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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MaxKaladin" data-source="post: 3336331" data-attributes="member: 1196">I did one for an old Forgotten Realms game I ran in college.  I'm pretty sure the existance of the paper was actually stated in the game material somewhere, so that's how I justified it.  I think I ended up producing about 8 or 10 issues of the "Waterdeep Daily Trumpet".  One got handed out per session the party was in Waterdeep.  It was single page with three columns and I used a font I found on the net that was made to look like an old typewriter to suggest primative printing.  Content varied.  Sometimes I had a story about what the PCs did previously.  Sometimes I actually drew on previous campaigns and wrote about events in those (both campaigns took place at the same time in the game world, just different locations).  A big chunk was taken up by an "ad" section where I sprinkled various plot hooks for the party to follow.  A couple of the unfollowed hooks turned into little running stories/gags told in ad-form.  What started out as a classic "seeking adventurers to rescue woman from dragon" ad took on a life of it's own as the ads became increasingly desperate sounding and offered larger and larger rewards.  Later, notices from the city government appeared warning of the high numbers of disappearences connected with the whole thing and advising people to stay away.  The players liked the story but wouldn't touch it with a standard-issue 10' pole.  The players really liked the paper but it could be a pain to produce.  In a more recent game, I took the Roman approach.  There was a "newspaper" of sorts that was posted on a bulletin board in the forum (Roman setting).  Each day, rich people would send scribes or literate slaves to the forum to copy down the paper early in the morning and bring it home for them to read (or have read to them) over breakfast.  In larger cities, there would be someone reading the paper off for the various scribes to copy down (since they couldn't all get close enough to the posted copies otherwise) and for the illiterate people to hear.  It never really came up in the game though and I never produced a paper.</blockquote>

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