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On Mindmaps
by [username=Bifford]Bifford[/username]

I heard a while back that calling a mindmap a mind map was now classified as a no no. It's apparently not a term one should use now. Well what a load of balls testicles that is. I'm sticking with it.

I made one tonight (writing this Wednesday evening). It's wonderful. I'm on a Discord server which has a weekly "goals" meeting where you join in, say what you've accomplished in the past week and tell what you plan to do in the next week. One of my items was to "Write out the basics of 'Familiars of the Village'" (title may change) which is a supplement for Tales of the Village.

My mind map has these sub-headings: Introduction; Animal Choices; Familiar Creation; Example Play Through; Book Specifics. These then have lots of sub-bits providing more details. The interesting thing was that the simple process of mapping this out expanded the details of what I needed to put down. Sure, I'd briefly considered what the finished book would need to be (same size as the core book, but less pages and cheaper, but I hadn't put those things down, and doing so meant I think put more things down which I hadn't considered before.

Not only has doing a mindmap meant I've done more on this project in one hour than I have in the past 1 year, but it means I've considered several angles I hadn't before, and put down ideas I didn't have previously. Wonderful! I use miMind, but there are tons of these programs out there; or just use a pen(cil) and paper. Either way works. Use them for anything, not just ttRPG stuff. Nice and simple.



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I saw it and contributed, indeed…

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