@@GinnyDi for warlock cards, There arent any specific card set for warlock, but there is a card set that is called Arcane, and it has, wizard, sorcecer and warlock
Doorbell rings, Me: Ah, a cameo from Aisling to show us her journal Actuality: Ginny Di parodying "Book Of Mormon" for a sponsor spot Me: Oh, not what I expected but I like it.
I'm Loremaster for a game I'm currently playing in, but I don't like taking notes. It was an elected position. To make things better for myself, I said I would only fulfill the role if it was acceptable for me to take notes in character. The GM agreed. So now my 3/4 orc barbarian who never bothered to to learn how to read (because he was too busy hunting, mining, or fighting for his life or tribe) is adventuring to find his family who were taken by slavers. He's carrying a journal to mark down clues and make rough maps, but he still can't read or write. So he draws pictures exclusively. I'm using a leather bound journal I picked up at a ren faire, or GenCon, or something and hand drawing session notes. So it's all quick sketches and child-like drawings to get the important details down quickly because I, like Hnifur, am not worried about how any of the drawings look as long as they convey the proper message. Because of this involvement, I get an inspiration point (essentially; we're playing Pathfinder) every session I show up with the journal that expires at the end of every session. The best part for me, is I'm building my drawing skills again because of how quickly I need to sketch.
We don't have an official loremaster cause we don't have elected positions in my groups, but based on how vigorously I take notes in our 2 yr campaign I might as well. It's close to 300 pages now and over 80k words. Tbh, though, I might need to try out this method of notetaking. Sounds like so much fun and a great change of pace compared to usual notetaking style (which I love, but with multiple campaigns it can be hard getting creative on how to change your writing style to be unique to different characters).
I wish my players cared this much about their character sheets. One of them literally has to dig through stacks of loose papers every game session to eventually find their crumpled character sheet. Another can't seem to remember what is on their sheet and looks at it each game as though seeing it for the first time.
I wish I had the ability to care for my character sheets this way. I do better than most (thanks to my clipboard that is multi-classing a few points in container) and my papers usually turn out mostly okay except for the edges, but the edges always get messed up no matter what. I’ve used notebooks, binders, binders with plastic sheets- none of it can hold up to my heavy duty and accident prone self. Also I’m likely to misplace new stuff, so it’s all a mess... RIP my character sheets. You deserve so much. And yet you get the bare minimum... At least it’s harder to get exiled, unlike the dice...
most people I play with dont even care to take notes only the older players seem too althought was playing in a game and a player was noting down evrything the DM was saying. The DM nastily asked him what he was doing when he told him he did not seem pleased. As a Dm I hate that in 4 player party only one person take notes, I always take notes it was the way I have been taught to play.
The spell cards do exist for warlock! The Arcane deck includes wizard, warlock, and sorcerer spells. I LOVE your notebook so much. I’m inspired to go make my own now 👀
The arcane deck isn't super helpful. It's missing any subclass specific spells that all warlocks get which means you need every single deck for those extra spells since the warlocks expanded spell list draws from literally every spell list. It's also just missing a handful of warlock spells.
@@GinnyDi There's also a separate deck for the new spells added in Xanathar's which covers all classes. I'm guessing they'll also make one for Tasha's.
I made a character profile for my character back when I was playing Starfinder, he was essentially a cleric. I found it really handy to have a page of "Personality quirks." It was filled with things like "enjoys referencing the sun when speaking" or "Will not talk about the undead in a good light." There was also a whole section for "Wise Says" since he was played a bit like a buddhist monk, and im not that quick witted on my feet, so i sat down and wrote out a bunch of sayings he could use when the moment was right.
I don't want to put any pressure out there into the universe, but if this became a trend, with different broadway parodies I would be 100% fine with that.
As a person who has never once played D&D, but is a sucker for journals, this was an amazing video 🥰 Now I have to find everything about D&D. Rabbit hole, here I go.
I'm a DM, and I plan on doing something like this for my Fizban-esque DM PC, a guide and ally (as well as the avatar of the literal universe) for my one-on-one campaign with my fiance.
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GINNY YOU HAVE TO STOP FEEDING MY ADDICTION no but seriously I am in love with your dnd content and I think Aisling get along famously with Mer'yl my blood hunter (order of the profane soul) and her Archfey patron
To keep track of my HP without having to constantly erase, I just stretched out the HP box from the character sheet into a full page and threw it into a sheet protector. Then I just use a dry erase marker to keep track
Pencil smears drive me up the wall too. Switched over to Frixion pens by Pilot. They erase really well. Just don't leave anything you write with them in a hot car or anything. Like I said, they erase really well. The husband found that out the hard way.
I think if you put the paper that was accidentally erased in the freezer, the ink will show up again! I haven't tested it, but I've heard it a few places before
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I love you character notebook. You are right, standard size binders take up too much room at our table. I have happily used comp books for my characters. Currently I am using a combination of phone app for my spells (and that of everyone else in case I have to play their character that day) as well a purple sparkly comp book for my Bard /Divine warlock. It has both campaign notes and bardic parodies that I've written over the course of the game. They've all been kind of stuck in where there was room an inspiration so I've had to start adding post-it flags to be able to find which are songs and which are campaign notes. I have been chronicling the adventures we've had in bardic parody. One of of our other party members is chronicling the events from her characters pov in a diary. Every week we look forward to "his" journal update. She has taken care to handwrite about 4pages/wk in a somewhat messy misspelled printed style. We all look forward to "Brick's " weekly entry because they're hilarious.
