True20 Campaign Planner

[Tim Gray]

A new True20 product has appeared! It's a set of forms for planning and keeping track of stuff. Anyone who has it want to give us some feedback? At $6.50 for 42 pages I'm thinking it's priced slightly high.

[reverend keith]

I think it really depends on the value you find in the campaign planners. It's probably a very solid product for folks who like planning forms and sheets for tracking various game resources (characters, events, maps, etc).

While I never found much value in the M&M campaign planner I purchased, I know that a lot of people swear by them. If you like these kinds of products, then you probably can't go wrong with the True20 Campaign Planner. Phil Reed is involved with it, so check out the feedback on the other campaign planners Ronin Arts has put out. It's not my cup of tea, but everyone seems to love 'em.

[Blue Devil]

I haven't seen the True20 version, but I have seen a couple of the other campaign planners. If you like a lot of forms to help you organize your campaigns, you will love this product I'm sure. All of the campaign planners are very well done. The price is a little misleading if you just compare it to a comparably-sized book. The product is a series of forms of which you can--and indeed almost certainly will--print out dozens of times.

[roninarts]

It has been my experience that the people who get the most use out of the various Campaign Planners are those that are regularly running a campaign. Casual players and those that buy products to read are NEVER happy with a Campaign Planner.

These are designed specifically for someone that's running a regular campaign.

[reverend keith]

Casual players and those that buy products to read are NEVER happy with a Campaign Planner.

!!! Not to be too blunt, but I think those people get what they deserve. Buying a book of forms to help run a game isn't there for someone to read like browsing fiction, but rather to use and improve your organizational skills. IMO, that's the entire point of the Campaign Planner series.

These are designed specifically for someone that's running a regular campaign.

Well, yeah, but ultimately I think it all boils down to how you organize your campaigns. I run regular campaigns all the time and have purchased a Campaign Planner, however I don't use it simply because I organize my campaigns differently. That isn't a slam against the Campaign Planner, but rather just a statement that I organize my game notes differently. I know people who swear by them, and I think it's a great idea that those folks have another True20 resource.

On the flip side, I just now discovered noticed that these PDFs have zero security and that I can crack them open and modify them with Illustrator CS2. The value of these Campaign Planners for me just went up several notches...

[roninarts]

On the flip side, I just now discovered noticed that these PDFs have zero security and that I can crack them open and modify them with Illustrator CS2. The value of these Campaign Planners for me just went up several notches...

Security? Why would we be annoying and try to lock PDFs?

But I am glad to hear that you've figured out a way to modify the forms to suit your exact needs. That is the real fun of PDF, anyway.

[Tim Gray]

It has been my experience that the people who get the most use out of the various Campaign Planners are those that are regularly running a campaign. Casual players and those that buy products to read are NEVER happy with a Campaign Planner.

These are designed specifically for someone that's running a regular campaign.

Are you likely to put a demo up, with a couple of pages so people can see what sort of thing they're getting? I notice it lacks one at present. Even the table of contents and one sample page would help.