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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jared Rascher" data-source="post: 5453853" data-attributes="member: 28825">I think campaign journals are really cool tools for a campaign.  I think it can be really helpful to have a summary of what happens ready for the players, especially when you play your campaign every other week the way my group does.On the other hand, as a GM, I get really burned out trying to keep the journal myself.  Its not that I can't keep notes on what happened and where everyone is, but when I write up the campaign journal, I have other concerns.For my own notes, I just need to know what happened in general  (i.e. not who killed what with what), what plot threads are being picked up, what clues have been followed up on, what NPCs are doing, etc.When I write up the journal, however, I always worry about forgetting some really great line that a player uttered, keeping track of how each one of six players contributed, and even misconceptions that the PCs have come up with  (since I'm only worried about if they figure out what really is going on).Trying to juggle writing the journal as a balanced narrative and summary of the night takes me a lot longer than I want it to, and in the end, I always end up missing that so and so did something or someone points it out to me, and I'm still not happy with the journal in the end.  I just sent out an e-mail bribing my players to write an in character journal for a hero point for each session logged.  We'll see where this goes, but I'm wondering a few things:1.  How many people think campaign journals are important resources?2.  How many people think that a GM should be maintaining one?3.  How many people have one of their player's logging the sessions?I'll be interested to see this discussion unfold, and thanks everyone for their time.</blockquote>

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