Preparing for an adventure from PDF, what's important.

[The Indescribable]

Now, I know I need to familiarize myself with the basic module, I also have a handout, and a gazetteer I want to copy, besides this, what's the best stuff to grab out of the pdf to run a game.

[Digitalelf]

I will copy/paste and then print the pictures from a module to use as "handouts" to show players.

Something else I will do, if I have the time, is remake the "premade" handouts (e.g. if the handout is a letter or note that the PCs find, I will type that out using a cool font and print it on real parchment and give that to the players). This works for online games as well, by adding a parchment-like background to the document...

I also like to have the maps printed as well, so I don't have to keep going back and forth within the PDF.

[Voadam]

Monster stat blocks.

I like to have them printed out at hand at the table for use during fights.

[Digitalelf]

Voadam wrote:

Monster stat blocks.

I like to have them printed out at hand at the table for use during fights.

Yeah, I will do this as well. I also like to have any pertinent monster entries (such as from the PRD) open as well during combat.

[Juda de Kerioth]

For me is more complex. Since we play in Spanish i need to translate all the handouts and then print it.

In the carrion crown, I wrote the entire dairy of the professor. Use the in covers images as notes from his travelings and researches.
Also, I wrote the entire novel in the middle pages as an adventure lived by petros).
Also, I wrote letters from npcs to petros, and attached to his dairy (most of them was guidelines to how to create some unique weapon, or use rare spells [Ravenloft Rehumatism, i.e.] and so).

I print all the maps, and rewrite the entire rule of fear because its lacks of descriptions at all.

The second diary they found in CC3, was made with prophecies, and so.

[The Indescribable]

I have never printed a map, thoughts on the best way to do that so it doesn't look strange? i of course want it big enough for play but would also like it to fit. Also juda, you're players are extremely lucky to have you. same with you digital that's cool, i just can't do that.

[The Indescribable]

Sweet, I bought the optional seventh book in the set, and it came with full page versions of the handouts, yay!

[Voadam]

The Indescribable wrote:

I have never printed a map, thoughts on the best way to do that so it doesn't look strange? i of course want it big enough for play but would also like it to fit.

Some of the Adventure Paths have threads where people have put together battlemat size map jpegs or pdfs for printing. I've used some of those to great effect in my Reign of Winter game.

Print out the individual pages, put a numbering system on the printouts so it is easy to assemble in the right configuration, and you only put down the currently relevant ones you have room for and it should work out well.

[Juda de Kerioth]

The Indescribable wrote:

I have never printed a map, thoughts on the best way to do that so it doesn't look strange? i of course want it big enough for play but would also like it to fit. Also juda, you're players are extremely lucky to have you. same with you digital that's cool, i just can't do that.

TY

It is not so hard to do, all the pdfs are copypasteables (that´s the only reason that I buy pdfs adventures and not printed editions).
Then with one or two hours, you can give format to the archive and fonts and so.

Ravenloft fonts in google and maybe there is not ravenloft, but you will find a lot of cool fonts :3

Diablo III provides an entire bunch of ministories that can easily attached to a handout (and there is copypasteable in some wiki fan there).

[whew]

If the handout is a puzzle, sometimes it helps to print more than one copy.

[The Indescribable]

the handouts are mostly contracts and letters actually. The contract being an infernal contract