Hello and welcome to DnD Arts&Crafts. I am Michael and I’m going to show you a couple ways to keep track of the spell slots your caster has to use with the spell cards we made for our DnD next game.
Now that we have the spell cards, what is the best way to keep track of which ones we have used and which ones we have left?
One of my players went simple. He selected his daily spells and divided the appropriate cards by levels and used some game stones to keep track of them.
At GenCon 2013 I played in a Savage Worlds game where the GM provided a handful of gaming stones to use for Power Points. I thought it was a great way to keep track of them. Here is the DnD Next version of that. Each stack of spell cards has the number of slots left on top.
If gaming stones aren’t your thing, then you could use dice.
Most of us have more dice than we know what to do with. Here you can use some extra ones and accomplish the same as above. Each time you cast a spell you turn the die down to the next lowest number. Run out of numbers, you are done with those spells for the day.
The issue is that you need to makes sure you don’t bump the dice, flip them or use them for you damage roll and forget where they were.
To keep that from happening I made a simple slot tracker.
During a recent trip to my local Office Max store I found a 4-pack of the rectangular cork boards you see to the left. I used a pencil and exacto-knife to cut out size appropriate holes (cut them a bit smaller than you think you need, if they are tight that works better than loose). It works about the same as above, but you can pick up and move the whole thing and the dice won’t fall out or move. If you have several spell levels available this would help save some room and make it less likely those dice or stones might get moved around.
The one above is the first attempt. It works great, but is a bit ugly for my tastes. Since I got the four pack and the proof of concept works I’ll probably take my time and make a nicer version.
What methods do you use to track your spells?
Comments and Feedback are always welcome.
Thanks!!
~Michael
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