Author: Jeremy Williams

I’d like to get some input on running an upcoming game in “open secrets” style play. This would be an in-person tabletop game.

I’m looking at having (most) fictional secrets in the game occur out in the open. For example: “Bazso Baz is secretly a member of the Empty Vessel forgotten god cult”, or even “Bazso Baz wants to control Crows Foot”. This info would be recorded on a note card that would be on the table in reach of everyone.

I feel like playing with secrets like this available to the players gives them more creative openings and opportunities, sometimes just to make their lives more complicated.

Anyone doing this? Worked out especially well or unwell?

Looking for some sort of note-taking online tool that allows sharing, and is easy to scroll through notes (notes being a convenient metaphor for NPCs, gangs, locations, and things of that sort)

Facebook group certainly isn’t it, evernote isn’t it, google docs isn’t really it. Ironically enough, I’ve not looked at doing a google group. Trello looks like a definite maybe.

Anyone have a good go-to for this?

What props or organizational aids do you use at your table?

I’m starting a campaign soon, and intend to use note cards to keep track of NPCs, factions, and Dramatic Questions, keeping them out on the table for everyone to see.

I also want to get a large printed copy of the Duskvol map, and maybe print some of the black and white art, for mood/set dressing.

What sort of things do you use at your table? Anything that you’ve found to work especially well? Anything that you thought would work well and was just meh?

Curious if there’s high resolution images of Duskvol and some of the art from the book? It’d be awesome to do printouts for my group, maybe a large (poster-size) print of Duskvol itself.