Building Dr. Jones' Notebook as a Quest (Need help)

[Jhaosmire]

Afternoon All,

I want to, and need help to, make a physical book to hand out to my Players. I need help, as I'm not super artistic when it comes to images.

Here is an example of what I am hoping the final result will look like. I want each page to be unique. Some pages should just look like mystical nonsense, some should be sketches of places that maybe the Players need to find along the way, and some need to be riddles and puzzles.

As per the title, I want it to be similar to Indiana Jones' father's Grail Diary from The Last Crusade.

My thoughts will be this is something they'll find while exploring inside an ancient library. It will be a notebook that a retired or deceased adventurer had left behind in his search for some manner of hidden object.

Let me know what you can find (send me links to lots of pictures I could print that you know of), I'll connect with you if you make images (.pdf's?) that I can use, and hopefully I'll post this when I'm done so that it can be printed and used by you peeps when it is complete. I'll post here as I make pages and get bits assembled. Thanks so much!

-Jhaosmire

[Scott Wilhelm]

You should encourage your players to make books like that on their own, and collect them after every gaming session. When the adventure if over, save them, and when you are running for some other group, use your old players' notes as lost journal fragments.

I was the mapmaker of the party in an enormous dungeon crawl. The underworld map covered like 10 sheets of graph paper taped together, some of them flipped upon higher dungeon levels. I met that GM years later to tell me he still had the map I made and used it just the way I described. I have daydreams about joining his group and seeing that map again, and having the other players watch in amazement as I piece it back together...

Honestly, I have had that experience before, relating an anecdote of some silly thing I was involved with or another, and the person's eyes popped and they exclaimed, "THAT WAS YOU?"

[Java Man]

Scott, you are responding to a spam-necro, FYI.

[Scott Wilhelm]

Java Man wrote:

Scott, you are responding to a spam-necro, FYI.

Oh, whoops. Thank you.