Are campiagn planners worht it?

[philreed]

People buying rpg products as fiction should look at "Behind the Spells:Magic Missile" or "DM's Directory of Demiplanes".

Excellent examples of PDFs with a strong fiction element to them.

 

[Mercule]

(Note: The use of You isn't targeted at anyone specific. I've just noticed that anyone not actually playing gets upset when the try to treat a Campaign Planner like a work of fiction.)

IIRC, the product "copy" pretty clearly states that it's a bunch of forms. While I can sympathize with you (Phil) having to deal with complaints of "Hey, this isn't fun to read!", I fear that having any pity for someone who thought it might be a good time-kill to be an insurmountably difficult task. :\

 

[philreed]

IIRC, the product "copy" pretty clearly states that it's a bunch of forms. While I can sympathize with you (Phil) having to deal with complaints of "Hey, this isn't fun to read!", I fear that having any pity for someone who thought it might be a good time-kill to be an insurmountably difficult task. :\

It does. I've considered turning the covers into an image that says FORMS in as large type as possible. Then changing the descriptions to read:

These are forms.
These are forms.
These are forms.
These are forms.
These are forms.
These are forms.
These are forms.

And nothing else. Do you think people would understand that they're nothing but forms?

 

[Man-thing]

Holy crap, you mean the campaign planners are just forms!!!!!!!

 

[Mercule]

Do you think people would understand that they're nothing but forms?

Honestly? Not everyone.

 

[Acid_crash]

I got the Campaign Planner Deluxe from dtrpg for $15, 93 pages of forms and tables to help consolidate information. This product is definately intended to help a DM focus his mind. It has forms for a listing of deities and portfolios under the deity, a form for which books the DM allows (so if its not on the list, then the answer is no ), forms for basic npc stats, forms for basic town information, forms for rumors, forms for artifacts in the game, forms for a whole slew of things that a DM might, or even might not thought of.

I thought that the price was a little high, until I looked through the product. I think its worth it. A 4 out of 5 stars in my estimation.

 

[philreed]

I thought that the price was a little high, until I looked through the product. I think its worth it. A 4 out of 5 stars in my estimation.

Thank you. Hopefully you can get use out of the forms for many, many years to come.

 

[JoeGKushner]

I got the Campaign Planner Deluxe from dtrpg for $15, 93 pages of forms and tables to help consolidate information. This product is definately intended to help a DM focus his mind. It has forms for a listing of deities and portfolios under the deity, a form for which books the DM allows (so if its not on the list, then the answer is no ), forms for basic npc stats, forms for basic town information, forms for rumors, forms for artifacts in the game, forms for a whole slew of things that a DM might, or even might not thought of.

I thought that the price was a little high, until I looked through the product. I think its worth it. A 4 out of 5 stars in my estimation.

sounds like a good product for you to write a playtest review on. Go on, all the cool kids are doing it. You know you want to.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Holy crap, you mean the campaign planners are just forms!!!!!!!

My original reaction was much the same, only with smiley faces.

What can I say, I still use forms from the old TSR Adventure Design Kit... (mostly the Chases sheet - more useful with 3.X than it was with 1st ed.). When I realized that it was just forms I instantly bought it.

The Auld Grump, blind to sarcasm and irony, honest...

 

[Hand of Evil]

Don't see much of a need myself, use excel myself working around timeline/groups/plots. and jotting notes as needed.