Sir Ofeelya Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 I have begun experimenting with using coloured poker chips to keep track of PC STUN, END and BOD. I hate book keeping and making sure everyone keeps track of these things, END especially, annoys the hell out of me. Anyway, each player gets coloured chips equal to the total of their stats and each turn they toss them into the pot, only taking them back when they take recoveries. Anyone else doing this or something like it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Keeping track of END, STUN and BOD. That's a whole lotta chips for a typical character. I've never had an issue with just writing the numbers on the sheet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fitz Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Keeping track of END, STUN and BOD. I've toyed with using chips in this fashion, and it works OK as long as the players are on board with the idea. The only real problem we ran into was because one player kept forgetting which colours represented tens, fives and ones We run our game without any free post-12 recoveries (i.e. the character has to spend an action to take a recovery), and everyone just tossed their chips into a central pile as they used END etc. and fished them out as they took recoveries. It worked just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alibear Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Keeping track of END, STUN and BOD. Just remove end if it is a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Neilson Posted April 19, 2008 Report Share Posted April 19, 2008 Re: Keeping track of END, STUN and BOD. Am I the only one thinking about the Knights of the Dinner Table group that uses M&M's for this? "He's eating my XP again!" I don't see why a stack of poker chips (one color for each of BOD, END and STUN) can't work. It provides a visual for how close the character is to exhaustion, KO or death. That may or may not be desirable. Do the players get to see the NPC chip stacks? How do you deal with negative STUN or BOD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doomed Prophet Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 Re: Keeping track of END, STUN and BOD. You could get colored chips/beads of different sizes... I usually use the full sized poker chips for 10s, then smaller (about 3/4 inch markers I found at a gaming store) for the 1s... END is green, STUN is yellow and BOD is red... For villains I just run an Excel WS on my laptop (whatever did I do before computers? Oh, yeah, dry erase boards...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Ofeelya Posted April 20, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 Re: Keeping track of END, STUN and BOD. How do you deal with negative STUN or BOD? You mean when they cash in their chips? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh Neilson Posted April 20, 2008 Report Share Posted April 20, 2008 Re: Keeping track of END, STUN and BOD. You mean when they cash in their chips? Precisely. Repped Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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