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Paizo PbP Initiative Block Generator & Tracker

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  • doughahn
    doughahn


    4 years ago
    This initiative tracker is meant to bootstrap initiative, help track conditions and HP, and nested spoilers for recall knowledge (optional). It creates statblocks that look like this




    Setting up:

    1. Enter the players' and minions' names, initiatives, and total HP. Title your combat. Add any terrain notes, party-wide conditions, battle map link, etc.
    2. Enter the monsters names (as you want them to appear on the tracker) and initiatives
    3. Enter any spoilered knowledge info you want up to 2 levels deep (this covers success and crit success or second checks), the skills used for the knowledge, and the creature's base DC. The spreadsheet nests spoilers.
    4. Enter up to 4 enemy names, Recall Knowledge SKills and Base Recall Knowledge DCs, and knowledge results
    5. Enter any rolls players need to mkae before or after their turns end (optional, can also just note in the Condiions column)
    6. Preview your post on the Paizo boards and enter rolled initiatives for all creatures in col E.
    7. Highlight rows 3-16 (or however many you have), and click Data => Sort by Column A, Z-->A
    8. Tick off who's up
    9. Add any contitions and effects you want for player reference
    10. Copy/paste the box into your PbP. I like to do a little minor edit to separate initiative groups within the block as well.


    Running Combat:

    • As combat progresses, keep the sheet updated. It will show total/current HP for PCs and just total damage for NPCs.
    • When an enemy drops, remove the name and hp and re-sort. When a player drops, change their initiative to right before the monster that dropped them and re-sort.


    If you have improvements, please make a copy of the sheet and share the updated version here.

    Starfinder Version:

    Starfinder version with Stamina/ HP: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NoscarJ6Il76P47tSaKW1GmBscrw-15VLdR6nuMvj6A/edit?usp=sharing

    Renders like like this: https://share.getcloudapp.com/KoujQW9Y
     
  • doughahn
    doughahn


    3 years ago
    Starfinder version with stamina added above.
     
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