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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 2753951" data-attributes="member: 12966">Here's how I/we do it...Thanks, Emerikol, for getting this discussion started. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I have phpBB2 installed on my web site and I keep campaign notes there.  Our group is about 15 players if everyone shows up, but that's pretty rare.  In fact, our group tonight was 5 + DM.Because our group is so large, we have 5 DMs who rotate through their campaigns.  When a DM is feeling burned out, we rotate to a different campaign.  Let me tell you, that's tough!  It's difficult to remember the characters from one campaign to another and their special abilities and tendencies.Because of that, the phpBB2 forums are broken into large categories, one for each campaign.  Each campaign is further broken into topic categories such as "XP Log", "Proposed Rules" and "House Rules", and "Campaign Info".  I've given each DM "moderator" status and they can add topics to their campaign category, if they like.In addition, I'm testing an interface that let's the DM award XP via a link on the site.  The player chooses their character's name from a dropdown list and the web site produces a summary of all XP awarded so far.  It's integrated into phpBB2 so that it's themed like the rest of the site.  There's a checkbox so that the moderator can edit the values for a given PC or the entire group (this doesn't work completely, so I have to add XP values using SQL <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />).  Each entry for the group has an overall description, and each entry for a PC has an XP award and a description of their contribution towards earning that award.There are "sticky" threads for each campaign where the DM can post player handouts and such.  Plus, because our groups uses DMGenie pretty heavily, players can post their exported sheets so that other players can play their PCs when the player can't make it (we award XP to those PCs who are active during the session).  The DMs can then import them and printed character sheets can be made available at the last minute, if needed.Two of the DMs (myself and one other) also post recaps of the session when it's over.  This produces a kind of campaign log, although it's entirely OOC.  That's kind of a bummer, but I'm not interested in spending the writing time with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  I do try to describe the recap without using game mechanics, though, so that it reads like a story.I'm also interested in see what some of the other house rulebooks look like. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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