I've started DMen and running games through Roll20 during the whole lockdown period. Did about 15 sessions with different groups and really liking the the process and progress. Roll20 made some stuff really easy, like keeping track of al the enemy stats, HP and statuses but we're about to go out of lockdown and have sessions face-to-face and I'm not sure how to do enemy admin in real life.
When there's only 2 or 3 enemies I don't see any issues, but how do you guys keep track of the enemies stats when there are loads? 9 goblins for instance. How do you keep admin and track of the goblins? I like playing them very mobile so they're running around a lot and rarely stay in the same place. I'm not sure how I'm gonna keep track of which goblin has how many hp left without getting them mixed up.
Am I overthinking this and should I just stick to plain pen and paper and make a column for each goblin and just try to remember which column is for which goblin? Or do you guys use smoe techniques for this?
I am also running games with larger numbers of creatures. I use printed out paper miniatures, and I wrote numbers on their bases. So, I always know where which creature is on the battle map.
I've started DMen and running games through Roll20 during the whole lockdown period. Did about 15 sessions with different groups and really liking the the process and progress. Roll20 made some stuff really easy, like keeping track of al the enemy stats, HP and statuses but we're about to go out of lockdown and have sessions face-to-face and I'm not sure how to do enemy admin in real life.
When there's only 2 or 3 enemies I don't see any issues, but how do you guys keep track of the enemies stats when there are loads? 9 goblins for instance. How do you keep admin and track of the goblins? I like playing them very mobile so they're running around a lot and rarely stay in the same place. I'm not sure how I'm gonna keep track of which goblin has how many hp left without getting them mixed up.
Am I overthinking this and should I just stick to plain pen and paper and make a column for each goblin and just try to remember which column is for which goblin? Or do you guys use smoe techniques for this?
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I am also running games with larger numbers of creatures. I use printed out paper miniatures, and I wrote numbers on their bases. So, I always know where which creature is on the battle map.
yeah use numbered tokens and have a reference board to keep track
its all you can do,