The Adventurer’s Journal – Designed to be used for that game with the Dragons and the Dungeons in it*

05/08/2022

Not sure why we didn’t do a blog post about this Kickstarter before it finished, but hey ho.


A while ago now we were lucky to start working with an amazingly talented artist who goes by @LuckyMaggiePie over on Twitter – she’s the person who gave The Docks of Caswarren such a great feel by supplying the cover, the map and all of the art we used throughout.
Now, the more observant amongst you are probably thinking, “Okay Al, so Maggie’s awesome – Got that – but why are you talking about Docks when the title of the post is all about an Adventurer’s Journal?”

The reason I started waxing lyrical about Maggie and how awesome she is is because of these;

TKS Adventurer’s Journals are designed to be used with DnD

The Adventurer’s Journal is a 48-page softcover notebook for DnD players who like each of their characters to have a notebook of their very own.

Available in Red, Blue, Green, Black and Pink (for a limited amount of time). The Adventurer’s Journal comes with a custom character sheet spread over the first 10 pages.

Including a section for party member names (or am I the only one who can’t remember those), weapons, armour, loot and of course spells

And then page after page of dotted notepaper.

This is perfect if you happen to be the group’s nominated map maker (there’s always one).

Or you can use it to keep track of the various leads that you’ve picked up, notes on the local thieves guild and that interesting piece of information you picked up about the Brotherhood of Stone and what they’re doing with all of the new recruits.

It’s also perfect for drawing the creatures and characters you’ve encountered, working out the various puzzles and riddles some GMs think its fun to use or just keeping track of where you are in the initiative

Just as soon as we’ve completed the fulfilment campaign for the Kickstarter project these will be available from our Webstore, our Etsy store and from a selection of discerning FLGS around the world – more information about that coming soon as well as a handy link to their pages.

We are currently working on an accompanying Games Masters Campaign Journal to help GMs keep track of their campaigns and we are currently liaising with members of the Pathfinder community to create a Pathfinder 2e compatible version of the Journal.

We have limited stocks of the various Kickstarter colours available and you can find them here

*for some reason, there’s a bit in the legal blurb produced by WoTC, that despite making it 100% okay to create stuff that is compatible with the Dragon Game, you can’t mention Dungeons and Dragons, especially not Dungeons and Dragons 5E as a way to help promote it or make it more “searchable” – ah well.

The GMs Toolkit Revisited

28/03/2022

So a lot has happened since I last made the time to write a blog post.
The GMs Toolkit concept is moving forwards.

As some of you may know I’ve been increasingly active over on Twitter for a while now and I’ve started talking to some really interesting Indie games Devs.

When the GMs Toolkit was mentioned it resonated with a couple of them – to the point that (the Ennie Award-winning) Stephen Hart and I decided we’d split the writing duties and create a series of resources that folks could opt into as a low-cost high-reward crowdfunding campaign

All the covers for GMT Vol1

Fast forward to today and the GMs Toolkit has spawned two successful Kickstarter Projects based around the concept and we have released our first 50 pieces of content which is available either Drivethru RPG, our Etsy Store or TheGrinningFrog.com

A selection of screenshots from GMTVolume1

Each piece of the GMs Toolkit content contains 10 things, be they characters, locations, magical items etc which the GM can drop into an adventure-ready to go – they also include 2-3 adventure hooks to help the GM incorporate them into games.

Cover image for GMTVolumeII

The GMs Toolkit Volume 2 project which was funded in November is currently a WIP and will be being released first to the backers and then added to the various stores and continues in the now-familiar format.

The GMs Toolkit Volume 2 content includes

  • Unconventional Allies 2
  • Yaros Trinkets
  • Hirelings and Companions
  • Shrines and Temples
  • Arcane Masters
  • Secret Societies and Cults
  • Yaros Trinkets

Whats coming next?

The plan is to continue with the GMs Toolkit content – each time we run a campaign we will offer the option to either buy the content for the current project only or for all of the preceding Kickstarter campaigns AND the current project.
Please note that backing and supporting the Kickstarter campaigns is a more cost effective way of getting your hands on the content as the PDFs retail for £2.00 each – so to purchase the current collection you would be looking at a cost of £24.00 when compared with the “All in pledge” which would cost £10.00
We will be launching Volume III just as soon as we have completed Volume II – so keep an eye on your inbox for an update or check back here soon.

The GMs Toolkit or The “Prepared” Games Master

12/06/2020

The GMs Toolkit or The “Prepared” Games Master

This is the start of what we hope is going to turn into a series of posts where we share ideas that you can use to build up your GMs Toolkit and hopefully make your life as a GM a bit easier.

So, what’s a GMs Toolkit?

For me, it’s the useful “stuff” that you can use on the fly and that leaves you to focus on the important thing, keeping the story flowing.   

My GMs Toolkit is a folder filled with resources that I’ve built up over 30 years of gaming, If you’re just getting started you might want to consider things like*; 

Basically, anything you can use that makes your job of keeping the story flowing easier.

So, that’s the theory behind a GMs Toolkit – in each one of these posts, we’ll try and include a little something to add to yours – all we ask is that you subscribe to our Bi-Weekly newsletter

We’re also going to be picking the brains of some of the nicest people we know in gaming to find out what they consider to be their favourite secret tabletop resource.

*We’ve included a few links to things we like, we use or we’ve backed on Kickstarter and which has made its was to Amazon

Disclaimer

Trinity Knot Studio is a games company that makes gaming “stuff” that would very well fit into your GMs Toolkit and we may end up talking about our stuff, but we promise we’ll always warn you first.

Were Back Online

05/06/2020

Our website is back online, We’ve got some new projects and content lined up. Keep an eye out for updates, or even better subscribe