Do You Title Your Sessions?

[DonTadow]

I keep a website that is more for my player's than outsiders, however, i do know of a few whom enjoy it.

After every session I wait a couple days and write up a summary of the events. I often pick from my player's journals or from something interesting about the game. I like to use puns and make the titles like the titles of the episodes for Farscape.

www.chrystaria.com/adventures2.html

 

[fredramsey]

I used to. I got the inspiration from the titles of the Babylon 5 episodes, which were usually really cool. So I wrote most of those down, did a search of some Shakespeare quotes, bible verses, etc., and just picked one.

But I'm not sure my players really got into them, so I've let it slide.

 

[Janx]

Huh, I just ran my adventure called, "Midnight on the Firing Line"

All my adventures have a title. Naturally, I don't tell the players what the title is

 

[HellHound]

I only title sessions occasionally, and usually after the sessio is over. Mainly because sometimes the party just doesn't perform as expected.

I've found that the few times I've tried to run it the other way, it ends up being heavily railroaded. Not that this is necessarily bad, if you are playing a formulaic RPG like Buffy (where it's easy to title a session, and the players go along with it and play it like a TV show), but it just doesn't work for my D&D games.

 

[demiurge1138]

All of my adventures have titles, although I rarely share them. I've started adding chapter titles to my Planescape game, and I think it works well.

The Eberron game I run on IRC, though, has a title for every game. It's set up like a TV show, so each session is an episode, complete with title (sometimes cryptic, sometimes a pun/reference, sometimes foreshadowing).

Demiurge out.

 

[derelictjay]

I usually give the adventure a title, not a session. Of course I rarely tell the PCs what it is, but it does help my record keeping.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I title them afterwards. I keep a forum for my game groups, and I have a "sticky" post in the campaign forums with the XP's for each session. In order to better tell which session the XP's were for, I started titling them.

For example:

• Session 1 - The Mage's Duel: 670 XP
• Session 2 - Nightmares and Stampedes: 340 XP
• Session 3 - Copperdeath: 900 XP
• Session 4 - The Faerie Forest: 320 XP
• Session 5 - The Faerie Forest, Part II: 600 XP
• Session 6 - Deceptions Upon Deceptions: 300 XP
• Session 7 - The Black Hound of the Mistmoors, Pt I: 405 XP
• Session 8 - The Black Hound of the Mistmoors, Pt II: 280 XP

 

[Jdvn1]

I don't title them because I can never come up with good names...

 

[francisca]

I run a message board for off-table miscellany, including session logs. I let the players write them, and award XP. I the choose a wise guy title to give to the post. Like:

"To Koboldly go where no Dwarf has gone before"

or

"Gnollbody Gnolls the trouble I've seen"

But it's all after the session is said and done. People seem to like it.

 

[Aristotle]

I don't title sessions and don't usually title adventures, unless it's a purchased adventure that came with a title, but I do title campaigns. The players get that title on day one, but they don't always understand it until a few sessions in.