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As I’ve mentioned in the past I have a fair amount of RPG pdfs and almost always play digitally. I seriously feel limited by my bad handwriting. That said, I do like the feel of a physical object. I love a good journal and a nice pen. Further I’ve found playing digitally with a physical Read more
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This is actually the second attempt at writing this post. I first wrote a complete post about how I organize my files and how I attempted at creating a system for indexing each book. But after writing it I started to do some research and figured out how to find which of my 4000 pdfs Read more
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I’m a teacher. Currently I’m a middle school science teacher but for years (a decade plus) I was a middle school English Language Arts teacher. One thing I’ve noticed that students struggle with is structure. Many of us adults also struggle with structure. Some people are super structured and that is their entire thing. They Read more
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Introduction Last week we started a multi-part series on how I run published adventures. We spent most of the time looking at default character behaviors and started to break down the different ways people run published adventures. This week we will zero in a little bit more on maps and locations, contents and objects, and Read more
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Introduction I recently went on a deep dive into running published adventures solo. I spent a week plus researching what other people have done, what works for them, and areas to watch out for. After spending that time reading what I could find on the topic and taking a lot of notes, I spent another Read more
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After days of incredibly hard travel, the death of her animal companion, and a near total renunciation of her faith, Nest finds her starting to feel better and after a couple of days experiences the following. She has another good day. Despite her hunger she very much feels that the only thing keeping her alive Read more
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I kind of love creating NPCs. I love creating PCs but I find building NPCs to be very rewarding. In and out quickly with a solid view of the character. I’ve used a lot of different iterations over the years for bringing NPCs to life and I’m going to explain the method that I’m using Read more
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Let’s talk about pumping some iron! It is time to get swole! I want to see it raining gains in here. You better be complaining about DOMS for days. In full disclosure, I am not a lifter or a gym rat. I do run to stay healthy. I just can’t do the whole gym thing, Read more
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My wife and I spent last weekend snowshoeing between different basecamps in the western Maine mountains. It was a total blast. Amazing to be outside so much and to see the winter birds in the area. But I also knew that we would have a fair amount of downtime in the afternoons and evenings, so Read more
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April 14, 2016. That is the date of my earliest Onenote page. It is the day that I switched over from Scrivner–which I had used for about 6 months–to Onenote. So let’s take a look at Onenote. I’ll talk about why I use it and how. There are a lot of ways to keep track Read more
The Library of Wandering Journals 