HAIL AND WELL MET, TRAVELLER

VERONICA LEONARD - Owner & Designer at Silverwing Armoury. Ravenclaw. GM/DM. Unabashed geek.

My name is Veronica (V for short) and I am a planner and a visual artist. I am also a big tabletop roleplaying games (TTRPGs) geek. I love my gaming group and how every week we get to sit around a table a spin a tale of daring and hilarity, roll some funny shaped dice, and generally bumble our way through to eventually saving the townsfolk and defeating the big bad villain. In all of the games that I've played in, I've usually (and voluntarily) ended up being the group's scribe. I am that person who actually writes down where we're supposed to be going, the name of the tavern owner from five sessions ago, and the plot point that we will need to remember in order to defeat the villain. In short, my gaming notes were important.

Silverwing Armoury was born out of necessity. I was enjoying participating in various TTRPG groups, but found myself struggling to find ways of organizing my notes for all the different games I was playing in. I wanted a system that did not require me to have multiple notebooks for each game, that allowed me to find things I'd taken notes of with ease, and that had enough structure to encourage meaningful notes. Enter bullet journalling. Bullet journalling is a daily planning system that attempts to increase productivity by using various types of simplified notes to detail daily tasks and events.  I have found the system to be excellent at keeping my work life organized and decided to implement some of its features into my gaming notes. I incorporated the front index, page numbering, and the concept of utilizing the available next page, rather than separating my notebook into sections. It worked! My notes became more focused and I was able to reference names and in-game goals and quests much faster. [By the way, I would highly encourage you to check out some of my tips and tricks for better gaming notes!] 

As I experimented with inside page prototypes, I also knew that I wanted the outside to look as thematic as possible. I wanted my notebooks to feel like something my in-game character might have on their person. A well-used spellbook with handwritten notes on the inside, a journal with a scribbled map and some Nordic runes for protection, an atlas with the sketch of a sea monster a sailor may have encountered and survived... As far as design goes, I enjoy letting my imagination run wild and strive to create notebook designs that I could see myself getting excited about bringing to the gaming table. And finally, I wanted the notebooks to be useful to anyone playing any kind of TTRPG, and not just the more popular ones. So, it was important for me to offer a system agnostic product at a fair price point. 

I have given each aspect of my notebooks a great deal of thought and care—from the hand stitched spine, to the original artwork, to the customizable inside page options.  I believe in offering a quality product, at an accessible price, that celebrates geeks everywhere.
GAMING IS FOR EVERYONE.

HOW IT'S [HAND]MADE

Notebook covers feature prints of my original watercolour/black ink artwork and graphic design.

Each notebook is cut and pressed by hand.

Notebook spines are all hand sewn.

GEEKY LOVE 

… But the prize piece of this is the interior art.  Have you looked at it? You totally should. She’s done a really amazing job on this.”
​- Fiddleback
[Episode 34 of the Digressions and Dragons podcast​​]

I absolutely love the [note]book and I would highly recommend that anyone go and check them out."
- GM Kaitlin
[Episode 20 of The Dicepool Podcast]

​My players were impressed and excited to receive their own logbooks. (And now they take more notes during play, too!)"

The notebooks are GORGEOUS quality, and the service can't be beat. Highly recommended!

Perfect little journal for the role playing or tabletop enthusiast. Received as described, hand-bound and with high quality printing on the pages and the covers. Got 3 as a birthday present for a DnD enthusiast, who is so pleased with them she’s afraid to write in them and use them for her next campaign. Arrived on time and with good service. Would buy again!"

​A sweet little notebook wrapped in Star Wars goodness. It has a page for a table of contents and boxes for page numbers so you can organize at your leisure. I got three - one for each of my Star Wars GMs."

Love it. Easy to use on cramped gaming tables.
​I have gotten quite a few compliments and questions about where I got it.