Posts Tagged by notes
| June 18, 2013 | Posted by Scott Martin |
Aliens are Coming! One of the things that interests me is seeing how other GMs create their notes and where their inspiration comes from. It turns out that I’ll be running a couple of games at our roleplaying mini-con on Free RPG Day, so… I generated some notes. (I’ve actually done this before; back in 2010 I wrote an article creatively titled Adventure Notes, where I shared some notes from my first 4e game and a Spirit of the Century. You’ll see some commonalities and…
| September 15, 2010 | Posted by Scott Martin |
Phil already answered Tabulazero’s question about note taking, in his post A Deeper Understanding of GM Notes, but I recently found some notes and thought that a couple of concrete examples might prove useful. I’m really answering the second half of the question more, since I’ll be sharing notes from a 4e game and my recent Spirit of the Century game. To refresh, here was the question: I would love an article highlighting how you organize your DM notes? What do you write? In which…
| July 19, 2010 | Posted by Phil Vecchione |
One question that comes up over and over when I talk to different GMs is about how to take notes for their session. It is a topic that I take personally, as I have gone through a number of different note taking styles and used all sorts of different tools, over the years. Thanks to Stew reader Tabulazero for suggesting this article topic. Rather than this being an article all about types of notebooks, special pens, and templates, I want to discuss the philosophy of…
| December 10, 2009 | Posted by Patrick Benson |
When I run my D&D 4e game I use a random encounter generator. I look at the stats for the various monsters, and I then put those monsters into the game. This might result in a zombie, some lizard people, a classic magical beast, and a handful of human minions being the encounter. If the PCs decide to travel into the woods that evening these monsters are suddenly re-skinned as various wild elves with a strange fey creature that acts as a watch dog. If…
| October 26, 2009 | Posted by Phil Vecchione |
As many of you know, Google has released in a limited beta its new communication platform, Wave. This will not be a review of the Wave software; that you can find all over the net: TechCrunch, Wikipedia, LifeHacker. What this article will be is a look at how Wave can be incorporated into your game. Without getting all technical, Wave is a communication platform that can best be described, in gaming terms, as a multi-classed Wiki/IM. What it does well is create an environment that…
| August 14, 2009 | Posted by Martin Ralya |
Evernote has changed my life. No, seriously — I’m not exaggerating. Capturing Ideas I have a spotty memory for some things, particularly random thoughts and ideas that pop into my head — they tend to disappear quickly if I don’t write them down as soon as possible. And I get a lot of ideas. My mental back burners are running 24-7 — and I hate losing ideas. I learned a long time ago to always have a notebook near at hand, and there’s a lot…
