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. *
I use a combination of Goodnotes on my iPad to handwrite ideas, and then I get them into one or more “org” mode files in emacs for outlining, tagging, exporting, etc. (like obsidian but open source and more powerful but with a steeper learning curve)
I try to go as detailed as necessary. Which is more of an art than a science. Too detailed and you can’t remember it or it’s clunky to run. Too little, and you’re stuck doing too much improv (yes that can be a thing when you mess up your skeleton of ideas).
Damn you are the first emacs user in the wild I’ve encountered. And yeah I agree that there needs to be some amount of detail to do good and consistent improv.
I even run my law practice TODOs and project management off of org. It’s fantastic. :D
The Plugins make it really versatile; didn’t thought of it as a project management tool tbh.
Pretty cool. Keep lawyering on :D