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Organizing Old Game Material
Martin over at Treasure Tables brought up the topic of organizing old game material on Saturday, and I thought I’d share a few of my methods.
If a PC dies, I take the character sheet and put it into a folder which is dedicated to collecting PC information after that PC’s death. I started doing this after a number of characters were returned to play sometime after their death due to various circumstances, some resurrected as themselves, and some as bad guys. The original information was always missing, however. Additionally, being able to look at the characters that participated in an adventure can help fill in many blanks which might exist.
All of my old notes get transcribed and saved on my computer, to make sure that they are not lost and are easy to edit. Once a set of notes becomes about a month old, I go back, and copy whatever information still seems relevant into the master notes file, which I used for quick references.
During particularly long campaigns, I will release some of my notes to my players, especially my limited notes about what they believed and experienced first hand during the game. This allows the players to be sure that they are remembering things as they happened, and they have an additional source of notes to refer to. Releasing the notes as a meta-reward has worked well for me in the past.
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Treasure Tables (and I’m sure other sites) recently suggested using a Wiki for player-knowledge campaign notes.
I haven’t jumped on the bandwagon yet, but it definitely struck me as a “that would totally help” idea. I think many ISPs budle wiki paskages in their web hosting if no one in the group is technically savvy enough to install one on a site.
Oh, heck. It was right here! I’m getting my sites confused.
Credit where credit is due.