I have been batting around some ideas for making tracking sheets for monsters, npc's, and even characters that utilizes a couple different methods. I find it confusing to keep track of a large group of attackers, but refuse to drop the hit point by location rules. Between the hit points and CA's, it's easy to get lost.
So, I was playing Battletech the other day and was inspired by the mech character sheet. Basically, the sheet has an outline of the mech, with tiny circles grouped in various locations. You circle the total amount of circles as you have points in that location, and then, as you are damaged, you mark off your circles. I thought that would be cool for monsters, creating various outlines of their forms, with the same tiny circles grouped in each location. There will be blank spaces for names (ie "Goblin #1, or "Goblin Chief"), their skills and weapons (including weapon hit points), and a series of CA tracking boxes. I am not sure what size to make them yet, whether half page or index card size. I have started the outlines for player characters already, and thought a character sheet using the same method may be cool too.
The other idea was like Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu character sheet; Sanity, hit points, and magic points have a box of numbers in sequence, and you circle the number of your maximum, and mark off the numbers as you lose them.
These are methods i am looking at because it makes it takes less math and appeals to the visual senses a bit. I will post some prototypes soon I hope.
So, I was playing Battletech the other day and was inspired by the mech character sheet. Basically, the sheet has an outline of the mech, with tiny circles grouped in various locations. You circle the total amount of circles as you have points in that location, and then, as you are damaged, you mark off your circles. I thought that would be cool for monsters, creating various outlines of their forms, with the same tiny circles grouped in each location. There will be blank spaces for names (ie "Goblin #1, or "Goblin Chief"), their skills and weapons (including weapon hit points), and a series of CA tracking boxes. I am not sure what size to make them yet, whether half page or index card size. I have started the outlines for player characters already, and thought a character sheet using the same method may be cool too.
The other idea was like Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu character sheet; Sanity, hit points, and magic points have a box of numbers in sequence, and you circle the number of your maximum, and mark off the numbers as you lose them.
These are methods i am looking at because it makes it takes less math and appeals to the visual senses a bit. I will post some prototypes soon I hope.
