Initiative Cards

Relbanan

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I've been looking for initiative cards and not found what I wanted, so I threw these together. What I wanted specifically was a card with the basic info, plus a place to track HP, action points, second wind, and effects. There's a character card and a creature card; the creature card has space to track HP for four creatures. The empty lines in the middle are for attacks, notes, etc.

The cards are the standard 3.5" x 2.5" MTG size. The PDF file has six character cards and six creature cards. The document is a PDF form, you can fill it out before printing or just print blanks.

When you go to print, in the "Print Range" section, choose the Pages button and pick the specific pages you've filled out; 1-6 are character, 7-12 are creature. Then in Page Scaling choose "Multiple pages per sheet" and in Pages per sheet choose "6", and select the Auto-Rotate Pages checkbox. This will print six cards per page at the correct size.
 

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Those are nice. I just use a 3x5 index card with a PC's name on it. I have a ledge that I line them up on in front of my DM screen.

jh
 


Those are nice. I just use a 3x5 index card with a PC's name on it. I have a ledge that I line them up on in front of my DM screen.

jh

I want to have the quick info in front of me (lack of experience on my part as a DM, probably) and I want to be able to keep the monster's condition there too - HPs, effects. One less piece (or several more pieces, depending on how you look at it) of paper to keep track of.

Really? Sorry. They just looked more square than that.

nope. They always do to me too, but that's because I think of playing cards, not MTG cards, when I think of cards. :)

edit - updated, see first post
 
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Ok, I lied. NOW I'm done. The cards in the message right above this one are the finals, unless I get bored. :) If you don't see the "CHARACTER" and "CREATURE" in white text, reload the page, it should pick up the new images.

If anyone wants them let me know and I'll upload the PDFs.
 



yeah, I've ordered some mini (7/8" dia) poker chips to use for effects, this is more for keeping track of when they end.


I'm playing around with PDF forms, to see if I can make this editable.
 

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