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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scourger" data-source="post: 3547421" data-attributes="member: 12328">The only time I've gotten the players to write up a campaign log was in a Savage Worlds Tour of Darkness game in which I gave an extra bennie to every player who wrote such an email between sessions.  It could be a mission report, a letter home, a personal journal or whatever.  I collected them in one big Word file with editing and some summary notes.  After the campaign concluded, I had copies printed and gave them as Christmas gifts.  I think it made a nice souvenir, even though one player did the majority of the writing.  One of the players only wrote one or two entries, but he contributed otherwise by buying & painting minis for all the PCs for more bonus bennies.  The lesson is that different players enjoyed the journal at different levels.My current campaign is a core 3.0 game using Greyhawk as the default setting.  The player who wants to know the most about the setting is playing a character with no (repeat: no) knowledge skills.  The player also actually knows the most about the Greyhawk setting.  So, it's frustrating to me to try to prepare information for a player character who really doens't know much about the world.  But, last session, I gave each player a short handout with an adventure option that they know about from some source.  The characters with more knowledge skills got more information, but everyone was immersed to a lesser or greater extent.  I only spent the amount of time I alloted for the handouts, so they varied from 2 to about 8 pages.  It worked pretty well, and now the party are on a path to an advneture that is more manageable then me trying to stat the whole world.  So, do as much or as little as is fun for you.</blockquote>

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