Further game aids

[Sindyr]

Now that I am about to run my first Capes game, I am realizing that I could (or could have) use the following:

• An exhaustive list of everything you can use Story Tokens for.
• A list of all potential props and aids for running a game
• A "game screen" with all the most important and most used rules listed.

...to start with anyways.

Here's what I am bringing to my first game:

Click and Lock's cut out (from the CnL pdf)
10 red and 10 blue dice
tape
3x5 note cards
3x5 post-its (may be better since they stick in place)
Blue poker chips (story tokens)
Purple poker chips (debt)
7 different colored sharpee permanent markers.
6 Capes character sheet printouts with drives.
Pad of graph paper.
multiple tokens matching the colors of the sharpees (don't have these yet, will try to score some in a bit)

As to the exhaustive list of story token use:

• Make an extra Claim
• Create an extra Conflict
• Introduce an extra Character
• Take an extra Action

Is there anything else?

[Glendower]

You might need more dice.  I've had about 15 dice of both colors in play.  When you start splitting, it gets really important. 

[Vaxalon]

You'll need at least one more color of dice, perhaps two.  Remember that splitting can create third and fourth sides.

[Larry L.]

Inspiration tracking. (Or is that the graph paper?)

I have no idea why you would need graph paper over any other kind of paper.

I don't see why you need different color chips for Debt and Story Tokens.

[Vaxalon]

It's nice to have different color chips for debt and story tokens so that they don't get mixed up.  Yes, the debt tokens are on a character sheet, and the story tokens are not, but it's a good idea to be able to distinguish them otherwise, just because.

[Adam Biltcliffe]

We've sometimes used Othello pieces for debt and story tokens. You get the benefit of literally handing over your debt as story tokens when you win a conflict, but you can have them black side up for debt and white side up for story tokens to make the distinction more visually obvious.

[Larry L.]

Othello? Now that's pretty slick. I guess I mostly just thought it would be confusing to "switch out" one color chip for another, seeing as Story Tokens are MADE of Debt. Changes the conceptual flow of the game a tisch. So a flip-color chip? Perfect.

I thought it worked better to have different debt colors for each player. That takes some shopping if you have more than three, though.