Howabout Dry Erase Counters?

[Jim Kane]

Originally Posted by guymc

I've been looking at the status marker discussion, too, and it overlaps with something else I'm doing. Would there be any interest or benefit to an off-board status indicator, say on individual character "dashboards"? Or is taking the indicator off-board too distant?

Hi Guy - I think JLV is correct; we are really going to need to see some sort of proto-type to get an accurate idea of what you have in mind, before we can offer you any truly accurate feedback. So, I'll stand-by with JLV and reserve from *chiming-in* prematurely at this point-in-time.

JK

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by guymc

I've been looking at the status marker discussion, too, and it overlaps with something else I'm doing. Would there be any interest or benefit to an off-board status indicator, say on individual character "dashboards"? Or is taking the indicator off-board too distant?

Too distant. No better than a character sheet, really.

[Nils_Lindeberg]

Originally Posted by Patrick

Since the counters are getting bigger and there's relatively little to keep track of when dealing with "cardboard" foes, coated counters might be a cool way to keep track of combat dry erase or grease pencil. Or perhaps a set of plastic counter jackets to write on.

This is a really excellent idea! Being able to mark damage directly on the counters would speed up play considerably. As a GM you don't have to keep answering questions about who was hurt or not. No need to mark wounds on a separate piece of paper and look at it all the time. Less chance of error since the players can point out if you mix two enemies together or give the damage to the wrong one, etc.

And you could also add things like symbols for weapons or their apparent armor values and maybe just key words like "Ugly", "Big'un", "Old", "Smiley" to differentiate them from each other and make it easier for the players to remember which one they were fighting.

Printing the icons on plastic shouldn't be a big extra cost? But I would be willing to pay extra for it.