Wonderful ad insert XD "Big ugly binder" tho, I feel a bit called out, with my big ol' binders of characters pretty much DIRECTLY behind me xD I have found a wet erase on one of the sheet inserts for stuff you have to change but don't want to ruin your sheet over works really well ;) Thanks for this walkthrough it was a lot of fun! I'm full of ideas now...
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I also use page protectors on my character sheets to prevent the smudging but also because what erase markers work on them so you can use that to keep track of your health and when you reset or lose more you just wipe it off with a wet washcloth
@Ginny Di The D&D Spellbook Cards: Arcane product combine Wizard, Warlock and Sorcerer spells because there is a ton of overlap. If you're looking for those spell cards for Warlock, I suggest you get that.
If pencil bothers you for your character sheet maybe you should look up a set of pens you can easily erase - Pilot Friction pens. They come in with it's own eraser and in with many colors
I just started keeping an in-character journal for my genasi girl with just diary entries for how the session was from her perspective. It's super fun, and a real good way to work on character but MAN I might have to make a second journal like this!! It looks so freaking fun!
Once one of my players made a journal of his character, a bard, and gave it to me. It had drawings, songs, poetry and even recipes. The most interesting is that reading that I was able to see the adventures of that group of players through the eyes of one of them instead of the eyes of a DM. I keep that journal fondly on my bookshelve until today...📕📖😉
I’m a DM and this sounds awesome for keeping track of NPC Backgrounds. So far I’ve been making digital drawings and having a google doc but this sounds lovely for note taking! I think I have a nice binder I could transform into a book of lore history and notes. I can even put an X if the NPC dies or have a box to check off. Also a box to check off if they’re considered to be undead/unkillable.
I recently made my own custom character sheet template on a google doc. I love it because I don’t have to fuss around with pdf editors and I can tweak the sheet as much as I want to add as much as I want. Attunement slots, weaknesses and resistances, a slot for special senses, class resource/ammo tracker, you name it!
My character, Andraius, is a dark elf druid with a sidekick tiger named Korsko and they decided to write their adventures in a journal type of way, so I have an entire notebook written by Andraius' hand and what they would notice in the environments and other characters of the game. It warms my heart
I used that company's spell cards too to make a binder for my Wizard that I'll be playing in an upcoming campaign. I fished my cards out of the "Arcane" deck, which has some warlock specific spells buried within too. I keep them in sleeves just like those, except I don't double stack them. That way, it keeps the big level number on the back visible for quick reference...it _does_ add more pages though, and I _ammm_ a wizard so I'll have a lot of spells building up....buuut that's just more fun organizing for me, so that ain't no problem!
I love this idea. My newest dnd character for 5e is a Firbolg druid : circle of the moon, I would love to put together a journal like this and have a separate esthetically pleasing notebook for session notes and I am going to keep sticky tabs or seperators that have tabs so I can easily reference back to certain events or NPC names or theories she may have had etc
For my DnD characters, I bought a pack of small note books that are thin and have different patterns and colors. It works out great that it doesn't take up too much room in my purse. And I'm really good at compressed page layout designs, so I was able to fit the whole character sheet onto one page, with the innovatory and spells (when called for) on other pages. The rest of the book is for campaign notes. The biggest issue I have with this method is expansion. Our current group likes to do Character Fun Facts (taken from Dungeons and Daddies) and I write them down. I'm now having to write them on a previous page. I guess I could start using the back of the book, as I highly doubt my campaign notes will reach the very end of this book.... This is a long way for me to say I'm jealous of your layouts and I think I'm going to redesign my system. The major bonus of saving space is not out weighing the desire for pretty things anymore.
So many things!!!! 1) Your hair looks amazing!! 2) Loved the little sponsor song!! 3) Holy sh** your journal is SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I love all the art and your pretty handwritten pages and how it's all in the same theme and just! Blown away by it!! 4) YES!!! full Aisling costume! And potentially more seasonal looks! Can't wait!!
Ooh, this is a very neat and creative (not to mention useful) concept! I may very well have to build some themed journals for my players as Christmas gifts. ^^
Omg the ad! The reference to book of mormon is spectacular and I love ur lyrics that you added! And the book! Ugh this is such a bueatiful journal! I love the fluidity of it and how expressive it is. Makes me wish I was a PC at the moment
came back to this years later both because of the OGL quandary and because I'm finally playing a Druid. I want to get back to playing with pencil and paper but need a system that's not a mess! This is perfect. AND the idea that there are druid spell cards out there in the world has blown my mind. Thank you for this video!!
I love this idea. I would have never thought to take a scrapbooking approach to a player journal. I'm still learning how to play and approach journals and note taking. Thank you for sharing.
I have my own note book which I've been meaning to organise, as it just looks like the mindless scribblings of a madman 😂 Having watched this video, you've given me some ideas as to how I can go about said organisation. Thanks, and thank you for putting my notes to shame Knew I could count on you Ginny 👍😂
I don't have a character journal, but I do have a playlist for my character, and I recently organized it so that when I listen to it all the way through it goes chronologically from her backstory to how she's developed while in the party!
I've started to keep both a journal and an appendix, where I generally keep things with proper nouns (NPCs, places, organizations, special objects, etc). It's easy to keep it organized, and alphabetized, on my iPad and it's much easier than searching through pages of messy notes when the DM references something from 6 months ago. I also started organizing my journal like a Skyrim quest log. I make up unique names for each quest and I can organize them as main quests, character quests, side quests, etc.
