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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6735925" data-attributes="member: 177">Not for a character in 5e.In many live-action campaigns, the GMs ask for what is often called a PEL - "Post-Event Letter".  This can take many forms, sometimes as in-character journals.In a Star Wars, Saga Edition game I played in a little while ago, the GM asked us to to journals - the game was organized on Obsidian portal, so we could post them there, hidden to everyone but the GM.  I wrote them as a series of... conversations in the character's head, as if he were writing letters to his (missing, presumed dead) father.  They were pretty fun to write, and served the purpose of clarifying what my character was concerned about, looking to do, and so forth.  It also established the father as a chain the GM could yank if he so chose.Unfortunately, the practice in the campaign fell apart - most of the players were not interested in the writing, and the GM therefore stopped reading them.</blockquote>