Post by indigo777 on Jul 3, 2013 23:59:56 GMT -5
I had been trying to find the Gamemastery combat pad for a while but finally gave up waiting for it to come back into print. For about half the cost of it I made my own.
Ingredients:
The Board Dudes 8.5" x 11" Magnetic Dry Erase Board. 5 Bucks at most Targets. I chose this board because it came with a Dry erase marker, dry erase marker clip, sheet of 8 magnets perfect for attaching labels to, and a large magnet paper holder you can take apart and pop your own picture into.
A roll of peel and stick magnetic tape. I think this runs $3-4 at most stores. I already had a roll of this in my craft bin. And still have a ton of the roll left over after making this.
Avery Dry Erase Labels. A pack of 10 costs under $5 dollars at Walmart. Took 1 sheet to make the labels so have nine left for other projects.
The Tracker:
Where the Gamemastery version is a flat magnetic pad, inspired by the 2.5d tile method I went for raised round indicators and labels on my tracker. This allows me to remove all the labels from the board and have a completely blank board if needed. The raised rim and raised magnet dividers also keep the magnets from sliding off the board or into the wrong area by accident.
I printed text out for mine on a regular computer printer and cut it to size. I then attached it to the sticky side of the magnetic tape and then just put the magnetic tape on the magnetic dry erase board cut to fit.
I used the magnetic tape rolls to section off the board into an area for Notes, Initiative, a round slider, and a storage section. The notes and initiative doubles as the turn indicator slider holder.
I cut triangles out of the magnetic tape and painted them to make indicator arrows. The magnetic indicator arrows slide freely along the strips of magnetic tape with ease. I also made some indicators for stats like poison by attaching colored materials from my craft bin to some of the magnetic tape.
For the player/monster labels I used the magnet sheets, that came with the board that split into 8 magnets, and attached the Dry erase label cut to size to them.
Here's an example of the tracker in use:
Now my only complaint about the magnetic dry erase board was that it has a plain cardboard backing on it that would face my players the entire game. Luckily you can slide another image under it. Note you may have to take an exacto knife and run it under the back seam to get the image to slide fully under it the edge though. For my board I took the outer cover the Pathfinder GM Screen came in and cut the image to fit my board.
Tested this out last game session and it worked great. Saved us time in battles, made it easy to keep track of initiative and I was able to toss the board in my GM box during travel and not worry about loosing any pieces.
Ingredients:
The Board Dudes 8.5" x 11" Magnetic Dry Erase Board. 5 Bucks at most Targets. I chose this board because it came with a Dry erase marker, dry erase marker clip, sheet of 8 magnets perfect for attaching labels to, and a large magnet paper holder you can take apart and pop your own picture into.
A roll of peel and stick magnetic tape. I think this runs $3-4 at most stores. I already had a roll of this in my craft bin. And still have a ton of the roll left over after making this.
Avery Dry Erase Labels. A pack of 10 costs under $5 dollars at Walmart. Took 1 sheet to make the labels so have nine left for other projects.
The Tracker:
Where the Gamemastery version is a flat magnetic pad, inspired by the 2.5d tile method I went for raised round indicators and labels on my tracker. This allows me to remove all the labels from the board and have a completely blank board if needed. The raised rim and raised magnet dividers also keep the magnets from sliding off the board or into the wrong area by accident.
I printed text out for mine on a regular computer printer and cut it to size. I then attached it to the sticky side of the magnetic tape and then just put the magnetic tape on the magnetic dry erase board cut to fit.
I used the magnetic tape rolls to section off the board into an area for Notes, Initiative, a round slider, and a storage section. The notes and initiative doubles as the turn indicator slider holder.
I cut triangles out of the magnetic tape and painted them to make indicator arrows. The magnetic indicator arrows slide freely along the strips of magnetic tape with ease. I also made some indicators for stats like poison by attaching colored materials from my craft bin to some of the magnetic tape.
For the player/monster labels I used the magnet sheets, that came with the board that split into 8 magnets, and attached the Dry erase label cut to size to them.
Here's an example of the tracker in use:
Now my only complaint about the magnetic dry erase board was that it has a plain cardboard backing on it that would face my players the entire game. Luckily you can slide another image under it. Note you may have to take an exacto knife and run it under the back seam to get the image to slide fully under it the edge though. For my board I took the outer cover the Pathfinder GM Screen came in and cut the image to fit my board.
Tested this out last game session and it worked great. Saved us time in battles, made it easy to keep track of initiative and I was able to toss the board in my GM box during travel and not worry about loosing any pieces.