I use colored boxes. Game mechanics are in yellow boxes, oracle questions are in blue, and combat is in red. I also use green sometimes for character status.
I type everything in Notepad, so it's the simplest way. If there's a long bit of game-mechanics and/or DM notes, I'll put it in a separate paragraph, but small stuff just stays in line with the prose. If there's a particulalry dramatic scene that would suffer from being broken up, I move all the mechanics to a section at the end, even the little ones.
I do prose as plain text with standard fiction formatting. Asides are italicized. Queries to the system/oracle are bold. Replies from the system are bold-italic and generally contain a bracketed tag indicating source.
This is feasible because I make the computer do it, haha.
When I post the output to my blog, I set the mechanics to a light gray to let them fade back a bit. I tried a javascript collapsing thing to hide/expand them but didn't like the way it worked in practice.
Karl Hendricks I love the aesthetics of that post!
Brackets
ReplyDeleteSymbols - different ones for different reasons/systems
ReplyDeleteMy notes are usually handwritten so I use square brackets or parentheses to offset mechanics from prose.
ReplyDeleteI use colored boxes. Game mechanics are in yellow boxes, oracle questions are in blue, and combat is in red. I also use green sometimes for character status.
ReplyDeleteKarl Hendricks are you using some sort of flow-charting software?
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ReplyDeleteI type everything in Notepad, so it's the simplest way. If there's a long bit of game-mechanics and/or DM notes, I'll put it in a separate paragraph, but small stuff just stays in line with the prose. If there's a particulalry dramatic scene that would suffer from being broken up, I move all the mechanics to a section at the end, even the little ones.
Jeremy Rist No, just Styles in Microsoft Word. Or CSS on a in HTML. Here's an example of what it looks like.
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Brackets.
ReplyDeleteI usually leave space, now. Before I would bold and italicize the text. That was a poorer choice for me.
ReplyDeleteMade re-reading a clustered problem.
Here's a good example on Sophia Brandt's blog for using colored text.
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I do prose as plain text with standard fiction formatting. Asides are italicized. Queries to the system/oracle are bold. Replies from the system are bold-italic and generally contain a bracketed tag indicating source.
ReplyDeleteThis is feasible because I make the computer do it, haha.
When I post the output to my blog, I set the mechanics to a light gray to let them fade back a bit. I tried a javascript collapsing thing to hide/expand them but didn't like the way it worked in practice.
Karl Hendricks I love the aesthetics of that post!
Side bars or comment text ('//')
ReplyDeletehandwritten: space
ReplyDeletedigital: font
My system notes - if I do note them - go in [Brackets]. I roll dice a lot, so often I don't bother...
ReplyDeleteif folks have blog formatting requests for randm solo just let me know, i aim to please.
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