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Message: <blockquote data-quote="randomling" data-source="post: 1199658" data-attributes="member: 8432">Sounds like a really good idea. How are you planning on "delivering" it to the players? Are there local newspapers? Word of mouth? In Britain in the 5th century there was something called the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in which monks wrote accounts of historical and current events. Maybe their home town, and the towns they visit, have local journals in a similar vein? (Seems to me like this is just the kind of record-keeping a church of Boccob or other deity of knowledge would do as a matter of course.)Remember though, news events don't necessarily happen regularly. While the "two events a month" idea sounds great on paper, what tends to happen in real life is a whole lot of nothing for months followed by lots of things going on at once. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />What I might do is a have a vague idea of what's going on in the world around the PCs in my head, and what's likely to happen in the future. For example: Relations between Country X and Country Y are starting to fall apart over breaches of an old trade agreement. April: the PCs hear that merchants from Country Y are refusing to pay customs tax to Country X. July: Country X closes its borders to merchants from Country Y. August: Country X is still pursuing unpaid tax from Country Y. The king of Country Y is supporting his merchants. Country X begins to close its borders to increasing numbers of citizens from Country Y (difficult for the PCs if they want to enter Country Y at this point). Etc...Hope that's of some help...</blockquote>

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