COMING SOON! Sickness and Health: New diseases for your 5E game!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7893781" data-attributes="member: 508">The system we've evolved (over the years) is that the night after we play (generally from 6:30 to 9:00 PM on Wednesday evenings), my son Logan (the DM) writes up a "skeleton" of who did what (not necessarily a round-by-round after-action report but the general gist of things) and emails it to me.  Then, beginning Thursday night, I start fleshing out that skeleton and turning it into Story Hour fodder.  Usually I have the story finished and spellchecked on Saturday, then I wait until Sunday morning to post it (with a fresh set of eyes - it's amazing the mistakes you find after having not looked at it for a day!).  Most of the conversations are more or less stuff the players had their PCs say but sometimes I take liberties and turn a series of questions from the players to the DM and his answers into in-game conversations.  And Logan's "skeleton" usually includes any relevant NPC quotes he wants to make sure end up in the write-up.We do the same thing for our other campaign, "The Kordovian Adventurers Guild," although since I'm the DM for that one I do up my own skeleton the night after we play.  (Those sessions are usually on Saturdays from noon until 5 or 6 PM.)  We've found doing up the skeleton right away, when it's still fresh in your mind, really helps.  That way, if something comes up and I don't get to do the fleshing out until days later I've at least captured enough to document the important stuff that happened during the session.But I'm glad to hear you're enjoying the Story Hour!  We're having a lot of fun - certainly a lot more than we'd have thought when we were told our PCs would be starting out as slaves of the drow.Johnathan</blockquote>

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