Scrivener of Doom
Adventurer
I've been using Masterplan as a monster builder for about two years now, in reaction to my expectation that the DDi tools would disappear rather quickly. Of course, the DDi tools are still there but I'm much happier having offline versions of everything so I'm not going back.
But I digress.
Last year, I was able to return to face-to-face gaming and ran multiple sessions of a 4E campaign set in the Forgotten Realms. Unfortunately, it died an ignoble death for a range of reasons that don't need to be mentioned but I've been able to start another game with other players who are much more reliable and a lot less personally "challenging".
In the gap between the end of the earlier campaign and the start of this one, I spent some time seeing what else I could do with Masterplan and - damn! - I'm impressed. I've actually ditched my usual multiple word documents have built the entire campaign, including individual encounters, in Masterplan. I'm even using Masterplan to run the bookkeeping and dice-rolling part of the encounters and it's saving me *a lot* of time and energy that I can instead focus on descriptions, RP, and story. It even tracks XP.
So, is anyone else still using it to build and run adventures or campaigns? Any tips? tricks? advice?
But I digress.
Last year, I was able to return to face-to-face gaming and ran multiple sessions of a 4E campaign set in the Forgotten Realms. Unfortunately, it died an ignoble death for a range of reasons that don't need to be mentioned but I've been able to start another game with other players who are much more reliable and a lot less personally "challenging".
In the gap between the end of the earlier campaign and the start of this one, I spent some time seeing what else I could do with Masterplan and - damn! - I'm impressed. I've actually ditched my usual multiple word documents have built the entire campaign, including individual encounters, in Masterplan. I'm even using Masterplan to run the bookkeeping and dice-rolling part of the encounters and it's saving me *a lot* of time and energy that I can instead focus on descriptions, RP, and story. It even tracks XP.
So, is anyone else still using it to build and run adventures or campaigns? Any tips? tricks? advice?