New Project: Witch Hunter Player Mat

THis is awesome and I plan to make a bunch of these laminated to take with me (We need one for Arcanis now so I might try my hand. Do you have a template?)

A few more suggestions

1) I’d make the “Dice Pool” extend all the way down the left and move “Moving” to the right under “Actions” and “Stances” and extend the “in a Fight” down to the bottom.
2) If you can get PCI’s permission, I’d include the actual dice wagers/penalties to the mat for the 3 stances.

Great work!!

2) If you can get PCI’s permission, I’d include the actual dice wagers/penalties to the mat for the 3 stances.

I don’t know that I need permission to do that. Besides, I think I would phrase things a bit differently anyway to keep with the theme of the mat. So rather than hard numbers, it would look more like this:

Aggressive
Add 1 die to your Attack roll
Lower your Avoidance score by 2

Something like that.

We need one for Arcanis now so I might try my hand. Do you have a template?

No, but its just an Adobe Illustrator file. I can send you that if you’d like.

Alright. Another Tuesday, another draft:

I’m pretty happy with this one. I shuffled some things around and monekyed with the font and sizes to get everything to play nicely together. At this point, I really can’t think of another thing I need to put in this…except maybe some explanation of what True Faith, Damnation, Wagers, Virtues and Sins are all about. But do you really need that info right there on hand when you play? It’s starting to feel a little text heavy as is.

So unless there is some glaring omission, I’m about ready to put this to bed.

Under Stances -> Aggressive, you get the bonus die only for wagering, not any attack.

Ooooh! Good catch!

I don’t get the point of the In A Fight box. It’s not a list of all of the possible attack or combat actions or what type of action each one is (and includes ‘be aggressive’ which seems like a reference to your stance), so… what’s it for?

It’s about prompting the new player to dig into combat tactics without overwhelming them with numbers and rules. You’re right that Aggressive is redundant, so maybe it and Defensive need to go. But really, it’s meant more to get people asking questions beyond “what can I do?” That makes a lot less work and explanation time for the GM, especially in organized play where time svat a premium!

Under Action Speed, I recommend saying ‘reasonably unlimited’ or ‘effectively unlimited’ next to Free, rather than having it blank.

Good idea.

And maybe change Trivial to ‘1 per Quick/Complex’, since ‘1 with any combo’ seems like you get one with two quicks or 1 with a complex.

Umm…by my understanding, that’s exactly what you get. Am I wrong about that? I need to check the rules.

Myself, I’m a fan of reference sheets and similar. So I like the lower half.
I never fill out ‘play aids’ beyond my character sheet, so the upper half is less appealing.
That said, I think the overall design is still pretty cool.

Thanks Vic. I’m willing to bet the dice boxes will get a lot more use than any if us suspect. I’ve seen my notes after a game, and I don’t play my monsters that tactically. As a player-even an experienced one-this sort of thing is valuable to me. The idea of the mat is meant to organize things for the new player so they can spend less time thinking about all the different moving parts of the game and just get into character. The SW version worked great for this, but that game has lots of “pieces” (dice, cards, tokens) compared to WH. So I’m open to changing things if I get work from the field that no one is using part of it, or something just confuses the hell out of people.

Tom

Looks good and I plan to make these for games.
For aesthetics if still spread hero points under the right columns and drop dice pools all the way to the bottom.

That is awesome!

I’m going to be printing and using these at Winter Fantasy for folks, so will see how they do!

John

I only was able to run 1 Witch Hunter table (due to lack of players signing up and no ‘stragglers’ to wrangler). The feedback I received from 1 player was that the Health Track was too large of an area for what it provided info wise but that the rules for attack modifiers at the bottom was very useful. Most weren’t sure what to put in the upper right (Defenses) either write your number or put dice. If it was a number, they felt it was too large also.

John