Comments on: Lessons From The Long Campaign: Wrapping It Up http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/lessons-from-the-long-campaign-wrapping-it-up The Game Mastering Blog Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: DNAphil http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/lessons-from-the-long-campaign-wrapping-it-up/comment-page-1#comment-3703 DNAphil Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:10:30 +0000 http://www.gnomestew.com/?p=1951#comment-3703 <a href='#comment-3694' rel="nofollow">@Scott Martin</a> - For this campaign, I wrote a recap at the beginning of every adventure. I then put these all together in a series of wiki pages, so that now, I have a chronicle of the whole campaign. My intention was to print it out and put it up on my game shelf, next to my rule books, so that on those rainy days, I can sit back and flip through them. The electronic format, is so that I can archive every file, image, map that I created during the game, in one place. If I tried to put all my notes for the game into the binder, it would be huge. As for Patrick-- I have become a big fan of OneNote recently. My Iron Heroes game was written in a series of TiddlyWiki's, but I have now given that up, and moved on to OneNote.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3703','DNAphil'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> @Scott Martin – For this campaign, I wrote a recap at the beginning of every adventure. I then put these all together in a series of wiki pages, so that now, I have a chronicle of the whole campaign. My intention was to print it out and put it up on my game shelf, next to my rule books, so that on those rainy days, I can sit back and flip through them.

The electronic format, is so that I can archive every file, image, map that I created during the game, in one place. If I tried to put all my notes for the game into the binder, it would be huge.

As for Patrick– I have become a big fan of OneNote recently. My Iron Heroes game was written in a series of TiddlyWiki’s, but I have now given that up, and moved on to OneNote.

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]]> By: Patrick Benson http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/lessons-from-the-long-campaign-wrapping-it-up/comment-page-1#comment-3702 Patrick Benson Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:28:36 +0000 http://www.gnomestew.com/?p=1951#comment-3702 I have started using Microsoft OneNote on my tablet PC for everything. I used to hate using a laptop at the table, because I'm in IT and I liked the game being my mental break from technology. Yet Kurt and others made such compelling arguments for using laptops that now I'm hooked on it. Back to the point, with OneNote I'm able to keep all of my game related materials (planning, prep, music playlists, audio recordings of the sessions, etc.) all in one spot. It makes archiving and referencing prior sessions incredibly easy. Now I just need to take my 4e group to 30th level so that I can follow the rest of Phil's advice!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3702','Patrick Benson'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> I have started using Microsoft OneNote on my tablet PC for everything. I used to hate using a laptop at the table, because I’m in IT and I liked the game being my mental break from technology. Yet Kurt and others made such compelling arguments for using laptops that now I’m hooked on it.

Back to the point, with OneNote I’m able to keep all of my game related materials (planning, prep, music playlists, audio recordings of the sessions, etc.) all in one spot. It makes archiving and referencing prior sessions incredibly easy.

Now I just need to take my 4e group to 30th level so that I can follow the rest of Phil’s advice!

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]]> By: Scott Martin http://www.gnomestew.com/gming-advice/lessons-from-the-long-campaign-wrapping-it-up/comment-page-1#comment-3694 Scott Martin Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:32:27 +0000 http://www.gnomestew.com/?p=1951#comment-3694 Have you ever archived a previous game before and gone back to it? Did you enjoy flipping through the notes later? Why are you keeping two copies of everything (one print, one electronic)? Is that so you can enjoy paging through your notes casually (paper), but copy them back into active format for further work another day (electronic)? Sounds like you knocked it out of the park-- it sounds well worth looking back on some future day.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3694','Scott Martin'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Have you ever archived a previous game before and gone back to it? Did you enjoy flipping through the notes later?

Why are you keeping two copies of everything (one print, one electronic)? Is that so you can enjoy paging through your notes casually (paper), but copy them back into active format for further work another day (electronic)?

Sounds like you knocked it out of the park– it sounds well worth looking back on some future day.

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