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<blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 4727038" data-attributes="member: 5100">These.&nbsp; A change I made a couple weeks back was to make sure I had stat-blocks pre-printed and on a single sheet of paper.&nbsp; It probably cuts 1/3 of the time and 90% of the nose-picking (dead time) out of a combat.For anyone who cares, my process is to use the DDI Compendium to pull up the stats, and capture the image with One Note (other apps work fine, but this is what I have).&nbsp; I paste the image of all monsters needed for an encounter into Excel and bold outline one cell per monster next to the image of the stat block.&nbsp; Why Excel?&nbsp; Because it is an unlimited surface on the computer that I can, with a single button click, tell to scale to fit a single print page.&nbsp; I haven't had an encounter big enough that such scaling affected the legibility, but I could always go to a second page quite easily.For initiative, I've discovered that a 3x5 notecard, cut in half, is the same width as the cards the CB prints off and close enough in height.&nbsp; I have a few I re-use and just write the critter's name on it and erase afterwords.&nbsp; I don't record the exact init number, because it really doesn't matter -- the only thing that does is the actual order.I use some tiddly-wink type chits for marks, quarries, etc. and hand out colored beads for save-worthy effects.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercule, post: 4727038, member: 5100"] These. A change I made a couple weeks back was to make sure I had stat-blocks pre-printed and on a single sheet of paper. It probably cuts 1/3 of the time and 90% of the nose-picking (dead time) out of a combat. For anyone who cares, my process is to use the DDI Compendium to pull up the stats, and capture the image with One Note (other apps work fine, but this is what I have). I paste the image of all monsters needed for an encounter into Excel and bold outline one cell per monster next to the image of the stat block. Why Excel? Because it is an unlimited surface on the computer that I can, with a single button click, tell to scale to fit a single print page. I haven't had an encounter big enough that such scaling affected the legibility, but I could always go to a second page quite easily. For initiative, I've discovered that a 3x5 notecard, cut in half, is the same width as the cards the CB prints off and close enough in height. I have a few I re-use and just write the critter's name on it and erase afterwords. I don't record the exact init number, because it really doesn't matter -- the only thing that does is the actual order. I use some tiddly-wink type chits for marks, quarries, etc. and hand out colored beads for save-worthy effects. [/QUOTE]

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