For those of you who mainly play on your computer, how do you organize your files?
I ask because I'm an "analogue" kind of player-- I have my rules books for the game of choice, my printed out Mythic Emulator tables and UNE (for NPC generation), character sheet, GM Screen/rules cheat sheet, notepad, pen and pencil, and dice.
Do you digital folks just use a lot of PDF's? Onenote? Evernote? Is there a good dice roller app? Online, I tend to use the wizards site, but I'm not really in love with it.
I'm thinking of migrating to digital, and would love some advice.
I think Adventure Girl posted something like this awhile back, but I haven't been able to find that thread. I'm on mobile, so that might be the reason.
I use PDFs, yes.
ReplyDeleteI don't use Onenote or Evernote, but rather Word to document my stuff.
I use GIMP to edit my character sheets, then save them as an XCF file to continue updating them in the future, though, if it's allowed, I also make sheets on Roll20, which is where I primarily use my rolling. However, prior to that, I had Hamete.
Aye, PDFs are the norm. So much more economical and transportable (thumb drive or on the cloud.) I like One Note and Google docs, I tend to use Excel (or the OpenOffice clone) for a lot of die rolling and note taking when I don't need a specialist randomizer. I do like my javascript and do build a lot of custom random generators as well.
ReplyDeleteDitto. PDFs and Excel. I make an Excel workbook that contains character sheets, dice rollers, combat organizer, random tables (like names), and is where I log my adventure. I also have a separate workbook that handles the Mythic stuff (rolls, fate chart, random events).
ReplyDeletePDFs, a web browser ( for this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/891512/randm/randm-solo.html ), and a simple text editor, but the browser is the main part.
ReplyDeleteI use multiple desktops (spaces on my screen, not actual desks, haha). One has rule book pdfs, one has random generator pdfs, and my workspace -- a fairly simple python-based logger/tracker/dice roller -- is on the third and main screen. Don't get me wrong, I love rolling dice and flipping through books, but if I waited for a chance to spread out my stuff physically i'd never play. All you really need though is some pdfs (there are plenty of free or pay what you want options), a text editor, and a terminal window to set up a basic dice roller!
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