D&D General Where do you design your adventures?

[Fenris-77]

So what you're saying is that you can read your own handwriting? Not all of us are so gifted!

Umm, sorta. My design flow just works better with a pencil. I do a lot of interconnected lists and mind maps with little blurbs throw in. I don't think those notes would mean anything to anyone but me though.

Hmm, quoted the wrong post. Mea Culpa. @atanakar - your thoughts and mine are as one.

 

[prabe]

I find gaming works best when it's pen or pencil on paper. I write my pre-session notes in pen; I do transitory work and character sheets (when I play) in pencil. I write setting stuff on my computer, because it's the only way anyone else could read it.

 

[David Howery]

the last time I was an active DM... I used to design them at the kitchen table. Because I was living in a pretty small and cramped trailer, and it was the only space big enough to spread out my books and papers...

 

[Oofta]

One of the reasons I write my notes down electronically is so that I can find them later. I keep a copy of everything and just name it so I can figure out when it happened in the story. So Advent_6.2 is the second adventure while the party was 6th level. If I get ambitious I also go back and copy/paste into a who's-who and what's-what document so that I can amaze my players when I can "remember" that NPC from 6 months ago.

I used to be able to keep all that stuff in my head but now that I'm getting old I can't ... wait what was I talking about?

 

[prabe]

One of the reasons I write my notes down electronically is so that I can find them later. I keep a copy of everything and just name it so I can figure out when it happened in the story. So Advent_6.2 is the second adventure while the party was 6th level. If I get ambitious I also go back and copy/paste into a who's-who and what's-what document so that I can amaze my players when I can "remember" that NPC from 6 months ago.

I used to be able to keep all that stuff in my head but now that I'm getting old I can't ... wait what was I talking about?

I've mentioned it elsewhere, but my wife games in both the campaigns I run, and she takes excellent notes, and she shares those notes online. I don't have to take notes when I'm running, which frees up a lot of brainspace.

 

[Oofta]

I've mentioned it elsewhere, but my wife games in both the campaigns I run, and she takes excellent notes, and she shares those notes online. I don't have to take notes when I'm running, which frees up a lot of brainspace.

Whereas my wife takes great written notes. So yes, sometimes I read through her notes, if nothing else to see if I was being clear on what I was describing.

At least I can read her hand writing.

 

[prabe]

Whereas my wife takes great written notes. So yes, sometimes I read through her notes, if nothing else to see if I was being clear on what I was describing.

At least I can read her hand writing.

My wife takes notes in pen and then types them up. Which is good, because I can't read her handwriting.

 

[Oofta]

My wife takes notes in pen and then types them up. Which is good, because I can't read her handwriting.

If my mom ever wrote anything for my wife, I'd have to be the interpreter. She'd look at me funny trying to understand how I could read what was basically a flat line with a few gaps, a bit of a bump and some loops here and there. I inherited my handwriting from my mom.

 

[DemonSlayer]

Lots of work on Google Docs, either at home or work.

 

[pogre]

Lots of work on Google Docs, either at home or work.

Me too. Lately, I have done a lot of work at my son's wrestling tournaments on my phone. Map work and props are all done in my gaming room though.