Tools Built From Actually Running the Game
Everything below started as something Aaron built for his own table, then cleaned up enough to sell. Five products so far, all digital downloads, all $4.50 to $11, all print-at-home. System-agnostic: nothing here locks you into one specific ruleset.
NPC Field Notes — $4.50
A 2-page printable for tracking the NPCs your players actually remember. Page one covers name, faction, what the party knows and wants and fears about them, a relationship tracker running hostile to loyal, and a full roleplaying cheat sheet (voice, tics, what they never do). Page two holds five quick-roll tables for building a fully-formed NPC in the next fifteen seconds, for when someone corners a shopkeeper you didn’t plan for.
GM Field Notes — $4.50
A 2-page session planner built around one idea: don’t plan the ending, decide what’s already in motion. Page one gets you ready before the table, what’s true right now, what’s already moving, the “What Changes Tonight?” prompt that keeps prep flexible instead of railroady. Page two catches what actually happened, so next week’s prep starts from where this session ended.
GM Scene Pods — $4.50
Eight two-sided prep cards for situations that might come up mid-session, without locking in where they happen or how they end. Front holds the Hook, Who/What matters, the Pressure already building, a Discovery waiting to be found, and the Aftermath it could set in motion. Flip it after play and mark it Resolved, Carried Forward, or Cut Loose. Built to sit physically on the page next to GM Field Notes while you play, Field Notes even has the space for it.
GM Tools Build Kit — $7.00
GM Field Notes and GM Scene Pods together, the way they’re meant to be used. Two dollars cheaper than buying both separately.
Campfires & Confessions Starter Bundle — $11.00
All three: NPC Field Notes, GM Field Notes, and GM Scene Pods. Two-fifty cheaper than buying them one at a time.
A printable only solves half the problem. If you want to talk through the other half with people who run games too, the DM Prep Skool community is free to join right now. And if you’d rather sit at a table than build one, Aaron runs a paid game on StartPlaying, five stars across 49 reviews, 909 sessions and counting.