Well after a absence of over a year from writing any entries here I am returning with a product reveiw.
Unlike most of my content on here, this review relates to a digital product and doesn't involve anything I get to apply a coat of paint to.
Anybody who knows me would be well aware that my gaming does not just relate to Games Workshop games, and more often is old school RPG, such as our regular D&D campaign (many thanks to our most excellent GM Karl).
Recently it came my turn to run a game and while I am quite experienced as a player I am in fairness quite a newbie as a GM. As such I am always on the lookout for anything that will help me keep track of the millions of threads a game played at the level we do often produces.
Much of my GM'ing is done on the fly as I have a plot in mind and a few set peices but much of what happens in between is player driven so can't really be to planned.
I am the recipient of a weekly newsletter that comes from a vastly more experienced GM than my self - I refer of course to Johnn Four. Which led me to investigate his very own product Campaign Logger Campaign Logger Website.
This is a particularly useful product which allows you to tag your notes which allows you to very quickly reference all occurrences which use that tag.
The program uses an almost web like interface and by annotating objects of interest with one of the special characters (§+@^#$!%*~+)
What the addition of these special tags does is marks the texts that follows it as a link, this in turn allows you to see any entry that shares the same link (for example NPC name) at once.
How does this help? I hear you cry, well if you have players like mine they like details and a detail created on the fly 2 years ago can very easily become plot pivots and hooks so being able to quickly refer to any information and pull up its history on the fly has got to be helpful.
I am a convert to this product and my simple words do not reflect how powerful a tool this is so please check it out for yourself at https://campaign-logger.com/
