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Guides for the campaign that's gotten too big to remember

Grounded in what GMs actually report across TTRPG forums and communities — sourced, dated, and written for the table, not the algorithm.

• Campaign template: the one page to write before session one

  Six blocks on one page: the pitch, the truths, up to three factions, how characters are built, when the table meets, and what stays off the table. Blocks and counts from Shea, Haeck and GM Core.

• What goes in a worldbuilding template for a long campaign?

  The sections of a campaign-world template and the questions under each, drawn from Wrede, Shea, Haeck and Paizo's GM Core; both ways of building, side by side.

• How do I keep a long TTRPG campaign consistent?

  Names drift, factions flip, timelines blur — especially after a summer break. The one-page method that catches drift before it reaches the table.

• Why does DM prep quietly become a second job?

  The most common GM complaint across 25 communities is time — and it is not the writing that eats it.

• Notebook, wiki, or spreadsheet? Why campaign organization tools keep failing GMs

  The tool-hopping pattern, the 2026 landscape, and the one job none of these tools do.

• What sections should actually be in a GM notebook?

  Five sections cover the job — and the split that matters is not by topic, but between the archive that grows and the ledger that must stay current.

• What 11 worldbuilding tools have in common (and the one thing none of them do)

  A direct review: all of them store or generate content. None of them verify it. Checked, not assumed.

• Is a TTRPG organization tool worth the subscription?

  Pay-once vs subscription, what GMs actually say — and the export question that matters more than the price.

• Comment garder la cohérence d'une campagne JDR qui dure des années ? (en français)

  Ce que disent les MJ des forums francophones sur les campagnes au long cours.

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