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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sev" data-source="post: 5179047" data-attributes="member: 77780">What tools or strategies do you use to keep track of the story in long-running campaigns?I've just embarked on a big campaign that we'll be running over a long period of time.  I'm using published adventures gently reskinned to fit together and a BBEG or two who's working behind the scenes at first, slowly revealed.  In order to give the campaign some continuity I'm sprinkling mentions of upcoming adventures in earlier adventures.  And in order to encourage the players & characters to get invested in defeating the BBEG, I'm sprinkling hints about *that* in early adventures, too.My question for y'all is: how do you keep track of the details, for yourself?  I've got a pair of BBEGs and the godlike/primordial/etc. forces behind each, and the ways in which they are related, both to each other and to the events leading up to them, and the collateral damage they've inflicted on the world which the characters will be encountering over the course of their adventuring and I'm having a *lot* of trouble keeping track of those relationships, who's associated with which plot(s), and so on.  I've clearly outgrown my linear plain-text document, and I've also outgrown my spreadsheet.  My next stop may be Visio, or I may even give in to my housemate who says she can build me an awesome relational database -- but before I do that, I thought I'd ask:  How do *you* do it?And I know that among the perfectly viable answers there are: Don't make up such complicated plots, and don't plan so much up-front!  I'm not rejecting those as answers, but they're not my first choice.  I continue to believe that somewhere out there I can find a tool to make sense of the mess in my head!</blockquote>

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