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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 565378" data-attributes="member: 812">I use a plain black notebook. Each session, I write the names of all the PCs (and key NPCS) down the left margin, followed across the page with their init bonus, AC, Attack bonuses, Saves and hit points.When a combat starts I grab a fresh page (or portion thereof) and write each combatants' name in a vertical column, highest initiative at the top and working down. Then I just make a tick for each character's turn, starting a new column for each round. If a spell or some other effect starts up and will last for x rounds, I put backticks out along the affected character's row. Like this:Fred  ' ' 'Frod  ' '````Frad  ' 'This indicates that Fred has the highest initiative score, and that he's just taken his action for the third round of combat. Some effect targetted Frod last round, and he'll be under its influence for this round and the three following.I don't bother to list the particular effect since there's usually not that many going on at once. The backtick just forms a reminder to me. I record damage on the main page with all the character stats.It's pretty low-tech but it serves.My problem with index cards is this: I get the having them in a stack and using that to order initiative, but isn't it a pain when, say, the first character in the stack does damage to the fourth monster, and then the sixth monster, and then casts a healing spell on the third character? Don't you have to pull out each card, make the notation and then put it back into the stack? That seems like a lot of hassle to me. But maybe I'm not getting it.</blockquote>

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