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<blockquote data-quote="ArwensDaughter" data-source="post: 7502556" data-attributes="member: 6804968"><p>Being a pretty techy person, I played around with Fight Club and one other iOS app to build encounters and use for tracking combat, but I found it to be a lot more work and pretty fiddly. So I went back to lower tech options for that.</p><p></p><p>For initiative, I picked up Matt Mercer's approach of having people roll, then asking "any one above 20?" "15-20" and so forth; it's faster for me that going around the table to get numbers, then reorganizing the list in order. I do this on a small wipe erase board that I also us to track monster HP.</p><p></p><p>I'm not good with spatial relationships in my head, so we use a grid and "minis" for most combats. My husband got me one of the Pathfinder Bestiary pawn boxes, and I later got a batch of "hero" Pathfinder pawns. Most of my players use a pathfinder pawn for their character, although a couple have their own mini (one a custom 3d printed mini, one a lego figure). I use the monster pawns a fair amount, but for medium sized creatures, I'm just as likely to use pawns I scavenged from our Sorry game. If I need more than 4 (Sorry pawns come in 4 different colors), we put small colored hair ties on some of the pawns. We use those same hair ties to mark things like concentration, hunter's mark, hex, etc. [As an aside, that's not why I bought the hair ties; My daughter needed some, but didn't specifiy size; so I bought several kinds and took the ones she rejected to use for DnD!]</p><p></p><p>I do use my iPad at the table; my prep notes are in DnD Beyond, with links to the monsters, maps, descriptions, etc. I also use it to look up spells, etc. But some things seem to just work better for me more "old school."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ArwensDaughter, post: 7502556, member: 6804968"] Being a pretty techy person, I played around with Fight Club and one other iOS app to build encounters and use for tracking combat, but I found it to be a lot more work and pretty fiddly. So I went back to lower tech options for that. For initiative, I picked up Matt Mercer's approach of having people roll, then asking "any one above 20?" "15-20" and so forth; it's faster for me that going around the table to get numbers, then reorganizing the list in order. I do this on a small wipe erase board that I also us to track monster HP. I'm not good with spatial relationships in my head, so we use a grid and "minis" for most combats. My husband got me one of the Pathfinder Bestiary pawn boxes, and I later got a batch of "hero" Pathfinder pawns. Most of my players use a pathfinder pawn for their character, although a couple have their own mini (one a custom 3d printed mini, one a lego figure). I use the monster pawns a fair amount, but for medium sized creatures, I'm just as likely to use pawns I scavenged from our Sorry game. If I need more than 4 (Sorry pawns come in 4 different colors), we put small colored hair ties on some of the pawns. We use those same hair ties to mark things like concentration, hunter's mark, hex, etc. [As an aside, that's not why I bought the hair ties; My daughter needed some, but didn't specifiy size; so I bought several kinds and took the ones she rejected to use for DnD!] I do use my iPad at the table; my prep notes are in DnD Beyond, with links to the monsters, maps, descriptions, etc. I also use it to look up spells, etc. But some things seem to just work better for me more "old school." [/QUOTE]
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