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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExDis" data-source="post: 888629" data-attributes="member: 10799">Greetings!I am currently lucky enough to be playing in a <a href="http://www.kenzerco.com/rpg/kalamar/" target="_blank">Kingdoms of Kalamar</a> campaign with my friends, and I have been selected as DM.  An idea that I adopted from the last DM, one of our current players, is to grant an XP reward to any players who write a journal for each session.  This helps everyone build a back story and also provides a framework for our inter-party dynamics.  The journals are not restricted in what they can be, and I allow them to be retelling of events that occur at the table or even "off camera" action that the players take during any down time.  They have a tendency to be pretty interesting, but you also tend to see the exact same sequence of events from several perspectives, sometimes due to role playing dynamics, but sometimes just because someone misunderstood what happened or what was said.  (Especially watch the names; you will see some names spelled up to six different ways.)After prompting from the various players in our group, I have agreed to attempt to organize the posts and post them on the forums.  These journals were originally posted on the <a href="http://www.kenzerco.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?Cat=&C=4" target="_blank">Kenzer & Company Forums</a> in the Kingdoms of Kalamar story hour forum, but since then, I have worked with my players to improve the order of the posts, and am reposting them here also.  Most of the players in our group frequent these boards, so feel free to leave comments.  I'm sure they are looking forward to feedback. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I will follow up with a quick overview of the different characters and some basic back story, and then I will get down to posting the journals.Enjoy!</blockquote>

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