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My player recently survived the Pillar of Autumn and hell-jumped feet-first onto Halo! That's where we ended the session and I decided to prep the broad strokes of the daring expedition to Alpha Base as a point crawl (if you're curious, I used Excalidraw).

Hi!

I saw two days ago in the official discord that an user, Shasquid, posted his way of keeping track using the Notion app. I'll link his template here (I assume that he would be ok with that, but if not DM me and I remove the comment)

https://www.notion.so/Using-Notion-for-Solo-Ironsworn-24ea34b08b604779bcc12c90c29b06a8

Using his version as a base, I made some notes transcribing the oracles and now I can play only on my phone, changing tabs to roll the dices (the links in his template didn't work for me).

I hope this is useful, and if it is, thank him, not me.

Cheers!

That’s a fair question. I probably should have dropped a link.

Obsidian is a free Personal Knowledge Management System. Kind of like Notion but you own all of your own data. It’s super powerful and fairly future-proof. A lot of people are starting to use it as a “second brain” (myself included), and it turns out it’s really nice for campaign management. Or rather, it’s really nice for the way I manage my campaigns.

You can easily put together templates and populate notes using keyboard shortcuts, so it has a lot of potential for streamlining admin.

If you want to get really crazy you can get the graph view to show how your journey physically evolves across the Ironlands.

Check it out. It’s certainly one good option.

https://obsidian.md/

Thanks!

No kickstarter. It'll be out at Itch.io and DriveThruRPG in the next couple of weeks. Itch.io takes a relatively small cut on PDF purchases, but doesn't offer print options.

Seriously, though, a hardcopy purchase via DriveThru makes me super happy, so do that! DriveThru deserves their cut for handling all the backend stuff.

Stay tuned for the release announcement.

I'm a big fan of Tabletop Audio myself and will load up a few of the nature track - Frozen Wastes, Woodland Campsite, Mountain Pass and Winter Woods and go from there.

I haven't done anything like this with Ironsworn, but I use https://habitica.com/ which is a gameified habit and task tracking site/app. You earn XP, gold, and items in the game by doing stuff in real life.

For Ironsworn, the simplest option would be something like giving yourself +1 momentum in the game every time you exercise a substantial amount. How much exercise that is exactly (15 minutes? 30? 60?) depends on how fit you already are and what your goals are. +1 momentum is a meaningful reward but not enough to just make the game massively easier.

Well, I just killed off Malik. That was an amazing amount of bad luck. Not a single sojourn roll succeeded and a single Make Camp. Somehow, whenever I rolled for an NPC companion, they got a strong hit. Whenever I rolled for Malik, it was miss, usually with match. Unless it was an Endure Harm after his health hit zero - then it was a weak hit. There was also an impressive streak of 6s on the action die, after momentum hit -6. He was being eaten alive by chitters and just would not die. I gave up on the dice and went with a narrative "The screams faded as blood loss set in. Without the constant flaying arms and legs, the chitters fed in peace."

It's actually possible the village is still rescued. Malik was heading back to his village in the company of the alchemist he had to apprentice himself to in exchange for the skull icon. The alchemist was not a fighter, at all, so Malik did the "get it to the village, I'll hold them off." Maybe Rhodri made it. We'll never know.

This was my second Ironsworn campaign and first completed. I really struggled with dealing with travel companion NPCs. Especially supply. I vowed to help a group clear some predators, but could not supply myself due to a failed sojourn role. So justified it as they were feeding me as we headed out - and skipped journey roles since they knew where the lair was. But after we succeeded and went our separate ways, I was back to dealing with Unprepared.

I'll get a play report up, eventually. Once I covert it from Obsidian.md to something I can put up on a website. On to Challenge 2, with a different character and different dice.

https://orgmode.org/

Takes a bit time to set up and learn how to use. I have some random generators etc to be able to generate things from the ironsworn oracles and various other random tables I collected from other sources. I type and press some keys to make the random things appear as I type, so it is just me and my keyboard and everything comes out in order in one long text (of course I insert section headers and other breaks to make it more readable).

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There's a lot of other designs out there with other art, but this was the most Norse themed one I saw. I even picked up a few more sets for giving to other players

There's been some good discussion on the themes and domain channel in the discord. This entry in particular may be useful for you.

Emacs text-editor with org-mode and I wrote my own minor mode for it called decide-mode that provides in-line die-rolls and random generators etc as I type (e.g. type ? followed by d to roll 1d6, or ? followed by another ? to just output a yes/no/and/but kind of answer).

It is great for entering text and keeping things organized (org-mode is for "keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system"). The only downside is that it requires a keyboard. I can run it on my android phone, but need a bluetooth keyboard (that I have) because it is too painful to type in text on the on-screen keyboard (but that of course goes for any mobile tool).

With Typora on my surface tablet and mdwiki, I can quickly create links and pages for specific places and characters. On my desktop, I would just use vim as the text editor. Everything is sync with dropbox.

For dice, I roll actual physical dice on a tower because it's very satisfying. I use a physical character sheet and cards too.

This notebook seemed to be the one featured on one of the Ironsworn/Kickstarter posts that I have seen:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CNTK4JQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IO6lEb4KWK29R

I contributed $40, but would consider adding more - depending on what is offered. I am still soaking in the main version; I have not even begun to look into Delve or Starforged stuff.

I am interested in having a portable version; even if some of it includes recommendations for third party items. Like this:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CNTK4JQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_IO6lEb4KWK29R

I am not sure if it could be intentional, but I've been trying to make my own inserts (Word docs) to be able to use this notebook. Not sure how to integrate asset card storage or dice. If anyone has any suggestions or resources on this, please share them!

Anyway, keep us posted for additional contribution packages.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ironsworncompanion

I was able to find the link by going into the app info.

Though looking at it, it might be abandoned. Hasn't been updated sauna April.

Looks like those are sold out, OP, but you can get similar ones for good prices on Amazon, if that's available to you:

https://www.amazon.com/Homesure-Leather-Journal-Notebook-inches/dp/B07VY98D81/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=leather+journal&qid=1594900532&sr=8-6

https://www.amazon.com/Leather-Bound-Journal-Sketchbook-Handbound/dp/B08BCPS5SB/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&keywords=leather+journal&qid=1594900532&sr=8-8