diff --git a/issue02/Grenzland2.tex b/issue02/Grenzland2.tex index 8fcade3..00c7c3a 100644 --- a/issue02/Grenzland2.tex +++ b/issue02/Grenzland2.tex @@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \usepackage{coelacanth} \usepackage{pdfpages} + +% needed for phf session form article +\usepackage{fourier-orns} +\usepackage{wasysym} +\newcommand{\monster}{\textxswup} +\newcommand{\torch}{\sun} +\newcommand{\lantern}{\CIRCLE} \setlength{\leftmargini}{1em} \begin{document} @@ -477,16 +484,17 @@ downwind at Wind Speed. \end{multicols} \input{halloween} +\input{sessionform} \section{Impressum} -\textit{Grenzland} wird editiert und +\textit{Grenzland} wird editiert und herausgegeben von Laurens Kils-Hütten, -a.k.a. Wanderer Bill +a.k.a. Wanderer Bill email: wandererbill@betola.de, web: https://betola.de/wandererbill -Alle Inhalte stehen unter der Creative Commons Lizenz -Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International +Alle Inhalte stehen unter der Creative Commons Lizenz +Namensnennung --- Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ diff --git a/issue02/Makefile b/issue02/Makefile index 4ee3ace..9698406 100644 --- a/issue02/Makefile +++ b/issue02/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -all: Grenzland2.pdf +all: Grenzland2.pdf -%.pdf: %.tex Frontcover.pdf Backcover.pdf Makefile halloween.tex wbzine.cls +%.pdf: %.tex Frontcover.pdf Backcover.pdf Makefile halloween.tex wbzine.cls sessionform.tex pdflatex -draftmode $< pdflatex $< @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Backcover.pdf: Backcover.png view: all zathura Grenzland2.pdf & -clean: +clean: rm -f *~ *.log *.aux *.toc realclean: clean diff --git a/issue02/sessionform.tex b/issue02/sessionform.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..52baf1c --- /dev/null +++ b/issue02/sessionform.tex @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +% Barrowmaze Session Form +% Copyright (c) 2022-2023 Peter H. Froehlich . +% License terms: CC BY-SA 4.0 + +\section{Barrowmaze Session Form} + +I use this form to track the two-hour Barrowmaze sessions I run for our little +multi-DM D\&D-ish open-table campaign around Selina's Harbor. I print them two +to a page, four to a sheet. So what's what here? + +\textbf{Date:} +% +Literally just the date of the session. +% +In our game ``campaign time'' is the same as ``real time'' so there's usually +no confusion. + +\textbf{Players:} +% +Names of the (up to) three players in ``initiative order'' for their side. +% +I have players roll a d6 \emph{ahead of time} as often as necessary to get them +into a linear order for the session; less rolling during combats and less chaos. +% +In the very rare case that there's a fourth player, I just squeeze them in +somehow. + +\textbf{Turn Tracker:} +% +Each box represents a ten-minute game turn and I've never needed more than +eight hours total. +% +At the top, every \emph{other} column is marked \monster{} for random encounter +checks; at the bottom, every \emph{sixth} column is marked, the first three +\torch{} because torches would burn out then, the final one \lantern{} because +both torches and lanterns would burn out then. +% +I roll eight hours worth of random encounters ahead of time and fill in the +turns in which they will happen with red pencil; that way I can foreshadow an +encounter if appropriate; other ``pre-rolled random-ish events'' can be marked +using a second (or third) color. + +\textbf{Room Numbers:} +% +The left-hand column is used to track the party's route through the dungeon; +this is mostly useful \emph{after} the session when it comes to restocking. +% +I only make ``restock rolls'' for rooms the party \emph{saw empty}, not for all +rooms that in fact \emph{are empty}. + +\textbf{Marching Order:} +% +The right-hand column has the party's \emph{marching order} including who +carries what kind of \emph{light source} (L = lamp, T = torch, M = magic); I +encourage single-file simply because it means fewer PCs falling into bottomless +pits, but I am flexible if players \emph{insist} on walking next to each other +(I just put a line next to ``pairs'' on the far right). + +\textbf{Random Notes:} +% +The middle column is for free-form notes of \emph{any} kind; I usually track +hit points of monsters there, but also reminders of treasures found and other +changes the party makes to the dungeon. +% +There is also a \emph{round tracker} but I only use it when I have to, for +example because a monster they just killed will get up again or because a +character only has a few rounds left to live. + +% use 270 if it's an odd page instead? +\includepdf[angle=90]{vendor/session-form.pdf} diff --git a/issue02/vendor/session-form.pdf b/issue02/vendor/session-form.pdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..650542b Binary files /dev/null and b/issue02/vendor/session-form.pdf differ