Your character journal looks fun. Scrapbook style is a very versatile way of keeping a character organized. I've been keeping character journals for years. Until recently, they've been words. Either dry bullet points, diary entries from my character's POV or as a novel-like story. The journal of my current character, now 2 years old, is a sketch journal. As the book is flipped through, you can follow the character's adventures through a chronology of pictures, with each "chapter" ending with a flashback. The sketchbook is filled with drawings and paintings of highlights from each session. Between each session set, I include a drawing or two from his backstory.
I have been a DM for so long I forgot all that a Player needs to keep track of. I have been subscribed to you for quite a while and have always found new information from you that has been helpful. Thank you for being super awesome. You are so helpful.
Her character may be an Eladrin (an elf subrace published in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes). For them, having 4 different seasonal looks (and corresponding moods) is part of the package. Maybe you should look into them! (I have yet to figure out an Eladrin character I like, but I sure do want to play one!)
Every single element of this vid is pure genius! I honestly can't believe I didn't think of creating a character journal myself. Oh! I just realized that I wrote one of my characters backstories in the form of a memoir so this would be doubly perfect for him!
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love your binder. i use a discbound binder myself. i find it really easy to move pages around and with a discbound hole punch it is really easy to print out & punch anything i want to add to the binder. i generally take rough notes at the game then type them up afterwards. it has gotten to the point that i just email my notes out to all the players afterwards since i also keep track of the loot. it is super helpful that i need up with both an electronic and printed copy of my character journal. i tend to origanize my notes per game with rumors, followed by what we did & who we met, then loot and how it was divided. i can bold and highlight names of people & places so it is easier to find when i'm looking for something from 5 games ago. i found pdfs of city maps, bag slots, caravan storage, bag of holding storage, character equipment slots so those were easy to add to the journal & print out. maybe i'm a bit to origanized.
I have made a captains log for my swashbuckling rogue, who happens to be a captain of a ship. I print out and tea stain anything the DM gives us and chuck it in loose such as maps, riddles or pictures. I then wrote the session notes up after the game rather than during, so the log is read as each day has happened like a diary. Just a little bit of fun for me 😆
Usually: *Doorbell rings* Me (ALL THE FREAKING TIME) : Hello! my name is Elder Price! Friends (*glance at each other worriedly*) : wuuuut... In this video: *Doorbell rings* Me: Ooh what's this?! Is she going to appear as Aisling? *Door opens on Ginny wearing an outfit reminiscent of Mormons* Me: Ooh, no. I got it wrong what could she possibly be doing? Ginny: Hello, my name is Ginny Di. Me: ... Me: ... Me: I'm stoopid.
Once back in the day before the Dawn War: I usually played fighters, once I made a Magic User. Honestly the thing I enjoyed the most, was that I wrote all of my spells stats and rules down on small note paper, and then roll them into scrolls tied with little strings, and then I kept them in an old playing card box (which to me at the time seemed really high class.). I kept all that, my dice and several small pencils and a pencil sharpner in a small fake leather pouch my mother had for storing jewelry. I of course referred to this as my medicine bag which held all of my spells and spell components. I clipped it to my belt every day when I left the house for an entire summer. Then my character died. I made a fighter. And the thing I have always missed most about playing Magic Users is creating the schtick of keeping little spell scrolls. I just like playing fighters more, and it doesn't have the same effect to walk around town with a piece of paper that says "Vorpal Sword" on it.
For my tiefling warlock I made her book of shadows, I took a cheap notebook and aged the pages with coffee and with some paper towels, modge podge, and paint, made the cover look like it was made from skin
Instead of using binders to make a book you can add pages to, you may also consider a "junk journal" which requires more assembly but you can also add any kind of random stuffs you want to it, in case anyone was wondering. The binder is adorable though ^^
We use protective sheets for our characters too and use dry erase markers on the protective sheet to keep track of HP or LR/SR feats. They are easy to erase and wont leave a mark.
I did something similar for my warlock. I have a blue sketch book I bought where I've been writing all my spells in a coded cipher. After spending so much time on my code, I can still read it even if no one else can, so it functions perfectly for my pack of the tome warlock as a book of spells my character is supposed to be the only one who can read. I used a UV pen to add secret notes from my patron that show up under UV blacklight...for extra fun and flavor.
Oh lord, now I need a binder for my characters too! The art that everyone did was so pretty and the binder is so aesthetically pleasing and looks like you can just put it in some bag and carry it around with you when going over to a friend's to play a game or whatever. Love how there is even a page for Nightshade! (Best dragon familiar, can't change my mind.)
Just revisited this video to take notes on the basic journal structure, so I can adapt it to the systems I use (GURPS and Synthetic Dream Machine). I connected immediately with this idea, because I want to be the player who always knows what they want to do each turn, and can give the referee exactly what they need to know, right away. That's especially important to me, because I will almost always be the least-experienced player at whatever table I wind up at, especially if it's D&D, which I find utterly overwhelming. I also want to adapt the idea for my solo Ultraviolet Grasslands playthrough, because managing 4 characters turned out to be an incredible time sink, especially because I'd always lose ONLY the character sheet I wanted. Thank you so much! Looking forward to taking more notes on the "let's make" video!
Ginny Di is the only youtuber whose ads I actually love watching, haha You've really helped me get my head around DMing the past few days! Can't wait to start my game in about a month!
For current character, Vailmelgro Uloth ( Half-Orc Vengence Paladin), I told my DM that she carries around a rusty dairy and I went full on with that concept and I'm using an old medieval-style really thick notebook as her character journal: everything tecnichal is write down normaly but inventory and session notes I write them down as she was just writing on her diary (adding props that I do myself because we play online)
For my Hexblade Tiefling I have a binder. The first few pages are plastic sleeves. These contain my own drawings of my character, her backstory and her character sheet. Behind that I have made a table with all her spells. It's a list with the names and a condensed description of each spell. Then I have a page dedicated to her ancestral weapon. Then I have basic paper on which I keep notes. In the very back I keep my ordered notes, such as npc names order per city. Or a list of npc's we can contact with the sending stone.
