Quote from: MagesGuild;596906Actually, in all aspects of a game designer, writer, editor, storyteller and player, I couldn't care less about integrating P&P games with computers. The only point to me is a versioning system that works for everyone involved, and content that people can understand.

I don't believe a gigantic database, wiki, or other portal should be required either to construct or to play a game, and in fact, one of my 'house rules' for in-person play is 'no computers at the game table'. I'm married to enough technology without it detracting from the P&P concept; in all-reality, they both slow down the game (note-taking other than by hand) and licit distraction and interruption via the glorious, fat, bloated infestation of media on the Internet.
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Yeah.  Everyone games differently.  
We are the opposite, we require full tablet/laptop compliance.  For us, it removes a lot of papers around the table (though we do end up with 1/2 the people taking P&P notes, to your point...some people are faster that way).

1- I use an blank book inserted into a leather Oberon notebook cover and a mechanical pencil for scribbling my ideas and notes.  I'm on my 17th 'little black book' now, stretching back a decade or so.

2- I just started using software called The Keep (Personal Information Manager for RPG's) on a USB drive and I will transfer needed/useful info from my hand written noties into the knowledge structure I am creating with that tool (along with any other documents and exhibits I want).  Ive got major sections for House Rules, DM Tools, Cartography, History and Lore, Lands and Peoples, Campaigns, and Notes and References.  I like the portability of having everything on a USB.

3- I use Campaign Cartographer 3 (with misc. ad-ons) for mapping I create.  I also plan to use Cityographer when the kickstarter project is finished.

4- I also use Office (Word, Excel, Visio, Paint) and when necessary  create 'finished' documents in Word.  Anything for player consumption usually gets converted into PDF.

I also have a campaign world website (//www.eradain.com) and I put finished into there, but I'm beginning to think I need to convert to some kind of wiki instead for ease of additions and editing.

edited added link to Cityographer, The Keep, and my world website.

Welcome to the RPG site Lugoun! What are the website and kickstarter addresses? Good to hear there's another Oberon fan in the audience, this is starting to look like an old fashioned bling-off. I'll have photos uploaded shortly!

As promised, a few of my tools:





That's my Sammy netbook, a more serious Acer beside it, moleskines complete with with spidery scribbles, thorn dice, Wacom inkling, and leather pouch containing current notebook and quiver attached holding fountain pen which is tuned nicely. Also pictured is a gold plated fountain pen clad in oak which was turned from the rafter beams of a medieval cathedral, dated 1250 AD. I haven't tuned that one yet so its a bit runny. And just because its a massive source of inspiration for me, my Nook ereader with Oberon cover.

Bring out your bling, let's see what you've got!

Quote from: The Traveller;600550Bring out your bling, let's see what you've got!

We all kind of left you hanging there! I'm afraid my bling may make you cry, but here it is anyway:

• Leftmost, and most importantly, a full mug of English Breakfast tea, hot and black. Nothing would get done with out that!
• On top, the mighty Bic SoftFeel, Medium point. Yes, this is about the cheapest pen imaginable, and it makes all my pen nerd friends wrinkle their noses, but it puts ink on paper, and I lose them by the box-full.
• Beneath that, the humble 3x5 card. I keep a sheaf of these in my pocket at all times (a modified "Hipster PDA"), to capture ideas when they come. About the only place these don't work is in the shower.
• When I need a more formal writing environment than a card, a legal pad is my next go-to. Again, this is really just long-form idea capture.
• Foundational to most everything I do, my Macbook Pro. I move things off of paper as soon as I can and into Emacs (my editor of choice) and a text file on my Dropbox, for never-worry backups. From there, if I want to get really fancy, it's off to Scrivener.

This is rather the opposite of your bling, but it gets the job done.

Happy new year, and a long-belated thanks to everyone who posted their tools and process in this thread!

Wiki is up to 1136 pages in the meantime.  
It might be necessary, but we keep growing the database, system, and setting this way.

Quote from: LordVreeg;612933Wiki is up to 1136 pages in the meantime.  
It might be necessary, but we keep growing the database, system, and setting this way.

Impressive! How long have you been building it up?

Quote from: eykd;612932We all kind of left you hanging there! I'm afraid my bling may make you cry, but here it is anyway:

Not a bit, its an elegantly ascetic aesthetic. I've been considering moving into the cloud a bit more myself, but I don't really trust it enough at this point. Not so much the hardware but the licensing.