I am currently playing through SCAP and love the newsletter. Our DM has put alot of effort into it, making up interesting news and gossip for the city. It's also nice for players to see their names in the newsletter and feel like you have a real connection with the city when you rescue it from certain doom. Our DM also puts ad's in his to give us minor discounts at shops and sometimes we go back and reread them (we have over 12 of them i think) to see if they can give us some clues as to some of the city's most important residents.
As a player i think the newsletter works and is a great idea, I can't imagine running SCAP without it. It can be alot of work for the DM but I am sure your players will enjoy it.
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As a DM running SCAP, I can say that the newsletters are a big hit. My players have commented many times how much they like them, especially when they see some mention of themselves in it. It's a little bit of extra work, but I think the payoff is worth it. The players find themselves more connected to the Cauldon community and have developed greater stakes in the welfare of the city.
I highly recommend adding them to your campaign.
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I definitely use the example newsletters as inspiration. Most contain a lot of supplementary "articles" that provide additional fluff for the campaign that the characters wouldn't necessarily be exposed to through the course of the adventures. There's also a lot that's specific for the campaigns that those newsletters came from. So, it's about a 50/50 split of material that I take from the example newsletters and that I make up myself, mostly the articles that pertain to the player characters themselves.
Search the boards, I looked over at the RPGenus and I didn't see them. I'll have to doublecheck when I'm not exhausted.
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