Found these nifty ammo tracker devices just randomly on the das internet and thought I’d share them as they tickle my GM bone. You could make them yourself but these do appear to be fairly well crafted and if each player bought their own not too expensive.
Unless of course you have that one player who carries 18 clips for each of the 5 weapons he somehow has stashed on his person like some soldier class from Mass Effect 2.
Anyway, if you have need to keep track of a reasonable amount of clips and bullets in any game using them these could certainly add a bit of bling to your gaming table. These are crafted by someone who appears to be playing Savage Worlds Deadlands or Deadlands Reloaded primarily so there’s a lack of larger clip sizes that would be appropriate for things like that G3 or MP5 your super spy is carrying but one could make do with multiple smaller clips rubber banded together or something of that nature.
And it’s the little things like these that really amp up the cool factor and even immersion factor in a game. As the characters blow through their ammo they can actually see their supplies dwindling and can use up the necessary actions to reload and all that. Cool stuff.
As an alternative that’s cheaper, you could just buy some thick foam core, cut it into magazine like shapes and then poke holes in it to stand your bullet casings up in which could be various sized dowels cut off in the appropriate sizes. But where’s the cool in that?
