The Notetaker role

[GuardianLurker]

The only downside I've ever encountered with "table roles" (like Notetaker) has to do with rewards. Namely, if the GM gives rewards for those behaviors, and only one (or a few) players actively engage in them, they'll get more rewards than the other players.

Other than that, and barring the IC/OoC nature of the notes themselves (as already mentioned), I've not seen any problems.

Speaking as a Forever GM - GHOD bless the Notetakers, and shower them with praise, for thus does the GM keep what little of his sanity remains.

 

[bedir than]

This has been some great advice.

I'm going to take a few moments after each session to make certain I hit each player and their character key events in order to include them in the writing.

 

[MNblockhead]

In my games, I'm the DM and the notetaker in the sense that after the session I quickly type out some notes of what occured in the session and ideas for the next session. Between sessions, I clean up my notes. Since most of the work is already done, I make a player-facing version of them and paste them into a Sessions Note journal that is available to, and editable by players.