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So yeah, I was just wondering what most of you guys do when you're playing -- are you using Miniatures? I'm used to that with D&D, but I'd like to go without them. Do you guys have drawn out maps to keep track of where people are, or is it all verbal description? I have a hard time sometimes keeping track of my NPCs when I have like 6 or more in the room.

I was also wondering about having info available for quick reference. We really want to keep the action moving, and stopping down to add skills, attributes, etc. can get tedious sometimes. I was thinking about having index cards for all the characters (and NPCs) that had common dice pools calculated. For example, when you use this gun, roll this much, unless there's a modifier, etc. Having precalculated pools for different firing modes, different weapons, for different methods of defense, all there at once so we can roll quickly and keep it moving pretty quick.

Do you guys do stuff like that? Is there a better way, or a standardized way of doing that, or does everybody just read off of their character sheets?

Thanks for the help.
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- Hankinstien   Detail Mechanics   Mar 4 2009, 05:49 AM
- - Draco18s   Most of our SR games use lined paper (one line is ...   Mar 4 2009, 06:24 AM
|- - AllTheNothing   QUOTE (Draco18s @ Mar 4 2009, 07:24 AM) w...   Mar 5 2009, 05:35 PM
- - Browncoatone   I'm not a game-demi-god like Draco's DM so...   Mar 4 2009, 07:52 AM
|- - Draco18s   QUOTE (Browncoatone @ Mar 4 2009, 02:52 A...   Mar 4 2009, 08:27 AM
- - Hagga   QUOTE (Hankinstien @ Mar 4 2009, 05:49 AM...   Mar 4 2009, 11:11 AM
- - Dream79   For me it comes down to prep time. If I have the ...   Mar 4 2009, 11:40 AM
- - Black0siris   What works best for my group is having two maps, O...   Mar 4 2009, 02:16 PM
- - Blade   I don't like to use maps because I feel like t...   Mar 4 2009, 02:17 PM
- - TBRMInsanity   I love using maps and other visual tools to help t...   Mar 4 2009, 03:11 PM
- - InfinityzeN   I use maps, but not ones you lay down on the table...   Mar 4 2009, 03:22 PM
|- - Hankinstien   QUOTE (InfinityzeN @ Mar 4 2009, 09:22 AM...   Mar 4 2009, 04:04 PM
- - InfinityzeN   My pleasure.   Mar 4 2009, 05:07 PM
- - Red-ROM   I like the verbal description too. sometimes maps ...   Mar 5 2009, 02:26 AM
- - counterveil   I don't use minis or large maps for three reas...   Mar 5 2009, 10:24 AM
- - Leffa   I've used a white board in the past. Then I ca...   Mar 5 2009, 10:48 AM
- - Wesley Street   I have a digital projector that I hook up to my la...   Mar 5 2009, 03:36 PM
- - EvilP   I tend to draw a map on an A4 sheet, sometimes it...   Mar 5 2009, 04:52 PM
- - Draco18s   To be fair, it was 19 right corners and 17 lefts, ...   Mar 5 2009, 05:38 PM
- - vladski   I know I commented on a thread similar to this one...   Mar 5 2009, 08:34 PM


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