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Whats the best way to hold/organize all of this paperwork? Between boons, Characters, ITSs, chronicle sheets, redacted project bluebook reports, my multiple small binders with plastic covers system is starting to get a little stressed out. Whats an alternative... besides a filing cabinet on wheels with a padded top that converts into a bench?
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I use one of these portfolios for each character with a bunch of these sheet protectors* inside. The character sheet and the two most recent chronicles go in the front pocket. The ITS goes in the back pocket. All of the other chronicles go in the sheet protectors.
I have found this system is more compact than the 3-ring binders I was using before (much cheaper too; during Back-to-School sales, the portfolios are about 10 cents each).
I typically take about 8 or 10 of my characters with me. They all fit into one of the boxes that Paizo sends hardback books in, along with a few chessex blocks of dice.
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For my seeker, who has the most pages, I have a 1 inch notebook with heavyweight sheet protectors for every 2 pages, everyone else has a report folder (you know those plastic folders with a clear front and a clip on the side.) They are all kept in the trunk in a green file bin. I only pull out who I using when I play. This worked well for Megacon, although I only pulled out the seeker (who was 11.2 at the time).
Venture-Lieutenant, Indiana—Martinsville
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I use the same folders as The Fox, though I have tried to use some fancier ones and some are made of Plastic. (for some reason, a store sells the plastic ones only in a sick, green color)
I put the sleeve protectors in the middle, and have the chronicles go in as I play the character, in order, using the first sleeve to house my tent and booklet of spells and abilities. If a character has shenanigans (like a Barbarian) then my Hero Lab has "In Play" check boxes that change stats. I print the new sheet in booklet form when using shenanigans (like rage). That also goes with the tent in the first sleeve.
Character and boons he has goes in front pocket, waiting for credit chronicles in back pocket.
I fit 27 characters in a file box along with mini-dice, dice tower (broke down), minis, and various pencils and a laser pointer.
I recently took out my two Seekers and the dead character out to make room.
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It's an older picture, but THIS is the system I use for my active PCs. Just a manilla folder for the character's sheets, with a list of their scenarios written on the front, stored in an accordion style document holder with the rest of my PCs.
My retired PCs are stored in a filing cabinet. If I ever need them I'll know well ahead of time.
Often my level 1s and 2s (which I have a lot of) end up piled on my desk, Lol.
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I think my system is similar to Nefreet's. I have a plastic accordion-style holder (like this but about 50% larger). Inside are manila folders for each of my PFS characters, a ziploc baggie with pawns for each of them, my Cleric Class Deck and Bard Class Deck for the Card Guild, and some office supplies.
Each manila folder has a 15 page character sheet (from the Folio pdf), applicable chronicles, ITS pages, notes from adventures, one page which lists all applicable boons for that character, and one page which lists all needed resources for that character.
It's surprisingly compact -- It holds stuff for 10 active PFS characters and 2 card guild characters.
I'm either hyper-organized or can't find *anything* so I err on the side of keeping all this stuff tidy.
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I use three folders. One for GM stuff, one for inactive characters; my 2 seekers, several unplayable messes and gm blobs; and one for active and recently played or updated - through gm exp or errata or such - characters. I use one more, lighter folder to store whatever I need for the session at hand. People usually bring their own miniatures and I don't carry rulebooks but print out the critical parts. This makes traveling fairly light, but requires a bit too much foresight, you know, about what to include in the 4th folder.
Venture-Captain, Netherlands
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It's an older picture, but THIS is the system I use for my active PCs. Just a manilla folder for the character's sheets, with a list of their scenarios written on the front, stored in an accordion style document holder with the rest of my PCs.
My retired PCs are stored in a filing cabinet. If I ever need them I'll know well ahead of time.
Often my level 1s and 2s (which I have a lot of) end up piled on my desk, Lol.
Oh my glob...! Now I need to make a ratfolk named Bartholomaus <3
Back on topic: I used binders similar to the Fox. I ususally take three of those with me, wedged into a bigger binder.
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Oh, I should say that that is my *player* folder. I also have a 3-ring binder which is my GM folder. That holds a copy of the pregens, a few blank ITS's, a few new PFS cards, a Map of Absalom, a Map of the Inner Sea, and a printout of whatever I'm running that day.
Additionally I'll prep by predrawing my maps on blank flip-maps and by pulling pawns for each possible encounter (I try to have separate ziplocs for each encounter, though I'll put pawns for both tiers in the same bag). Those will go in a special pocket of my game bag, which already has markers, condition cards, and dice perma-stored in it.
