Quest Board · the redesign · lane 5 of 8

Prep

Theme

Prep is where a GM gets ready: one sheet per session, written over a few evenings, with the tools in the margin putting what they make straight into it. 181 features across four surfaces, 148 of them built today — most in PREP-2’s tools, which is where the product has grown fastest and been designed least.

Prep is a document, not a form. Design A settled the shape; this lane settles what the sheet keeps, how it saves, what “pin” means (D39), and where the generator that writes a whole plan belongs (D38).

Same campaign. Session 14 is on Monday, five days out. Dana has been prepping it on and off since Tuesday. Pike, the party’s marsh hound, has been travelling with them since Session 11.

Look

Found, settled, and open

Nothing open

D41 was adopted on review: the planning page is PREP-4 now, in the Contents, and the arcs live there.

What the coverage check found

After review, every row the catalogue places on these surfaces — 211 placements — was checked against the page. 68 had been dropped without a word. They are drawn now, in the sections above:

Reviewed by the owner on 21 September: no changes. D41, the planning page, is kept as drawn.

A strict second pass the same evening (coverage/lane5.py, committed): 223 placements now, and 16 of them had been counted without a still — a sheet before it is written; Planning for a campaign just started; the three Improv tools asking for their one required field; the article picker inside a tool; an arc change that failed; the names being warmed; a title used, and one that did not save; a one-off session; renaming a scene, and a card with no scene; the NPCs drawer with no Foundry to send to; and leaving with text unsaved. All drawn now: 156 drawn, 40 replaced by a decision, 9 behaviour, 16 on other surfaces, 2 deferred.

Settled before drawing

What rendering it caught

Nine things, none of them visible in the source.

  1. Two records disagreed. For later on the planning page kept eight Kettlebridge names that History said would clear in 28 days. Both cannot be true, and it is the kind of contradiction a reviewer would take as the design.
  2. History said the Instant NPC tool had made Pike’s stat block. It makes people, not stat blocks.
  3. A replaced plan offered Insert, which would have put two plans on one sheet. It offers Use this draft now.
  4. A rule was set as a stat line — a sentence about fog in monospace, as if it were numbers.
  5. The Names tool had no icon, because names is the icon set’s list of its names, not an icon.
  6. A lone still stretched across a paired row, the fault lane 4 first caught, with its heading floating a thousand pixels from its content. It has a partner now: the moment of pinning.
  7. The Shelf section’s two actions split, one beside the heading and one alone on the next line.
  8. On a phone, “Suggest a title” squeezed into two lines beside the heading. It wraps below it now.
  9. Every section drawn on its own carried an empty rule above it, and stacked rows of stills had no space between them.

What this lane leaves for later

Building any of it. The sheet needs a place to keep what is put into it (today only the beat notes are stored), “What I want” needs a column, and a sheet item needs to share the shelf’s pin. Asking the rules (IS-189) is still speculative, so the Rules & bestiary drawer draws search only.