I normally go through about 1/4 page per hour as a player and about a page per hour as a DM depending on how much I'm actively tracking. I use this system for basically everything from HP to arrows because it straight up trades paper for time and I'm more than willing to make that trade.

When I get a spell slot back with an item or ability I put a circle beneath it to show it's usable again, and when I get all my spell slots back I draw a line through all the numbers/circles and start marking the next line down.

Now the most important part, at the end of the session, TAKE A PHOTO ON MY PHONE OF THIS PAGE!Īt some point I’ll need to make the above into a nicer looking wooden tracker thingie.įor new players, I hand them index card 'tokens' with their spell slot level and have them hand them to me when they cast at that level, then hand them back on long rest.īecause I DM so much, I've developed a shorthand system for being able to track changing number very quickly, where the 'default' number is in hard brackets, if a number is to the right or beneath of it that isn't crossed out that's the current value, and if their either are no numbers or all numbers are crossed out it's the default value.įor spells, I make a 'spell bar' that shows my slots one to one, so for a 5th level spellcaster it would look like '.' When I use a slot, I mark the same number directly under it's 'default,' so the first time I cast a lvl 1 I put a 1 under the leftmost 1, shen I cast another I put a 1 under the next to leftmost 1, when I cast a lvl 2 I put a 2 under the leftmost 2, and so on. Any other limited use abilities I’ll write down in that page and put a bead on so I’ll know if it is available or I already used it. When I cast a spell, I’ll take a bead of the appropriate level and put on a caddy. I then take a glass bead I got at the craft store and put on each of the numbers. I keep track of spell slots by drawing a chart of the spell slots I have so something like: Prepared spells are stored in my spell slot tracker. Spellbook spells are kept inside my gaming notebook so I can access them but won’t easily see them during combat. Unknown spells go back in my backpack and are inaccessible during play. I then make 3 piles of these cards, prepared spells, spellbook spells, and unknown spells.

To keep track of spells: I bought the dnd spell cards.

3d print spell slot