Idea for tracking parties that change members...
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:15 pm
The item builder is great!!! What you did with the scrolls wasn't what I expected, but it works very well. I like!!!
I've shown Loot Divider around to a few people, and they loved the idea. What I've seen is that most people want a way to track treasure division with parties that changes its players/characters. (Our own group has several players and NPC's who get standard shares, but they don't go on every mission.)
I've put together an idea that would make it more useful for most people, if you are interested:
1) Make the first "player name" slot a Group slot. Anything that gets posted to this slot does not get divided up into shares.
2) Make columns with checkboxes on the right side of the Treasure! sheet for each player (including the group). One check box is for "assigned to", the other box is for "Share of". This allows three things:
a) "Assigned" only: Someone is carrying group equipment, but the gp value does not get counted aginst the individuals who earned it. (If that character gets lost, then so does that equipment.)
b) "Share of" only: Player/NPC gets a share of that loot, but doen't have that allocated aginst them as a percentage. This also means Loot can be divided up between different players based on who went on that mission/game session, not as an overall number assinged to everyone on the list.
c) Both "Share of" and "Assinged": Calculates that that person got that item, and the entire amount goes aginst his percentage. This also allows tracking of items that are "gifts" or "stolen" to specific players if an item only has a single person checked as "Share of".
3) The columns in the Item Tracker is now set up to auto-sort each player by two criteria: Assigned and Percentage. Breaks it down into 'What I own" and "what I'm carrying for the party", and still lists all the "Group" items in a single column.
4) Delete the Group and Item Tracker sheets, if desired.
I hope this makes sense...
I've shown Loot Divider around to a few people, and they loved the idea. What I've seen is that most people want a way to track treasure division with parties that changes its players/characters. (Our own group has several players and NPC's who get standard shares, but they don't go on every mission.)
I've put together an idea that would make it more useful for most people, if you are interested:
1) Make the first "player name" slot a Group slot. Anything that gets posted to this slot does not get divided up into shares.
2) Make columns with checkboxes on the right side of the Treasure! sheet for each player (including the group). One check box is for "assigned to", the other box is for "Share of". This allows three things:
a) "Assigned" only: Someone is carrying group equipment, but the gp value does not get counted aginst the individuals who earned it. (If that character gets lost, then so does that equipment.)
b) "Share of" only: Player/NPC gets a share of that loot, but doen't have that allocated aginst them as a percentage. This also means Loot can be divided up between different players based on who went on that mission/game session, not as an overall number assinged to everyone on the list.
c) Both "Share of" and "Assinged": Calculates that that person got that item, and the entire amount goes aginst his percentage. This also allows tracking of items that are "gifts" or "stolen" to specific players if an item only has a single person checked as "Share of".
3) The columns in the Item Tracker is now set up to auto-sort each player by two criteria: Assigned and Percentage. Breaks it down into 'What I own" and "what I'm carrying for the party", and still lists all the "Group" items in a single column.
4) Delete the Group and Item Tracker sheets, if desired.
I hope this makes sense...