Talk:Mano a Mano

Compact Characters

Some games will have some characters who only need a little bit of information instead of full character sheets:

• stock villains and monsters which only need combat stats and sometimes a few special qualities or abilities.
• battle-on-a-page where two facing pages of an RPG book contain everything a player or GM needs to play one side (the "NPC" side) of a battle.
• book-of-beasties which contains dozens of creatures which need to be playable. Most of these creatures won't have equipment.
• a "how to" format for beginning players, explaining how to do basic actions, what dice to roll, etc.
• "collectible characters" (action figures, miniatures, cards or comic books about characters) with a little stat section, possibly a "full" mano a mano character as well as "how to" stats or stats for a simpler game like minimam.
• A simple way to publish NPC's without having to make a new .svg file for each one:

Steven is an adult male human.  He is a robber by trade.  His mass is 95 kg and he is 1.6 m tall.  
Speed: 1
Agility: 0
Power: 3
Toughness: 7
CP: 151/105
Abilities: unarmed combat 2, one-hand weapons 4, craftsmanship 2
Equipment:
     2 hands: hand, 3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense
     2 feet: 3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense
     machete: sharp, 0.5 kg, 3 heft, 5 power, 4 attack, 14 defense
Carrying Capacity: 3 kg
Equipment Mass: 0.5 kg
Ground Movement: 4
Water Movement: 0
Missile Defense: 10
Stamina: 14
Stun:                          Damage:

paragraph format:

Steven is a 95 kg adult male human robber. He has 1.6 m height, 1 speed, 0 agility, 3 power, 7 toughness, 151/105 CP, 2 unarmed combat, 4 one-handed weapons, 2 craftsmanship, 2 hands (hand, 3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense), 2 feet (3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense), a machete (sharp, 0.5 kg, 3 heft, 5 power, 4 attack, 14 defense), 3 kg carrying capacity, 0.5 kg equipment mass, 0 encumbrance, 4 ground movement, 0 water movement, 0 climbing movement, 10 missile defense, 14 melee defense, 14 stamina

or we could put each item of the paragraph format on a separate line:

Steven is an adult male human robber. He has:
95 kg mass
1.6 m height
1 speed
0 agility
3 power
7 toughness
151/105 CP
2 unarmed combat
4 one-handed weapons
2 craftsmanship
2 hands (hand, 3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense)
2 feet (3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense)
1 machete (sharp, 0.5 kg, 3 heft, 5 power, 4 attack, 14 defense)
3 kg carrying capacity
0.5 kg equipment mass
0 encumbrance
4 ground movement
0 water movement
0 climbing movement
10 missile defense
14 melee defense
14 stamina

Or related items on one line:

Steven (151 CP adult male human robber)
95 kg, 1.6 m height
1 speed, 0 agility, 3 power, 7 toughness, 14 stamina
2 unarmed combat, 4 one-handed weapons, 2 craftsmanship
2 hands (hand, 3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense)
2 feet (3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense)
1 machete (sharp, 0.5 kg, 3 heft, 5 power, 4 attack, 14 defense)
3 kg carrying capacity, 0.5 kg equipment mass, 0 encumbrance
4 ground movement, 0 water movement, 0 climbing movement
10 missile defense, 14 melee defense

Notice that we can put almost any stats we want on the first line and it reads pretty well:

Steven: 151 CP, 95 kg, 1.6 m height, adult male human robber
speed: 1
agility: 0
power: 3
toughness: 7
unarmed combat: 2
one-handed weapons: 4
craftsmanship: 2
2 hands: hand, 3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense
2 feet: 3 power, 2 attack, 12 defense
1 machete: sharp, 0.5 kg, 3 heft, 5 power, 4 attack, 14 defense
carrying capacity: 3 kg
equipment mass: 0.5 kg
encumbrance: 0
ground movement: 4
water movement: 0
climbing movement: 0
missile defense: 10
melee defense: 14

• Do we need to list template CP and not the other template stats? The total/template format can be used or not used for CP, speed, agility, power, toughness and abilities in any of the examples above.
• Carrying capacity, equipment mass and maybe even encumbrance may be unnecessary
• melee defense may be unnecessary

Editing Character Sheet

If you change the character sheet format when editing any of the following, you must update the others:

• Blank Character Sheet
• Example Template
• Example Character
• Clone character sheet in the Combat Example!

Be sure you know which character sheet you are updating:

• The template creation example includes both the blank character sheet and the example template.
• The character creation example includes both the example template and the example character sheet.