OneNote as My GM Binder

I mentioned back in December that I was moving to OneNote as my tool of choice for my gaming material and I thought it was time to take a look at how I’m starting to organize things. I should point out that this is how I’m currently going about organizing my material and it will…

Starting a new tome, moving to OneNote

As we find so often in life, including at the #gaming table, sometimes you just have to say good-bye, and I’m saying good-bye to #Evernote as my organization tool of choice. Back in April I mentioned that my GM binder was Evernote, and at the time that was correct. In fact Evernote has been my…

5 Reasons I chose Evernote for Campaign Management

 In my recent post Getting Organized to Create My New Campaign I mentioned that I was planning on using Evernote as my tool for organizing my materials. I’m sure more than a few folks scratched their heads and thought “why the hell would you pick that tool?” A fair question and here’s a list of…

My first night without dice

For some time now I’ve been using my laptop at the gaming table – primarily as a reference tool. I’ve got a copy of the SRD available on it, keep my characters in a spreadsheet and of course it gives me the opportunity to pull information from the web during the game. One of the…

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Importing the SRD into Freemind

This was topic was originally published in Roleplaying-Tips as a Reader Tip (Use FreeMind For SRD Import) but I thought it was worth walking through it one more time, with a few more screen captures to help show the whole process. Please be aware that while the “official” release of Freemind is at 0.8.0 I’m…

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Freemind as an RPG tool

A couple of weeks back I asked for some feedback as to what I could do to improve of Dice and Dragons and one of the suggestions was for links to software tools so I thought I would start off with Freemind. Freemind is a mind mapping tool (you can read about mind mapping here)…