Comments on: Start Your D&D Campaign with Google Calendar

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:50:04 +0000

I, too, love using Google Calendar. We’re all in the same town and have a pretty regular bi-weekly game. We use the calendar for everyone to go on and on days that would be game days, they can enter any conflicts. This allows us to reschedule with plenty of time to spare.

I’ve also just made a site for our Pathfinder campaign using Google Sites, which is an awesome free site builder accessible from your Gmail account.

It gives you 100mb of hosted space, and you can embed any gadgets that could go on your Google homepage right into any of your site’s pages.

There are templates for Announcement pages that work great for Online RP posts, and customizable Lists that work well for spells, inventory, etc.

I’d definitely recommend checking it out; it’s an awesome tool. And as far as I know there’s no limit to the number of sites you can make.

By: Bard of Valiant » Interlude: Short Takes 01/26/09

Bard of Valiant » Interlude: Short Takes 01/26/09 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:08:53 +0000

[...] That snippet pretty much says it all and I’d love to use it as he outlines but.. well, my players are amazingly lazy in the main. What I have gotten them to do is post their schedules to a forum we use for coordination. So I used my own Google account to make a calendar for me where I added all their information. You can overlap events with no trouble there so I was able to see that our most open block of time is a Sunday afternoon. We’ve already had a few scheduling problems so hopefully this will help us out. This small drum is about 6 inches in diameter, 6 inches deep, and is framed with the rib cage of some diminutive figure. Leathery flesh has been drawn tight over the frame, providing a ghastly drumming surface. – MadBrew [...]

By: sturtus

sturtus — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:24:02 +0000

I’ve been using Google Calendar for a while. On days when I’m available to DM, I put a “Game Day?” event up and send out an invite using Google’s CalDAV invite mechanism. The calendar is shared to everybody in the group, and they can choose to respond to the invite or simply put “Jimmy OK” as an all-day entry. Once a date crops up where everyone is available, I change the event to “Game Day!”, erase any “OK” entries and put a nice buffer around the “Game Day!” with dates that say “NO GAME” to assure everybody they have plenty of time away from the table.

We do a month or two ahead of time so everybody knows which dates look best for planning their real lives.

I should mention that we play over Skype and we use Maptool as our gametable.

By: StupidRanger

StupidRanger — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:13:47 +0000

In our last group, we used a Google calendar for scheduling our sessions. Someone would create an entry when and where they wanted to play, and everyone would post a comment on that event, with either yes or no. It really helped us coordinate our sessions.

By: Micah

Micah — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:30:34 +0000

I use a special page on my wiki, and I came up with a pretty good system for choosing a regularly scheduled game night. You can see the page here: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/kensing/adventure-log/the-awakening

Essentially, people vote in favor of days they like (with an X) and cancel out days they absolutely cannot play (with an #). The hope is that at the end of the exercise, there’s a day that has no #s and lots of Xs. I love it. Much easier than rifling through emails, plus it doesn’t require getting everyone to sign up for Google Calendar, since my players are already on Obsidian Portal because that’s where I keep all the campaign info.

By: RPG Ike

RPG Ike — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:03:04 +0000

I’ve always had trouble scheduling sessions, but that has more to do with my casual players being internet-ophobes (they seldom update any other calendars I’ve tried to use).

Still, if it’s easier to use, or easier to look at, it’s worth a shot.

Thanks for this, Jonathan.