This pleases the bullet journaler in me greatly. I've been trying the same method that you tried first but I was also worried about running out of space. Never thought about a 3 ring binder and I'm totally going to steal this idea!
I... love this so much. I play in digital groups because sadly there isn't a lot of d&d around me locally.. But our campaign is getting really close to wrapping up and I've been looking for someone I can make to commemorate my character once the campaign is done. This has given me so many ideas, so thank you!
If you're wanting spell cards for warlock they are in the arcane spell card deck. I loved having them when I've played my two warlocks. They made things very easy. Added bonus is that you have spell cards for wizards and sorcerers if you ever play one.
My main DnD gang keep our default character sheets at our hosts place. Not super aesthetic but the pastel one in our group uses erasable colored ball-point pens and drew their character in full color with pro markers on the portrait section so that's cute! Personally I keep all notes in a notebook that I customized to look a bit like leather but it being bright blue. I also draw up all the items we own and get. And also make mini portraits of each NPS next to it's name on the NPC section. The aesthetic of this notebook is VERY "school doodles" because I don't have the energy to do anything more, being the only serious note taker in the group XD
This makes me so happy. I've been trying to Bujo but I never really got the knack of keeping a schedule. Now I can use all the cute tools and stickers and such I got for that to make character journals instead.
Those spell cards are so useful! I have the wizard ones myself. Now I really feel like making a journal/scrapbook myself though! Since I'm playing a wizard, it sounds so much fun to make it look like an actual wizard spellbook. I really like seeing more stuff from Aisling. It's so much fun to watch.
If you ever want a pen to write the character sheets in, I recommend the FriXon erasable pens. I’m using them for school this year and they are pretty awesome!
I absolutely love them. My my burdick warlocks entire character sheet and song list is written in them. A word of warning if those pages get too hot they are liable to disappear.
This is super cool and I will never be afraid to be extra about my character binders ever again. There are Warlock cards, though they are included in with the super large "Arcane" Wizard, sorcerer, Warlock pack
I like this a lot. I'm DM right now in my group, but after this campaign, I'll be player again. I like this set up because as good as the standard character sheet is, it doesn't have the best layout, and it has a lot of stuff no one really uses often on the front page. This will be a perfect set up to lay things out the way I like to see them/need them.
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Now that’s a compliment.
High praise!! I dream of being as skilled a corporate shill as Sam, haha!
my exact thought!!!
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Rival? Nay, surpassed.
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Forget the battle! Team those two up together!
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I love that Ginny has just embraced being a roleplaying content creator.
I've always created videos and music and content focused on the things I'm passionate about!! Lately, that's tabletop gaming!
@@GinnyDi for warlock cards, There arent any specific card set for warlock, but there is a card set that is called Arcane, and it has, wizard, sorcecer and warlock
It's the only thing she makes that I'm into currently so lucky for both (all) of us ☺️.
This channel is already inspiring, but this video in particular helped a lot
@@GinnyDi Hey Ginny, what paper did you use for the character sheet? Thank youuuu
Doorbell rings,
Me: Ah, a cameo from Aisling to show us her journal
Actuality: Ginny Di parodying "Book Of Mormon" for a sponsor spot
Me: Oh, not what I expected but I like it.
my thought exactly
a surprise but a welcome one
I came here looking for silver, and found electrum. gold would be her singing in costume.
@@Spiceodog she is in costume unless you mean cosplay because yes I agree that that would have been awesome
@@roberttheguy4974 yeah I meant cosplay
Ginny, you have OUTDONE yourself with that ad read. I am dying.
It was quite genius.
THANK YOU!! I'm so glad you liked it!!
I'm Loremaster for a game I'm currently playing in, but I don't like taking notes. It was an elected position.
To make things better for myself, I said I would only fulfill the role if it was acceptable for me to take notes in character. The GM agreed.
So now my 3/4 orc barbarian who never bothered to to learn how to read (because he was too busy hunting, mining, or fighting for his life or tribe) is adventuring to find his family who were taken by slavers. He's carrying a journal to mark down clues and make rough maps, but he still can't read or write. So he draws pictures exclusively.
I'm using a leather bound journal I picked up at a ren faire, or GenCon, or something and hand drawing session notes. So it's all quick sketches and child-like drawings to get the important details down quickly because I, like Hnifur, am not worried about how any of the drawings look as long as they convey the proper message. Because of this involvement, I get an inspiration point (essentially; we're playing Pathfinder) every session I show up with the journal that expires at the end of every session.
The best part for me, is I'm building my drawing skills again because of how quickly I need to sketch.
That sounds really fun! .... I just realized we don't have a loremaster for the game we're playing....
that is actually such a cool idea
I love the character development of your orc's drawing skills slowly improving throughout the campaign
that sounds amazing! i love that
We don't have an official loremaster cause we don't have elected positions in my groups, but based on how vigorously I take notes in our 2 yr campaign I might as well. It's close to 300 pages now and over 80k words.
Tbh, though, I might need to try out this method of notetaking. Sounds like so much fun and a great change of pace compared to usual notetaking style (which I love, but with multiple campaigns it can be hard getting creative on how to change your writing style to be unique to different characters).
