I figured that was going to be the most time consuming part (and it's a part I can relate to!). Are there any suggestions as to best program to use for that?

Excel? Word? Access? Something that I'm not familiar with?

Well, Aahzmandius_Karrde has been writing his own code, I believe. Ogg Dude has also written his own code, albeit not on the same platform.

If you can’t do that, then I think you have to ask yourself what you can do, and sometimes using a tool that you know is more important than using a tool that is better suited to the task but that you don’t know.

Spreadsheets have long been abused as a poor man’s database, and so long as you recognize it for what it is, that might actually be a reasonable compromise in this case.

Speaking only for myself, I’ve decided to try to help Aahzmandius_Karrde as much as I can, because his solution runs on web servers and is available to anyone with a semi-decent web browser. Of course, you do have to be connected to the Internet, which is a problem for some people.

If I could relatively easily run Ogg Dude’s code, then I would also help him as much as I could. But I’m not on Windows, so his solution not a viable option for me.

If you’re not on the Internet, and you’re not on Windows, then I don’t know what your options are.

I forgot to mention that one of my former players swears by an app called Empire Legends. I haven't tested the offline capabilities (if any) yet, but for those of you who don't like paper sheets, it's a way to run your character sheet through your device.

Empire Legends — Is that the page at http://empire-legends.herokuapp.com/ ? Or the Android App?

I forgot to mention that one of my former players swears by an app called Empire Legends. I haven't tested the offline capabilities (if any) yet, but for those of you who don't like paper sheets, it's a way to run your character sheet through your device.

Empire Legends — Is that the page at http://empire-legends.herokuapp.com/ ? Or the Android App?

The app is basically the page, only not using a browser to get to it. Again, not sure of the offline capabilities yet (time is always a foe, as it can be noted with my own statting projects stalling), but one of my players just typed up his character and used it as his character sheet. Just seemed useful as a player, but I never had the time to test it as a GM (as my tablet, a 3 year old Xoom, lagged more often than not).

At my FLGS, there is a GM who uses one of those small folding wheeled dollies that holds up to two milk crates. He makes two trips from his car to the table inside the store. Everything you would bring with you that has currently been published could probably fill a single milk crate or just barely spill into the second.

I guess I try to go relatively simple...

My messenger bag contains the following items:

• Edge of the Empire Rulebook
• Edge of the Empire Screen (although it's used as reference and not a screen)
• Age of Rebellion Rulebook (sometimes)
• Cardboard markers from Beginner's Boxes
• Dry Erase Markers
• Dry Erase Eraser
• Pencils
• Bags of Dice (Star Wars and Polyhedral)
• My Tablet Computer (Windows 8.1 based)

I use OneNote to keep track of EVERYTHING in the campaign. I've been known to scan pages out of the books if necessary and have them in OneNote for reference if I don't expect to have the book there. Again, I ONLY carry the corebooks... all other books stay home as I don't want to carry too much and some players carry their own copies. As I've told my players, they are responsible for anything not in the corebook. I carry a 24" x 36" dry erase board and use it for my game. I will probably be starting to carry my X-Wing minis since they do seem to add a lot to the game when we do space combat.

To be honest, I've played a lot games without any minis at all. Since this is a narrative game, this works fine for me. I also will be running Firefly RPG from Margaret Weis and it is a narrative game and doesn't rely on miniatures. I love that as it tends to allow the narrative flow without restricting the players too terribly much... but minis sometimes add something when combat is intense!

Except for one time, i never played at home. So i'm always mobile, be player or GM.

Recently my "travel gear" is:

a slim document folder for the sheets (One sheet for each character, one for the ship, one for NPCs. All sheets are keeped inside document sleeves and attached to a lined card for in-session tracking. The NPC sheet doesn't have a card since i write with dry eraser on the sleeve), plus one grid paper inside a sleeve for map drawing.

A couple of dry erase markers, pencil and eraser.

My cellphone for visual aid (pictures) and sound effects (songs & dragons app)

Plus the rule book and the adventure book (if is a custom adventure, only the rule book).

I did my last session away from my home.

I entered all the information I needed into Evernote and it was quite useful for me. I suppose plenty of other tools would work as well. I had a summary of each location description, main dice rolls, NPC stats... I even went so far as to use a police character to have the correct symbols for the dice.

The good thing with the laptop, is that I have also the music I need with me.

When I master a game, one of my goal is not to open any book and decide on the fly on a ruling or on stats. After the session, I can have a look.

So on the physical side, I had:

• the character sheet
• a copy of the core rule book page listing all the skills and the related characteristic
• the screen to hide my laptop
• the dice
• the core rule book but I did not open it at all
• print of various pictures taken from wookipedia to show what aliens looks like.