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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 906081" data-attributes="member: 11">Over the last two years or so that I have been wriitng my "Out of the Frying Pan" Aquerra story hour, I have been including lots of annotation on the story as I go along.  I use footnotes to explain facets of the setting, as a reminder to the reader of relevants things that have happened in the past, and also I at times include what I call "DM's Notes" which are explanations of a house rule or an ad hoc ruling during a session.Another thing I havse used the notes for is to cross-reference the story hour itself - when an NPC re-appears in the story, I try to include a note that explains when the NPCs was last seen (or first appeared depending on which is relevant), and use session numbers to refer readers back to previous scenes.My question is this: How many other story hour authors do this?  And how helpful do readers finds such things?  I don't think I'll stop doing it, if only because I spent my youth reading too many Marvel comics and the notation there was always so good and helpful, reminding you of back issue sub-plots and issues of other titles with related stories - and I guess in the end it is helpful for me as DM to keep track of things - I'm just curious how it works for others.</blockquote>