Over at Lasgunpacker, which follows on from other blog posts (see the post link and the comments too), there’s talk about keying dungeon entries that’s been quite interesting to follow, and it got me thinking about how I do mine; so I thought I’d share a few images from the notebook I’m currently using for mapping and detailing my adventure for the Take Two version of the City of Bones.
I’ve decided that I really prefer handwriting my adventures, especially now that I can map with the Dyson-styled hash-marks too fill out the stone between the rooms etc. In fact, I love seeing over people’s notes too, especially hand-written ones, maps too; when I was a young lad, I used to love looking at my dad’s adventures and seeing the maps he’d drawn and the notes he’d made.
My notes in the picture above are a paragraph of two of description and notes, colour-coded notes for special rules, monsters, treasure and headings, and I try to write the stuff out in the order the characters would experience the room, but not always.
Anyway. Just thought I’d share.
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Alex Schroeder
June 29, 2012 at 12:32
(damn, forgot to hit the subscribe checkbox)
Lum
June 29, 2012 at 06:49
Awesome! I like the use of colored text to highlight different kinds of information.
Lasgunpacker
June 28, 2012 at 21:58
Very nice looking and useful presentation. The colors really do help to break things up, and draw the eye to the key parts.
Unfortunately, my handwriting would make this an exercise in frustration, but I understand that other people can make out what they wrote previously.
Alex Schroeder
June 29, 2012 at 12:31
Hardly any corrections, amazing! My stuff looks much messier.
theskyfullofdust
June 29, 2012 at 13:40
Messier, but cool. When I make notes as a player, that’s how my mine sometimes turn out :)