Campaign/ Session Prep

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Ladislao Lainez

• January 15, 2018 22:22

Currently there is only a small section for taking notes in the campaign. It would be great to expand it and allow us to write the story and prepare the game sessions in D&D Beyond, so all we need at the table is a tablet/notebook with D&D Beyond on it.

Something simple that allowed some simple formatting and displayed it in a style similar to what can be seen in published adventures:

• Regular body with links to content in the campaign (characters, spells, etc)
• Blocks of text, usually used for descriptions
• Tables, for random events etc
• Images or images from URL if that would require too much server storage

If that could be organised in separate files and folders, and allow for sharing with the players, it would be perfect.

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  Sampaige Ts

  • January 16, 2019 17:54

  I would like to expand upon this. It would be fantastic to have a section devoted specifically to building campaigns. Tabs for world information like locations, NPCs, pantheons, and notes about characters. It sometimes gets complicated having to go into everyone’s character sheets to remember little details. Maybe a battle map page with a section for each pc.

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  Machines Will Rise

  • March 18, 2019 11:37

  What if instead of tabs, you could customise it into a style that suited your note taking style? So you could have tabs for those who like the filing cabinet sort of format, but if you didn't want that, you could organise it as a mind map instead?

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  Jamie Butt

  • October 28, 2019 17:06

  You know what would help me manage my campaign the most? A calendar\scheduling page where my players can sign up for sessions or just see who's in and who's out for a particular session.

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  Sky Pettett

  • January 24, 2020 18:29
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  I think that if we got a page to layout our Campaign ideas it would be nice but a session manager or journal would be amazing. So we can keep track of time and progression. If it was just set up as a hierarchical posting structure so as our characters moved through the content we could update the post.

   

  PS if you could select the time frame that it took them to get through the content you could have a timeline showing progression. (real-time or even in-game time) <-- That would be cool. 

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  Jpbarringer

  • November 13, 2020 20:53

  I Co-DM a few games. Lots of fun to plot with a fellow DM and we always end up using Google Docs. Something similar in DDB would be great, especially if it had real-time collaboration. Maybe use something like togetherJS from Mozilla?

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  🎧 Steven Myers

  • November 16, 2020 15:28

  As I DM, I like to prep character voices, descriptions, etc. beforehand so I don't end up going back to the same 2-3 accents in game and/or forget who a character is later in the campaign.  I use Google Docs, but a lot of my session notes could be simplified into comments left in my copy of the source book, like those left in Word or Google Docs, and then I wouldn't have to swap between multiple tabs or copy big blocks of text from the DDB sources into a Google Doc

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