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does anyone actually when they pay write down their characters Journal? I've been doing it during the games in it seems fun. but I have been curious to see if anyone else does it.I don't believe this is a unique phenomenon but I was just wondering if anybody else does it. I tend to enjoy my writing down my character Journal. it gets me and keeps me in character everytime we get to a point where the character lays down in an inn.but if this is a new idea or just if you think I'm just wasting my time playing. but I keep these journals entries written down so that may one day I might actually write a module using the journal entries.
what do you think?
I have a whole set up I do at the end of each session. If I'm a player I write an actual journal in character; as the GM I write summary of the session's events. For the campaigns I GM that summary then goes into a binder at the end of the campaign that I can look back on when I want.
I know exactly how many actual days and in game days it took for us to complete RotRL since I keep a character journal as well. Its fun looking back on it reminding me of things I've forgotten and putting a timeline to it really adds perspective.
Our group rotates GMing chores. For every campaign, one player or another keeps a journal in character and posts it, either to the group's Yahoo listserve, or Obsidian Portal, or wherever. Whichever character has the writing chores gets a few bonus XP for each session documented.
In one campaign where it was my turn to chronicle, I was playing a Wizard with a raven familiar. Since he could speak, the raven was allowed to dictate the journal entry for one of the sessions. It made for an interesting perspective, especially with his odd vocabulary.
