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<blockquote data-quote="Soul Stigma" data-source="post: 7151492" data-attributes="member: 6887393"><p>I use Realm Works, so the majority of my prep is on the laptop. I don't have a lot of printouts or anything. When combat occurs, PCs and monsters get ported from Realm Works to Hero Lab, where I track combat. </p><p></p><p>As for prep, I don't flesh out more than the PCs will reasonably encounter. So, map-wise, I keep things centered on the area where the PCs are adventuring and continue to work on other locations as I feel like it, lol.</p><p></p><p>I try to maintain "encounter sets" that I can drop in for their level, so that I can have a combat encounter ready to go if needed, and within Realm Works I have unassigned NPCs (just a name, gender, etc.) which then become more fleshed out during play should I call on one. At that point they move from my spare NPC container to whichever location container they now belong.</p><p></p><p>I can't recommend Lone Wolf Development's software packages strongly enough - it costs real money and there's a learning curve (with Realm Works), but once you get familiar with things it is amazing how easy campaign prep and management becomes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Soul Stigma, post: 7151492, member: 6887393"] I use Realm Works, so the majority of my prep is on the laptop. I don't have a lot of printouts or anything. When combat occurs, PCs and monsters get ported from Realm Works to Hero Lab, where I track combat. As for prep, I don't flesh out more than the PCs will reasonably encounter. So, map-wise, I keep things centered on the area where the PCs are adventuring and continue to work on other locations as I feel like it, lol. I try to maintain "encounter sets" that I can drop in for their level, so that I can have a combat encounter ready to go if needed, and within Realm Works I have unassigned NPCs (just a name, gender, etc.) which then become more fleshed out during play should I call on one. At that point they move from my spare NPC container to whichever location container they now belong. I can't recommend Lone Wolf Development's software packages strongly enough - it costs real money and there's a learning curve (with Realm Works), but once you get familiar with things it is amazing how easy campaign prep and management becomes. [/QUOTE]
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