Well, I had ALOT of down time at work today, so I was auctualy able to mock up my design for a "new" status board. Below is what I got.
Starting from left to right, I wanted a spot to put my Mage stat card. I put that in, and made it a little deep so that you can set whatever corresponding tokens in with it if wanted. I also put a lip on the bottom so it would be easy to get stuff in and out of it.
Next, to the right of that, is the Health bar. I wanted it in sequence of 5 because it makes it a lot easier to count (imo). I also wanted to round it off to 50. I know it doesn't have a "Max" but have never seen in my games of anyone going that high. I made the Health and Mana portion to have little pegs going in the corresponding slots. It will obviously cover the number it's on, but that should be okay. You will also see below that I made some custom pegs for each item. Heart for health, skull for damage, and a fireball for mana. Health and Mana were made the same. I do have them counting in opposite directions. I also wanted the Mana all the way on the right, being that most people are Right handed, and its the peg that gets changed almost every turn guaranteed.
Next to that, the little box in the middle is actually the Channel status. It isn't going to be controlled with a peg, but is going to be controlled with a dial that is built inside. I wanted to keep this compact, but realistically, you could play an entire match without your channel status even changing. So i didn't want to take up real estate for a status that could possibly not even change. The dial is numbered 0-20.
As of right now, i chopped up the model below with the moving and interlocking parts and have it printing as I type this. I want to check clearances, clarity, and usability first before I do a full print of everything. It will probably take a few weeks because I'm still working with this whole "corona" virus thing going on, but be patient and be sure i'll post it if it all works out and completed!
