Campaign Tracking [Archive] - Wizards Community

Campaign Tracking [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Roger Nicholls
08-18-05, 12:49 AM Hi folks,

Can anybody recommend anything to help me track my campaign - paper versions not PC versions. I'd like to be able to print things out prior to the game to take with me either as a completed sheet of information or be able to print blanks out to use at the table.

The sort of thing im looking for hopefully will be able to track NPC,s, key points, locales ive added "on the fly" etc.

Thanks

Roger
grodech
08-18-05, 02:48 PM I don't think there's any one product that could help you with that. I mean, there are electronic versions of character sheets, there's map generation software (Campaign Cartographer comes to mine). Most things in D&D are done on the fly, during the game, and you wind up writing everything down in a notebook. Most DM's I've seen have varying combinations of these - most of it done with a good word processor.

As a player, I've used MS Word for my character sheets (I have a nice 3.5ed template, if you'd like a copy), group charters, etc., Excel to track group funds and posessions, and Visio to create floor plans and maps. These of course are all tools available to me at work, so I didn't actually have to pay for any of them. But then again I also have notes from the DM taped to pieces of paper and put in a binder so I can track them (and possibly prove things later on).
Gedrin
08-18-05, 03:13 PM I completely sympathise with the tracking of stuff added on the fly. It can be really hard. Generally, I use MS Word to create and track events in my campaign. It's not very useful for finding information, but with my adventures all named and numbered, I can pull one up and look through it reasonably quick. Not the best, not the worst.

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Roger Nicholls 08-18-05, 12:49 AM	Hi folks, Can anybody recommend anything to help me track my campaign - paper versions not PC versions. I'd like to be able to print things out prior to the game to take with me either as a completed sheet of information or be able to print blanks out to use at the table. The sort of thing im looking for hopefully will be able to track NPC,s, key points, locales ive added "on the fly" etc. Thanks Roger
grodech 08-18-05, 02:48 PM	I don't think there's any one product that could help you with that. I mean, there are electronic versions of character sheets, there's map generation software (Campaign Cartographer comes to mine). Most things in D&D are done on the fly, during the game, and you wind up writing everything down in a notebook. Most DM's I've seen have varying combinations of these - most of it done with a good word processor. As a player, I've used MS Word for my character sheets (I have a nice 3.5ed template, if you'd like a copy), group charters, etc., Excel to track group funds and posessions, and Visio to create floor plans and maps. These of course are all tools available to me at work, so I didn't actually have to pay for any of them. But then again I also have notes from the DM taped to pieces of paper and put in a binder so I can track them (and possibly prove things later on).
Gedrin 08-18-05, 03:13 PM	I completely sympathise with the tracking of stuff added on the fly. It can be really hard. Generally, I use MS Word to create and track events in my campaign. It's not very useful for finding information, but with my adventures all named and numbered, I can pull one up and look through it reasonably quick. Not the best, not the worst.