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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 1959474" data-attributes="member: 114">Adventure - some combination of Word document or an outliner program (like MyInfo)I have an excel spreadsheet with the following pages1. Campaign Calendar2. PC wealth tracking. For each PC lists their items and calculates current wealth vs expected3. PC basic stats. For each PC list their attributes, AC, spot & listen checks, hp, best attack etc as well as running total of xps (incremented each adventure) Quick ref and sanity check really.4. Combat sheet - one line for each PC with columns as follows:name | Init | AC | hp | special notes (SR, DR etc) | 1-2-3-4-5 etc rounds.The monsters are teed up below the actual sheet. When the encounter starts copy the appropriate creature lines up to the rest, collect the party initiative, sort into init order and then just put x's in the box to track what is going on. For large monsters I have some columns for quickly recording damage and set the hp up to automatically deduct from the total.n.b. I tried using DMGenie, but eventually decided that it didn't quite work for me (too much time spent for integrating odd actions) but two others in my group use it extensively for their adventure creation and DMing and swear by it. It is certainly a decent product and really shines if a wizard wants to summon a celestial griffon (click click click celestial griffon added to combat with full stats, thank you m'am).For my maps I normally scan existing adventures have a bitmap viewer window open, or create them myself in drawing software.I keep a folder with the SRD contents open for easy access.I always use real dice, so the players can see them fall themselves.I still tend to have a DM screen for when I need secret die rolls (however this is just a folder balanced open - no data).For 3e I'd hate to go back to not using a laptop for DMing now.Cheers</blockquote>

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