Multiple books: How do you keep yourself organized?
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Scribe Ineti
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On the rare occasions I need more than one book for a game, I just mark the needed pages with post-it notes, so that I can flip to the exact page when I need to. This minimizes the amount of page flipping I need to do.
More often than not, though, I try to enter as much key info as possible into my session notes so that I don't have to refer to a book in the middle of the session.
More often than not, though, I try to enter as much key info as possible into my session notes so that I don't have to refer to a book in the middle of the session.
Psion
Adventurer
Nikosandros said:
About the same way I keep a pantry full of ingredients organized... I don't use all of them every meal. I just pull out the ones I use for that meal.
Certain campaigns, campaign arcs, and sessions benefit from specific resources. If I have been using specific resource, I load them on a shelf next to the DM chair (or when prepping, my bedside shelf.) Everything else goes in backstock.
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Varianor Abroad
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Post it notes and pdfs. As others have noted, it's a recipe. The pdf allows me to print the couple relevant pages from the supplement I want and the post-it notes marks the spots in the core books and monster books that I know I'll need. (Though I admit that I purposely limit my games except for monster books.)
EricNoah
Adventurer
A couple of ways... 1) I might focus on one or two books for a particular campaign or part of a campaign. Example: I used Lords of Madness pretty extensively for a jungle ruins mini-campaign. 2) particularlly for monsters and NPCs, if it doesn't go into eTools, it doesn't get used. So I put in stuff or buy data sets of the books I'm planning on using heavily. Same deal with spells and the spell spreadsheets I use - if it's not on a spreadsheet, my NPCs are most likely not casting it.
One of D&D's chief "problems" (in the most neutral sense of the word) is data/info management. If someone can solve that problem in a few handy packages or one super package, I think they'll have something marketable on their hands. Despite its many flaws, eTools is one of my most important info management tools; auto-calculating spell spreadsheets are the other.
One of D&D's chief "problems" (in the most neutral sense of the word) is data/info management. If someone can solve that problem in a few handy packages or one super package, I think they'll have something marketable on their hands. Despite its many flaws, eTools is one of my most important info management tools; auto-calculating spell spreadsheets are the other.
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