NPC Cards would people like them?

[Jacqual]

Hi everyone I was thinking of generating some NPC/Contact cards for everyones favorite Traveller game. I was thinking that the cards would come on a downloadable PDF that allows form filling (for neatness) and be printable on either 3x5 or 5x7 cards. I am leaning towards the 5x7 as you can have more info on them.

The main info blocks would be the following

Personel info like Name, Race, Homeworld, and NPC/Contact for
Career type

Then the Attributes and skill's section

Then we would have possisions/vehicles/ship(s) and weapons

Then have a section for notes on personality/history/whatever

 

[alex_greene]

If you have to, you might have to write a different PDF type for each species to take into account their different characteristics. For instance Aslan have Territory, rather than Social Standing, and male / female skills and professions etc.; likewise Vargr have Charisma and Droyne have Caste (1-6). Also, psions need a Psionic Strength rating (even if the current rules have you writing down their Talents mixed in with the skills).

 

[Jacqual]

i was thinking about that with the different races, and I figured that a footnote on the bottom would cover it. As the attributes could be done as a UPP like in CT where I figure all the players will know what it is. On the aspect of Psionics it wouldn't be to hard to a small Psi section. As for the skill section instead of a list of all the skills just have a list of the ones that the individual knows. Same with Psionics list of skills known only which will save space.

 

[AndrewW]

You could do a front and back to get more on the card.

 

[CosmicGamer]

I believe I've seen something like this somewhere, possibly without form filling. Perhaps at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/MGT-Aids/.

Personally, I usually store this stuff in a spreadsheet. For printout, I use what I have available, regular sized paper with multiple PC's or NPCs per page.