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Dec. 31st, 2020 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreAs previously discussed, I love playing solo rpgs. Up till now, I have mostly recorded my games on google drive via my computer, which is less than satisfying. The laptop takes up too much space, I have to move things around whenever I need to roll, if I want to draw maps I have to store them somewhere else, it's all a problem. Also, weirdly, the freedom that typing on a blank unending document gives me always ends up with me feeling like I have to record my games in a readable narrative style which I'm not good at (there is a reason that I don't write as a hobby), and that leads to me getting frustrated with my writing instead of enjoying my game. Also, less portable - I don't take my laptop places with me, and recording my games on my phone is a nightmare, but the games themselves are generally easy to move around and I'd like the option to play wherever I happen to be.
So I've been thinking through various pen-and-paper notebook solutions instead: ideally something like a refillable journal that could hold multiple notebooks (I often have more than one game running and would like to keep them all in one place) with storage options so I could easily hold onto character sheets or Ironsworn asset cards or whatever. I settled on a Traveler's Notebook because a) refillable and can hold at least 3 and up to 6 notebooks, b) lots of different kinds of notebooks available, c) fountain pen friendly, and d) aesthetics. So today I have spent some of my Christmas present money to order one with the specific refills I want. I am starting with a lined notebook for writing, a blank notebook for maps and other drawings (I would have preferred a dot-grid for that but it comes with a blank one so why waste it?), and a kraft pocket folder for holding things.
The trouble is that I have therefore spent a lot of this morning thinking about exactly how I want to play using this notebook, which makes me want to start a new Ironsworn game but I do not yet have the notebook, so starting now would be silly.
Maybe I will spend the intervening time in world-building. That would probably be useful, right?
So I've been thinking through various pen-and-paper notebook solutions instead: ideally something like a refillable journal that could hold multiple notebooks (I often have more than one game running and would like to keep them all in one place) with storage options so I could easily hold onto character sheets or Ironsworn asset cards or whatever. I settled on a Traveler's Notebook because a) refillable and can hold at least 3 and up to 6 notebooks, b) lots of different kinds of notebooks available, c) fountain pen friendly, and d) aesthetics. So today I have spent some of my Christmas present money to order one with the specific refills I want. I am starting with a lined notebook for writing, a blank notebook for maps and other drawings (I would have preferred a dot-grid for that but it comes with a blank one so why waste it?), and a kraft pocket folder for holding things.
The trouble is that I have therefore spent a lot of this morning thinking about exactly how I want to play using this notebook, which makes me want to start a new Ironsworn game but I do not yet have the notebook, so starting now would be silly.
Maybe I will spend the intervening time in world-building. That would probably be useful, right?
