That's a fantastic job.  Brings back Memories, really.  

And, as mentioned earlier by others..

Here's mine.
http://celtricia.pbworks.com/w/page/14955575/FrontPage
Searchable wiki with a couple thousand pages.  Player permission for the pages they can see.

You are making my lame huge piles of paper look very messy


Some great content you listed there too.

Cool binder.  The one I am putting together isnotnearly as ambitious.

Middle Earth campaign binder:

Fold-out map of Middle Earth that came with some video game decades ago.
4-panel hex map of the North Ithilien campaign area.
Key for potentially 962 hexes, most hexes expected to be populated in game through random encounters and actions of the PCs/NPCs, 10-15% of hexes prepopulated.
List of D&D modules that have been placed on the key.
Random encounter chart.
Middle Earth -> D&D monster conversion notes.
Rumors chart.
Bounties list.
List of Ainur and various major Middle Earth NPCs.
Notes on the various Gondorien fiefs.
NPC list for the campaign area.
5e stats for various NPCs.
Osgiliath ruins map.
Osgiliath key.
Osgiliath random encounters.
Charts for 5e Dungeon & Wilderness travel rules.
Blank character sheets.
Lots of spare paper.

Sounds like a fair amount of work, though! Your hex generation stuff sounds neat, too.

Now that's Old School!

Me, I use a Tablet.

Quote from: RPGPundit;775066Now that's Old School!

Me, I use a Tablet.

Thank you for not making me feel I'm doing it wrong.

Quote from: RPGPundit;775066Now that's Old School!

Me, I use a Tablet.

If you use a tablet, I think I'm doing just fine with my laptop. I haven't had an actual binder for my GM stuff since high school (circa 2007-08).

Back in the day, we had to carry piles of hardcover books, lead miniatures, and stacks of paper in the snow, uphill, both ways.

Tablet!? QWhat is this newfangled sorcery!!!


I am far from a technophobe, but I have yet to get an iphone or tablet.

I think I am afraid I will lose the devices.

I like having a tablet (iPad) AND some paper to keep track of stuff. I think I'm repeating myself.

The thing is, switching between character sheets and various other things can be a little slower than I'd like.

But when it comes to large volumes of rules or information, I'd MUCH rather have a tablet than a book. Searchable, for one thing.

Heck, with Pathfinder, I just use PFSRD or the official Paizo PRD and don't actually use any local documents.

I don't have one binder.  I have fourteen.

Eight of them (my white binders) are setting binders for significant kingdoms or empires.  They generally follow the following sectional format:

* Kingdom/Realm overview
* Each neighborhood of the capital city
* Capital city index
* Royal/Imperial Demesne, with 2-5 pages apiece for key villages as applicable
* Each province, with a subsection for any significant city
* National military.

A couple of those binders are regional, and have sections each for relatively small nations, which may (but so far generally don't) have a separate section for their own capitals.

My rose-colored binder is for religions.  The TOC is:

* Overview, which is a single page each on every major faith in my world, including templates for priesthoods and a bit on what adherents think of each other faith.
* Several pages of creation myth
* A full writeup of each religion, which includes mythology, what lay members do and what is expected of them, the priesthood, temple architecture, orders of service (marriage, funeral, dedication, standard blessings), hierarchy, religious orders, and an ecclesiastical calendar.

The lilac binder is the price list, with sections for:

* Arms & Armor
* Camping Gear
* Clothing
* Food & Beverages
* Household Goods
* Tools
* Leisure & Luxury
* Substances & Drugs
* Scholars' Equipment
* Magic & Alchemy
* Transport
* Building & Capital Equipment
* Miscellaneous
* Services & Salaries
* Coinage & Exchange Rates (which I admit is a 25 year old document, I no longer bother with, but still have in there for historical reasons)

The purple binder is the catch-all, which has sections for:

* Character Creation
* Skill List
* Advantages
* Disadvantages
* Techniques
* Races
* Orders & Guilds
* Wizardly Orders
* Apocrypha: Magic (houserules)
* Apocrypha: Combat
* Common Names
* Racial Names
* Calendar
* Bestiary
* Campaign Log

There are two thick binders which have spells reordered into the "Colleges" in use in my gameworld, followed by the new spells I've added to each.

The final binder is my "Run Charts" binder; it's relatively slender, and is for quick reference during play.  It isn't set up in sections, but has, in order, critical hit and miss charts, critical spell failure chart, reaction table, Will roll chart for fright checks, structural damage table, weapon cheat sheets, attack roll modifiers, weather charts, UMana calamity table, cash-on-hand/NPC loot table, my multi-page Random Urban Shit table, my offbeat seacoast & mountain find tables, my Whimsy List, my Random Book creation table, and several pages of demographics creation charts.

Ravenswing's example is why I switched to my wiki 5 or so years ago.  I'm not at full transferal yet, but getting there. In retrospect, I wish I'd done so long before.  Editing, linking, searching, giving access to players...all good reasons.

