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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5574049" data-attributes="member: 5202">I was reading this thread <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/304138-condition-cards-i-made-some.html#post5574038" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/304138-condition-cards-i-made-some.html#post5574038</a> and made a quick mention of how my group was working condition tracking, but decided to put my fully expanded version up here for anyone who was interested.My Dark Sun group uses 7/8" poker chips w/things like -2/-4 on yellow or green for attack/defense debuffs, -5/-10 on orange for ongoing damage, white for immob, red for bloodied, blue and black for marks, etc.  I really liked the simplicity of the plan, so I decided to steal it for a new group I was putting together, but I lacked some of the extra condition chits they had to supplement their colors, so I decided to expand the idea.I looked around the web for awhile trying to find a good deal on the Koplow poker chips I wanted to use.  Someone was selling the tubes thru Amazon for $1.50 each, but when I threw 11 tubes in the cart and checked the price w/shipping, I saw they were charging basically $5 a tube, so I kept looking.  Paizo sells them for $1.90 a tube and I got my order in 2 days once it shipped, so I was very happy <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I decided to ignore things like Unconscious and surprised as turning the mini on its side for unconscious was too easy and a surprise round is handled too quickly to bother with.  Here is what I came up with.Brown  - MarksPurple - MarksBlack  - MarksBlue   - MarksRed    - BloodiedYellow - Reduced Attack -2/-4Green  - Reduced Defenses -2/-4Orange - Ongoing Damage 5/10Pink   - Stunned (St)/Dazed (Da)/Blind (Bl)/Deaf (De)/Dominated (Do) (All mental)White  - Immob (Im)/Prone (Pr)/Slowed (Sl)/Petrified (Pet)/Restrained (Re)/Weakened (We)(All physical)Yellow - 20 Reduced Attack -2/-4, 5 -1/-5 (25 chips)Green  - 20 Reduced Defenses -2/-4, 5 -1/-5 (25 chips)Orange - 20 Ongoing Damage 5/10, 5 -1/-2 (25 chips)Pink - 9 stun/daze, 6 blind/deaf  3 stun/dominated, 3 daze/dominated (21 chips)White - 12 immob/prone, 4 slow/pet, 4 slow/restrained, 4 slow/weakened (24 chips)As you can see, these tubes of 50 are no more than half used after I was done so there are plenty of spares.  I just sort of guessed how many of different things I would want to have and then divided them out.  Like Slow/immob/prone are all pretty common, but pet/restrained/weakened are more rare, so I did them on the back side of the slows.  Originally I was just doing -2/-4 on the green and yellow, but there are some powers that apply one of your stats as the penalty, so I figured I'd include a couple of odds to balance things out.The downside of chips is that the battle mat can get a bit cluttered, but if you manage to drop a slow effect on an entire group of monsters and it's till end of your next turn, one chip will suffice for the whole group as long as they're still clustered.1 tube of each of the 10 colors was only $19+shipping, so not too expensive.  I picked up a tackle box at Wal Mart to store my wet and dry erase markers, minis, chips and dice in.  Really not too bad at all.Opinions?</blockquote>

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