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Tagged with organisation or organization
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How to help my players keep better track of their objectives?
I am running my first 5e campaign as DM, so I am simply running Lost Mine of Phandelver. I have experience playing the game, and a little bit of experience DMing homebrew systems. One player I have ...
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Tracking Ammunition consistently in a Hell made of Bullets [closed]
Ranged weapons are a mainstay in many games. Most fantasy games come with arrows, bolts, and sling stones. Wild West comes with lead, powder, and percussion caps in the early times and metal ...
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How do I automate my Pathfinder game?
Especially when running complex combats with lots of NPCs and especially when those NPCs have a lot of options, I constantly feel like I'm missing some.
Which problems did I encounter while running ...
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Room and floor numbering conventions for large to midsized dungeons: most popular, advantages and disadvantages? [closed]
Introduction
I have been creating some multi-floor dungeons. It took awhile, but with time I found software, a notation format, and fidelity level that suited my needs. The one thing I'm still not ...
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How do you keep track of X-per-day abilities?
A very common situation in the games I DM: my friends have all returned from a couple week break to restart our campaign. We sit down and review the character sheets and briefly discuss where we left ...
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Looking for a simple online RPG diary [closed]
when you play a campaign for years, you tend to forget a lot of things, like which NPC you met where and under which circumstances. My goal is to replace the handwritten diary of tabletop RPG sessions ...
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Small-Scale Steampunk LARP for beginners [closed]
I am looking for a LARP rules set that allows me to run a relatively small (in the order of magnitude of 20–25 people) game with the following parameters:
It works with a steam punk aesthetic.
It ...
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Keeping +forward and its reason present
When I MC Apocalypse World, I often have the problem that +forward gets lost in the events. While bonuses do dice rolls are generally not the most interesting thing in this game, they are often tied ...
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What information a DM should have at hand when in an encounter?
I am currently playing D&D 4th edition and will be DMing soon. The party consists of 7 characters (mine included, even though I am a DM). I will be running a quest that I created myself and ...
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Any free and private wiki-like services for campaign tracking? [closed]
In one of our long running (3+ years) campaigns we've wound up with a wealth of information the DM and players can't keep track of.
All of us agree on introducing a wiki to track our information (a ...
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How do you help your GM/fellow PCs track buffs/debuffs?
In the spirit of Math is Fun, what's the best way you've found to help your fellow PCs and the GM keep track of buffs and debuffs during play? In our current Jade Regent game, it's gotten to be a ...
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Tips for keeping track of NPC stats and conditions
Is there a good paper based solution to keep track of NPC stats so they are avaliable when you need them in-game but don't take hours to keep up to date?
I have a bunch of NPC notes and lists of ...
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What's the best practice for an Indie-LARP?
I'm starting a Sci-Fi LARP near where I live and so far only my close friends are going to attend,
What would be the best way to increase my player-base?
Also it'll be my first event that I've ...
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How to organize my 3.X collection based on WotC's internal numbering system?
I've been trying to figure out the reason behind the madness that is the internal ordering system of Wizards of the Coast rulebooks (for ordering my own collection appropriately)
Sadly, as it turns ...
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What are best practices for the use of flowcharts in RPGs
For gamers who use flow charts, process models and diagramming in their game what set of graphical representations work best at representing story components. I'm looking for what set of notations can ...
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To document house rules, or no?
Or, how much documentation should your "campaign world" provide?
This is a fairly generic (and subjective) question, but there is a genuine purpose behind it: I have a set of "house rules" for Tales ...
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What’s an organized storage solution found for miniatures?
What is a good way to keep your miniatures organized and safe? I am currently using a shoe box, and the miniatures are all thrown together. The pieces I have a lot of are pretty easy to get to, but ...
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What's an organized storage solution for Dungeon Tiles?
I currently have them in ziploc bags, but I'd like to have a system that keeps them organized and quickly accessible in game. What have other people used?
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What tools are useful to organize a GM's campaign notes? [closed]
There are plenty of tools available to organize campaign notes. I've tried 4x6 cards, files on my computer, notebooks, and more. I have thought of trying mind mapping software such as FreeMind, note ...