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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DWARF" data-source="post: 1061664" data-attributes="member: 863">Well, I don't know if it's advice or not, but here's my little story.I DM'ed a lot, nearly exclusively for a few years, burned out once or twice but always came back later.  Then I ran a really good game, currently on hiatus for the summer, and managed to get myself into a game as a player.  Now we play every week or two and it's great.  I have a lot of DM skills that I've used to build my character.  I have a huge backstory, not so much detailed and overblown as realistic, IMHO.  I keep a fairly long journal, two pages per session usually.  Heck, I even made a leather bound, wood panelled book for my character's journal and add the printed sheets (with a handwriting font) every time I have new entries.Now I've done all this and do you know how much more Xp I get because of it?  0, None.  I'm not doing this to gain more Xp or have a stronger, better character.  I'm doing all this because it makes the game more fun for me, I have more invested in it.  Now if the DM wants to know what date so-and-so happened, I can pop my book opn and look it up.  Now I have a book that sits on the table, that I can write in as we go.  Heck, if I get killed, or someone goes through my things, they could even read it.So I guess my advice for Kastil would be to ask yourself WHY you're writing journal entries for the DM.  Are you doing it to better immerse yourself in the game, or are you just doing it for the Xp?</blockquote>

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