txt files which can be read and editet easily while still being able to attach pictures, maps, and other files there. I guess it is similar to the already mentioned Tiddly Wiki, but I like it because it is damn fast even with a large database, flexible, linkable, and it saves it's data in. A journal of thoughts after or between sessions, including lessons learned, player feedback and new ideas.A brief synopsis of each session, including XP awards, treasure found, and major events.Adventure text, room descriptions, encounters, background information and other planning.Monster and NPC statblocks for reference in play.Tables of important in-game attributes, such as the player characters' saves and initiative.
Some useful things to store in a TiddlyWiki: By categorizing articles using tags, you can make it very easy to find obscure information even years later: an NPC name and statblock, the date of a certain game session, or which character took a certain magic item. Using TiddlyWiki, you can create a short article on each thing in the game that you want to track: every magic item, game session, player, character, adventure, dungeon room, and so forth. It's a wiki in a single file, which saves edits to itself using Javascript. I'm not sure whether I like Scrivener more than TiddlyWiki, but both have been really helpful. It lets me combine my notes about the campaign setting and the ongoing adventure into one document. I create note cards in Scrivener for each planned adventure and/or encounter, and documents about the setting, races, future plot ideas, and so on. I highly recommend it as a campaign planning tool. I eventually stopped, but for stupid reasons unrelated to anything interesting. , and that was a really great environment for keeping notes. The Wagn system let me define all kinds of custom page types for places, NPCs, and so on - but without anyone else using it, I'd have been better off with a little pile of my own notes - and that's what I do now. wiki, which was a great success right until I asked players to start contributing and nobody did. I hope it gets better, but it just wasn't worth the frustration it caused me. Navigating between PCs, NPCs, wiki pages, and so on, was so obnoxious that I finally gave up.
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