I am a new GM of Pathfinder 2e and my Group and I voted Kingmaker P2 to be our first Adventure Path to play through after we finish the Beginner Box (exquisite material!).

Now I have my Obsidian.md vault set up with tons of plugins for managing encounters, creatures and rules and pull the content out of the Kingmaker P2 Adventure Path while trying to keep it structural sound (each chapter on its own, with cross linking between Quests and Characters etc.)

How do you guys do it if you prep a campaign, adventure paths or even just your worldbuilding? What tools do you use and how detailed do you write your notes?

*On a side note: If this post isn’t in the correct place, so I apologise as this community is the only one I can see from my instance (coming from feddit.de) on your instance (pathfinder.social) also I am pretty new to lemmy all together. *

  • tassels@pathfinder.socialEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So first off, I run all my games with foundry. So that keeps it easy and I can put long-form stuff in its journals after first drafting in my text editor (sublime text).

    Side note: I even use foundry for in person games, I just control it all from my end for folks using pen and paper and it acts as a substitute for physical maps and minis.

    For my notes, I use workflowy. This is mostly short form stuff, so as I read through an AP, I’ll jot down anything I need to remember in each section in workflowy. Notes on NPCs and how to portray them go in there too.

    As we play, anything I improvise goes in there so I can remain consistent, and major story beats also go in there to track what players have done and where they’re at. Finally, I’ll have some hooks in there for the next few sessions – whenever I think of cool things to throw at my players, I’ll write them in there. Tie-ins with backstories, that sort of thing.

    Right now I’m mainly doing adventure paths and I kinda riff off those. If I did a grand homebrew world, I’d probably use something like scrivener or obsidian before throwing things in foundry journals. But for how I run my games right now, workflowy is a great lil organized notepad.