The downside is that I can’t share all of my plans and lore easily with my players compared to any of the campaign managers I mentioned previously, but the tradeoff for this is a fairly lightweight and highly customizable organization tool. I’d used OneNote a bit in college and I’ve recently been using it for work as well lately. I realized that I needed to just keep it simple. There were other online campaign managers that I tried as well, but many of them had lag issues or had a plethora of bugs and glitches that it wasn’t worth it. I’ve tried Obsidian Portal before as well, and while it was closer to what I wanted, it still felt like it was too “big” for what I need for planning a campaign. I needed a planner or organization tool that was much more lightweight. Assume that the players won’t care much about it or else you’ll be disappointed. In fact, if you want to get heavy into building a world and creating a ton of history and lore for it you should be doing it for your enjoyment alone. However, as I said recently, worldbuilding isn’t a crucial part of the prep for any TTRPG. If you’re looking for a planner that can keep track of complex worldbuilding then I’m sure it’s an excellent resource. It was nice, but it felt like it was way too in-depth for what I needed. I’d mentioned a while ago about how I used World Anvil to plan out a west marches D&D campaign. That’s why I decided for my first Shadow of the Demon Lord (SotDL) campaign I was going to force myself to find and stick to a planner. I’ve moved like twice since I started planning out this campaign so I lost most of my handwritten stuff. Oh, and a few random scribblings on notepaper. My current “setup” is a bunch of folders with random word documents in my Dropbox account. I’ve wanted to get more organized with my campaign notes and documents lately as I’m about 2 1/2 years into a D&D 5e campaign and I swear I have lost about a campaign’s worth of notes and ideas throughout the course of it due to being so disorganized. Strangely enough, I think I’ve found mine. The holy grail of GMing is the ultimate campaign organizer. No, it’s not the perfect TTRPG system or anything like that.
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