Posts Tagged by obsidian portal

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Martin’s Mentions: Worldbuilding, Mapping Software, wikidPad, Scrivener, and More
November 8, 2011 Posted by

Gnotes from Gnome Stew HQ RPG Mapping Software For many years, I’ve felt like I wasn’t a true gamer because I didn’t have a world I’d been building since I was a little kid. I’ve built pieces of worlds, and helped write plenty of worldbuilding fiction, but never had a world all my own, like so many gamers do — one that I’d been adding to, bit by bit, until it became a rich and interesting place. A couple weeks back, that changed. Fellow gnome…

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Going Digital: Using Obsidian Portal to Prep for, Run, and Document a Campaign
August 25, 2010 Posted by

I’m no Luddite, but I’ve always been more of an analog campaign management kind of guy. I type up adventures and notes on my desktop, but print them out to use at the table; I’ve used Google Maps to create a custom “living” map for a modern game, but that game also ended with a two-inch thick binder of material on my shelf. Having been out of the GM’s chair for over 18 months (Alysia and I had our daughter, Lark, in February 2009, and…