How to Organize Your DM Prep (Step by Step Guide)

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[@Teethmafia]

Love me a fresh campaign planning video hot off the press. This comment section still got that new video smell.

[@jansolar6112]

Hear hear to that!

[@ZeroTheWanderer21]

You are probably the best DMing channel on KZbin

[@ryanb5127]

The advise is always so good, is concise but thorough. You don’t waste people’s time but you also don’t rely on snappy sayings.

[@Locust775]

This is a very welcome video. I am currently tackling my first BIG campaign... and it gets messy to say the least. It is very difficult to learn how other DMs handle big campaigns, so this was very helpful. I have now transferred all my notes and organized it according to how you showed here. Very nice, man. Thank you.

[@hajjology]

Dude it gets so messy, first I was trying to keep it confined to my notebook but I was like “I’m gonna run out of paper “ and it was ALL OVER the place, now I’m gonna use this guys tips for this app called OneNote

[@sleepinggiant4062]

Google docs is great. I like to link to info like stat blocks and pictures. I use a tablet to display pics. I also save off each session's notes so I can refer back to them.

[@puffmogie]

THANK YOU such an underrated topic

[@octo5042]

I agree, I have had organized session notes before!

[@gabriel86969]

First time in your channel and i found just what i was searching

[@enterthedungeon]

Welcome, thanks for stopping by!

[@Lizzard570]

Great video! I woild love it if you did a follow up video with a specific example of each of the things you mentioned. For example if you walked us throug how you would apply your entire system to Curse of Strahd or some other campaign

[@Zeir-kun]

im Dming my first game AND I NEED TO THANK YOU, I watched tens of diffrent channels, but this one helped me most. Again thank you :)

[@alejandrogangotena9033]

I am using this THIS week

[@enterthedungeon]

I know your campaign is awesome enough that you don't even need it

[@TheWill9963]

Would like to see a used example for the session notes

[@FallenSouls26]

Thank you for this video! I feel like i don't see a lot of videos actually SHOWING prep notes. So thank you!

[@killhunter05]

Just found this, this is exactly what I needed thank you!

[@caseycoker1051]

Thanks for the info. It's always nice to see how other people organize their thoughts.

[@Zamun]

That was a fun way to slip in the sponsor in. Also, yes I had to go look up the Latin, so imagine my confusion when I found a collection of medical quotes

[@Khaoscntrl]

THIS IS WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR, I had ideas on how to organize my notes but I just couldn't quite figure it out this is exactly what I was looking for

[@jansolar6112]

Keep it up!!!

[@SkepsisGG]

Great vid! Similar to how I set up my google drive and this year I discovered a program called Miro - free mind map software/ app that can easily hyperlink to drive docs, youtube videos, upload images and connect custom text boxes to outline narrative arcs and group ideas - cant recomend it enough. To all the DMs and GMs, keep up the good work!

[@Kizlak]

I can't seem to walk away from Microsoft OneNote. I like having everything in tabs and notebooks. It feels more organized in my head, but I absolutely will be taking the template idea for my session tabs

[@TheRealChemlock]

thanks for this!

[@patrickganal6216]

Good work, thank you. 🎉

[@sergiomarquesmunoz5433]

Love this step by step videos

[@nsideddice]

That Session 0 Template looks interesting. If you haven't already done so, a video on how to prep and run a Session 0 would be nice.

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Is this your first sponsor? I'm not sure but either way, congratulations!

[@enterthedungeon]

Not the first but certainly one of the best. Genuinely good people over there at dScryb

[@thenovicedm7966]

What application do you recommend for DM prep and tracking for a compaign? I'm weighing using OneNote or Notion and looking for other options. Any thoughts?

[@thebigledomski8008]

Do you play with your laptop at the game table?

[@Germany02]

hi sorry if this is strange being on a dm vid but I play a ghost lance/necromancer and I wanted to know how I can play it to be more light on the dm

[@wheelsoffpodcast]

Added you on patreon, is this template there?

[@Dag59990]

Yeah its at the top

[@JimmyReskeNC]

I like what you've put together... just slow down a smidge to allow the viewer to absorb all the information you're throwing at them. I paused this video at least 10 times by the time I got to the 4 minute mark. Other than that... A+ stuff!!!

[@catapess548]

Ok but why the documents are in latin?😂

[@StefanTabit]

It's Lorem Ipsum, a common nonsense placeholder text

[@AndyReichert0]

bro went all the way to google and didn't even use Sheets :/