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B/X, Character Sheets, Doodles, Dungeons & Dragons, Fantasy, Labyrinth Lord, OSR, RPG
Many moons ago, the Dungeon Crawl Classics game was released and Kirin Robinson made new DCC character sheets based on my existing B/X D&D sheets. At the back of these sheets, he included a page of cards for tracking the remaining time for torches and lanterns (using the classic D&D 10-minute turns).
Torch Card (click for 2 x 3.5 image file)
A friend of mine (N. Phillip Cole, author of the brilliant Motobushido RPG) was looking for B/X Dungeons & Dragons versions of these cards (torches burn for 6 turns and lanterns for 24 turns in B/X D&D, as opposed to 10 and 20 turns in DCC), so based on Kirin’s originals, I threw these together tonight.
Lantern Card (click for 2 x 3.5 image file)
I recommend getting them printed on Kraft card stock (as shown in the top image). Vistaprint offers two-sided B&W Kraft business cards for $27 or so for 100 cards in Canada, so probably even cheaper in the US.
Both cards are copyright 2017 by Dyson Logos, based on a design by Kirin Robinson (and in turn based on a design by Dyson Logos, how’s that for recursive?).
You have permission to use and copy these graphics for personal use, of course.
They’re really beautiful! This seems like something that someone should package up and sell – 100 cards for $X USD with shipping.
For a product, I wouldn’t go with a large number of these. Instead make a mixed pack of various things you would track like that on laminated cards. For most things you wouldn’t need any more than 8 cards.
For an opening list:
Torchs & lanterns, (obviously)
Ammunition for (cross)bows/slings/etc.
Magic item charges.
Rations
Some blank cards with various useful counts, (e.g. 6, 12, 20. 50).
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Wow, this is a great game aid for Torchbearer! I love it!
Thanks Dyson!—this’ll be a good one to help my 13-year-old son and his co-DM friend as they’re learning to run 1e dungeon crawls 😀
Allan.
I’ve turned these into pdf forms so people who are playing online can easily use them by checking off the boxes. I’ve hosted the pdfs on dropbox, with links from my blog, and links to this post for the original full-size images.
https://talesoftheramblingbumblers.com/2020/08/08/torches-lanterns/