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What do you use for keeping track of opened and closed doors? Blown open doors? Poisoned and other status markers? Holding your cards? Keeping your minis? Checking for line of sight? Gambit? Rounds? Storing maps? Force points and damage counters? (for anyone who doesn't have enough official counters) Here's what I use for them: open door: blue 2x1 lego brick. closed door: red 2x1 lego brick. blown open door: blue 4x1 lego brick. poisoned: I try to remember! holding my cards: just a simple rubber band! keeping my minis: in a lego bin. line of sight: a thin long rubber band. force points and damage counters: lego bricks and studs. keeping my maps: a flat file. (nothing for gambit or rounds(I don't usually play with gambit)) (as you may see, I'm more than just an SWM fan!) I'll be looking forward to seeing what clever ideas are out there for keeping your minis tidy and organized.
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We use a small gem for blown open doors (they used to come with Pokemon cards that is how I have some.) A D6 for overriden doors (1 is open, 5 is locked)
my personal stuff LoS: An ID badge holder with a retractable string Damage: I prefer D10 as they are easy to ready quickly. Force Points: Usually D6s Cards: rubberbanded together and kept in a small box divided by faction minis: 1 big rubbermaid bin of fringe/factions I don't play a lot and then a small tower with 3 drawers divided up by faction.
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Joined: 3/14/2009 Posts: 1,728
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I just remember which doors are open and closed Line of Sight, pretty much anything handy, usually a card edge if it's long enough. Force Points and Damage Counters: D6 for Force Points, and I have a buttload of damage counters from various starter sets (including Dnd minis and SSB). Face-up means 10 damage, face down means 20.
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Joined: 6/30/2009 Posts: 1,389 Location: New Zealand ( kind of by Australia)
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Doors: Nothing, and it's proved to backfire :/ Conditions: Same story. Holding cards/minis: I have my minis in a big box or two (depending on whether or not I take my whole collection) and my cards in the RotS starter box :) LOS: Slope formula from geometry :3 Force/damage: Force and damage counters from the starters :P
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how primitive might as well use bear skins and stone knives -LOL you'll see at GenCon my awesome methods
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Darth O wrote:Doors: Nothing, and it's proved to backfire :/ Conditions: Same story. Holding cards/minis: I have my minis in a big box or two (depending on whether or not I take my whole collection) and my cards in the RotS starter box :) LOS: Slope formula from geometry :3 Force/damage: Force and damage counters from the starters :P For LOS, do you mean like OXXXXXXXX BBBBXXXXX BBBBBBBBO O=character X=wall B=blank I use this method too, if it's a close decision. (O can't target O)
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MaliciousCrumb wrote:Darth O wrote:Doors: Nothing, and it's proved to backfire :/ Conditions: Same story. Holding cards/minis: I have my minis in a big box or two (depending on whether or not I take my whole collection) and my cards in the RotS starter box :) LOS: Slope formula from geometry :3 Force/damage: Force and damage counters from the starters :P For LOS, do you mean like OXXXXXXXX XXXXX O O=character X=wall I use this method too, if it's a close decision. (O can't target O) Yeah, basically counting the squares up/down and left/right and checking if it hits a wall with the same slope. Like 2 up, 3 left.
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open door: d6: 1 showing closed door: d6: 5 showing blown open door: glass bead poisoned: I try to remember. holding my cards: card storage boxes, sorted by faction keeping my minis: storage boxes (3 toolbox type and 3 craft types) line of sight: a retractable thing-a-ma-bob force points and damage counters: white d6 for FP, red d6 for damage
You didn't ask, but we use d10s to track gambit and a d8 to remember the round number
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opendoor- a d6 closed door- nothing blown up door-d20 holding my cards/minis-i use a toolbox with all my cards in the top part that you can take right out of the box, and the minis in the bottom (although I do have a seperate part where i keep the accident prone minis, such as malak who's lightsaber i can't keep from falling off ) LOS- long elastic Force points- d20 damage- i write down on a small flip book
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I laminate my maps,so I can just use a dry-erase marker and mark down which doors are open/closed. I also have clear plastic sleeves for my cards, which I can write on with dry-erase markers to take down damage and such. Makes it super easy to keep track of force points. I usually just eyeball the LOS, but if its close i'll go grab a straight edge or a piece of string; Whatever I have laying around. I keep my minis from RS and CS in a dual sided tackle box, and the rest of my minis I keep in the RotS Starter Game box. My huges are kept in various old booster boxes. My cards are in a three-ring binder with those clear 9 card pages. Pretty easy to flip through real quick and pick the cards I want.
I started playing minis back in the Rebel Storm days and and have always played super casual games. No counting rounds, no gambit or any of that. Deathmatch all the way. It keeps someone from just going and locking them self in a room with override, and can make some very intense matches that come down to initiative rolls. Fun times
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FlyingArrow wrote:open door: d6: 1 showing closed door: d6: 5 showing blown open door: glass bead poisoned: I try to remember. holding my cards: card storage boxes, sorted by faction keeping my minis: storage boxes (3 toolbox type and 3 craft types) line of sight: a retractable thing-a-ma-bob force points and damage counters: white d6 for FP, red d6 for damage
You didn't ask, but we use d10s to track gambit and a d8 to remember the round number
Thanks, I'll add those.
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Darth O wrote:MaliciousCrumb wrote:Darth O wrote:Doors: Nothing, and it's proved to backfire :/ Conditions: Same story. Holding cards/minis: I have my minis in a big box or two (depending on whether or not I take my whole collection) and my cards in the RotS starter box :) LOS: Slope formula from geometry :3 Force/damage: Force and damage counters from the starters :P For LOS, do you mean like OXXXXXXXX XXXXX O O=character X=wall I use this method too, if it's a close decision. (O can't target O) Yeah, basically counting the squares up/down and left/right and checking if it hits a wall with the same slope. Like 2 up, 3 left. Oops. I messed up on that demonstration up there. I fixed it above.
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Rank: Advanced Bloo Milk Member Groups: Member
Joined: 3/12/2009 Posts: 302 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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Here's what i use Small dice for keeping track of force points and damage, one of those stringie things that everybody uses for LOS, and some nice tokens for door control (green for open, red for closed, and the orange explosion for destroyed doors) I keep these in a baggie. Same for my squad(s). The stat cards are in a small card holder, and it's all thrown in a small box for transportation.
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Biggsy, those door tokens are cool! Where did you get them, are they from another game?
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Wow. Those door tokens ARE cool. I'm surprised everyone uses dice for HP and FP. I thought that the counters were more common.
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Rank: Advanced Bloo Milk Member Groups: Member
Joined: 3/12/2009 Posts: 302 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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I think dice is so much easier. The counters are rather fiddly. Yeah the tokens are cool, right? I ordered them from LITKO Game Accessories, an awesome supplier of game tokens, markers and lots of other cool stuff. I highly recommend their products. Here's a link for the blast tokensThe other two are conversions of the Flanked and Defend tokens. They have other customizable tokens, so i just contacted them asking if i could order some of these with "open" and "closed" on them instead. They were very helpful.
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Thanks for the info Biggsy
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I use the tokens made for the game XD
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