D&D 5E What 3 books would you take to do campaign/session prep while on vacation?

[Giltonio_Santos]

I don't know about the other two, but Veins of the Earth would be my first pick. My best acquisition of 2017.

 

[Kobold Boots]

If I'm going on vacation, it won't be vacation if I'm doing prep. So I take nothing. Honestly, I've found that even taking more luggage than a backpack can tend to ruin travel.

Thanks
KB

 

[bedir than]

If I'm going on vacation, it won't be vacation if I'm doing prep. So I take nothing. Honestly, I've found that even taking more luggage than a backpack can tend to ruin travel.

Thanks
KB

I'm travelling with a 6-yr-old and a 2-yr-old. There will be times when I'm in our room, or just reading on the beach.

 

[Jester David]

My iPad with the SRD and Basic Rules.
The PDF of my homebrew campaign setting.
One Adventure Storyline, whichever I like the most. Currently Tomb of Annihilation.

 

[Kobold Boots]

I'm travelling with a 6-yr-old and a 2-yr-old. There will be times when I'm in our room, or just reading on the beach.

Got it.

Even though my kids are good kids, when they were that age, they were the reasons I needed vacations to begin with.

Be well
KB

 

[pming]

Hiya!

Easy:

1. Rules Cyclopedia
2. Isle of Dread
3. Keep on the Borderlands

Oh...you mean 5e books. Probably wouldn't take them. But if I did, the core three...another easy one because it's the only 5e books I own.

^_^

Paul L. Ming

 

[Sunseeker]

3 notebooks.

Mechanics are quick and easy to fill in later. The story, the setting, the important events, I don't need rules for that, nor would I really want to be pouring through rulebooks while on vacation.

 

[delericho]

It depends what type of prep I'm planning on doing.

If I'm going to run a named storyline (eg "Out of the Abyss"), I'll take that and either a notebook or a lot of Post-it notes.

If I'm prepping for a new campaign to be run at some future time, I'll take a notebook and some inspirational material - artbooks or good (probably non-fantasy) novels, or something.

If I'm hoping to put together a full adventure, I'll take the core three... or maybe forego the DMG and take a second monster book instead.

All that said, I'm also inclined to recommend seeing if you can take a laptop, and make do with PDFs of the SRD, Basic Rules, and any other books you can get ("Tome of Beasts", for instance, is available in PDF). That said, there's a risk there - the availability of the internet may prove counter-productive...

 

[alienux]

I'd take:

DMG
MM
A novel

 

[aco175]

Last vacation I ended up taking a notepad and a pad of graph paper. I was able to catch up on making maps for places I had in the campaign, and also make dungeon maps for up and coming places the group was going to explore. I find during the week I have time to write, but not map. I came home with several maps and and a few pages of notes that came to me while out.