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I keep track of my campaign calendar and character experience using a spreadsheet on Google Drive.

IвЂ™ve settled on a couple of different tools for managing my D&DВ campaigns with my Mac:Д¬ampaign notes:В I write my adventures and campaign notes using Typora, a Markdown editor for the Mac. The Watch: Apple Watch Series 3.В Used to tell time during the game (itвЂ™s unlikely there will be any RPG utilities for this) My Campaign Regime My primary means of documenting the game, either for blogging or restoring the battle mapВ prior to a game session Used to read game PDFs, run modules at the table, control playlists on my Mac, and jot down notes. ItвЂ™s the workhorse machine I used to do most of my game prep.

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The Computer: A Mac Book Pro (2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB) running the latest macOS. If you have one, email me at MyВ Setup My MacBook Pro, surrounded by the rest of my RPG tools. IвЂ™m always looking for websites and tools to add to this page. ItвЂ™s a reasonable control, given how trojan viruses and worms can spread, and it requires theВ security complacent Mac to make absolutely sure they know where theyвЂ™re getting their apps from. macOS prefers to run applications from the Mac App Store and requires you to override certain security settings to download unsigned apps from the Internet. What we find on the Mac today tend to be OS-agnostic applications, which brings with them a different set of challenges. The dominance of the Web:В A lot of generic utility apps, and even character creators, have migrated to the Web.

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At the same time, their portable and niche nature made them an obvious choice for purpose-built, easy-to-use apps.

The rise of tablets:В The iPad and its tablet kin were what gamers had wanted for years: a way to read game PDFs on the go.

Java-based, system-agnostic utilities:В The Mac market was never as big as the Windows one, plusВ a good number ofВ RPG geeks run Linux.В NativeВ apps didnвЂ™t make sense in the long run вЂ¦ if you could create aВ system agnostic that could run just as well.

Two things drove the decline of these platform-specific utilities: There were also utilities for randomly generating cities and villages, constructing battle maps, and more. Crystal BallВ was a Mac-specific campaign manager and character creator for D&D 3rd Edition, with aspects of that gameвЂ™s system resource document built in.

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In the early days of Mac OS X there were a slew of Mac-specific utilities and tools, foremost among them being Crystal Ball. WhatвЂ™s changed over time is the decline in Mac-specific utilities. My Macs remains a critical component of my game, as I use it for everything from creating characters to writing adventuresВ to tracking combat. I began playing Dungeons & DragonsВ in grade school, and I used Apple computers almost as long.В I started writing up adventures on my Apple II and printing them on an dot matrix printer, took a brief sojourn into the world of Windows PCs during and after college, and then returned to the Mac with the release of Mac OS X.

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