Recent content by Ktulu

I've tried many different approaches and never really found myself happy with any of them. I would love to have a decent enough random system with a hex-grid layout, but I haven't got it yet. 😕

I do a strong mix of both. I prefer totem when my monsters are flying creatures, or have a large map area, or when I have a massive amount of creatures in a fight. Minis and maps when we're more closed in small spaces or fewer monsters. And sometimes, I just choose to be lazy in mid session...

Coming up on session 38 in my current game. We try to play weekly, but health and life got in the way this year. Anyway, the highest level character is 7, with most around 5 after some character deaths. The 7th level char has been at every session and never died.

Other: my players happily roll because it's fun.

I'm using a top mounted projector from my ceiling and roll20 to display maps. Seems to work very well for me. I would agree with the Canuck that you should mount plexiglass over the monitor if you go horizontal mounting.

I can't confirm for the android version, but to damage or heal on the iOS you hit a button in the top right corner to go track hp. Then select the creature or creatures and adjust the hp. I would assume it works virtually the same on the android.

For combat tracking, I use DMMinion on my iPad. There is a pc version as well. Otherwise, I have the conditions page printed out for players and I ordered Gf9's spell cards to assist with quick lookup of players spells at the table.

Looks a lot like my table, and looking forward to trying it out myself!!!

Spoiler - review Otherwise, my group really enjoyed going through the story.

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I would have gone with Pathforder -- Similar to pathfinder and fourth, plus a ford is a crossing, which makes it like a double pun!

They're selling the .pdf for $40? That's mighty costly.

Oooh... Dirty move, Goathead....taking my suggestions and applying them. I see whut u did there, making me want to use the product...

For my part, I usually only want the defenses, level, and maybe the HP for the PC's. May be different for some DM's, but I don't track their surges, powers, etc... Heck, even when I use the D&D4eCM I force all player HP to 10, so I can simply damage by 5 for bloodied or 10 for unconscious...