Re: Organising your game
Originally posted by Owen E Oulton
What techniques have you developed over the years for organising all your gaming materials and keeping track of where it all is?
At the table, I use one 24 x 15 cm spiral notebook for "in game" notes, scribbling, tracking time and damage and whatever else, and a printout of the current episode/adventure. Sometimes I make important notes on the printout if something changes the episode in a major way. These, and my dice, go behind a screen of some kind, usually the cardstock ones available for whatever game I'm running.
After the session, all the notes get transcribed onto the computer into text or word files, and the writing of the next episode or adventure commences. All campaign and series notes, house rules, and whatnot are kept as word or text files, usually text when roughed up and then word files when polished.
On the computer, I keep an excel file that tracks all PC "experience" and notes changes in career paths, and other major stuff.
Basically, to sum up, at the table, everything is done by "hand" and back at home everything is kept on the 'puter.
I have yet to use a laptop during a session, but I'm going to be experimenting with one in the near future.
LQ
Drunken DM and the Speak with Dead spell: "No, I'm not the limed-over skeleton of the abbot, and no this special key in my boney fingers does not open the door to the secret treasury! ... Oh crap."