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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altalazar" data-source="post: 2656963" data-attributes="member: 939">I have two nine foot long tables (three feet wide) put together to make a nice six by nine table for players to sit around - it could probably comfortably seat eight players, though I've never had that many and probably wouldn't want that many.  Not including my seat at one end of the tables, of course.  I then have a six by three table sitting next to me to put additional reference books and notebooks on.  I have so many DM screens I've lost count (1E, 2E, 3E, and various flavors therein).  I usually have two or three screens in front of me to cover a wide swath of table and then maybe one on the side table just in case I need to leave reference books open there.  I pretty much always do homebrew, though I incorporate modules (or pieces thereof) into that homebrew on occasion.  I have a campaign notebook with all of the notes on my world.  I then add to it in pencil during the game, either to make notes of changes to to record entirely new things - for instance, if the players look for a herb lore expert in the city and have never done so before (and I haven't fleshed one out already) then I'll make it up on the fly, taking notes of it on the appropriate page (for that city) in my notebook, to be typed up and added formally later - usually after that adventure is over.  In this way, large swaths of my campaign world have grown organically in ways I didn't initially plan on.  I have 4x6 index cards I use for initiative and also for monsters, which I then also use for initiative.  I put common monsters on generic cards and I put special creatures / NPCs on their own cards as well.  That way, as I go through the initiative, when I get to the appropriate card, all the information I need on a given creature is right there on the card.  One of these days I'm going to try and automate that somewhat and print them as I need them, though I'm not sure how I'll do that.  Perhaps with sheets of 4x6 labels.  That's probably the easiest way.  I keep a sheet with all player information on it - a party info sheet, though I'll probably in the future just keep all of that on index cards as well.  But I do like to have at least basic party information in one place on one page - where I can annotate.  I like to keep track of levels / hp / exp and so forth, just for my reference.</blockquote>

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