Adventure Planner (PFRPG)

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Are these fillable Adobe Acrobat forms? Or do I have to print them and hand write?

Are these fillable Adobe Acrobat forms? Or do I have to print them and hand write?

Print and hand write.

How many pages is it? I find it's usually best for a campaign plan to be just small enough that everything still fits.

How many pages is it? I find it's usually best for a campaign plan to be just small enough that everything still fits.

It is 93 pages in length. So it should cover all of your needs.

It'd be nice to see a couple of small images of some sample pages, just to get an idea of what the product looks like. I really don't want to buy something like this, only to find it's about as useful as the old GameMastery Campaign Workbook. I like the idea, but would love to see what the implementation looks like.

aatea wrote:

Are these fillable Adobe Acrobat forms? Or do I have to print them and hand write?

Print and hand write.

Since even I can't read my hand writing, I am still waiting for the day someone comes out with a fillabale version for these.

It'd be nice to see a couple of small images of some sample pages, just to get an idea of what the product looks like. I really don't want to buy something like this, only to find it's about as useful as the old GameMastery Campaign Workbook. I like the idea, but would love to see what the implementation looks like.

You can get a rough view of the PDF pages here!

Last night I picked up the Adventure Planner after looking at similar products.

I would have to say that it is definitely worth it.

Some of the categories in the Adventure Planner are not going to be new to most veteran GM's, but having it all there in a nice format to remind you and to easily fill in with your personalized information is very handy.

Some of the categories I would not have remembered or thought of to make any concrete notations about, but the Adventure Planner made me go : "Oh yeah! Don't forget to note that..."

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I know that no "generic" adventure/campaign planner is perfect, but here are some of my thoughts on the Adventure Planner:

1) The price is nice!
It is hard to find too many faults in this product for around 5 USD.

2) The Adventure Planner is geared towards Pathfinder and asks you what official products you are using in the campaign or adventure and also gives you places to note your own specific modifications of anything from character classes to spells to world setting changes, etc

3) It is fairly comprehensive. You can note anything from the year in game to major NPCs to your favorite traps or teverns, etc
You can pick and choose which "forms" you wish to use or not.

4) Typographically is is clean and space is generally well laid out in the forms and page sections of the Adventure Planner. It is visually simple, yet appealing and makes good use of space.

I have more praises, but I will end those for now.

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I only have two minor gripes, but as I said before, no product is perfect, but I think it would be nice to see these added to future revisions:

a) The Adventure Planner needs an Index!
You have to look through the entire Planner to find what you want w/o an index and that is an oversight that needs to be corrected, IMHO
A one extra page index is not an unreasonable request.

b) To take the Adventure planner from a very good 4 star product to a 5 star masterpiece of top-notch professionalism, making it a fillable PDF would clinch it as indespensible to any Pathfinder Gamemaster!
I am overall very pleased with the Adventure Planner, but making it fillable and adding an index would raise its appeal from a "recommended" product to a MUST!

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If there are revisions to include these suggestions, I hope that prior purchasers would get an updated version gratis.

My two minor suggestions/gripes aside, I recommend the Adventure Planner to anyone that wants ideas or forms on how to notate and plan their adventures and Pathfinder campaign.
The price is nice and it is highly useful.

- Adelwulf

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I've already bought this at Drivethrurpg.com (didn't know it was at Paizo.com then), but as of now I will only use it for inspiration due to the "print and hand write" format.
I like the layout and the contents, but since I mostly play online (Fantasy Grounds) and prefer digital over dead trees I'd rather not have to print it out.

I only have two minor gripes, but as I said before, no product is perfect, but I think it would be nice to see these added to future revisions:

a) The Adventure Planner needs an Index!
You have to look through the entire Planner to find what you want w/o an index and that is an oversight that needs to be corrected, IMHO
A one extra page index is not an unreasonable request.

That is completely my fault. I did this PDF on two different machines with two different layout programs. So you can plan me personally on that one.

b) To take the Adventure planner from a very good 4 star product to a 5 star masterpiece of top-notch professionalism, making it a fillable PDF would...

Once again, my fault. I am using and old version of Adobe Acrobat Pro (ver. 6) so I don't have all the bells and whistles that ver. 9 has. BUT... if everything goes well and I am good, Santa might be getting me a copy at Christmas. Thanks for the support!

Well, it acltually is 78 pages long, if we exclude Several pages of tokens, the licence, an ad and the front page.

Still, it will be very helpful to have all these pages to help logging vital info, carefully plan and even plant seeds for next adventures. An overall very nice work.

A note to LPJ: everytime pages of tokens are found at the end of your documents, for some reason my pdf viewer gets incredibly slower, to the point that I found a way to split the documents after the text so I can actually use it without wasting time waiting for pages to load. I am using Ubuntu's document viewer and have never had problems with, for instance, the core rulebook, even in its one file format. Maybe you could check that up.

aatea wrote:

Are these fillable Adobe Acrobat forms? Or do I have to print them and hand write?

Print and hand write.

Any chance that they will be made fillable and saveable in the near future?

