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GameMastery Combat Pad
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The Combat Pad initiative tracker is the ultimate tool for managing combat in your favorite roleplaying game. It is a wet- and dry-erasable board with a steel core, so the included magnets stick right to it! It is portable—about the size of a sheet of paper—so you can take it anywhere you're gaming.

Use it to quickly and easily track turns. Write the PC's, enemies', and NPC's names on the player magnets using a wet- or dry-erase marker, then place them in initiative order. Use the blue magnets for PCs, black magnets for enemies, and green magnets for NPCs. Hash marks label positions 0–25, making it easy to put the magnets in the correct initiative order. When the order changes, simply slide the magnets to their new places.

The turn indicator magnet points to whose turn it is; never accidentally skip someone again! As the round progresses, slide the turn indicator to point to the next player; it's now that player's turn. At the end of the round, the turn indicator will point to the next round magnet.

The next round magnet serves as a reminder to move the round indicator magnet. The round indicator points to the current round number, so you'll always know exactly which round it is! Write which round spells and effects expire in the notes section of the Combat Pad (e.g. "haste ends round 10"). Additionally, the notes section is a great place to record damage or anything else necessary to make combat run smoothly.

For tactical groups, delaying and readying guides make it simple to synchronize attacks—enemies beware! Slide the player magnet to the proper guide and avoid the confusion common with other initiative tracking methods.

1 magnetic wet- and dry-erase board
2 combat round indicators
8 player character magnets
4 non-player character magnets
8 enemy magnets
2 next round indicators
2 active turn indicators

Need more magnets? Check out the Extra Magnet Pack!

This product is a backorder.

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Product Reviews

Average product rating: (4.3) based on 55 reviews

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Completely changed our game
Reviewer: Eric Garvue
Wed, Nov 8, 2006, 01:45 PM

I picked this up and found it to be one of the best roleplaying tools, ever. My entire gaming group gives it a thumbs up. Combat flows SO much faster sice we keep the board in plain view of everyone, so that all players knows who's turn it is, and who is "on deck". No more "Huh? Its my turn already?". I also like the fact that I can write on it with a permanent marker, and if I just scribble over it with a dry erase and then wipe, there is NO residue left over. Of course, wet erase and dry erase work by themselves just fine too. Fantastic product, it literally has changed our game for the better.

Great Tool every DM needs!
Reviewer: Morgenes
Wed, Nov 8, 2006, 12:16 PM

I saw this first at a friend's game session and was immediately entranced. Ever since our combats have run smoothly, allowing the pace of a 7 member party to keep going. I went home and ordered my own copy for my game.

Fantastic!
Reviewer: Kevin Baumann
Wed, Nov 8, 2006, 08:21 AM

This Combat Pad is great. We used to use index cards with post-it notes on them and those would get out of order/dropped/etc. Now that we use this pad combat is much faster. We use it with groups of 4 gamers up to 9, all with the same results. This is a great product and I would recommend this to anyone.

Pretty and Efficient!
Reviewer: Christopher Banks
Wed, Nov 8, 2006, 01:05 AM

Don't be fooled by any other combat tracker. When I first saw the other ones I laughed them off as bulky and/or unusable. Open Mind Games completely changed my mind when I talked to them at GenCon. The Combat Pad is not only perfect for tracking combat in our campaigns, but it also looks amazing. This thing helps me deal with combat, especially those epic, 10+ character/creature encounters. Give this baby a try, you won't be disapointed.

Pretty but not the best...
Reviewer: Screen Monkey
Tue, Nov 7, 2006, 03:56 PM

Nice visuals on the board, but I wish the rounds were fully numbered. Would make it a bit more of a pain to figure out who goes where.

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GameMastery Combat Pad


hectorse, Mon, May 28, 2007, 08:56 AM

When is the combat pad going to be available again?


Vic Wertz (Technical Director), Tue, May 29, 2007, 02:51 PM

hectorse wrote: When is the combat pad going to be available again? We have another press run on the way, but we're not yet sure when they'll arrive.


Rhothaerill, Mon, Jun 25, 2007, 12:20 PM

Any new word on this yet? Last I heard was "late June". Thanks.


Phil Lacefield Jr. (Contributor), Mon, Jun 25, 2007, 04:25 PM

THey had some production delays, so three weeks or so have been added to the date. We may - MAY - have a couple of cases worth to sell at Origins, but I'm not holding my breath.


Rhothaerill, Mon, Jun 25, 2007, 04:46 PM

Thanks Phil. I guess my group will have to wait a bit longer for it. I unveiled a few Gamemastery items at my last session and told them I'd have the combat pad soon. Oh well. :)

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