This page summarizes recommendations to tools, blogs, and resources I use for gaming. Links on here to Drivethrurpg.com and Amazon.com are created using their respective affiliate programs. This means qualified purchases earn me a commission. So, feel free to buy yourself something cool and support my blog!

What tools do I use for Gaming?

• Scabard. I create campaign “wikis” with this tool. I use them to keep track of the campaign as the lore grows, and share details with my players. I also use it early on for world building. See a link to my current home campaign here.
• Kindle Scribe.* This is my splurge, it’s quite expensive, but I absolutely love it. It can take my garbage hand-writing and convert it to text. I use it during sessions and prep for quick notes, which reduces my stacks of notebooks and binders. See pile of shame pic below!
• Alternative: RocketBook.* This was what I used before my kindle scribe. But, cleaning the pages and scanning them was just enough extra steps that I stopped using it. It is a great and much less expensive alternative to the Kindle Scribe.

• ChatGPT. I’m going to write a longer article on AI use. But, I really like using this to generate lists of horrible ideas and then refine them. ChatGPT (and other AI tools) are largely replacing my default search engine these days. I am concerned about the ethical and environmental implications though. I use ChatGPT through Copilot.
• Google Translate. To try to make names sound consistent, I usually choose a language and then use words in that language to provide clues as to a location or person’s motivations. It makes the names sound consistent without needing to invent a language on my own.
• Army Painter Speed Paints.* I’m a very mediocre painter. But in minutes these paints let you produce table-ready miniatures with just a coat of primer. I will do a blog post on mini-painting (not to teach), to show that anyone who is interested can create table read miniatures. I bought this set.

• Dry Erase Battlemaps.* This set was pretty cool. I really liked the plastic strips to hold the maps flat and a ton of different map options. It also comes in a pretty cool storage tube. My only complaint was the map edges came a tiny bit frayed, but they have held up well so far.
• DM Screen.* I’ve bought this one twice! While I was playing primarily online I left the same pages in it for over a year. During that time some ink wore off onto the plastic page holders. But, I still use both of them.

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