Tracking Threshold Tally, Stress and Derangement

DrFaust · 09-06-2012, 05:48 PM

Aside from scrawling in the margins of one's character sheet, has anyone come up with ways of tracking these traits?

I'm messing around with a take-off of Call of Cthulhu character sheet's way of tracking sanity -- see here -- and wondered what other approaches people have used.

Dammann · 09-06-2012, 05:53 PM

I use GCA w/ the Phoenix sheet. It has an option to show Threshold, and a space to note where the character is at.

Crakkerjakk · 09-06-2012, 07:08 PM

I've always liked the Madness Meters from NEMESIS, the horror version of ORE. I'd probably try to rip that off.

Bruno · 09-07-2012, 08:52 AM

I usually use an Excel sheet for this sort of stuff (along with HP and FP and ER) - Put a SUM() in the top cell for a column, and just use the column of cells underneath to stuff expenditures/accumulations in.

Genesis · 09-07-2012, 11:43 AM

I know I should switch over to some digital method, but I really like having physical artifacts to hold and fiddle with. I used illustrator to make myself a sheet with a human silhouette and several squares (with pretty borders) labeled "HP" and "FP" and "Stress" etc. - then I printed the sheet, cut out the silhouette and the squares, and used a glue stick to glue the whole thing on top of a cheapo dorm-room-door-style whiteboard. Now I have a high durability (compared to a sheet of paper) thing that I can use to track all the stats that are likely to change for a given character over the course of a scene, and a way to annotate location-specific wounds, and it's all easily and endlessly erasable. It's worked well for me so far.

09-06-2012, 05:48 PM	#1
DrFaust MIB Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Franklin's Tower	Tracking Threshold Tally, Stress and Derangement Aside from scrawling in the margins of one's character sheet, has anyone come up with ways of tracking these traits? I'm messing around with a take-off of Call of Cthulhu character sheet's way of tracking sanity -- see here -- and wondered what other approaches people have used. __________________ Post no bills.

09-06-2012, 05:53 PM	#2
Dammann Join Date: May 2011	Re: Tracking Threshold Tally, Stress and Derangement I use GCA w/ the Phoenix sheet. It has an option to show Threshold, and a space to note where the character is at.

09-06-2012, 07:08 PM	#3
Crakkerjakk "Gimme 18 minutes . . ." Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Albuquerque, NM	Re: Tracking Threshold Tally, Stress and Derangement I've always liked the Madness Meters from NEMESIS, the horror version of ORE. I'd probably try to rip that off. __________________ My bare bones web page Semper Fi

09-07-2012, 08:52 AM	#4
Bruno Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada	Re: Tracking Threshold Tally, Stress and Derangement I usually use an Excel sheet for this sort of stuff (along with HP and FP and ER) - Put a SUM() in the top cell for a column, and just use the column of cells underneath to stuff expenditures/accumulations in. __________________ All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog

09-07-2012, 11:43 AM	#5
Genesis Join Date: Dec 2010	Re: Tracking Threshold Tally, Stress and Derangement I know I should switch over to some digital method, but I really like having physical artifacts to hold and fiddle with. I used illustrator to make myself a sheet with a human silhouette and several squares (with pretty borders) labeled "HP" and "FP" and "Stress" etc. - then I printed the sheet, cut out the silhouette and the squares, and used a glue stick to glue the whole thing on top of a cheapo dorm-room-door-style whiteboard. Now I have a high durability (compared to a sheet of paper) thing that I can use to track all the stats that are likely to change for a given character over the course of a scene, and a way to annotate location-specific wounds, and it's all easily and endlessly erasable. It's worked well for me so far.