Combat Tracker and Power Cards for Mac

[Rastrilo]

I'm surprised by the lack of great D&D tools for the Mac. Virtually running Windows on my laptop is simply too slow.

I began running games as a DM and all spreadsheets were built in Excel. Excel is horrible on a mac. Macros usually don't work and it's painfully slow. I decided to make up my own DM spreadsheet in Numbers. It worked out really well but I don't think there's much of a difference between the 2 programs for tracking combat.

Eventually I started playing the game and I didn't like the power cards from the Character Builder. I liked 'Grandpa's' (posted somewhere on this forum) but he didn't have any for PHB2 classes. After fooling around with MSE for a long time, I finally tried Numbers and had great looking cards in no time.

After a few weeks of getting back into gaming with a mac, I'm finding that Numbers is the most useful tool I've come across.

 

[Nytmare]

Very nice. Are you going to provide a link to the combat tracker for your Mac-handicapped brethren?

 

[Rastrilo]

Here you go. I stripped out all the images to make the file size smaller (they were just the monster stat blocks from the KotS pdf).
The first sheet has the global information for your PCs. Enter their stats there. The second sheet is a sample encounter. I use the RANDBETWEEN(1,20) formula for the monster rolls. Whenever you change anything in the sheet, the numbers will re-randomize. So enter in the PC rolls then sort by Total Initiative. There's also a bit of math in the Total Initiative column. That's simply to automatically sort by highest initiative modifier if there is a tie.

Overall it's a really basic combat tracker. I saw much more complicated ones but I decided to keep mine as simple as possible. Let me know if you come up with any improvements!

View attachment CombatTracker.numbers.zip

 

[lectric]

Nice. Thanks!