Talk:Mano a Mano

Compact Characters

Compact characters could be used for NPCs who only need combat stats and a few other qualities and abilities. All of the NPCs in a particular battle could fit on two facing pages of a book, possibly with other information about the battle, which would be convenient for the GM. A bestiary can have lots of playable creatures. Compact characters could fit on cards or leave room for explaining how to do basic actions and roll dice for beginning players. Compact characters can be simpler to create by hand than an SVG file (although SVG files are plain text and this can be automated by a script)

Do we need template CP, speed, agility, power, toughness and abilities? We can easily put them in or leave them out by using the slash-notation (total/template numbers, as in "CP value: 151/105".) Template stats are important for PCs who gain experience but have maximum levels based on their template stats. This is much less important for NPCs. Template CP value is only needed to double-check changes that affect a character's CP. Variability is also important for PC development and much less relevant to NPCs.

Stun and damage are unnecessary. Movement stats can be left out if they are 0. Melee defense may be unnecessary. The best defense of the character's weapons could be highlighted differently. Carrying capacity, equipment mass and even encumbrance may be unnecessary. Offense, control, leverage and even heft are not necessary for minimal combat, but they can be useful for weapons that can be stolen.

Steven (151 CP, 95 kg, 1.6 m height, adult male human robber)

1 machete (sharp, 0.5 kg, 3 heft, 5 power, 4 attack, 14 defense)

4 ground movement, 10 missile defense, 14 stamina

These last two I think are probably the best compact character sheet design. It's the sort of thing that would fit on a 3x5 card very intuitively, but also the information is well organized and easy to access. Should stamina be next to toughness on this design? -BFGalbraith

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.