I am an RPG creator and publisher, who likes to write notes. Lots of notes. I’ve developed the Worldbuilder’s Notebook over the past couple of years to address the problems I run into when creating gaming content for myself, and others.

I’ve come to Kickstarter to raise funds to commission some awesome inspirational Sword & Sorcery type artwork for the notebook’s endsheets, and to pay for an offset print run of the books.

 

The books are 192 pages divided into five distinct sections. They will be hard backed, and cloth covered with foil stamping. The bindings will be smyth sewn for durability, and to help ensure the pages will lie almost flat when the book is in use. Size wise, the pages are 5.4″ x 7.7″, making it digest sized, which I’ve always found easier to carry around. The current plan is to offer three different colored covers: Slate Gray, Blue, and Red.

If we can hit a STRETCH GOAL of $18,500, we’ll round the corners, and add a ribbon bookmark. If we shoot up beyond that, I have plans for a fourth version (see “Frazetta” below), and perhaps even more!

So what makes this notebook better for crafting RPG worlds and campaigns than a regular old notebook?

 Numbers, Titles, and a Table of Contents!

Every page is numbered, and the upper corner has a spot for a title. If you write up some war witches on page 37, and their goblin pets on page 52, you don’t have to guess the page you wrote them up on like you do with a traditional notebook. You also don’t need to remember that the war witches are on page 37 when the ToC can do the remembering for you! 

 Multiple grid styles together in one book. 

I find that hex grids are a phenomenal way to subdivide and abstract overland worlds. Dot grids are great for writing notes, and drawing grid based dungeons. With the Worldbuilder’s Notebook you can map out your overworld and your underworld in one place so they stay together, and you can reference them back and forth to each other. The notebook contains 6 pages of 130 hex grids (Regional Maps), and 12 pages of 19 hex grids (Subregional Maps). A little bit of hex grid goes a long way. Additionally, some people love flat topped hexes, and other people love pointy topped hexes, and with this notebook you can have both. Simply turn the book vertically or horizontally, and bam, you’ve got the hexes you want, and the dot grid on the next page for notes aligns right along with your hexes. 😀 The notebook also contains 12 pages of isometric grid paper, so if you’d like to try your hand at making maps with a new perspective you don’t need to go out and buy a new pad of paper for your experiments. The isometric grid also comes in handy if you need more hexes too!