Hi Chris, I believe that John the DM uses a sheet of raised line braille paper with lines spaced an inch apart forming squares that represent two square feet of game play. I think he uses round and square objects like bottle caps or checkers to represent the two sides of a battle with numbers on them. Round 1 would be the first party member in alphabetical order. Square 1 would be the first monster or enemy fighter. I guess he could tape four of these squares together to represent a giant monster. These numbers would refer to his spread sheet that gives the character and monster attributes. Phil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Bartlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "gamers-audyssey.org" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:55 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Table-top mapping. > Hello. For those of you who run table-top roleplaying games, like > Dungeons and Dragons, what solutions have you found to maintain maps > for complex battles. In my current campaign, my nine players, plus 3 > NPCs, eight horses, wagon and baggage are about to be ambushed by > fifteen brigands, who will in turn be ambushed by the ogre band they > are fleeing from. This makes for a bewildering array of targets to track. > > I'm using Excel to do the monkey-work of keeping track of initiative, > HP, etc, but I need a solution for tracking a battlefield that's > liable to encompass a one or two hundred square of terrain that > varies from open hillside to dense woods. I'm willing to provide > detailed descriptions for my sighted players, but I want a way to > track this sprawling fight for myself so I can tell the players what > they see and what their opponents are doing. > > The description of the sprawling fight in the recent Audyssey gives > me some hope that there might be a solution for this more elegant > than an Excel sheet with positions marked on it. > > Chris Bartlett > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
