Passing on player notes

[Glyfair]

I was perusing Simon Rogers Livejournal account looking for more on the upcoming CoC adapation. I stumbled on this idea of his:

In many CoC games, you receive a packet of letters and other documents which describe the path that other investigators have taken, so that the PCs can take up where they've left off. Sometimes this is a conceit to allow new characters to replace those that have lost, sometimes it's just part of the adventure set up.

How about this for an idea. After a completed session or campaign, one CoC group writes up their play experiences, De Profundis style, along with any documents they initially received. This could include diary entries, maps, and notes scrawled in game on doodle pads - we've all done this and months later it doesn't make a huge amount of sense. Then, the GM packages this up, preferably electronically, and passes the notes on to another GM in another group. The GM could also pass on any adventure material written; although that is optional. The next GM hands the document package to the new group and they take it from there. You could even repeat the process, although it might be a bit unwieldy, passing on to another group, or back to the first one. You could even worry about time, and have the adventure progress from the 1890s onwards all the way to the present.

I'm hoping that this isn't an original idea, and someone else is already doing it. If so, I'd like to know.

 

[BaldHero]

This idea is pretty darn cool.
I have one player that regularly covers his record sheet for whatever game we are playing in post its, covered in notes we cant decipher. Passing those on to someone else would be cruel and unusual, so i am going to have to give it a try.