I wish my players cared this much about their character sheets. One of them literally has to dig through stacks of loose papers every game session to eventually find their crumpled character sheet. Another can't seem to remember what is on their sheet and looks at it each game as though seeing it for the first time.
Dnd beyond gives mine a nightmares just wish they moved to paper
I wish I had the ability to care for my character sheets this way. I do better than most (thanks to my clipboard that is multi-classing a few points in container) and my papers usually turn out mostly okay except for the edges, but the edges always get messed up no matter what. I’ve used notebooks, binders, binders with plastic sheets- none of it can hold up to my heavy duty and accident prone self. Also I’m likely to misplace new stuff, so it’s all a mess...
RIP my character sheets. You deserve so much. And yet you get the bare minimum... At least it’s harder to get exiled, unlike the dice...
most people I play with dont even care to take notes only the older players seem too althought was playing in a game and a player was noting down evrything the DM was saying. The DM nastily asked him what he was doing when he told him he did not seem pleased. As a Dm I hate that in 4 player party only one person take notes, I always take notes it was the way I have been taught to play.
Every gm I've had has kept hold of character sheets
everyone is different
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The spell cards do exist for warlock! The Arcane deck includes wizard, warlock, and sorcerer spells. I LOVE your notebook so much. I’m inspired to go make my own now 👀
...BLESS, thank you!! I guess I was just looking wrong!
The arcane deck isn't super helpful. It's missing any subclass specific spells that all warlocks get which means you need every single deck for those extra spells since the warlocks expanded spell list draws from literally every spell list. It's also just missing a handful of warlock spells.
@@GinnyDi There's also a separate deck for the new spells added in Xanathar's which covers all classes. I'm guessing they'll also make one for Tasha's.
@@GinnyDi Isn't Bless a cleric spell, though?
The spell cards also suffer from slow/infrequent reprints
I made a character profile for my character back when I was playing Starfinder, he was essentially a cleric. I found it really handy to have a page of "Personality quirks." It was filled with things like "enjoys referencing the sun when speaking" or "Will not talk about the undead in a good light." There was also a whole section for "Wise Says" since he was played a bit like a buddhist monk, and im not that quick witted on my feet, so i sat down and wrote out a bunch of sayings he could use when the moment was right.
I really like that idea! Anything that helps get into character would be helpful.
That is a really good idea
@@cryofpaine in my journal that im working on i have a couple of quotes that i use to get into her voice (they have an accent and a stutter)
THE BOOK OF MORMON REFERENCE IS KILLING ME!! 😱😱
I don't want to put any pressure out there into the universe, but if this became a trend, with different broadway parodies I would be 100% fine with that.
As a person who has never once played D&D, but is a sucker for journals, this was an amazing video 🥰
Now I have to find everything about D&D. Rabbit hole, here I go.
it's been 11 months, did you go down the rabbit hole?
@@dekusi1857 I've watched all the D&D or roleplaying journals I could find. Still know nothing about D&D though. 😶
if your still interested, I recommend watching some campaigns! Theres a few by legends of avantris that are pretty interesting!
I normally prefer DMing over being a player, but creative stuff like this makes me wish I could be a player, lol.
Make it for NPCs. realize this looks like details given out for a hit. make assassination quest.
I'm a DM, and I plan on doing something like this for my Fizban-esque DM PC, a guide and ally (as well as the avatar of the literal universe) for my one-on-one campaign with my fiance.
Do it for your key locations with key npcs and buildings!
Just in case you still want them: The warlock spell cards are in the “arcana” set, it comes with all the spells for wizards sorcerers and warlocks.
Omg best ad insert omg. If they were all like this I'd be in real trouble! haha brilliant video.
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I actually liked because of an add!
I know. I usually skip ad sponsorships but I watched this one just because of how she went about it
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Immediately liked for the "Hello" parody. That's gotta be the best ad I've seen
GINNY YOU HAVE TO STOP FEEDING MY ADDICTION no but seriously I am in love with your dnd content and I think Aisling get along famously with Mer'yl my blood hunter (order of the profane soul) and her Archfey patron
I HAVE NEVER SEEN SUCH AN AESTHETIC CHARACTER SHEET BEFORE
To keep track of my HP without having to constantly erase, I just stretched out the HP box from the character sheet into a full page and threw it into a sheet protector. Then I just use a dry erase marker to keep track
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Pencil smears drive me up the wall too. Switched over to Frixion pens by Pilot. They erase really well. Just don't leave anything you write with them in a hot car or anything. Like I said, they erase really well. The husband found that out the hard way.
I think if you put the paper that was accidentally erased in the freezer, the ink will show up again! I haven't tested it, but I've heard it a few places before
I've heard about the freezer thing too. But since I live in L.A. and don't have air conditioning, I'm really not tempted to try them.
Bullet journaling plus D&D!? I'M IN HEAVEN
We love to see more indulgent videos👏🏻life is short and only has the meaning you give it, your videos help allow me to try and be more comfortable with doing what I want to just because I want to.
I love you character notebook. You are right, standard size binders take up too much room at our table. I have happily used comp books for my characters. Currently I am using a combination of phone app for my spells (and that of everyone else in case I have to play their character that day) as well a purple sparkly comp book for my Bard /Divine warlock. It has both campaign notes and bardic parodies that I've written over the course of the game. They've all been kind of stuck in where there was room an inspiration so I've had to start adding post-it flags to be able to find which are songs and which are campaign notes. I have been chronicling the adventures we've had in bardic parody. One of of our other party members is chronicling the events from her characters pov in a diary. Every week we look forward to "his" journal update. She has taken care to handwrite about 4pages/wk in a somewhat messy misspelled printed style. We all look forward to "Brick's " weekly entry because they're hilarious.
