How do you run stat blocks at the table? Do you have the monster manual besides you and flip to the page when you need a monster stat block? Do you copy them to loose pages? Do you write them down? Or maybe just a couple of details you might need? Or do you use a digital tool for all of this?
I use the DDB Encounter Builder/Tracker for most mundane statblocks, but for the more intricate homebrew, I'll print out the statblock and keep it in my binder for use during combat. Only really applies for Legendary or Mythical hombrewed statblocks.
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DDB encounter builder, even in person. But I also have the physical book open so I can refer more easily to the rules as having to click back and forth can slow things down a little bit.
Digital mainly these days, however it is incredibly useful to invest in Creature & NPC cards. I find them far more useful as I can run through these cards when prepping a session. Pick out just the creatures or monsters that might appear in the areas and have them in front of me. Added bonus is that they allow me to set up an on the fly encounter should the players wish to go somewhere I didn't expect.
How do you run stat blocks at the table? Do you have the monster manual besides you and flip to the page when you need a monster stat block? Do you copy them to loose pages? Do you write them down? Or maybe just a couple of details you might need? Or do you use a digital tool for all of this?
I'm digital even when I'm playing in person use the DDB Encounter Builder or the DDB app for tracking creatures' information.
I also use DDB to track this stuff at the table.
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I use the DDB Encounter Builder/Tracker for most mundane statblocks, but for the more intricate homebrew, I'll print out the statblock and keep it in my binder for use during combat. Only really applies for Legendary or Mythical hombrewed statblocks.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain - Innocents Abroad
DDB encounter builder, even in person. But I also have the physical book open so I can refer more easily to the rules as having to click back and forth can slow things down a little bit.
DDB and books, depending on which one I own.
Digital mainly these days, however it is incredibly useful to invest in Creature & NPC cards. I find them far more useful as I can run through these cards when prepping a session. Pick out just the creatures or monsters that might appear in the areas and have them in front of me. Added bonus is that they allow me to set up an on the fly encounter should the players wish to go somewhere I didn't expect.
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