaining, I thought this would be a good idea to keep track of my bardic performances left per day. Really helped not having to track on paper, then erasing it once we hit midnight, and so on.
Now I am of course wondering what other things like these people find useful. I'm not really talking about electronic tools like Hero Lab or iPhone/iPad apps, but more creative solutions to streamline the process.
What other cool ideas are out there?
I don't do PFS but one thing I have done in our home game is to go to the PRD, copy and paste all the spells my guy has into one big file by level and print it out to stick in the notebook i have for his character sheet.
I do the same thing for feats. (and the entire class actually- so i can look up any aspect of it without having to get out a book)
Its even mroe useful if you are using an archtype since you can take the 10 minutes to replace each ability thats replaced (both in the chart and the long descriptions) so you have your entire character in one easy spot.
(I use a 3 brad folder with those plastic paper sleeves for everything- one per character).
If you aren't the type to have every single thing of every single thing memorized, it can help immensely.. I know it does, for me.
-S
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-S
yep, I do this too :)