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You shouldn't have to fill out both sides of the 3x5 card in tiny text. One or two words on the character's history.Player's playstyle (actor, explorer, power gamer, slayer).Class, Race, primary attributes or skills.We might include the following attributes on such a card:

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In Robin's Laws of Good Game Mastering Robin Laws describes how to build a player goal spreadsheet that keeps track of all of these variables including the playstyle of the player so you can tap into the things that player likes the most.Īs much as our obsession with our hobby may drive us to build a detailed player goal spreadsheet, we can, instead, jot things down on a 3x5 card for that character. As dungeon masters, its hard for us to keep track of all the interactions, backgrounds, and drives of the PCs. Good adventures often stem from the stories of the characters in our games. The 3x5 adventure card helps you plan lightly and acts as a campaign scrap book. We can use them for treasure cards, NPC notes, and even as an initiative tracker. The low cost, usability, simplicity, and forced constraint of the 3x5 card makes it a perfect tool for our D&D games. In The Lazy Dungeon Master we discuss using 3x5 cards as the base of our adventure planning. In another of his fantastic article entitled Humpty Dumpty Conundrum, Wizards of the Coast producer and professional dungeon master, Chris Perkins, discusses his use and review of his one page adventure outlines and how he uses them to build new story seeds and plot threads across his campaign.

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