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Last sunday I reached a personal goal of mine:
filling a whole notebook with "Reports" on the events transpiring in the scenario's I played, of course to be handed over in full to the society.
Normally each scenario takes about one page to describe in keywords, drawings and sentences the events that influenced my play and the personal development of my characters.
I have seen my loudmouth bard grow into a (overly?) confident party leader, and when I read all the stuff that happened since the night she set out from Varisia to become something... more, I realise these changes have affected me as a person as well.
I have seen others making detailed chronicles of everything they have ever encountered, while others never put a word on paper... After all, one of the society's most important tenets is 'Report', right? Do you keep a log / journal / diary? Why?
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My halfling bard gunslinger has tons of reports but they are so random and scattered the Society probably looks at them, goes crosseyed, and quietly files them under "misc".
My Tian Cultural Attache is a wizard at paperwork and always turns in verbose reports that say nothing at great length. He then files his REAL reports to the embassy. He's a spy after all.
My paladin monk... files maybe one report a year. He's busy being a do gooder.
My barbarian oracle of Gorum has a question he feels is more important. Do you even lift?
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-j
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I now want a picture of a Pathfinder Chronicler with the tag 'Bro, do you even report?' on it.
Ask and you shall receive:
Chronicler
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If the rules made me report in the way you're talking about, I wouldn't still be playing the game.
I'm happy to abstract "reporting" at the end of scenarios and the character development that happens, happens during the game and the reflection and direction of it happens in my head, ready for the next game.
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I believe many people are missing what Carla was actually asking. She wants to know if we, as players, keep an RL journal of our characters' activities.
I keep a OneNote notebook open when I play, but some scenario get more notes than others. Eyes of the Ten has pretty extensive notes. Dungeon crawls get the name or description of the MacGuffin we're after, and that's about it.
One of my characters is a wee bit insane, and I take rather copious notes during his scenarios, but they reflect his personality... ;-)
Venture-Captain, Netherlands
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I now want a picture of a Pathfinder Chronicler with the tag 'Bro, do you even report?' on it.Ask and you shall receive:
Chronicler
I am so printing this out and sticking it on my GM screen!
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Not really. People can't read it until they've played the scenario and it will never be as funny/cool to someone reading it as it was to people that were there.
I don't do it for other people, I do it so that in a couple of years I can grab the file listed 'Carla' from my bookcase and wallow in nostalgia. ;-)
I found that the more details I put in the reports, the more this character came to life as well.
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I now want a picture of a Pathfinder Chronicler with the tag 'Bro, do you even report?' on it.Ask and you shall receive:
Chronicler
I'm thinking this guy might make an excellent addition to the bar at the beginning of The Confirmation, as a hungover patron from the night before. That'd even pick up shades of the hazing from Seekers of Secrets...
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My Grande Lodge armor master files an extensive report on the performance of his fellow pathfinders with Ambros after each mission.... He also gives out pointers on tactics and strategy during combat. "Gnome out of position for flank, and did not check for traps on the chest before opening. He also neglected to bring along antivenom and whined until we medicated him". ....
He is SUPER popular with his teammates ;)
When I played jade regent I kept a story journal that can be read here it was a lot of work however as my hand writing is barely . If I didn't imediately re-ttpe it when I for home the game notes may as well been a foreign language. Unfortunately it made it all time time consuming. It was fun and served as the drive to upgrade my writing as anyone reading will notice the connection to punctuation is weak at times.
Anyhow when I started playing pfs I realised the format is gooold for this sort of creative writing. However I haven't tried yet.
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My Grande Lodge armor master files an extensive report on the performance of his fellow pathfinders with Ambros after each mission.... He also gives out pointers on tactics and strategy during combat. "Gnome out of position for flank, and did not check for traps on the chest before opening. He also neglected to bring along antivenom and whined until we medicated him". ....
He is SUPER popular with his teammates ;)
For the record, I had a delightful time serving the Society with Sir Ebin in the deserts of Osirion. As an antiquities dealer, I appreciated his tactical acumen and attention to detail.
I would look forward to working with him again, if I were not so horribly dead.
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Do you even report?No. That's what red shirts are for.
Do red shirts give you magical extra short-term memory space?
When I played jade regent I kept a story journal that can be read here it was a lot of work however as my hand writing is barely . If I didn't imediately re-ttpe it when I for home the game notes may as well been a foreign language. Unfortunately it made it all time time consuming. It was fun and served as the drive to upgrade my writing as anyone reading will notice the connection to punctuation is weak at times.
Anyhow when I started playing pfs I realised the format is gooold for this sort of creative writing. However I haven't tried yet.
Nice, this is the kind of thing I'm talking about!
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Chronicler
Holy crap, that reward is awesome! Do you have any idea how much gold it takes to magically enchant an internet?
