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<blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 4816874" data-attributes="member: 11697"><p>My notes are disjointed as all heck. Normally the notes for a single session run from 1 page in Word, to at most, around 5 pages in the same. Almost always the notes of one week's session will overlap with the previous two sessions' notes.</p><p></p><p>Normally I'll have descriptions of an area, notes on NPC motivations and goals (those important enough to have names).</p><p></p><p>For instance, for my last session, I had details on five NPCs that were bottled up inside the demiplanar prison/larder of a half-slaadi demigod dragon (spawn of Tiamat and Rrenbuu). One of them may or may not be a mind-seed of Tollysalmon the madly insane former factol of the Bleak Cabal, one of them has an imp in the shape of a pug, one of them is a nycaloth in service to an ultroloth out of Khin-Oin named Holashnar the Devourer of Light, etc. One PC is there, and Nisha (and her xaos imp) from the previous campaign is stuck in there too.</p><p></p><p>So notes on the dragon's mentality, his wants, the motivations of those five prisoners, and a ton of notes regarding the dragon's lair, its traps, the genius loci guarding the place, and the -five faerie dragons- who get the play the hired help alongside the guardians. The demigod dragon is also undead, so the fairy dragons are all dressed up in little colored slaadi costumes, and one of them had an illusion to make himself appear skeletal. And I give faerie dragons wish 1/day, so that was an interesting session.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shemeska, post: 4816874, member: 11697"] My notes are disjointed as all heck. Normally the notes for a single session run from 1 page in Word, to at most, around 5 pages in the same. Almost always the notes of one week's session will overlap with the previous two sessions' notes. Normally I'll have descriptions of an area, notes on NPC motivations and goals (those important enough to have names). For instance, for my last session, I had details on five NPCs that were bottled up inside the demiplanar prison/larder of a half-slaadi demigod dragon (spawn of Tiamat and Rrenbuu). One of them may or may not be a mind-seed of Tollysalmon the madly insane former factol of the Bleak Cabal, one of them has an imp in the shape of a pug, one of them is a nycaloth in service to an ultroloth out of Khin-Oin named Holashnar the Devourer of Light, etc. One PC is there, and Nisha (and her xaos imp) from the previous campaign is stuck in there too. So notes on the dragon's mentality, his wants, the motivations of those five prisoners, and a ton of notes regarding the dragon's lair, its traps, the genius loci guarding the place, and the -five faerie dragons- who get the play the hired help alongside the guardians. The demigod dragon is also undead, so the fairy dragons are all dressed up in little colored slaadi costumes, and one of them had an illusion to make himself appear skeletal. And I give faerie dragons wish 1/day, so that was an interesting session. [/QUOTE]
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