Hey everyone! I just uploaded an update to this video. Check it out if you're interested to see what my binder looks like in 2017! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/na2peJaqydCrYIE.html

Great video Matt perfect advice for the novice GM. I'm gonna feature it tomorrow on the Nerdarchy FB fan page 7/19 at 12 pm eastern time.

Such a helpful Vid bro.I now have everything you listed in your binder.Am so keen on improving my game that my wargaming hobby is taking a massive back seat to my new love of Rping and Dming. Cheers again mate and keep up the VIds

As a new DM this is amazing to see. I have many ideas know on what to add to mine.

Those patches look like Boy Scout patrol patches. Good choice !

Really useful stuff, I can see me grabbing a lot of this stuff. I really like the Raging Swan Dungeon Dressing stuff both for inspiration and immersion. I picked up some of the individual pdfs but they've just released a compilation (GMs Miscellany) which I bought in hardback because I knew I'd use it a lot. Well worth checking out, its based on Pathfinder but most of it isn't system specific.

Thank you!!!! I got some of these and I especially like the Book of Challenges & The Dungeon Alphabet...Your list: 1. Pathfinder Beginner Box Game Master Guide, 2. Dungeon Master Johnny Puzzle Creation Guide, 3. Pathfinder Game Mastery Guide, 4. D&D 3.0 Book of Challenges, 5. Dungeon Crawl Classics (Appendices), 6. The Dungeon Alphabet, 7. Sky Flourish's The Lazy Dungeon Master & Dungeon Master Tips, 8. PhDnD's Immersion Tables, and 9. 650 Fantasy City Encounter Seeds & Plots. How about "The Perilous Wilds" (the Drunkens & Dragons guy reviewed it & I bought a copy and it is pretty good stuff for wilderness adventures) and the D&D "Dungeonscape - An Essential Guide to Dungeon Adventuring" (especially chapter 4). The Legends & Lairs "Traps & Treachery" books have some ideas in it too.

I've got a folder on my desktop where I keep everything I have. I've got pretty much everything published by Paizo for their Pathfinder system, as well as a few "splat" books for Races, Classes, and other things. I also have the complete set of AD&D 2/3.5E books, in case I ever wound up playing either of those systems, but also for reference material when dungeon/adventure building and such.

I'm new with D&D. As I was the one that got my friends into D&D, I decided to become the DM. After watching this video, it seems a little overwhelming for a brand new DM such as myself. Would all of this be necessary right from the start or would I build up a binder like this over time? For now, I bought the 5e starter box and I'm working through that with my friends.

Think I'm gonna have to replicate this.. Great vid, amazing binder.

Here is my binder. RPG: Adventure Creation Binder COMPLETED

OK I found it thanks for having this list online

Thank you, I just started running and have been looking for some stuff to start a DM folder. Though I do know I am going to be adding in addition to as many of these as I can the hack master fumble and spell mishap tables.

I don't know why but when he said "everyone had been asking him to show what he had in his binder" it made the childish side of me giggle a bit. Ditto the bit where he talked about it starting small and growing bigger. Side note: I'm starting Mutants & Masterminds and have a large notebook for stuff (I have older games I'm porting characters, setting, plots, etc.... over) and I have patches from my DC Collector's box and now I know what to do with them. :)

Hey, could you re-up the pdf? Thanks!

Hmm, maybe I should check out that Game Master book from Pathfinder. I always recommend Game Master's Law from Rolemaster and the AD&D DMG for the same reasons. I really like the Dungeon Alphabet as well. I have it in hardcover. :) The tabs look handy. I'm in the process of making a general fantasy binder and I've been slowly printing out things to go into it.

I'm intending to put one together once I have a decent printer...

Great video, thank you!

I'm not a new DM. I've been holding campaigns for at least five years now, but most of it being D&D. The question that I have for you is: the difference between pathfinder and D&D. Would something useful for pathfinder be useful for D&D? I am always trying to improve the gameplay for my players and any help you can provide would be fantastic. (I've already watched your "Five...etc." videos and found them very useful.)

Here is my VR showing my adventure binder. Adventure Binder

Love it!

How would I contact DMJ? He seems to be inactive on everything.

After watching 5 or 6 videos on adventure binders, I've noticed that none seem to pay much attention to what shops/services/temples/etc would be available where and what they'd have for sale. Now I'm curious...how do other GMs handle this?

If you could, I'd like to know what pages exactly that you use from the different books that you just use a part of the book. Like the part from the game mastery guide, what pages do you use etc.?

The D&D Book of Challenges link on your website leads me to a page that just has "related links" but nothing else. No downloads or anything.

Do you have an updated website that list all these tables?!?

I am looking at your website for a list of what you have in your dm's binder where can I find that out

I was wondering what page numbers and from what books you have in your binder can't find it on the site.

Donald? Is that you?

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Just tried to use the "book of challenges" link, I think it's a dead link.

What happened to your website? The binder content link and main website return a webpage not available error.

is that your binder full of monsters?

Man, I don't know how you were able to justify to your wallet to spend 25.00 for just using the appendices in DCC.

No comments? Ok.

Sniffing not kewl. Love your stuff otherwise.

Really useful stuff, I can see me grabbing a lot of this stuff. I really like the Raging Swan Dungeon Dressing stuff both for inspiration and immersion. I picked up some of the individual pdfs but they've just released a compilation (GMs Miscellany) which I bought in hardback because I knew I'd use it a lot. Well worth checking out, its based on Pathfinder but most of it isn't system specific.