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To build on @meek75's response, using CTRL-D for an attached GM snippet is great for keeping info like traps or GM notes on a magic item or or or or.... What the players see and what the GM knows are often very different and this keeps them together.
If I have a room description, I want the GM verbiage on bottom. This is the traditional module presentation since the dawn of time. If I have a trap or item, I want the GM verbiage on top. I want it to grab my eye and notify me that something needs to be read before I talk to the players. |
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Inform the GM of important stuff should be first if needed to be known first, and the rest after. This is exactly How I have setup my encounters, the "Overview" is what the GMs need to know about a room/cave/area/whatever before anything happens, The description is for the player info, and any required GM notes for after its read. The GM notes attached to each and ever snippet in any other of the sections. Just wish this could be both top or bottom, but its not end of world dealio or anything. Exmortis aka "Scott" RW - Needs Rez spell HL - Game Master/Designer RPG Tools - Campaign Cartographer 3+, D20 Pro Ultimate Real Life - IT Security Hobby - Anything on water or ATV |
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The GM directions should be the first thing encountered. An option to choose either way could work (to each his own), but if we have only one way of doing it, GM directions should be on top. Vargr Deputy Calendar Champion Legend has it, that the Tarrasque is a huge fighting beast, perpetually hungry. Sleet entered History when he managed to get on the back of a Tarrasque only to be ridden out of History shortly after. Using Realm Works, Worldographer (Hexographer 2), LibreOffice, Daz3D Studio, pen & paper for the realm World of Temeon and the system LEFD - both homebrewed. |
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I'm not suggesting we change it to being only on bottom, just that we have the option. I only mentioned it because it seems (to my very limited understanding) it should be an easy thing to allow for both.
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