Reference screen?

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Hey all. Say hello to the noob to the Old School Renaissance. Naturally, I want to jump into this with Petal Throne because that's just how my mind works.

Does anybody know if a reference screen was ever made for EPT? My searches have not found any mention of such a thing, official or otherwise. I haven't even found anybody else asking for such a thing.

Or is a reference screen one of those new-fangled contraptions that have no place in a proper old-school game?

[badger2305]

There was an eight page set of reference sheets that came with the original Empire of the Petal Throne game. I've taken four of them, along with some of the art from the original rulebook, copied them onto cardstock, and then had them laminated. Make a decent reference screen.

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May 3, 2009 20:07:31 GMT -6 badger2305 said:

There was an eight page set of reference sheets that came with the original Empire of the Petal Throne game.

Really? I would never have known. Only once in my life have I laid eyes on a White Box set of EPT. Sometimes I think I should have snatched it up and run out of the shop with it.

Guess I'll just have to knock together my own reference screen. What I expected, really.

Obviously such a screen will need the "hit" tables from section 720, the damage table from section 730, and the morale table from section 740. (Don't you just love how OEPT is so neatly divided up into numbered sections?) Oh, and the NPC reactions from section 1020. The players' side can show the Basic Talents from sections 411 through 416, plus Original Skills and Professional Skills (sections 420 and 430, respectively). Then fill the remaining space with as many other tables as will fit.

Any suggestions as to which tables I have not yet mentioned would be especially useful?

[badger2305]

May 4, 2009 18:35:33 GMT -6 @glennjupp said:

May 3, 2009 20:07:31 GMT -6 badger2305 said:

There was an eight page set of reference sheets that came with the original Empire of the Petal Throne game.

Really? I would never have known. Only once in my life have I laid eyes on a White Box set of EPT. Sometimes I think I should have snatched it up and run out of the shop with it.

Guess I'll just have to knock together my own reference screen. What I expected, really.

Obviously such a screen will need the "hit" tables from section 720, the damage table from section 730, and the morale table from section 740. (Don't you just love how OEPT is so neatly divided up into numbered sections?) Oh, and the NPC reactions from section 1020. The players' side can show the Basic Talents from sections 411 through 416, plus Original Skills and Professional Skills (sections 420 and 430, respectively). Then fill the remaining space with as many other tables as will fit.

Any suggestions as to which tables I have not yet mentioned would be especially useful?

Actually the four page set of reference sheets are available with the PDF download at DriveThruRPG.com - so you could do pretty much what I did. Dunno where I got the "eight" pages - possibly from the resulting screen I devised - I will see about taking some pics and uploading them for people to see here.

Some of the other ones that would be appropriate would be the random encounter tables and the encounters in the Foreigners Quarter table.

[greentongue]

You might find "Classic EPT Charts" from my page home.earthlink.net/~djackson24/Delbert6c.htm useful when making yourself a screen.
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[Finarvyn]

I've got a White Box EPT set, but I don't remember a 4-page reference sheet in there. On the other hand it's been a while since I looked inside, and I usually focus on the main rulebook rather than the extras.

Oh, and if I haven't mentioned it before, greentongue you have one of my favorite EPT web pages out there. I like the way you organized it and its general usefulness.

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Badger, Greentongue, thanks for the help. Now I just need to make the time to make the screen.

[xerxez]

Greetings to the board, this is an older thread but I will reply. I made the most ghetto but cute in an ugly sort of way referee screen out of two manila folders.

Photocopied all the relevant pages, cut out the tables, taped them onto 8x11 sheets, and copied them again. I used packing tape carefully applied to secure them to the folders and to join the back flap of folder 1 to the front flap of folder 2.

Then I packing taped full page copied illustrations from the EPT book onto the back three panels, resulting in a tri screened ref. chart which I use in conjunction with an old fourway folded game board from another game which I combine with the tri screen to hide my maps.

If you do this be advised you will not be able to fit every table in the book on one manila tri-screen, two you could but I didn't feel like the trouble again. The mosnter stats takes up one whole panel by themselves.

[greentongue]

If the screens worked for you to game, then they are great.
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