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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9395845" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Ok, so, as far as condition tracking goes, I highly doubt 2024 will be as bad as 4e was when it came to the various conditions someone could be inflicted with.&nbsp; And my group handled it the same way I do to this day- we bought a ton of different colored pipe cleaners at Hobby Lobby and made little colored rings, each color-coded to a different condition (bloodied is red, dazed is blue, stunned is black, brown is prone, and so on).&nbsp; And you just put the ring on the mini.As for Theatre of the Mind players, back in the dawn time before I switched to using battlemaps and minis exclusively, I had a white board that I used to keep track of these details.&nbsp; I had a nice magnetic one and a bunch of different colored magnets to help track things.To this day, the most annoying part of being a DM is tracking individual monster hit points, because my groups absolutely refuse to focus fire on anything, lol.&nbsp; That isn't to say an AoE &quot;save ends&quot; style effect like Slow isn't obnoxious to track, but that's not exactly anything a new problem.Certainly, 2024 could make DMing easier, but I don't feel that it's become more difficult than it's ever been before.&nbsp; Though you know, that's just my opinion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 9395845, member: 6877472"] Ok, so, as far as condition tracking goes, I highly doubt 2024 will be as bad as 4e was when it came to the various conditions someone could be inflicted with. And my group handled it the same way I do to this day- we bought a ton of different colored pipe cleaners at Hobby Lobby and made little colored rings, each color-coded to a different condition (bloodied is red, dazed is blue, stunned is black, brown is prone, and so on). And you just put the ring on the mini. As for Theatre of the Mind players, back in the dawn time before I switched to using battlemaps and minis exclusively, I had a white board that I used to keep track of these details. I had a nice magnetic one and a bunch of different colored magnets to help track things. To this day, the most annoying part of being a DM is tracking individual monster hit points, because my groups absolutely refuse to focus fire on anything, lol. That isn't to say an AoE "save ends" style effect like Slow isn't obnoxious to track, but that's not exactly anything a new problem. Certainly, 2024 could make DMing easier, but I don't feel that it's become more difficult than it's ever been before. Though you know, that's just my opinion. [/QUOTE]

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