D&D Notebooks

I like notebooks. There is something about a nice book full of blank pages that inspires ideas. I also like Dungeons & Dragons. The surge of popularity that D&D has seen with this latest edition has led to a lot of branded products, some of them are even notebooks. I've been collecting the ones that strike a note with me. I haven't actually written in any of these, but maybe one day.

I bought the boxed bundle of little Beastiary notebooks without realizing how small they were and I was disappointed when they arrived at my door. They come in a little open box, each one has monster art on the cover, and the pages are either lined, blank, graphed, or dotted. Two of each. I like the box, but the notebooks themselves are less great. The other notebooks are more useable to my thinking. 

The Worldbuilder's Journal has writing prompts at the top of each page, which makes it a neat tool for what it is, but maybe less useful as a notebook.

The Book of Holding has a cool magnetic closure and several pieces of Hydro74 art dividing the book into sections. The pages are graph lined and would be useful for notes or dungeon sketches. It's a nice book, but a little thin on page count.

The three smaller notebooks have that elastic band to keep them closed, dotted pages, and that sweet Hydro74 art that I can't get enough of. I think these would be nice for taking notes in while playing in a game, but I'll probably just leave them pristine and virginal. Maybe display them on my shelf.

The big hefty notebook there at the top has the D&D ampersand embroidered on it's cloth cover, a stitched in bookmark, and has a bunch of dotted pages. Unfortunately, every page is marked by that same ampersand in light grey. I don't love that design decision, but I can overlook it because it's such a damn nice notebook otherwise. Of the bunch, this is the one that will probably get some real use.