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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2429876" data-attributes="member: 99">I'll step up and be the voice of dissent.  I put ALL the info that I need about a monster on the card.  Level, Initiative, Speed, HP, AC (including Touch and Flat Footed), Attacks, Saves, Special Abilities, Spells and Treasure - more or less in that order.For me, writing things down helps me remember them and the mere act of transferring the info from the Monster Manual or wherever makes it much easier for me to recall the capabilities of the bad guys.  Since everything I need is on the card then I waste no time flipping through books or other papers to look up stats for the baddie.  I don't find it to be a problem in terms of getting things out of order when needing to mark off Hit Points or things like that.  I keep the HP total in a column down the right side of the card and it is a simple matter to flip to the card, jot down the damage in that column and then resume the initiative.  I think it helps that I use white cards for the PC's and various colored cards for the bad guys.  I try to vary the color of the cards so that I have no more than 1 or 2 bad guys using the same color card and this makes finding the right card very easy.</blockquote>