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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 3301481" data-attributes="member: 29746">Yeah, I resemble those remarks. And I've got a much better memory than just about everybody I know, so I rarely forget things of any significance in regular life.Since I'm currently running one Epic game and one barely-sub-Epic, my players and I have come up with some solutions for this problem- it gets worse as levels get higher, of course. The one which might be most interesting (though also most work-intensive to implement, and therefore much better/more practical for players than the DM) is this. Most of my players track their character data in electronic form, typically a spreadsheet of some kind. One of the more tactical players has actually taken to creating several tabs/pages for each of his characters; each tab is a complete copy of his character data affected (or not) by one of his most commonly-used buffs. Thus, for example, when the telepath throws up Defensive Precognition, he just clicks the tab marked "Precog" and uses the changed version. When he gets a Mantle of Eldritch Might, he uses the "MoEM" tab. He actually has combined them such that the tabs read "MoEM but no Precog," "Precog but no MoEM," and so forth- but you get the idea.I'm no Excel expert, but I believe it's possible to make fairly simple macros that can apply formulas to entire pages and generate copies on new tabs; I presume this is how the player did what he did. He could do it for others too, it's just that he uses them rarely enough (or their effect is stand-out and singular enough, like the 20% miss chance from Blur, that he just remembers it) to not bother making tabs for them.</blockquote>

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