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For those of you with ADHD, how do you organize your campaigns?
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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9263530" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>I was diagnosed with ADHD in middle school and was on Ritalin for a few years. I don't know that ADHD has much of an effect on my game prep other than, like work, I really rely on computers to keep organized. Currently, for my Warhammer Campaign, I use Foundry. The adventures, items, actors, etc are already organized by the system. I keep a game master's note book where I record ideas for how the campaign may progress, which I update based on what the players do. I have a session page for each game session where I write up how the session will start and where I write up my notes on what happened in the session after the session is over.</p><p></p><p>Random name and other info generation is done in either the Foundry or Discord chat, so I go through that and update my notes.</p><p></p><p>Foundry makes it pretty easy to drop links to other articles, items, actors etc. into the notes which helps pull thinks up directly from my notes.</p><p></p><p>I used to have game-prep content spread across Foundry, Google Drive, and Evernote. But when the journal functionality was updated in Foundry to support rich, multi-page journals, with auto outlining based on titles and headers, I just consolidated everything in Foundry for my current campaign. With one main campaign document, cross-linking, and great search and filtering it is pretty easy to keep organized in a way that is easy to reference and use during the game.</p><p></p><p>EDIT to add what I used in the past:</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Early 80s until early 1990 - paper and three-ring binders. An old high school friend had actually held on to one of my binders since the late 80s. Was cool to page through the past. Basically stuffed a lot with minimal organization other than tab separators to keep adventure materials, world material, and character sheets separate. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">2014 when I got back into TTRPGs with 5e, I used Realm Works, which was a great locally installed campaign management tool that would auto link words to articles and gave a wealth or campaign-organization tools. But Lone Wolf Development ended development for it. I used it for my first 5e campaign, which used a home brew world. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">2nd campaign was Curse of Strahd. Just used the book and Evernote. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">3rd campaign was Rappan Athuk (by Frog God Games). I started this 5-year campaign using RealmWorks when running it in person. After I had to switch to running it online, after testing a bunch of tools I moved to Foundry, but only put the maps and monsters in there. I used Google Drive to record campaign notes, homebrew rules, etc. Had a lot of stuff in Evernote as well. Tried World Anvil but really only used it for the interactive world map and Lost Lands content, that Frog God Games offered a subscription for. Didn't try to create my own content in it.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">4th campaign - Warhammer Fantasy 4e. To consolidate subscriptions and content in general (not just gaming content) I migrated everything from Evernote to Google Drive and killed my Evernote subscription. I bought that Cubicle 7 official WFRP content for Foundry. I start just creating all my campaign notes, GM references, etc. in Foundry from the get go. I have PDFs of rules, adventures, and other content in Google Drive but all the content I actually use and refer to in game is in Foundry. </li> </ol></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9263530, member: 6796661"] I was diagnosed with ADHD in middle school and was on Ritalin for a few years. I don't know that ADHD has much of an effect on my game prep other than, like work, I really rely on computers to keep organized. Currently, for my Warhammer Campaign, I use Foundry. The adventures, items, actors, etc are already organized by the system. I keep a game master's note book where I record ideas for how the campaign may progress, which I update based on what the players do. I have a session page for each game session where I write up how the session will start and where I write up my notes on what happened in the session after the session is over. Random name and other info generation is done in either the Foundry or Discord chat, so I go through that and update my notes. Foundry makes it pretty easy to drop links to other articles, items, actors etc. into the notes which helps pull thinks up directly from my notes. I used to have game-prep content spread across Foundry, Google Drive, and Evernote. But when the journal functionality was updated in Foundry to support rich, multi-page journals, with auto outlining based on titles and headers, I just consolidated everything in Foundry for my current campaign. With one main campaign document, cross-linking, and great search and filtering it is pretty easy to keep organized in a way that is easy to reference and use during the game. EDIT to add what I used in the past: [LIST=1] [*]Early 80s until early 1990 - paper and three-ring binders. An old high school friend had actually held on to one of my binders since the late 80s. Was cool to page through the past. Basically stuffed a lot with minimal organization other than tab separators to keep adventure materials, world material, and character sheets separate. [*]2014 when I got back into TTRPGs with 5e, I used Realm Works, which was a great locally installed campaign management tool that would auto link words to articles and gave a wealth or campaign-organization tools. But Lone Wolf Development ended development for it. I used it for my first 5e campaign, which used a home brew world. [*]2nd campaign was Curse of Strahd. Just used the book and Evernote. [*]3rd campaign was Rappan Athuk (by Frog God Games). I started this 5-year campaign using RealmWorks when running it in person. After I had to switch to running it online, after testing a bunch of tools I moved to Foundry, but only put the maps and monsters in there. I used Google Drive to record campaign notes, homebrew rules, etc. Had a lot of stuff in Evernote as well. Tried World Anvil but really only used it for the interactive world map and Lost Lands content, that Frog God Games offered a subscription for. Didn't try to create my own content in it. [*]4th campaign - Warhammer Fantasy 4e. To consolidate subscriptions and content in general (not just gaming content) I migrated everything from Evernote to Google Drive and killed my Evernote subscription. I bought that Cubicle 7 official WFRP content for Foundry. I start just creating all my campaign notes, GM references, etc. in Foundry from the get go. I have PDFs of rules, adventures, and other content in Google Drive but all the content I actually use and refer to in game is in Foundry. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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