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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: 9263923" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><p>[USER=6915329]@Faolyn[/USER] - I'm curious what prompted the post. Is there anything about ADHD that you feel creates challenges for planning, organizing, and running games and campaigns? Since the mid-90s the term ADD was deprecated and ADHD is an umbrella term that emcompasses all forms of attention-deficit disorders, even if hyperactivity is not present. As a pre-teen and early teen, I was pretty strong on the hyperactive presentation. I was on Ritalin for 2 years, which made me feel like a zombie, and after I was taken off of it, I did fine, I just needed to develop habits to address focus issue. I was against drugs like Ritalin for much of my early adulthood, but I realize that for many people, the medication is necessary for them to function, and I've long stepped off that soap box. As I entered adulthood, my ADHD became much less of an issue. This is party due to being able to develop effective coping habits, party due to productivity software and mobile devices becoming common at the same time I was entering the work force, and partly because of getting my thyroid issues diagnosed and treated. </p><p></p><p>But the period when I was diagnosed and first treated for ADHD was also when I was heavily getting into D&D and other RPGs. I've never really thought of it before, but I don't recall my ADHD being an issue in my ability to run or play in games back then. If anything, I could be unhealthily focused on the hobby. My problem was more focusing on school work, chores, and other responsibilities. </p><p></p><p>I will say that my passion for the hobby at that age helped make me more organized in other areas of life by the time I headed off to college. Being a gamemaster for a TTRPG is wonderful for daydreamers to learn to create structure and learn to plan, while these organizational tasks and skills are supporting those flights of fancy. As you develop these skills, they are readily transferable to other, less interesting, but important, areas of life. </p><p></p><p>I would say that the only way that ADHD may affect how I approach the hobby is that without the tools and structure, I would likely find it difficult to keep things focused when running a game. I not saying I need to have everything planned out and detailed. Far from it. But I just am not good at keeping things in mind if I don't have at least some way to jot notes and have rules and lore readily available to look up. But, then again, I think it is too easy to make too much of the impact of ADHD on these things. I know plenty of people without ADHD that would have difficulty staying focused and keeping track of their games and campaigns without tools, notes, and organization. </p><p></p><p>Rather than broadly asking what approaches to campaign building can help someone with ADHD, I think focusing on the specific areas where an individual is facing challenges leads to better advice and that said advice would likely be useful to any GM, whether diagnosed with ADHD or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9263923, member: 6796661"] [USER=6915329]@Faolyn[/USER] - I'm curious what prompted the post. Is there anything about ADHD that you feel creates challenges for planning, organizing, and running games and campaigns? Since the mid-90s the term ADD was deprecated and ADHD is an umbrella term that emcompasses all forms of attention-deficit disorders, even if hyperactivity is not present. As a pre-teen and early teen, I was pretty strong on the hyperactive presentation. I was on Ritalin for 2 years, which made me feel like a zombie, and after I was taken off of it, I did fine, I just needed to develop habits to address focus issue. I was against drugs like Ritalin for much of my early adulthood, but I realize that for many people, the medication is necessary for them to function, and I've long stepped off that soap box. As I entered adulthood, my ADHD became much less of an issue. This is party due to being able to develop effective coping habits, party due to productivity software and mobile devices becoming common at the same time I was entering the work force, and partly because of getting my thyroid issues diagnosed and treated. But the period when I was diagnosed and first treated for ADHD was also when I was heavily getting into D&D and other RPGs. I've never really thought of it before, but I don't recall my ADHD being an issue in my ability to run or play in games back then. If anything, I could be unhealthily focused on the hobby. My problem was more focusing on school work, chores, and other responsibilities. I will say that my passion for the hobby at that age helped make me more organized in other areas of life by the time I headed off to college. Being a gamemaster for a TTRPG is wonderful for daydreamers to learn to create structure and learn to plan, while these organizational tasks and skills are supporting those flights of fancy. As you develop these skills, they are readily transferable to other, less interesting, but important, areas of life. I would say that the only way that ADHD may affect how I approach the hobby is that without the tools and structure, I would likely find it difficult to keep things focused when running a game. I not saying I need to have everything planned out and detailed. Far from it. But I just am not good at keeping things in mind if I don't have at least some way to jot notes and have rules and lore readily available to look up. But, then again, I think it is too easy to make too much of the impact of ADHD on these things. I know plenty of people without ADHD that would have difficulty staying focused and keeping track of their games and campaigns without tools, notes, and organization. Rather than broadly asking what approaches to campaign building can help someone with ADHD, I think focusing on the specific areas where an individual is facing challenges leads to better advice and that said advice would likely be useful to any GM, whether diagnosed with ADHD or not. [/QUOTE]
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