I have found Obsidian Portal to be very useful. Not only does it catalogue all of the worlds, ships, NPCs, and items that the party encounters, but we keep adventure logs and I also have hidden information that helps guide me through my sessions.

Moreover, we have a forum and a calendar.

Finally - having a wiki site to update as we play along has been so remarkably positive. It has fostered such enthusiasm that we have resurrected long dead campaigns on their own OP wiki sites and have begun playing them - some dead since 2008!

My Star Wars site is in my signature, but you can also follow the link, here: https://star-wars-edge-of-the-empire-18.obsidianportal.com/

I would love to hear your thoughts.

I also tend to scour YouTube for theme music to play during our sessions. I don't particularly feel that the SW themes themselves fit into the world we have created. I use movie soundtracks, as well as some video game stuff. When they went to a jungle world with a lost jedi temple, it was Shadows of Mordor, Halo, and Lovecraft. When they were planning a casino heist it was Tron Legacy. Escaping a cruise ship when it was stopped by Imperial customs corvette? Call of Duty, Pacific Rim, and other excitement-y music.

As much as it pains for me to say it, I only have Mac osx runnning on my laptop (working on securing a copy of Windows). Does anyone know of any tools that would work for Mac?

As much as it pains for me to say it, I only have Mac osx runnning on my laptop (working on securing a copy of Windows). Does anyone know of any tools that would work for Mac?

All the tools I listed work on Macs - that's what I use and prefer. You could certainly get by without some of the software I dropped some coin on, they just make it easier for me.

As much as it pains for me to say it, I only have Mac osx runnning on my laptop (working on securing a copy of Windows). Does anyone know of any tools that would work for Mac?

OggDude’s program will run under VMware Fusion or other Windows emulator on a Mac. I do that myself.

What I’ve seen of most of the other programs mentioned here, they’re either cross-platform written in Java or web-based and therefore fairly platform-agnostic.

I use the following.

RealmWorks for storycreation

Oggdude's for characters and npcs

Syrinscape for background sound effects

Adobe acrobat for record keeping

I used Obsidian Portal for session management and gave players extra xp for story inputs. I don't know if I will do that again though.

Salcor