This video came at a perfect time. I'm putting a journal together for my half-elf ranger.
Ayyye I'm playing a Half-elf Ranger multiclassing into Rogue
Wonderful ad insert XD
"Big ugly binder" tho, I feel a bit called out, with my big ol' binders of characters pretty much DIRECTLY behind me xD
I have found a wet erase on one of the sheet inserts for stuff you have to change but don't want to ruin your sheet over works really well ;)
Thanks for this walkthrough it was a lot of fun! I'm full of ideas now...
Guilty on the big old ugly binder too LOL. But I like having ALL of my spell cards handy, among other things.
After that sponsor transition I am convinced she can convince me to buy literally anything
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The song parody was so cute!
I also use page protectors on my character sheets to prevent the smudging but also because what erase markers work on them so you can use that to keep track of your health and when you reset or lose more you just wipe it off with a wet washcloth
Normally skips ads in videos, but this was six levels of awesome! Great job, actually gonna join the kick starter!
@Ginny Di The D&D Spellbook Cards: Arcane product combine Wizard, Warlock and Sorcerer spells because there is a ton of overlap. If you're looking for those spell cards for Warlock, I suggest you get that.
If pencil bothers you for your character sheet maybe you should look up a set of pens you can easily erase - Pilot Friction pens. They come in with it's own eraser and in with many colors
I just started keeping an in-character journal for my genasi girl with just diary entries for how the session was from her perspective. It's super fun, and a real good way to work on character but MAN I might have to make a second journal like this!! It looks so freaking fun!
Once one of my players made a journal of his character, a bard, and gave it to me. It had drawings, songs, poetry and even recipes.
The most interesting is that reading that I was able to see the adventures of that group of players through the eyes of one of them instead of the eyes of a DM.
I keep that journal fondly on my bookshelve until today...📕📖😉
I love your hair in this video! And the ad spot was cool, too. Super classy!
I agree on the hair, did not like the add that much though
I’m a DM and this sounds awesome for keeping track of NPC Backgrounds. So far I’ve been making digital drawings and having a google doc but this sounds lovely for note taking! I think I have a nice binder I could transform into a book of lore history and notes. I can even put an X if the NPC dies or have a box to check off. Also a box to check off if they’re considered to be undead/unkillable.
It's very rare for me to not only sit through a whole sponsor, but also enjoy it this much!
I recently made my own custom character sheet template on a google doc. I love it because I don’t have to fuss around with pdf editors and I can tweak the sheet as much as I want to add as much as I want. Attunement slots, weaknesses and resistances, a slot for special senses, class resource/ammo tracker, you name it!
My character, Andraius, is a dark elf druid with a sidekick tiger named Korsko and they decided to write their adventures in a journal type of way, so I have an entire notebook written by Andraius' hand and what they would notice in the environments and other characters of the game. It warms my heart
The aesthetics, the organization, the video editing and music, YOUR MAKEUP, YOUR HAIR, EVERYTHING IS JUST AMAZING :O!
combining my two favorite things? journals and d&d? hell yeah, I'm in!
I used that company's spell cards too to make a binder for my Wizard that I'll be playing in an upcoming campaign. I fished my cards out of the "Arcane" deck, which has some warlock specific spells buried within too. I keep them in sleeves just like those, except I don't double stack them. That way, it keeps the big level number on the back visible for quick reference...it _does_ add more pages though, and I _ammm_ a wizard so I'll have a lot of spells building up....buuut that's just more fun organizing for me, so that ain't no problem!
I love this idea. My newest dnd character for 5e is a Firbolg druid : circle of the moon,
I would love to put together a journal like this and have a separate esthetically pleasing notebook for session notes and I am going to keep sticky tabs or seperators that have tabs so I can easily reference back to certain events or NPC names or theories she may have had etc
Organization AND d&d - two of my favorite things!
For my DnD characters, I bought a pack of small note books that are thin and have different patterns and colors. It works out great that it doesn't take up too much room in my purse. And I'm really good at compressed page layout designs, so I was able to fit the whole character sheet onto one page, with the innovatory and spells (when called for) on other pages. The rest of the book is for campaign notes. The biggest issue I have with this method is expansion. Our current group likes to do Character Fun Facts (taken from Dungeons and Daddies) and I write them down. I'm now having to write them on a previous page. I guess I could start using the back of the book, as I highly doubt my campaign notes will reach the very end of this book....
This is a long way for me to say I'm jealous of your layouts and I think I'm going to redesign my system. The major bonus of saving space is not out weighing the desire for pretty things anymore.
First add I've add through in a while
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I’ve never wanted to spend money more than now after that amazing ad
After that glorious ad all all the talk about scrapbooking, my wallet is looking at me funny.
So many things!!!!
1) Your hair looks amazing!!
2) Loved the little sponsor song!!
3) Holy sh** your journal is SO BEAUTIFUL!!! I love all the art and your pretty handwritten pages and how it's all in the same theme and just! Blown away by it!!
4) YES!!! full Aisling costume! And potentially more seasonal looks! Can't wait!!
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Ooh, this is a very neat and creative (not to mention useful) concept! I may very well have to build some themed journals for my players as Christmas gifts. ^^
Omg the ad! The reference to book of mormon is spectacular and I love ur lyrics that you added! And the book! Ugh this is such a bueatiful journal! I love the fluidity of it and how expressive it is. Makes me wish I was a PC at the moment
This notebook makes me want to play dnd even more than I did before. Dang Ginny I loved this video!!!!
