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Message: <blockquote data-quote="timbannock" data-source="post: 9687907" data-attributes="member: 17913">After a billion years of doing this, I've found the best setup for me is:#. Plain-English Room Title. Keywords. One-sentence overview, if such is deemed necessary in addition to the keywords.Keyword that needs description upon closer inspect, preferably no more than 1-2 sentences. Minimal, list, of, findings, if, needed, beyond, that.Rules reference, such as a monster or treasure with reference source and page #, and/ or reference to an appendix where additional details are.For example:9. Kitchen. Wicked cutlery, rusty pots and pans, pantry. The skeletons here are busy cooking and cleaning 24-7.Wicked cutlery. Every knife here is the equivalent to a dagger; they are all brutish and nasty. No butter knives here!Pantry. The nearest 2 skeletons will attack anyone entering the pantry that isn't cleared to do so. Several pounds of normal foodstuffs, 3 vials of giant scorpion venom (DMG p#).Skeletons x2d4+2 (The Monster Overhaul p#)Sue the Chef, goblin master chef (Appendix p#)No add'l text for the rusty pots and pans. Game terms are bolded where appropriate/ necessary. Having an appendix of custom monster/ treasure stat blocks allows me to format it and page-number it independently, which is a hold-over from when I published games: I could easily have a separate appendix for printing out that kind of thing, or even have separate appendices based on game system or whatever.That particular entry is actually pretty wordy for what I normally do. There are often rooms/ areas that don't even need that much text: just the first line is enough. Populating the room comes down to roll tables for encounters, treasures, and maybe even secrets/ clues or some other custom table relevant to the adventure.</blockquote>

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