Thread: Ammo Tracking
-
January 30th, 2020, 23:25 #1
Ammo Tracking
Is there an extension that will track ammo similar to how 5E D&D does? I see in Deadlands a gun tracks what it holds, but is there a way to track how much a character is carrying?
-
February 1st, 2020, 16:33 #2
- Join Date
- Aug 2008
- Location
- Orlando, FL
- Posts
- 370
I have just had players note number of spare magazines/loads in mundane equipment. When they use up a mag, they manually reset the ammo counter on the Combat tab and decrease the number of spares on the mundane equipment tab. If they swap a mag early (a tactical reload), they need to note how many rounds are left over in mundane items.
-
March 15th, 2020, 17:15 #3
I think it seems odd no one has written an extension for this.
-
March 16th, 2020, 11:22 #4
Why does it seem odd?
When I run face-to-face game there are no magic apps to update the paper character sheets, my players, rub things out and make changes, when I run my FG games, they do the same.
To be honest the reason I suspect no-one has written an extension is that the effort/time required for such a niche requirement outweighs the inconvenience of reducing mag count by 1 once it a while, add to that how do you get it to support weapons with attachments i.e. grenade/shotgun attachments that have separate ammo counters?
An ammo tracker would be nice, but I have been running SW on FG for over a decade and have never thought I needed one, I expect I am not alone, in fact I think you are the first person to ask for it, so i'm afraid you might have to write it yourself...
Of course if you did I suspect we will all use it!
My players just defeated an army, had a dogfight with aliens, machine-gunned the zombies, stormed the tower, became Legendary and died heroically
Yours are still on combat round 6
Get Savage
First GM to post a game for the original FG Con!
-
March 16th, 2020, 20:40 #5
- Join Date
- Aug 2008
- Location
- Orlando, FL
- Posts
- 370
Couldn't agree more. As much as I joke about having been spoiled by the work Ikael has done to the point of not being sure I could run a face-to-face game, I also understand that he's a volunteer and don't expect SWD/SWADE will (probably) ever get the resources assigned to it that D&D 5e has.
Thread Information
Users Browsing this Thread
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Bookmarks