08.24
I saw a post on the WOTC forum about using scraps of paper hung on the DM screen to track initiative. I tried it last session and it worked pretty well. I had the players scribble down their names and their character names and defenses. When we rolled initiative, I arranged the scraps from my left to right, in descending order of initiative.
It was very handy, so much so that I felt a .pdf was in order!
Attached to this post is a .pdf with 5 hanging initiative tracking cards. Print ‘em out, have the players fill ‘em out and fold ‘em at the dotted line.
EDIT: Per JesterOC’s suggestion, I’ve moved the name box on the players side down, to make room for condition markers. The .pdf file below has been updated.
Hanging Character Initiative Card (char-init-card.pdf)
This is bad ass.
I’m gonna tweet about it, hold on tight!
Great, I was wanting to do this myself but did not know how to start. One suggestion. Place the name on the player side lower, so you can place a smaller simular sized paper over it to indicate conditions.
That’s a great idea.
This is brilliant! Have any photos of them in use?
I’m wondering how the initiative tracker on the DungeonMastering Tools site would work together with this.
[...] Initiative Hangies. [...]
[...] over at his blog has posted modified DnD4E initiative cards. He’s done a generic one that can work with any system and one for his current Fireborn game. [...]