Once again, my fault. I am using and old version of Adobe Acrobat Pro (ver. 6) so I don't have all the bells and whistles that ver. 9 has. BUT... if everything goes well and I am good, Santa might be getting me a copy at Christmas. Thanks for the support!

Louis,

Have you managed to get your hands on a more recent version of Adobe Acrobat Pro since October 2009 that enables you to make fillable forms? If yes, will you be updating the campaign planner and other products that could use fillable forms?

Have you managed to get your hands on a more recent version of Adobe Acrobat Pro since October 2009 that enables you to make fillable forms?

Yes I FINALLY have (Thanks Santa!) Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro.

If yes, will you be updating the campaign planner and other products that could use fillable forms?

I am working on it and updating some of out old PDF with fillable form too. So just keep reminding us so we stay on top of it. Thanks!

Are you still working on a fillable version? And if so would those that have already purchased it gain access?

Is there bookmarks in the pdf?

Thanks!

Anything?

Are you still working on a fillable version? And if so would those that have already purchased it gain access?

Is there bookmarks in the pdf?

Thanks!

Do to some personal family issues I have not been focusing on it. But I am doing it right now and hope to have the file updated by this week. Sorry for the wait.

OK I updated the RPGNow version of this file earlier this morning, and plan to have the Paizo.com version updated by tomorrow.

OK I updated the RPGNow version of this file earlier this morning, and plan to have the Paizo.com version updated by tomorrow.

Cool, thanks for the update. I'll have to pick this up after next paycheck.

OK I updated the RPGNow version of this file earlier this morning, and plan to have the Paizo.com version updated by tomorrow.

Thank you for the head's up! Sorry to hear about the family issues, and I wish you well.

LMPjr007 wrote:

OK I updated the RPGNow version of this file earlier this morning, and plan to have the Paizo.com version updated by tomorrow.

Thank you for the head's up! Sorry to hear about the family issues, and I wish you well.

Thanks, and sorry for taking so long.

This product has been updated to a form-fillable version of the PDF.

I just tried the updated version (from DriveThruRPG, but I'm sure they're the same).

The fields appear correctly in Adobe reader, however in Foxit they do not (the highlight bar appears for a brief moment, but then disappears).

Would it be too much to ask that one could actually save the pdf with text typed into it? As it is now you have to type all the info you need and then print it. This makes it hard to revise and add things later on without having to type it all over again (or copy/paste from another document).

I just tried the updated version (from DriveThruRPG, but I'm sure they're the same).

The fields appear correctly in Adobe reader, however in Foxit they do not (the highlight bar appears for a brief moment, but then disappears).

Would it be too much to ask that one could actually save the pdf with text typed into it? As it is now you have to type all the info you need and then print it. This makes it hard to revise and add things later on without having to type it all over again (or copy/paste from another document).

Since I don't know Foxit at all, anyone willing to help me with this issue, would be greatly helpful. Thanks!

Leonal wrote:

I just tried the updated version (from DriveThruRPG, but I'm sure they're the same).

The fields appear correctly in Adobe reader, however in Foxit they do not (the highlight bar appears for a brief moment, but then disappears).

Would it be too much to ask that one could actually save the pdf with text typed into it? As it is now you have to type all the info you need and then print it. This makes it hard to revise and add things later on without having to type it all over again (or copy/paste from another document).

Since I don't know Foxit at all, anyone willing to help me with this issue, would be greatly helpful. Thanks!

There is no problem with Foxit. It defaults to no highlights. In the upper right corner there is a checkbox to use highlighted spaces for the form fillable parts.

LMPjr007 wrote:

Leonal wrote:

I just tried the updated version (from DriveThruRPG, but I'm sure they're the same).

The fields appear correctly in Adobe reader, however in Foxit they do not (the highlight bar appears for a brief moment, but then disappears).

Would it be too much to ask that one could actually save the pdf with text typed into it? As it is now you have to type all the info you need and then print it. This makes it hard to revise and add things later on without having to type it all over again (or copy/paste from another document).

Since I don't know Foxit at all, anyone willing to help me with this issue, would be greatly helpful. Thanks!

There is no problem with Foxit. It defaults to no highlights. In the upper right corner there is a checkbox to use highlighted spaces for the form fillable parts.

Updating Foxit to the latest version fixed the problem for me.

Also it can be saved with text in Foxit, but not Adobe Reader AFAIK (Have not tried with v 10), thus I'd say Foxit makes this planner much more useable. :)

That is correct. I am using Foxit wirh this right now because I can save the progress and come back to it later.

That is correct. I am using Foxit wirh this right now because I can save the progress and come back to it later.

Thanks!

I picked this up a couple of years ago now, and haven't done anything with it because of the saving issue - glad to see I can save now, even if it means downloading another program. Very happy to see it come about!

Form fillable makes this an obvious buy for naturally disorganized DMs like me. Going to pick it up today or tomorrow.

A couple of things I would add if you decide to update this again. Modify the town/city pages to match the format of settlements from the GameMastery Guide. Modify the pages for sailing ships (and add other vehicles) to match the format from Ultimate Combat.