Currrently I have no organization. this is my first long term DND campaign and I am struggling to keep track of my shit. Vaguely titled word documents aren’t cutting it.

How do y’all reccommend I organize my world building? Are there any preformatted guides y’all would recommend? Maybe a system or organization y’all use that is particularly good? I suck at being organized lol

Edit: also how do y’all organize/write your pre-session planning?

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    For worldbuilding in general I write up a sort of almanac covering places, relevant histories, and important characters. For running a tabletop campaign I just keep a less organized writeup of characters, stuff that has happened/is happening, future plot hooks, and miscellaneous other stuff.

  • snowflake [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I throw almost everything in one .txt for easy searching.

    If a really clear sub-category appears, they I create a second .txt file in the same folder. You can still search easily with grep

  • Moidialectica [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I think a single text file is good, if there’s a lot of lore or if you want to convert your sessions into text from audio then that means you have a fuck load of text, I’ve been using notebookLM when my lore ballooned up to some hundred thousands of words

    If you’re icky about corporate AI then you can run lightRAG which is basically the same thing but with local AI