Realm Works vs. The Keep

[PetriWessman]

I've been a happy user of the Keep for a few years now, and use it to both plan my games and at the gaming table (via netbook) to take notes and check out my plot notes etc. It works fine, and I have no real problems with it... except, of course, that it is fairly limited and there hasn't been any development on it for ages.

I'm eagerly awaiting to see what Realm Works brings to the table, and will probably migrate to it unless there are some showstopper issues. There's a lot that could be done in a GM tool like this, to help make both planning and running games easier.

One important issue is the fact that a lot of people would probably like to use this (at least partially) on a laptop, so they can refer to it while gaming. This means that screen resolution will be a limiting factor -- while my own netbook is on the lower end of the scale at 1024x600 pixels, most netbooks / small laptops don't have all that much more screen estate. That makes for some challenges on the UI front.