ICRPG Journal. Time to get it started!

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#1

I got some inspiration from @JDStirling when he graciously opened up his brand new journal and showed us his first few pages A Journal of a thousand miles. I felt like I should expose my first few as well. I already have so many ideas whirling in my head on how to fill this beauty up. I would absolutely love to see your lumpy headed creations. Please share your journals and raise your shields high with your brothers and sisters. Strength, Honor, and Journal Club!


#2

Godspeed! I just got mine as well! Time to fill those pages and brainstorm ideas!!


#3

Here are a few more pages out of my journal. I have been trying to do a bunch of my prep using this little beauty while on my lunch breaks and stuff so I can bring it home and transfer everything into digital art assets/ doodles, since I tend to think in pictures.

I hope y’all are getting some good journaling done.

Also, there are some minor spoilers for my upcoming Nobility of the Rope game that I’m aiming to have finished for October. I should be putting out a looking for group message soon so keep an eye out for that if you are interested. Stay spooky out there!



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#5

What would be “useful target info.” to you? I’ve drawn a blank at it… :frowning:


#6

When I think target in this context I’m thinking “objective” so maybe just a real quick little blurb about the goal of the room… “find the kid” “stop the assassin” “catch the thief” “get the antidote”.

Though I suppose it can also be interpreted as target, as in room target. I always like to have my room targets be sort of malleable. If the players take actions to give themselves a tactical advantage or roll a bunch of crits or something, I will drop it. Likewise if they Get a lot of fumbles, a timer expires, a lieutenant or boss shows up, or they make super poor tactical decisions it may make things more difficult resulting in a higher RT. So potentially you could scribble some notes there on how the RT might be able to change.

That doesn’t even account for easy/ hard rolls… so maybe you could jot down some things that could trigger those situations too.

Target could also potentially refer to a specific enemy, npc, or player who needs a moment to shine in that encounter, so you could use the space to leave a reminder to set them up with a cool choice/ opportunity. Part of this great hobby is getting to share the spotlight with your table of homies and making everyone look cool/ feel powerful while beating some enemy ass lol.

Honestly, I haven’t used that portion of the sheet yet, so the sky is the limit. These were just some examples off the top of my head. I would love to hear if you come up with some cool uses for that. Thanks for picking out that point, it got me thinking about how I could use my journal in new and more dynamic ways


#7

Thanks for the answer, lots of inspiration in it! I’m designing Wednesday’s session. Decided to use my ICRPG journal for it.
That helped a lot, thank you!


#8

Dude, this is awesome!..how did I not see this before? Very inspiring!


#9

I just realized I left everyone hanging… pun intended. Here is the rest of the nobility of the rope game prep. I hope you guys like it.


#10

Where did you get this journal ? Sorry, I’m new!


#11

No worries homie. I’m just glad you got the itch to create and do dnd mo bettah than you used to! Here is the link to the journal. http://www.lulu.com/shop/brandish-gilhelm/the-icrpg-journal/paperback/product-24184485.html


#12

What I love about LuLu is that it is international: so, I don’t have to pay as high a transport fee as if it came from the US!

Also, looking good: how did the adventure go?


#13

i think it went well, considering it was my first game i had ever run on VTT. You can see the entire breakdown of the evening for the first half of the adventure here How Commoners become Heroes: Nobility of the Rope.


#14

Thanks for sharing! I’ll watch it later!


#15

Definitely one of my favorite ICRPG things… the Journal… love it!