Books I pull as needed either from my character resource sheet, or from the list in the scenario. Whether I'm GMing or playing, I'm usually carrying two purses (one's a laptop case), and two bags, one of the bags is just a little heavier when I'm playing (since my characters invariably use more resources than the scenarios do.)
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My wife and I use THIS BINDER. (I'm pretty sure that's it, it's the only picture/description that matches)
It has a 5 tab folder location that you can unzip a side zipper to interact with those directly, or you can unzip it to get to those and the binder as a whole. It's got a zipper pocket on the outside that we use to keep napkins/paper towels to wipe away marker. It's got space enough for our 15 character with (so far) plenty of room to spare. We've got our characters each divided by tab inserts. The front part of each character has sheets for it in sleeve protectors. We use the sleeve protectors the character sheets are in to keep disposable in-game notes on. After that, we punch holes in our ITSs and chronicle sheets and those follow the character.
In the filing folder part, we have one tab for chronicle sheets that still need to be filed with their character (usually because we don't have a way to 3-hole punch it when we first get it). One tab for unassigned boons. One tab for flattened nameplates. One tab for dead characters. And one tab for rule reference sheets we've printed out.
There's also a mesh zipper pocket inside that we keep extra pens/markers in. Lastly, there's a big pocket inside that could feet a couple sheets of paper that we don't do anything with.
Looking through your aliases, I feel confident in saying it could fit all of your characters.
Oh! Lastly, it comes with a shoulder strap, too.
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I use multiples of the Case-It file folders. They are accordion-style, but have a shoulder strap and an elastic band to keep it closed.
-TimD
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I use one of these portfolios for each character with a bunch of these sheet protectors* inside. The character sheet and the two most recent chronicles go in the front pocket. The ITS goes in the back pocket. All of the other chronicles go in the sheet protectors.
I have found this system is more compact than the 3-ring binders I was using before (much cheaper too; during Back-to-School sales, the portfolios are about 10 cents each).
I typically take about 8 or 10 of my characters with me. They all fit into one of the boxes that Paizo sends hardback books in, along with a few chessex blocks of dice.
Hadn't thought to combine one of those with a sheet protector, might give that a shot
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I have about 15 sheet protectors in each one. Two chronicles per protector, back to back.
The only real downside that I've experienced with these is that the sheet protectors are not as easy to add/subtract as a 3-ring binder. But it is only a small problem, and since I put a bunch of extra protectors in each from the start, I haven't really had to deal with it.
One really nice upside is that they come in at least 8 colors. That makes it pretty easy to color-code your characters.
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I use one of these portfolios for each character with a bunch of these sheet protectors* inside. The character sheet and the two most recent chronicles go in the front pocket. The ITS goes in the back pocket. All of the other chronicles go in the sheet protectors.
I have found this system is more compact than the 3-ring binders I was using before (much cheaper too; during Back-to-School sales, the portfolios are about 10 cents each).
I typically take about 8 or 10 of my characters with me. They all fit into one of the boxes that Paizo sends hardback books in, along with a few chessex blocks of dice.
Ditto on those folders and sheet protectors. I also just keep my tracker in Excel format out on Dropbox. Easy to get to on my phone.
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Google Drive for me. No paper necessary. :PUnfortunately, you still need physical copies of your chronicles. This was clarified a while back. :(
Citation needed please.
(For clarification, I'll still refuse to bring physical copies. I carry enough crap around as it is. Besides, it only takes a couple seconds to download onto my tablet/phone from the web.)
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LINKRight, so what I gather is "strongly encouraged" but shouldn't be a douche about it.
I read "strongly discouraged" as "let them play the first time you explain the rule."
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I read "strongly discouraged" as "let them play the first time you explain the rule."LINKRight, so what I gather is "strongly encouraged" but shouldn't be a douche about it.
I read it as "Let them play a Pre-Gen."
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It looked like the dm COULD take or refuse e chronicles if they wanted to, same as the character sheet. Gods know sometimes chronicle sheets get lost, the dm forgot to bring them last week (whistles innocently), the printer was broken, and online Dms are notorious for not sending them out for a week...
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LINKRight, so what I gather is "strongly encouraged" but shouldn't be a douche about it.
Requiring everyone to play by the same rules, once they're made aware of those rules, is being a douche? But it's okay for you to state flat out that you aren't going to follow the rule even when it's linked for you?
It blows my mind that so many of my posts are hidden for "being a jerk", but people are able to flaunt other rules and everyone just says "oh well."