Quote from: Zachary The First;773733I'm pretty sure it would stop a bullet.

it's never the wrong time for me to repost the greatest possible dialogue exchange:

-----

Bobby Blane: Sometimes adrenaline gives people the shakes, some might think it's cowardice, so maybe you'd want to pray about it.

Jimmy: I'm not a religious man.

Bobby Blane: There's nothing wrong with prayer. We knew this firefighter, this trooper, who always caried a bible next to his heart. We used to mock him, but that bible stopped a bullet.

Jimmy: No shit.

Bobby Blane: Hand of God, that bible stopped a bullet, would've ruined that fucker's heart. And had he had another bible in front of his face, that man would be alive today.

---

david mamet's HEIST, of course.

Quote from: LordVreeg;775227Ravenswing's example is why I switched to my wiki 5 or so years ago.  I'm not at full transferal yet, but getting there. In retrospect, I wish I'd done so long before.  Editing, linking, searching, giving access to players...all good reasons.

Mm, but I don't have a computer at the table, for a few good reasons, and doing up a wiki would involve considerably more work.  For one thing, much of the stuff in the binders are things the players don't get to see.  If I put everything up on a wiki, I'd have to have TWO wikis.

Honestly, I search through a binder almost as fast as I would computer files -- especially since I keep the number of binders large enough to avoid having to pore through a 500-pager.

As far as giving access to players?  Eeesh.  I've a private Yahoo group.  I upload files as needed to the Files section.  Piece of cake.

Quote from: Ravenswing;775306Mm, but I don't have a computer at the table, for a few good reasons, and doing up a wiki would involve considerably more work.  For one thing, much of the stuff in the binders are things the players don't get to see.  If I put everything up on a wiki, I'd have to have TWO wikis.

Honestly, I search through a binder almost as fast as I would computer files -- especially since I keep the number of binders large enough to avoid having to pore through a 500-pager.

As far as giving access to players?  Eeesh.  I've a private Yahoo group.  I upload files as needed to the Files section.  Piece of cake.

no one is doing it wrong.
but...You don't need 2 wikis, you just control permissions to pages.  Piece of cake.  I used the yahoo group, this turned out to be much faster.  you can embed the lnks, and seachable is useful for you...and everyone else looking.  PCs actually edit and contribute.  
I can play anywhere.  I run online games or live ones from the road, and my whole ruleset and setting and game notes come with me.  

It works for you, and it is obviously a labor of love.  but especially when you want the players to constantly have access to 600+ house created spells and the minute social notes...this way works for me, at least.

Quote from: Ravenswing;775201I don't have one binder.  I have fourteen.

Eight of them (my white binders) are setting binders for significant kingdoms or empires.  They generally follow the following sectional format:

* Kingdom/Realm overview
* Each neighborhood of the capital city
* Capital city index
* Royal/Imperial Demesne, with 2-5 pages apiece for key villages as applicable
* Each province, with a subsection for any significant city
* National military.

A couple of those binders are regional, and have sections each for relatively small nations, which may (but so far generally don't) have a separate section for their own capitals.

My rose-colored binder is for religions.  The TOC is:

* Overview, which is a single page each on every major faith in my world, including templates for priesthoods and a bit on what adherents think of each other faith.
* Several pages of creation myth
* A full writeup of each religion, which includes mythology, what lay members do and what is expected of them, the priesthood, temple architecture, orders of service (marriage, funeral, dedication, standard blessings), hierarchy, religious orders, and an ecclesiastical calendar.

The lilac binder is the price list, with sections for:

* Arms & Armor
* Camping Gear
* Clothing
* Food & Beverages
* Household Goods
* Tools
* Leisure & Luxury
* Substances & Drugs
* Scholars' Equipment
* Magic & Alchemy
* Transport
* Building & Capital Equipment
* Miscellaneous
* Services & Salaries
* Coinage & Exchange Rates (which I admit is a 25 year old document, I no longer bother with, but still have in there for historical reasons)

The purple binder is the catch-all, which has sections for:

* Character Creation
* Skill List
* Advantages
* Disadvantages
* Techniques
* Races
* Orders & Guilds
* Wizardly Orders
* Apocrypha: Magic (houserules)
* Apocrypha: Combat
* Common Names
* Racial Names
* Calendar
* Bestiary
* Campaign Log

There are two thick binders which have spells reordered into the "Colleges" in use in my gameworld, followed by the new spells I've added to each.

The final binder is my "Run Charts" binder; it's relatively slender, and is for quick reference during play.  It isn't set up in sections, but has, in order, critical hit and miss charts, critical spell failure chart, reaction table, Will roll chart for fright checks, structural damage table, weapon cheat sheets, attack roll modifiers, weather charts, UMana calamity table, cash-on-hand/NPC loot table, my multi-page Random Urban Shit table, my offbeat seacoast & mountain find tables, my Whimsy List, my Random Book creation table, and several pages of demographics creation charts.

You have a sickness sir. And I can't believe this but I'm in agreement with LordVreeg, I suggest you bookmark it.