Sorting out cards as narrator
After playing a game for a while, I've collected a great deal of different character/places/obstacles cards only sorted out by name. As the game goes on, surely, more cards will be added to that--to a point where it will be hard to pre-make a bunch of cards for the next scene, and finding them later when the cards actually need to be played.
I'd like to see an option to move cards into folders, allowing me to sort them out by whatever I want. For example, a folder in the character cards section for NPC of an organization, or obstacle-folders with the obstacles for a certain chapter to go back to later and reference.
Long story short: clean up the clutter from having a lot of cards after playing for a while, without having to delete them (for future reference or usage).
Stefan
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I have problems with this myself. I am trying to create an ordered code system for locations. It's abbreviated ERZAP: Empire, Region, Zipcode, Address, Position. Every location is labelled for decreasing scope of area.
For example, if the area is a bathroom in a college bar in Los Angeles, CA USA, this is what I'd do. First I'd abbreviate the Empire as USA (for United States of America), to differentiate it from Uganda. The Empire would be USA. Then I'd count the number of regions I'm using in the US and number each. Let's say California is number 7, and that's my Region. So far, that's USA7.
Now I'd count the number of cities I'm using in California -- maybe three. So I'd label that USA7C, because I want to use alphabet letters instead of numbers there, to avoid confusion. I don't want to make myself think I have 73 States, right? There's my Zipcode: C.
Almost last, I'd find a number of buildings in Los Angeles that I am going to use in the episodes. I might have four. The bar might be the fourth building. That's my Address: 4.
So far we have USA7C4.
Last, we have two positions in the bar I'll have in my story, the Main Room and the Bathrooms. So we'll have the Bathrooms be designated as B. That's USA7C4B.
So I'd label my Location card "(USA7C4B) College Bar Bathrooms".