Does someone knows how to make HP Indicators?

Does someone knows how to make HP Indicators?

Any idea helps.

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Well, you get a piece of paper and a pencil, and you write down the HP total. Then, whenever it changes, you erase it--or cross it out--and write the new total.

Of course, but eventually the sheets get all messy or start to tear apart.

Because of that, some tool to create them could give them a longer useful life.

Put your sheet in a sheet protector and use a dry erase marker. Or write down your current HP on a notepad or something.

That's cute and all, but what do you do when your hit points break three digits?

If you really can't into paper and pencil, D10s in series works fine for tracking numbers. It can be as many digits as you have D10s.

Then get another sheet.

Yes, I considered that, and could just extent the length with an extra part or something.


Practical, yes. The thing is that if someone moves the table or the dice accidentaly then It´s fucked.

The whole point is not wasting time refilling another sheet. As times go by, you gotta write more and more stuff.

I have an electronic one that I keep in my pocket. It has a large, easy to read screen and I can even write notes on it. Also, it keeps my character sheet, digital copies of the books relevant to whatever game I'm playing at the time, and access to various discussion sites if something odd or niche comes up and i need advice.

All I have found, just a few minutes ago, is this.

During combat note your hp changes on scrap paper. Update your sheet at the end of the session.

Or buy the thing in your picture. They sell them online, they're called hp trackers. There's a company that makes them as rings, ..I think it's called critical success. Plenty of options.

>too clumsy to not fuck up table
>too stupid to use paper and pencil
welp, there's always this

/thread

Life tracker because magic, but this will work.

critsuccess.com/index.php/lcr-counter-ring.html

I have the d20 ring and it spins well, but this one clicks. They're really nice, I've seen them at gencon and the whole line looks good.

Thank you. I´m aware of those products, but are hard to get in my country.

Most of the times people get very clever solutions and makings.

kek.fuckoff

He has a point, most people don't seem to have an issue with this.

I agree, and I´m not saying this is an unvarable problem. Simply wanted to know if anyone had done or seen something about it DIY style.

Something practical, cheap and without the need of refilling a sheet.

The problem here is that your metrics contradict each other. Paper and pencil is the practical and cheap option. The further you move into "without the need of refilling a sheet," the further you move away from "practical and cheap."

Use a post-it note, then.

>Any idea helps.
A bowl of pennies.

I think a guy linked your solution upthread. But you could use poker chips? Or your phone?

One of those four digit combo locks.

I've had players so stoned they would forget what we were playing, and so drunk they would declare to search a chest on a ship the party sank to the bottom of the sea over an hour earlier.

In both cases, some of those cheap, rounded glass beads people put in the bottom of an aquarium count nicely. If you take a hit, remove an appropriate number of beads. All beads gone = death.

It can only go sideways if your players get so fucking drunk they start eating the RPG supplies.

Fuck, MacGyver wins again.

"Don't thank me, thank Newton's third law!"

When you ruin a sheet by erasing and writing (mainly altering the current hp)multiple times you get to be impractical, because you need another sheet to fill with the stats and skills and such.

It´s ´pretty much because of that.

Again, in my country, shitty as it is; is not that easy to get that kind of products.

If you meant the printable tracker, that was me. It´s not only that I asked for a solution, but to share perspectives. And keks, lots of keks from the answers.

As an example: kek. We havent got to that point yet, but maybe soon enough. The thing is that i want something that can be used multiple times.

Maybe appropiate one the wooden or magnetic calendars for you hp keeping.

Or even just drill a LOT of holes into a wooden block, enumerate the holes and stick a pin in there.

Take a small base and glue a casualty figure on it; paint and base properly but make a little slot to put a dice on it. Place the dice on the casualty figure next to the unit and note the wounds on the dice.

This sort of setup is easily extended to whatever number scale needed.

Am i misunderstanding the question? It's easy af.
Cut two paper circles, Cut one in the middle and cut a circle in the middle of the other. make a hole in the edge of the circle with a simpel cut. Connect them with a split pin. Didn't you fuck around with these as a kid?

this but unironically desu

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Knitting row counters. You can get 12 for less than ten bucks.

Why not just use an abacus, at that point?

Holy fuck!

I've identified the problem. You say "sheet" and mean "character sheet." We say "sheet" and mean "literally any piece of paper."

Based quads with the solution right there.