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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7501865" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>For initiative, I had old-style wooden clothespins (the solid wood ones, not the ones with the spring) for all of the PCs and a few "Foe #1", "Foe #2" and so on. I just ordered them once as people called out their initiative, put them on top of my DM's screen and done. When someone goes I move their clothespin the the end of the line.</p><p></p><p>Nowadays I don't run with a screen or a battlemap, so it's been replaced with half-index cards I lay out on the table. Green for PCs, Orange for foes, White for "other".</p><p></p><p>But having the initiative order very visible to the players makes whomever's "on-deck" prepped and ready to do their turn.</p><p></p><p>I run without any electronics. The only "technical" advance is that my preferred game to run, 13th Age, had the PDFs for free when buying the books (even from your FLGS) so I cut-n-paste all my monster and items into a document and print it out for a session to cut down on look up time.</p><p></p><p>Oh, items I have printed out two columns, and I literally cut out the item description and hand it to the player. Quick and easy bookkeeping.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7501865, member: 20564"] For initiative, I had old-style wooden clothespins (the solid wood ones, not the ones with the spring) for all of the PCs and a few "Foe #1", "Foe #2" and so on. I just ordered them once as people called out their initiative, put them on top of my DM's screen and done. When someone goes I move their clothespin the the end of the line. Nowadays I don't run with a screen or a battlemap, so it's been replaced with half-index cards I lay out on the table. Green for PCs, Orange for foes, White for "other". But having the initiative order very visible to the players makes whomever's "on-deck" prepped and ready to do their turn. I run without any electronics. The only "technical" advance is that my preferred game to run, 13th Age, had the PDFs for free when buying the books (even from your FLGS) so I cut-n-paste all my monster and items into a document and print it out for a session to cut down on look up time. Oh, items I have printed out two columns, and I literally cut out the item description and hand it to the player. Quick and easy bookkeeping. [/QUOTE]
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