October 2014 Blog Carnival Wrap-up

The stakes have been pulled out of the ground (and a few corpses) and the RPG Blog Carnival has moved over to Roleplaying Tips to talk about races, but before you head over there to find out what’s going on, here’s a quick run down of the October posts. One last thing before we get…

SMS and Evernote For Capturing On The Run

If you do a little digging you’ll find no shortage of apps you can use on your smartphone to capture ideas, in fact I mentioned a few myself in this post a while back. But, what if you don’t have a smartphone? What if you’re trying to conserve your data plan? What if you just…

My OpenOffice Character Spreadsheet

In my last post I mentioned that while there are a number of character sheets available I use a spreadsheet to track my character’s particulars. While it takes a bit of work upfront, the dividends are well worth it. With the way I’ve set things up making a change to an ability score adjusts other…

Evernote for Your Spell List

Just recently I’ve had the opportunity to return to the player side of the role-playing table and found myself in need of a method of tracking many different things, among them a spell list. For those that have been following the posts here for a while know that I’ve had many tips and suggests on…

Mark your figures with discs

The question often comes up during a role-playing session, “how do I mark a figure on the battle-mat?” Here’s one solution, make discs out of dowels. For those not familiar, dowels are short wooden rods you find in craft stores or in the craft department of your local super-store (for example Walmart). They come in…