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came back to this years later both because of the OGL quandary and because I'm finally playing a Druid. I want to get back to playing with pencil and paper but need a system that's not a mess! This is perfect. AND the idea that there are druid spell cards out there in the world has blown my mind. Thank you for this video!!
The warlock cards are included in a slightly larger set labeled arcana, that includes wizard, warlock and sorcerer spells
I love this idea. I would have never thought to take a scrapbooking approach to a player journal. I'm still learning how to play and approach journals and note taking. Thank you for sharing.
I have my own note book which I've been meaning to organise, as it just looks like the mindless scribblings of a madman 😂
Having watched this video, you've given me some ideas as to how I can go about said organisation. Thanks, and thank you for putting my notes to shame
Knew I could count on you Ginny 👍😂
that was the only ad I had no intention on skiping in my hole life
i love this i have been trying to make a spell book and a note book and this has helped thank you.
I’m just here exploring the whole RPG space currently but can I just say that may have been the best sponsor spot I’ve ever seen.
This has got to be my favorite ad interruption of all time. 😂
I don't have a character journal, but I do have a playlist for my character, and I recently organized it so that when I listen to it all the way through it goes chronologically from her backstory to how she's developed while in the party!
That sponsor segment was the laugh I needed to day!! Thank you :D
I've started to keep both a journal and an appendix, where I generally keep things with proper nouns (NPCs, places, organizations, special objects, etc). It's easy to keep it organized, and alphabetized, on my iPad and it's much easier than searching through pages of messy notes when the DM references something from 6 months ago.
I also started organizing my journal like a Skyrim quest log. I make up unique names for each quest and I can organize them as main quests, character quests, side quests, etc.
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Your character journal looks fun. Scrapbook style is a very versatile way of keeping a character organized.
I've been keeping character journals for years. Until recently, they've been words. Either dry bullet points, diary entries from my character's POV or as a novel-like story.
The journal of my current character, now 2 years old, is a sketch journal. As the book is flipped through, you can follow the character's adventures through a chronology of pictures, with each "chapter" ending with a flashback. The sketchbook is filled with drawings and paintings of highlights from each session. Between each session set, I include a drawing or two from his backstory.
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I have been a DM for so long I forgot all that a Player needs to keep track of. I have been subscribed to you for quite a while and have always found new information from you that has been helpful. Thank you for being super awesome. You are so helpful.
Forgive me Ginny but I am absolutely stealing that seasonal hair thing! It’s just too good!
Her character may be an Eladrin (an elf subrace published in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes). For them, having 4 different seasonal looks (and corresponding moods) is part of the package. Maybe you should look into them! (I have yet to figure out an Eladrin character I like, but I sure do want to play one!)
Every single element of this vid is pure genius! I honestly can't believe I didn't think of creating a character journal myself.
Oh! I just realized that I wrote one of my characters backstories in the form of a memoir so this would be doubly perfect for him!
I have an extension that lets me mark sponsor segments so that future-me (and other users of the extensions) can skip the millionth ad about website builders, earbuds or mobile games. Usually I mark everything I come across, but that song is just too beautiful to skip ;)
love your binder. i use a discbound binder myself. i find it really easy to move pages around and with a discbound hole punch it is really easy to print out & punch anything i want to add to the binder. i generally take rough notes at the game then type them up afterwards. it has gotten to the point that i just email my notes out to all the players afterwards since i also keep track of the loot. it is super helpful that i need up with both an electronic and printed copy of my character journal. i tend to origanize my notes per game with rumors, followed by what we did & who we met, then loot and how it was divided. i can bold and highlight names of people & places so it is easier to find when i'm looking for something from 5 games ago. i found pdfs of city maps, bag slots, caravan storage, bag of holding storage, character equipment slots so those were easy to add to the journal & print out. maybe i'm a bit to origanized.
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I have made a captains log for my swashbuckling rogue, who happens to be a captain of a ship. I print out and tea stain anything the DM gives us and chuck it in loose such as maps, riddles or pictures. I then wrote the session notes up after the game rather than during, so the log is read as each day has happened like a diary. Just a little bit of fun for me 😆
Usually:
*Doorbell rings*
Me (ALL THE FREAKING TIME) : Hello! my name is Elder Price!
Friends (*glance at each other worriedly*) : wuuuut...
In this video:
*Doorbell rings*
Me: Ooh what's this?! Is she going to appear as Aisling?
*Door opens on Ginny wearing an outfit reminiscent of Mormons*
Me: Ooh, no. I got it wrong what could she possibly be doing?
Ginny: Hello, my name is Ginny Di.
Me: ...
Me: ...
Me: I'm stoopid.
Once back in the day before the Dawn War: I usually played fighters, once I made a Magic User. Honestly the thing I enjoyed the most, was that I wrote all of my spells stats and rules down on small note paper, and then roll them into scrolls tied with little strings, and then I kept them in an old playing card box (which to me at the time seemed really high class.). I kept all that, my dice and several small pencils and a pencil sharpner in a small fake leather pouch my mother had for storing jewelry. I of course referred to this as my medicine bag which held all of my spells and spell components. I clipped it to my belt every day when I left the house for an entire summer. Then my character died. I made a fighter. And the thing I have always missed most about playing Magic Users is creating the schtick of keeping little spell scrolls. I just like playing fighters more, and it doesn't have the same effect to walk around town with a piece of paper that says "Vorpal Sword" on it.
I also have a dnd character who's named Aisling and is an elf lol
For my tiefling warlock I made her book of shadows, I took a cheap notebook and aged the pages with coffee and with some paper towels, modge podge, and paint, made the cover look like it was made from skin
Green haired singer at the door beats a judgemental Jehovah's witness 9 times outta 10.
Instead of using binders to make a book you can add pages to, you may also consider a "junk journal" which requires more assembly but you can also add any kind of random stuffs you want to it, in case anyone was wondering. The binder is adorable though ^^
Languages: Sylvan, Elvish, and Vulgar 😂
We use protective sheets for our characters too and use dry erase markers on the protective sheet to keep track of HP or LR/SR feats. They are easy to erase and wont leave a mark.
I did something similar for my warlock. I have a blue sketch book I bought where I've been writing all my spells in a coded cipher. After spending so much time on my code, I can still read it even if no one else can, so it functions perfectly for my pack of the tome warlock as a book of spells my character is supposed to be the only one who can read. I used a UV pen to add secret notes from my patron that show up under UV blacklight...for extra fun and flavor.
Oh lord, now I need a binder for my characters too! The art that everyone did was so pretty and the binder is so aesthetically pleasing and looks like you can just put it in some bag and carry it around with you when going over to a friend's to play a game or whatever. Love how there is even a page for Nightshade! (Best dragon familiar, can't change my mind.)
Just revisited this video to take notes on the basic journal structure, so I can adapt it to the systems I use (GURPS and Synthetic Dream Machine). I connected immediately with this idea, because I want to be the player who always knows what they want to do each turn, and can give the referee exactly what they need to know, right away. That's especially important to me, because I will almost always be the least-experienced player at whatever table I wind up at, especially if it's D&D, which I find utterly overwhelming. I also want to adapt the idea for my solo Ultraviolet Grasslands playthrough, because managing 4 characters turned out to be an incredible time sink, especially because I'd always lose ONLY the character sheet I wanted. Thank you so much! Looking forward to taking more notes on the "let's make" video!
Ginny Di is the only youtuber whose ads I actually love watching, haha
You've really helped me get my head around DMing the past few days! Can't wait to start my game in about a month!
For current character, Vailmelgro Uloth ( Half-Orc Vengence Paladin), I told my DM that she carries around a rusty dairy and I went full on with that concept and I'm using an old medieval-style really thick notebook as her character journal: everything tecnichal is write down normaly but inventory and session notes I write them down as she was just writing on her diary (adding props that I do myself because we play online)
For my Hexblade Tiefling I have a binder. The first few pages are plastic sleeves. These contain my own drawings of my character, her backstory and her character sheet. Behind that I have made a table with all her spells. It's a list with the names and a condensed description of each spell. Then I have a page dedicated to her ancestral weapon. Then I have basic paper on which I keep notes. In the very back I keep my ordered notes, such as npc names order per city. Or a list of npc's we can contact with the sending stone.
This pleases the bullet journaler in me greatly. I've been trying the same method that you tried first but I was also worried about running out of space. Never thought about a 3 ring binder and I'm totally going to steal this idea!
I was NOT expecting that sponsorship ad but omg Ginny youve outdone yourself
Thank you so much Ginny! I just ordered a few items to put together a sweet gaming journal, thanks to your awesome advice.
I... love this so much.
I play in digital groups because sadly there isn't a lot of d&d around me locally.. But our campaign is getting really close to wrapping up and I've been looking for someone I can make to commemorate my character once the campaign is done.
This has given me so many ideas, so thank you!
If you're wanting spell cards for warlock they are in the arcane spell card deck. I loved having them when I've played my two warlocks. They made things very easy. Added bonus is that you have spell cards for wizards and sorcerers if you ever play one.
That ad was very adorable
Only Ginny can make an advertisement blend /totally/ with her content. I haven't smiled so broadly in, well, too long!
That beginning ad read was really funny!
My main DnD gang keep our default character sheets at our hosts place. Not super aesthetic but the pastel one in our group uses erasable colored ball-point pens and drew their character in full color with pro markers on the portrait section so that's cute!
Personally I keep all notes in a notebook that I customized to look a bit like leather but it being bright blue. I also draw up all the items we own and get. And also make mini portraits of each NPS next to it's name on the NPC section. The aesthetic of this notebook is VERY "school doodles" because I don't have the energy to do anything more, being the only serious note taker in the group XD
This makes me so happy. I've been trying to Bujo but I never really got the knack of keeping a schedule. Now I can use all the cute tools and stickers and such I got for that to make character journals instead.
Highly recommend wet erase markers on your plastic page holder sheets. That’s how I keep track of HP and spell slots. And then they just wipe away.
Those spell cards are so useful! I have the wizard ones myself. Now I really feel like making a journal/scrapbook myself though! Since I'm playing a wizard, it sounds so much fun to make it look like an actual wizard spellbook. I really like seeing more stuff from Aisling. It's so much fun to watch.
If you ever want a pen to write the character sheets in, I recommend the FriXon erasable pens. I’m using them for school this year and they are pretty awesome!
I absolutely love them. My my burdick warlocks entire character sheet and song list is written in them. A word of warning if those pages get too hot they are liable to disappear.
This is the most extra thing I have ever seen and I 100% endorse it
This is super cool and I will never be afraid to be extra about my character binders ever again.
There are Warlock cards, though they are included in with the super large "Arcane" Wizard, sorcerer, Warlock pack
I like this a lot. I'm DM right now in my group, but after this campaign, I'll be player again. I like this set up because as good as the standard character sheet is, it doesn't have the best layout, and it has a lot of stuff no one really uses often on the front page. This will be a perfect set up to lay things out the way I like to see them/need them.